Editing Setting:Cloudburst/Septiim (section)

===Septiim PDF===


The entire Septiim Economic Zone raises regiments collectively, and they are equipped by the Forge and Civilized worlds of the Cloudburst Sector.  As much material as possible is manufactured on the Septiim worlds themselves, however, including simple vehicles and artillery.  The troops of the Septiimi PDF generally employ lasweapons, mass-built by the Mechanicus, with very heavy body armor when they can get it.  The mixture of rural, arboreal, and tropical climates of the Inner Worlds are ideal for amphibious combat training, and the Septiim PDF train with those environments in mind.  The PDF generally use the same weapons and vehicles with which the Guard regiments they raise are equipped, both to ensure familiarity, and to ease the logistical demands of the military.  Generally, the only equipment the Guard makes for itself that is not derived from Forge World patterns is breaching gear and climbing gear, as well as armor and sometimes helmets.

The PDF troops are organized along the same lines as the [[Astra Militarum]] Guard.  They contribute to the manpower tithes of the Munitorum, when needed.  Ostensibly, they, like all PDFs, are under the ‘direction’ of the Commissariat, but there is no dedicated PDF Commissar present in the system most of the time.  The PDF forces make use of their own air bases, and they are equipped with ample Marauder bombers from Tertius.  Their principle air units are the Avenger, Thunderbolt, and Lightning, with a small number of Aquila shuttles maintained for personnel.  Finally, there are a small number of oceanic vessels under local military control, employed for cargo-moving, amphibious combat training, weapons testing, and for use as aircraft carriers.  However, as Septiim Primus is nearly all forest, most of its airbases are small and based around the planet’s barren poles, and they make heavy use of long-range aircraft with extra fuel pods and stripped-down weapons.

The three rocky planets in the Septiim system also maintain House Troops for the Imperial Governors, consisting of the best PDF troops who didn’t tithe up to the Imperial Guard.  The soldiers in question are outfitted with the best carapace armor the Septiim PDF can afford, and usually carry a mixture of master-crafted lasguns, some hellguns, and some hotshot lasguns.  The finest PDF troops may volunteer for Defense Kill Squads, which are 13-soldier Stormtrooper equivalent squads that only operate at full squad strength.  These can be sent on counter-insurgent missions or local point-of-contact threat suppression missions, and are nearly as well equipped and capable as Stormtroopers, though they would be quicker to bring this up than real Stormtroopers would.  PDF troops can raise directly to the Guard, though this is only done in an actual emergency.

The PDF is no exception to the general Septiimi disdain for the use of servitors, but the PDF rarely has a choice in the matter.  Put simply, the PDF often has very little warning on how many Glasians they are going to face in any given incursion.  No Septiim Guard formation would use servitors if the option of not using them arose, but pragmatism demands that the PDF use them for fire support and bottlenecking invading aliens, and so they do.