Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Guard (section)

===== [[Setting:Cloudburst/Celeste|Celeste System]] =====
As the seat of Imperial power in the Sector, including both its capital and a Subsector capital, the Celeste system is unsurprisingly popular as a recruiting venue for the Officio Munitorum.  Therefore, some of its regiments have had ample time to prove themselves in war against the Emperor’s foes.

* 12th Celestial Guard Rifles “Old Line”: This ancient regiment was one of the first dozen full regiments raised in the system after it formally became a Sector capital.  It was the only one to survive more than ten years, and history has since shown that it was no fluke.  This regiment consists of roughly ten thousand combatants broken into five battalions, each of which is kept identical to the others to prevent logistical logjams.  While many regiments become PDF or nobility on new worlds conquered by the Imperium, the 12th Celestial Guard Rifles were raised to destroy a rebellion in the Naxos Sector on a world that was already Imperial in nature.  Brought into the Sector alongside eleven other regiments from Celeste and one from Cloudburst proper, the thirteen ill-starred regiments clashed mightily with the Chaotic uprising of Hadlos the Blooddrinker, a Khornate demagogue who had led whole townships to butcher their neighbors in ruthless slaughter.  The Guard regiments destroyed Hadlos’s cult army and hanged the man himself, but the casualties suffered by the Guard forces were so extensive that all of the survivors were consolidated into one regiment and brought back to Celeste for examination.  Since then, the regiment has partaken in five of the six Migration defenses, and no world under their banner in any Sector has fallen while they defend it, nor have they ever taken more than sixty percent casualties in any campaign.
* 105th Celestial Guard Armored Regiment “Blistering Spear”: Raised as a part of the larger 4th Armored Division during the Calliope Revolutions in nearby Drumnos, the 105th Armored accompanied the great Lord Inquisitor Xanthu on his rampage against the wicked Apostate King, former Imperial Sector Treasurer Regis Keitel.  The Division landed on the rebellious world of Lorrne Xag, immediately beset the Apostate King in his fortress, and burned the apostate rebellion to ash in under three years of brutal lightning war.  Their regiment was returned to Celeste with honors, and has remained active in guarding the southern Cloudburst worlds from pirate and Ork menaces fleeing the brutal Drumnos Sector Battlefleet.
* 900th Celestial Guard Force Reconnaissance Regiment “Owls”: A regiment raised for a specific task and then left hanging, the 900th Force Recon are a textbook Celeste forward regiment.  Their numbers are quite small by the scale of the average Septiim-template regiment, but their task is not to engage enemies in parity.  Using heavily up-gunned Salamander and Tauros vehicles to quickly move troops around and collect data on enemies, this regiment is designed specifically to repulse enemy attempts to thwart intelligence-gathering, and works alongside more typical recon units to learn about enemy activities and maneuvers in large-scale conflicts.  The regiment was raised to fight against the Orks invading Oglith, and was one of the very few to do so, given that most of the regiments tasked with that role were originally slated to fight the Glasian Migration instead.  However, the 900th was unable to leave Celeste in time to reach Oglith before the Orks arrived thanks to the lack of transports, and so has flown to the world Foraldshold instead, to aid the Adeptus Mechanicus in corralling the Orks there before they have a chance to destroy the all-important soy and apple farms, starving the defenders.  As a Force Recon regiment, they prefer long-ranged weapons whenever available, and make extensive use of anti-materiel weapons to immobilize enemy vehicles and pick off leaders.  The regiment has already distinguished itself, with a shockingly low casualty rate against the Orks and a high affirmation rate for its field intelligence.
* 5th Cloudburst Defenders “Hellknights”: This regiment of capitol troopers is smaller than most Cloudburst Sector Guard forces thanks to the low population of Cloudburst itself.  However, that has never impeded their deployments.  Whether because of skilled leadership or their advanced Forge World munitions and armor, the regiment has emerged from over four hundred battles with only minor losses, and has faced foes as far afield as Port Maw and the Maelstrom.  Shot for shot, theirs is one of the most lethal regiments in Sector history, and their completely blank, unadorned black uniforms and identical facemasks makes them a chilling reminder of Imperial firepower and ruthlessness.