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==Non Player Characters==

===The High Command===

====Lieutenant General Grayhammer====

General Grayhammer is the regiment’s liaison with the Crusade High Command. She is a woman whose physical age is difficult to determine. Her skin is smooth, taut and without wrinkles and her hair is pure white and cut short in a military fashion. Considering her position in the High Command, her age is likely to be in the three digits though. At her rank, rejuvenant treatments come with the position. Why promote someone to such a high rank and then allow her to become senile or withered by age in a few decades, which would probably not be enough to even see the end of her first campaign.

The General’s only visible battle injury is her left arm. It is of high quality cybernetics and has an eye-like lens on the palm.

General Grayhammer is not only a shrewd strategist, she understands the value of good propaganda, and has even written a manual on psychological warfare. Therefore she makes a near perfect liaison. She understands both the needs of the movie crew and those of a crusade.

Ordinary Guards are unlikely to see the General outside a propaganda poster or video clip. The regiment’s Colonel and the movie grew get to meet her during strategy sessions, but she is far too busy to make personal inspections of individual regiments, even in the case of 1st Calean Rifles. So if there is a need to have a high-ranking officer to be present during an inspection, parade, or award ceremony, the movie crew will film the regiment separately and add the General later as a green screen effect.

====Colonel Julius Copperfield====

Colonel Julius is a flamboyant commander who tries to make sure he is the center of attention at all times. With this tendency he was a shoe-in for the propaganda viewpoint. The most charismatic person on the field, he knows he always attracts attention so he has a history of making sure he is at the focal point and using the enemies fixation on him to his advantage. Routinely Colonel Julius will be in the front lines and use the attention on him to send a flanking force against an enemy. A common order for his men is to have 2 battalions take the space and equipment of 3 on the battle in order to have a third battalion in secret ready for a flanking maneuver. There is a consistent rumor that he has asked regular line units to be trained for drops but that can neither be confirmed or denied. After all it would be crazy to have a line unit act like a drop unit right? Ummmmm Right?

Colonel Julius has been extremely lucky and good and has yet to have permanent battle injuries. His boyish charm is perfect for the camera and he outwits his enemies with a running commentary.

Ordinary Guards will probably only interact with the colonel on a night before the battle or if they are the lucky souls who the colonel wants the attack to fixate on. For good or for bad, he will be right there next to them. Screaming orders so the enemy knows exactly where he is.

====Prefectus Scullo====

Administratum officer from the division of Historical Revision Unit, Prefectus Scullo is the man who authorized the sending of film crew along with 1st Calean Rifles.

Scullo is a withered husk of a man with no family and nothing in his life besides his office that he has held for decades. This is because all his life he has been sparing his wages like a miser in order to eventually afford rejuvenant treatments. Even so, he could only afford the cheapest, low quality variety, so while he has lived well into his second hundred, he shows every sign of it and has increasingly had to rely on augmetics to supplement his treatments. Even so, his advanced age has started to affect his ability to do his work. This has made Scullo increasingly paranoid that a younger subordinate will scheme his way to replacing Scullo. Which would be a death sentence for the Prefectus who could no longer afford the expensive treatments to extend his life should he lose his office.

It is no surprise then that Scullo does not want his underlings to be too ambitious or capable, and may go as far as to subtly remove anyone he sees as a contender for his position.

====Prefectus Casimir====

An officer of Officio Tactica branch of Departmento Munitorum, Prefectus Casimir is an unhappy man in an unenviable position of being in charge of the logistics of the Achilus Crusade. With the recent setbacks causing loss of local supply sources while increasing demand for supplies and reinforcements, the Crusade has become increasingly reliant on shipments from the Imperium, but that line of logistics is long and slow to respond. Securing additional supplies is a constant problem for the overworked Prefectus.

====Lord Militant Solomon Tetrarchus====

Lord Militant Achilus did not live to see the end of the crusade he started. His successor and the overall commander in chief of the crusade is now trying to reverse the momentum of the crusade that has either stalled or forced into retreat on all fronts, and resume the advance into the reach.

====Lord Commander Gothicus====

Supreme military commander of '''Imperial Salient Acheros'''.

The Acheros Salient was launched towards the centre of the Jericho Reach, there to give battle to the degenerate warp-worshippers and their foul allies, and retake the core worlds of what was once the Jericho Sector. The resistance they have met has been unexpectedly high, particularly in the haunted Cellebos Warzone, and casualties incurred by the Imperial forces have been massive, blocking the salient’s progress into a bloody war of attrition.

====Lord Commander Ebongrave====

Supreme military commander of '''Imperial Salient Canis'''.

The Canis Salient was launched against the Tau controlled domains of the Velk’han Sept in the Black Reef area of the Jericho Reach, reinforcing armies already fighting against the highly organised and sophisticated alien forces across the so-called Greyhell Front previously dispatched by Lord Militant Achilus. The fighting has been particularly bitter. Lord Commander Ebongrave, the Imperial Salient Commander, has gained a swift reputation for barbarous and unorthodox tactics.

====Lord Commander Coldsmith====

Supreme military commander of '''Imperial Salient Orpheus'''.

The Orpheus Salient was launched to reclaim worlds lying along the rimward portion of the Reach. Here, progress was initially relatively rapid and successful, with scores of worlds returned to Imperial control. All that changed with the arrival of Tyranid Hive Fleet Dagon, currently considered to be the greatest single extant threat to the crusade, and indeed the lives of every living being in the Jericho Reach. In the initial Tyranid assault, numerous worlds were lost and an entire Imperial Navy Battlegroup was lost, presenting a severe blow to the crusade forces. Desperate efforts are underway to stall or at least slow the Tyranid advance in order to buy time to bring in sufficient reinforcements to keep the entire Orpheus Salient from collapsing.

====Lord General Pauelus====

A commander of the Crusade Reserves, Lord General Pauelus is in command of the recent reinforcements like the 1st Calean Rifles.

====Lord General Agis====

A recent reinforcement to the Crusade High Command, arriving with the same wave of reinforcements as the 1st Calean Rifles. Lord General Agis is an Imperial Tactician with an advisory position in the High Command. A veteran of many desperate wars, he was sent to the Jericho Reach with the hope that his experience and insights would help the hard-pressed Crusade recover from its setbacks.

===The Line Troops===

====Captain Benedict van der Stelt====

"We are the best there is, and it is time to let the galaxy know it."

An intense, wiry man, Captain van der Stelt has high exceptations of both himself and his troops. He is determined not only to succeed but to excel in the coming assigments, and show the rest of the Imperial Guard, the rest of the Imperium, and the rest of the galaxy what the Caleans can accomplish.

He is the first to volunteeer his company for ''anything''.

And he is not much for motivational speeches. He assumes that example alone will suffice to make his troops just as driven to succeed as he is.

====Lieutenant Mercedes "No Mercy" Nocturne====

A fit woman with her blonde hair in a bun, the fact that she hails from her home nation's navy rather than ground forces has made some troopers concerned. But Lieutenant Nocturne has shown herself to be a capable commander no stranger to infantry warfare.

Somewhat easygoing as an officer, Lieutenant Nocturne prefers not to micromanage and usually lets her platoon handle things as they see fit, as long as everything important gets done to her satisfaction. But that is out of combat. There is nothing easygoing about her when fighting starts. Then she is all fire and steel and expects her commands to be obeyed without failure or hesitation.

====Sergeant Aric Sjurssen====

The youthful-looking Sergeant Sjurssen is not much different from the other troopers. Not bigger or stronger than the others. Not more charismatic or stronger of will than the others. Not more accurate or better in a fight than the others. No, the reason that he got the sergeant's stripes is that besides the Storm Trooper, he is the only one who has studied the Tactica Imperialis.

Keenly aware of the fact that he got his position just because he happened to read about Imperial tactics, Sergeant Sjurssen is careful in his role. He obeys his superiors without a second thought, assuming that they have a better grasp of the tactical situation. He focuses on keeping the squad together and - unless his tactical opinion is asked - lets his squad accomplish the objectives in any way they see fit, assuming that they know how to use their specialist skills better than he does.

===="Obscene" Octavia Loret, Vox Operator====

One of the physically smallest people in the company and definitely smallest in the platoon, the dark skinned and darker haired trooper Loret seems like an odd person to carry the backpack-sized vox unit until you learn that she was in her home nation's electronic warfare unit. Besides, she is extremely tenacious and carries her vox unit without complaining or lagging behind. Although the fact that she is sometimes out of breath to the point that she is almost panting when the time comes to stop and make contact is what gave Obscene Octavia her nickname. During the final training, when she had just panted her report to the company command after a rapid advance through difficult terrain, after ending the vox contact she made her immortal comment: "I was so out of breath that I felt like I was making an obscene call!"