Thread: In the Emperor's service [Ghostwolf and Dionysius]

As he walked through the camp Marcus did his best to answer her questions, pausing every so often to instruct his men Ha, no rest for me, not for a while at least. We still have our own debrief to do, then I'll be passing that on to the Colonel and my fellow officers. The Tau already seem to have a presence in the Hive, and our patrols encountered several outposts on the Western edge, which we've been matching and tracking... Jackson, get the heavier weaponry seen to at once! I want our heavy bolters ready for action next time we deploy! Standing patrols of footsoldiers running between a handful of solid emplacement, but with the Tau more firepower can always materialise within minutes so we were ordered not to engage yet, just to get the lay of the land.... Sergeant, I want a readiness report across the company when we do our debrief! One platoon needs to be ready for rapid response at any given time, on six hour shifts, we've still got Draconians in the field. Good news is that it's marshy, heavily wooded, or rock. Limited sightlines for them to exploit with heavier weaponry, and more our kind of terrain. Hopefully we'll get given the go ahead to get in an clear out the bastards in the next few days, and finally exploit the few routes we've got through. He turned and smiled at her for a second, You'll have to excuse the men, we haven't had a woman with the Regiment in quite some time, since our initial formation. They'll get used to it I'm sure No major engagements yet, a handful of firefights, the Second Company took some casualties last week, Tau rolled out in force when our embedded engineers were setting up some airburst mines to dissuade any ground advancements towards a Forward Ops Base She was obviously suspicious, and rightly so, Commissars had been known to dissapear once they went into the field, though he dismissed her concerns with a wave of his hand. Your predecessor was Commissar Worth, he'd been attached to our regiment for several years. On Vespasia Prime we were taking back a Hive, and running guerilla warfare in the streets. The command group came under attack from some Tau Auxilliary mercenaries who got through the lines, and a big old xenos cut him down. He was a great man, and you've got some big shoes to fill Entering the tent, Colonel Flyte was immediately obvious. A towering man, silver haired and broad in stature, was bent over his command table, studying it intently as various aides moved in orbit of him. He looked up at them, the dull red glare of a bionic eye sitting within a scarred socket washed over the two as he barked in characteristic Draconian Low Gothic So, this is our new Commissar? Tyber is it? You're awfully small, I wouldn't have noticed you if you'd come in behind Captain Blake here Marcus gave her a look which did its best to say He doesn't pull any punches and generally apologise for the Colonel as the old man continued, turning to his Junior. Fine work out there Blake, quiet as ghosts. Unfortunately, neither of your compatriots are back yet. Pierpat and some of his First got pinned down at one of the observation points, he has a whole platoon held up in some woodland whilst the Tau scout around, we don't know what spooked them. Just footsoldiers at the moment, but we're doing our best to Sergeant McGarry and the rest of his Company are nearby waiting to rendevous with them before we extract, and I've halted Vane and the Second at their own extraction point to go and provide close support if needed. Seems this day may not be over yet His gaze turned back to Tyber Tell me, when we have to finally go toe to toe with these bastards, are you ready to do some fighting?