With resources so scarce, a portion of Mordian's tithe to the Imperium is given in the form of Imperial Guard regiments drawn from the disciplined ranks of the Iron Guard. The Iron Guard's precise, rigorously-drilled combat doctrines have allowed them to maintain order in the name of Mordian's oligarchic rulers, the Tetrarchs, for millennia. So named for their unwavering discipline and dour attitudes, the Iron Guard are a stark contrast to the unruly population around them, which outnumbers them by hundreds of thousands to one. Queue wars and hospice riots are a common occurrence on Mordian, and the Iron Guard are thus never lacking for some threat to quell, whether from within or without. The Iron Guard serves as both the world's primary military force and the world's enforcers of order, and its troops strive to swiftly crush any uprising in its infancy, while protecting the world from external threats. Standing against this threat is the Mordian Iron Guard. There is much discontent among the people, and the Mordian Iron Guard spend much of their time simply keeping the populace in line when they are not deployed to Imperial war zones. The scarcity of resources and the typically dim lighting which casts entire city-sized districts into an oppressive gloom combine with the overcrowded conditions to breed constant discontent and thoughts of rebellion.ДЄs such, the existence of the Iron Guard is often the only thing that stands between order and total anarchy. The authoritarian planetary government of Mordian is known as the 'Tetrarchy,' and it strictly controls and rations the planet's meagre resources. Mordian's hive cities are characterised by pyramidal, multi-levelled towers rising like mountains of steel and ceramic towards the ebon sky. The entire population of Mordian dwells in cramped conditions upon a region on the dark side of the world barely a tenth the size of Terra, where they are forced together into multilevel tower cities. Mordian's rotational speed and orbit are perfectly synchronised, resulting in a local day and a local year being of identical length, and causing one side of the world to be bathed in perpetual searing light, while the other is swathed in endless darkness. Mordian's already limited surface area is reduced further by simple quirks of rotation and orbit. The Mordian Iron Guard are the elite Astra Militarum regiments that hail from a tiny world of overcrowded hive cities and scarce resources. Some enemies of the Emperor have been misled by the Mordians' elaborate and ornate uniforms to believe they were facing amateurs, only to find the bright uniforms contain tough, steely-eyed and implacable warriors of the Imperium. In battle, these highly-disciplined soldiers present perfectly formed ranks of troops to the enemy, unleashing precisely timed volleys of las-fire from behind a hedge of bayonet points. Their regiments are fiercely loyal to their cause: the prosecution of the Emperor's enemies. The people of Mordian are grim and dour by nature, respecting only discipline and duty. This bleak world is tidally-locked with its sun, which causes one side of it to always be bathed in perpetual darkness while the other is continuously bathed in its star's radiation, leaving it a scorched and lifeless wasteland.ДЄs such, all Human settlements on Mordian are located on the world's dark side, and the planet has well-earned its moniker as the 'World of Eternal Night.' The Mordian Iron Guard is the superbly drilled and accoutred Militarum Regimentum of the Astra Militarum whose constituent regiments hail from the Hive World of Mordian. Colonel Kostan Drescher, Mordian 18 th Iron Guard, addressing the newly-raised regiment Nothing less than this will be tolerated.' You will not succumb to fear or doubt, and you will relent only after you have given your last moment for the Emperor.

Not a single step back, not a single moment of hesitation.

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