"Death and Honor to the Brave Cymian 5th

[GamingPunk]

So this is the fluff for my Imperial Guard regiment. Starting with the home world and some of its background. I will add the regiments back ground later.

Transmission: Historical Record of Cymia Prime>
<Prime_Export: Armaments, Titanium Alloy>
<Location: Segmentum Obscurus| Sub-Sector Epsilon Hydra>
<World: Cymia Prime>
<Population: 8,000,000,000>
<Located to the galactic North of Holy Terra, the Epsilion Hydra Sub-Sector is made up of near eight different systems. The primary system being the Cymia system. Cymia Prime being the leading Militant and Industrial power in the sub-sector.

Cymia Prime is geologically made up of several continents that are covered with hives and alloy rich mountains. with nine out of ten of the major cities situated in the enclaved mountain ranges the rest of the world has been left largely untouched by the industry of the planets factories and bustling hives.

The lands around the hives is a chemical wasteland, in which the vast majority of the Imperial Guard Regiments raised on Cymia Prime maintain their hazardous environment training in. Much of this pollution is caused from the titanium mines around the cities. With the mountains forming a geological barrier between the pollutants and the verdant wild life outside of the metropolises the rest of the world has been allowed to continue to grow healthily.

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With nearly 83.3% of the worlds population living within the hive cities there is a high need for employment and labor. The massive factories that belch forth pollutants into Cymia Prime's skies a major source of pay for the population. Other wise the Imperium has seen the extreme uses the soldiers from Cymia Prime are in war. For more answers to rising social unrest the Imperial Guard and the Planetary Counsel decreed that Imperial Guard regiments from Cymia Prime would be raised quickly and trained full time. This has led to a huge amount of soldiers to be turned out from the planet.

Aside from the common Imperial hive citizens there is a population of the original human inhabitants that live out on the plains. nine out of ten "tribes" are within a primitive state of living. This has not stopped the Imperial Guard from recruiting them into Cymia's many regiments to serve as scouts and calvary.

When attacked from outside forces and foes of the Imperium the planets massive population is often tithed into planetary defense regiments, which has lead to the training of all citizens starting at an early age. This makes the population of Cymia Prime highly protected and allows her regiments to range far and wide in the Empire of Man.

Orbiting around Cymia Prime are the twin orbital defense fortresses the Troy and the Antioch. With these two massive fortresses guarding the sky and the station Troy being large enough to become a part time naval port if need be. (Note in the same star system there are already two other naval ports.) From both these fortresses air drop training for the elite Storm Trooper and grenadier squads are maintained. Their drop training simply is making a drop to their own world (note they also train on Cymia's orbiting moon, Falgyr) into the chemical wastes around the hives.

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<New_Transmission><Cymia Prime_Librarium_History>

The history of Cymia Prime is one of much bloodshed and warfare. one hundred short years after its initial assimilation into Imperial Empire, and its industry began to grow, war came to the Hydra Sub-Sector. It was constant raiding from the Traitor Legions on a small ash world called Torraga IV, that soon turned into a full scale war within the sub-sector. Cymia Prime's regiments (most of which had barely seen an ounce of combat.) where sent directly to Torraga IV, two systems over. With ten long years of combating the Great Enemy the regiments were brazened in the art of war.

After the traitors and cultists had been driven out or destroyed, the regiments continued to join battle groups and fight all across the Imperium's many fronts. Within the next several thousand years Cymia Prime it self would be assaulted twice by the forces of chaos (one war in which has left the second imperial World (Jarrhad IX) was virus bombed and the entire world made uninhabitable. The third and most recent massive war to waged on Cymia Prime's own soil. A massive Ork WAAAGH! had enveloped the sub-sector and had caused untold misery to the forces that fought for near fifty years to clean out the xenos from the Hydra Sub-Sector.



Enjoy. Comments welcome, this is all rough draft and is only for my own Regiment.

[juddski]

nice background fluff GamingPunk..any chance of some pics of your guards?

[GamingPunk]

FIRST OFF!: SORRY FOR ANY GRAMMAR OR TYPOS.

I do have pics of my growing force though it needs ALOT of touch ups. I will be starting a log and keeping a small story going on the log as well. I'm about to go a on a vacation so I'll not be painting for several days. though I'm going try and get done with some details and such bits tonight and tomorrow.

[GamingPunk]

Cymia Prime's turn out rate of Imperial Guard regiments has lead to the founding and refounding of hundreds of Guard Regiments. One of the most notable being the Cymian 5th Infantry Regiment.

After the Cymian 5th was nearly destroyed in the first assault of the Chaos host on its own soil, it was quickly and quite brashly combined with several other badly mangled regiments. The remnants of the 18th Cymian Armored division were placed directly into the usually foot slogging 5th.

The 18th had engaged the enemy in hopes of halting the assault on the vulnerable flank of the 6th army. They held out against the odds of the traitors but were in return of their valiant defense almost completly destroyed.

Another element that was sewn to the hide of the regiment were the forces of the 7th Cymian Mechanized Legion, who had been reduced to a mere thousand strong after their own participation along side the the 18th Armored in the running defense against assault.

Among other scraps that were hastily placed into the regiments logs were several different companies of Trojan Stormtroopers (Specifically the 16th company The Screamers) and Cymian Out Riders to be drafted into the regiment to put it back to fighting strength, These Outriders were separated into squadrons within each individual company.

Subsequently thanks to several strong point attacks and last stand defenses the Cymian 5th has been hacked apart and reborn into something else. all of which has lead to the large use of transports, armored units, and calvary as support to the infantry formations. The entire regiment has often been referred to as the most flexible regiment of Cymian stock.

When most other regimental doctrines would have immediately removed all non-foot forces within the regiment, the Colonel of the time refused by and made the comment "I don't give a damnn if you want them back sir. We are at the most effective fighting power that we've ever been. So General I must heartily decline your request." The Planetary Counsel took the regiment to trial, observed it during combat, and later agreed to let it remain and continue to recruit according to the individual companies requirements. Though This has lead to constant supervision from Imperial military bureaucrats and Inquisitors.

Now unfortunately this is all I have as of yet for the actual regiment as of now. But I will continue and try and pump out some more story for them.