47th Talon Eclipse

## 47th Talon Eclipse Regiment

**47th Talon Eclipse Regiment** is a small, formidable elite black ops unit of the Inquisition that was established by Inquisitor Adahm Klerixus. Although its function changes over the years, 47th Talon Eclipse specializes in covert, infiltration, to cope with local revolutions, regional complications, and global terrorist activities in "unauthorized" combat zones too politically sensitive to intervene through conventional means. Its agents were also trained to complete various missions that were assigned in secret. All its members were battlefield hardened veterans, with many coming from a mercenary background.

Because of its status as a special forces mercenary unit, any and all members of 47th Talon Eclipse were heavily trained and rigorously taught a wide field of survival, martial, and operational skills; from a plethora of insertion and maneuvering methods, to skydiving techniques and underwater infiltration, in order to cover all possible routes of infiltration into an enemy nation; advanced outdoor survival skills, including scenarios regarding long period wilderness survival and a wide range of harsh environments; acute stalking, detonation operations, wireless communication, procuring and reusing enemy resources, gathering information, varying martial arts, emergency medical operations, languages, and hi-tech devices.

Members of 47th Talon Eclipse Regiment would secretly provide tactical support and field Intel to Operatives of Adahm Klerixus during missions as well as cleaning up after them, making sure that the operatives left no traces that they were ever there. Its overall purpose was to ensure the survival and success of operatives during missions in order for the unit to become a success by any means necessary.

In addition to their Operators, the 47th Talon Eclipse includes formations of Lunar Venatorii, Ishtar Rangers, etc, and various other Regiments that have been to the Ishtar Subsector. As Mercenaries they pick up many an orphan Imperial group.

## Background

The 47th Talon Eclipse Regiment has its roots in the chaos of war, emerging from the crucible of the Ishtar Subsector. Initially conceived as a response to the complex and politically sensitive challenges faced by Inquisitor Adahm Klerixus, the regiment evolved into a formidable Inquisitorial Mercenary Group. Its formation was necessitated by the need for a versatile, elite force capable of handling covert operations, infiltration, and cleanup in areas deemed too sensitive for conventional intervention.

## Organization

Divided into specialized units, including Astra Militarum members, mercenaries, Imperial Navy personnel, and Adeptus Mechanicus members, each brings unique skills to the table. The command structure is led by Major-Commissar Canth Rahl, a highly decorated and mysterious figure. The regiment includes snipers, demolitions experts, anti-armor specialists, and techpriestesses, ensuring a diverse skill set for any mission.

## Recruitment and Training

Recruitment is drawn from battlefield-hardened veterans, mercenaries, and skilled individuals with unique expertise. Potential recruits undergo rigorous training that covers a wide array of survival, martial, and operational skills. Training includes advanced infiltration techniques, outdoor survival in harsh environments, detonation operations, intelligence gathering, language proficiency, and expertise in high-tech devices. Mercenaries are sought from various corners of the galaxy, especially those with experience in the Hives and underworlds.

## Combat Doctrine

The Group emphasizes versatility, adaptability, and precision. Covert operations and infiltration are their forte, excelling in missions requiring a discreet touch. The regiment employs a combination of long-range engagements, explosive demolitions, and anti-armor tactics. Each member is trained to be self-sufficient, capable of surviving in diverse environments. Tactical support for Inquisitorial Operatives and cleanup after their missions are key components of their combat doctrine.

## Notable Members

### Astra Militarum Members

#### Major-Commissar Canth Rahl, Commander

Major Commissar Canth Rahl is a highly decorated soldier. Having lived essentially two whole lives, he is far older than he appears having loyally served the Imperium for over 170 years. His official age, lineage, deployments, and almost all of his background has been purged from almost all records since joining the Inquisitions ranks as a Liaison. He is a cold, calculating individual whose face is completely hidden beneath a steel mask which very few have seen removed. Besides the badge of his office, rank and a mark dictating his position with the Inquisition, the Major Commissar wears an emblazoned Iron Cross on his right pauldron with the words Ignosce Mihi, Quid Faciendum, translating to *Forgive me for what must be done.* Personally, he never shows his opinion into the matter unless asked and even then normally declines, he is formal and polite but doesn't hesitate to use force at any given time.

#### Corporal Lorin Asgenar, Sniper

She joined the **77th Ishtar Ranger Guerrilla Regiment** at a young age. Even in the beginning she showed a sharp eye and a way with blending into her environment. She has successfully won her Company's marksmanship award several years running and has even made it to the regimental level of competition. She is a veteran of a few campaigns now, fighting orks and other xenos and traitors. So far she hasn't actually entered melee combat, preferring to kill from afar. She has survived numerous classified missions and has even lead a squad as a senior corporal during an excursion. Lorin is 5'10" with long dirty blond hair and Grey-green eyes. She is a fit and lean, and is right handed but left eye dominant. All her equipment has been repainted in a Camouflage pattern based off her regiment's colors. She survived her unit's death and was added to Adam's personal regiment as a result of the classified mission that killed the rest of her regiment.

#### Corporal Irmina Gottzmann, Spotter

Her own regiment was nearly obliterated in a rather brutal engagement with an Ork raid, which turned out to be a larger war party. Sent to drive off the raid, the regiment soon found itself bogged down by a large force of Orks, the rest of the Regiment to preoccupied to assist. Irmina and Ellia were positioned on a high ridge, taking down multiple Greenskins before a particularly nasty Nob found his way to the sneaky gits. The two women fought ferociously, but only one of them survived the encounter. As the injured Nob bludgeoned her sister to death, Irmina jumped onto it's back, sending her mono-edge knife straight into the beasts skull repeatedly before it fell. She now holds a deep resentment towards the Greenskins, and wears the Nobs teef around her neck to remember what took her only piece of family.

#### Veteran Frederick Pliskin, Demolitions Expert

During his time in the youth army Frederick fought alongside boys the same age as him against the seemingly perpetual invasion from the eye of terror, fighting horrors that would have overpowered far lesser worlds alongside countless other Whiteshields he embraced the grim reality of his life with simple acceptance. After a number of lucky engagements and fortunate circumstances Frederick managed to survive against all the odds and eventually lived long enough to leave the Whiteshields and join a proper Imperial guard regiment. The **Cadian 278th Infantry Regiment**. In this new regiment Frederick began to develop an affinity with explosive munitions being able to instinctively understand their proper place on the battlefield, volunteering to join a special weapons team Frederick was oriented and entrusted to carry and deploy powerful demolition charges for the regiment. After doing this for a long time he was eventually nominated to join the Veteran core of the regiment and was granted more freedom to choose his personal equipment. During one of his missions he caught the notice of Inquisitor Adam Clarke and was soon recruited to joined the Inquisitor's troops. It was a rare Cadian that makes it as far as the Eastern Fringe. He takes a guilty sense of pride when he has to deploy high explosives on a structural support or the side of a heretic's tank and he isn't above smirking when he suddenly pelts a oncoming charge with grenades.

#### Elysia Krauss, Supply Officer

Once apart of the **488th Krieg Siege Regiment**, they were aboard an Imperial vessel in transit to a warzone to fight and die in the name of the Emperor in the mud of some world fallen to the sway of the Ruinous powers. During one of the fleets scheduled stops to pick up more regiments from a orbiting station, a Tyranid splinter fleet was detected on sensor drifting directly towards the station and fleet. In the end though, many of the regiments were wiped out by the Tyranids after being boarded which also included her own. Due to a munitorium error, Eylsie was assigned to the space station as the stations inventory clerk. Taking this assignment like any other, she was on the station for a number of years before Inquisitor Clarke showed up. Seeing an oppurtunity to have someone who follows orders without question, medical experience, and knack for inventory and supply managing, he greased some wheels within the station. Suddenly she was given a new assignment, to serve Inquisitor Clarke.

#### Antonya “Cherno” Kaidanovsky, Anti-Armor Expert

She’d had her fill of the militia, her fill of defending, and now she wanted to push back. Assigned to the **301th Armageddon Mechanized Infantry Regiment**, she was assigned to 5th company, 3rd platoon, a group dedicated to working as an Anti-Armour element, known for their moniker, *The Wreckers*. Part of the 11th *Wrecking Crew*, Antonya would soon see deployment in various offensives on her world, before her regiment was tasked off world, sent off to strike back against the enemies of the Imperium, and show once more, that Armageddon had not perished, that Armageddon would deal with the enemies of man as it always had.

#### Ferenien 'Decimus' Votum, Black Ops Operator

Originating from some rim-world owned by the Imperium and being taken by the Progena before any memories were able to be. As a young boy he was chosen, transferred and worked by the Ordo Tempestus in their harsh training camps. Virtually completely built from the ground up, knowledge, morals, habits, and lifestyle, he became a Tempestus Scion after completing the many trials and tribulations the Ordo Tempestus dispensed at him. After this fact, he saw many conflicts on many worlds, acting as one of the Tempestors in their elite legions, following any given order, no matter how dangerous, inhumane, or complex they were; it was his only way to live his life the way he was raised. As a Scion in his squad, no matter the situation, hive-world or dead world, he would remain one of the living banners of morale on the field, striking an equal amount of fear into those that faced him, yet with every deployment, and every encounter, he internally questions more and more of what he is, and what he stands for, no matter if such a thing were good or bad, he externally steels himself, ensuring the example of what a Scion is remains and is known within any regiment or group he is with, not with words, but with sheer actions.

#### Corporal Saven Firlaeth, Heavy Infantry

Saven Firlaeth never knew her parents well, the father absent and her mother dying while she was a mere child. This left her alone, and a harsh life as one of the under-class of Imperial society was the only thing she could call hers. Joining the Imperial Guard was one of the few, yet risky ways out of her situation, so she enlisted at the young age of 18, concealing her heritage from the recruiting officers. Saven soon gained a reputation for surviving improbable odds, often being stranded behind enemy lines yet always returning to the **125th Therion Heavy Infantry Regiment** alive and not being severely harmed. After the Necron attack on the world of Artemis, Firleath was transferred to the Inquisition. She was promoted during a battle against the Dark Eldar, where she managed to coordinate a rag-tag squad that survived the battle with less than 40% casualties.

#### Rikan Volkov, Field Medic

Rikan Volkov hails from the distinguished 112th Suaineach Stitchers Regiment, a renowned Imperial Guard unit specializing in field medicine and triage on the front lines. The regiment gained its reputation for turning the tide in battles with timely medical support. Rikan rose through the ranks, displaying exceptional skill and compassion. His journey to the Talon Eclipse began when Inquisitor Klerixus, impressed by the regiment's prowess in saving lives amid chaos, discreetly recruited Rikan. The Inquisitor recognized the need for a skilled field medic in his covert operations, and Rikan's seamless integration into the Talon Eclipse went unnoticed, preserving the regiment's secrecy.

#### Kellen Vortas, Communications Specialist

Kellen Vortas served in the elite 88th Lunar Venatorii Cavalry Regiment, a distinguished unit specializing in rapid deployment and advanced communication tactics. The regiment earned accolades for its strategic use of vox warfare and lightning-fast cavalry strikes. Kellen's expertise in communication technology and battlefield coordination caught the attention of Inquisitor Klerixus during a joint mission. Recognizing the potential of Kellen's skills in the Talon Eclipse, the Inquisitor orchestrated a discreet transfer. Kellen seamlessly transitioned from the Lunar Venatorii, leaving behind no trace of his departure. His regiment, oblivious to his new mission, continued its operations while Kellen brought his unparalleled communication prowess to the covert endeavors of the Talon Eclipse.

### Mercenary Members

#### Luger Meinholf

One of the many mercenaries that work for Adahm Klerixus, Luger is part of Adam's extended forces but not part of his trusted retinue. Luger has well defined muscles, but is wiry. With his Grey-green eyes, brown crew-cut hair and average height, he blends in with other Under-hivers but his weapons and readiness to reach for his weapons, makes him a dangerous man. This and his tendency to wear dark color clothing over his body glove makes him very intimidating. Also he grew out a small goatee. He has signs of a broken nose that had been fixed and A knife scar across his right eye. Formerly a PDF trooper of the Hives on the Planet of Cogger, he served for a few years as an excellent fighter especially with a pistol or a knife. But he had a discipline problem, he liked fighting so much he would egg people on to fight him and he didn't know when to always hold back. When he didn't hold back, people died, so they court marshaled him. He served his sentence in jail and was dumped into the under-hives, where he found work as muscle-for-hire. No job was to low, though he was honorable about keeping his word and staying "loyal". His reputation of a vicious fighter and a dead eye shot earned him many a contract. On his person, he hid an extra small holdout revolver under a sleeve, two thin daggers in his boots, and a garrote wire in the lining of his fatigues. Eventually, he ended up being hired by Adahm Klerixus for his understanding of the Hives, especially the underworld. Since he was on a command track before he had been kicked out of the service he never underwent Neural Programming.

#### Jared Townsend

A human mercenary, formerly a soldier of the Imperial guard. Originally being a part of the **232nd New Byzantine Line Infantry Regiment** from the New Byzantine hive world Jack was originally a hive ganger before fatefully joining the planet PDF after a delivery to one of the underhive cults went sour. After joining the PDF he was soon nominated to be shipped off world as part of the planet tithe where his regiment was almost completely destroyed in its first theatre of war against an Ork invasion which changed into a heretical uprising in the form of a Nurgle cult.

#### Atris Tallion, Thief

A moderately pale and stoic man standing at a height of 6'1". He has the build of a muscular swimmer and seems to cover it with attire from a bygone era of cronies and car-fixing gangs, known for motor-oiled up hair. Scars litter his body from lifestyle choices of the man himself. He worked as a pickpocket, a scavenger, a gossip, and a panhandler at an early age to feed himself, clothe himself, and entertain himself. He got into his own fair share of fights, rather, a couple people's fair share of scraps, stabbings, robberies, hassles with the law, it scarred his compass as much as his physical body when he met Adam Clarke and was hired for his talent in thievery.

#### Ilyana Krychek, Infiltration Specialist

Ilyana Krychek hails from the esteemed Krychek family of Ishtar, known for their exceptional skills in hunting and stealth. The Krycheks have a long history as nobles, and their prowess in tracking and ambushing targets has earned them respect among the noble houses of Ishtar. From a young age, Ilyana was groomed to carry on the family legacy of precision and finesse in the art of infiltration. While Ilyana is loyal to the Talon Eclipse and committed to the Inquisitor's missions, she also harbors a personal agenda related to the political intrigues of Ishtar. Her infiltration skills allow her to discreetly gather information that could influence the balance of power among the noble houses.

#### Raine Brask, Tech Specialist

Born on the fringes of the Ishtar, Raine Brask's journey began as a scavenger amidst the wreckage of war-torn frontier worlds. The remnants of war machines and abandoned outposts became both playground and classroom. The first cybernetic enhancements were a necessity, earned through daring feats of scavenging and the occasional skirmish with rival scavenger gangs. Raine's talents caught the attention of a notorious mercenary group operating on the fringes of Imperial space. Embracing the life of a hired gun, Raine traveled from one conflict zone to another, providing technological expertise and unorthodox solutions to the highest bidder. It was during a particularly dangerous mission that Inquisitor Adahm Klerixus crossed paths with Raine. Recognizing the value of such a resourceful individual, the Inquisitor extended an offer that Raine couldn't refuse.

### Imperial Navy Members

#### Mako Darchma, Pilot

A Void-born onboard an arms ship, Mako never had claim to a homeworld or any real heritage other than that of an Imperial Citizen. Mako's early life was quite uneventful just the simply life of a child of ratings, helping with various duties around the ship and generally endearing himself to most people with his childish high hopes. The Recruitment of Mako was in response to the Inquisitors request of a Pilot and the Inquisitors connections finding the best pilot the sector admiralty had to offer. Mako Darchma had flown over 700 successful combat missions and has 58 confirmed kills though countless more unconfirmed.

### Adpetus Mechanicus Members

#### *Iron Maiden* Celes 'Celestia' Ferronica van Alderson, Techpriestess

Celes is a curious woman due to the way she grew up on the world of Mjorn, the capital of the Sect of Absolute Truth. It goes far enough like many other individuals of the cult to even embrace knowledge that is not meant for regular humans. Considering the indirect Sect founder and main figure of it was 'Alderson' an Iron Hands Master of the Forge, seconded to the Deathwatch. He died sometimes before The War of the Beast and was renown for his experimental technology, though most of his achievements were long lost, having been declared heretical. Celes knows that the importance to record data is of utmost importance, if people question how much knowledge of alien technology and civilization should be recorded, she usually uses the excuse that the radical Ordo Xenos inquisitors as well as Astartes have used for long 'know your enemy'. The Explorator Inquisitor came across her during a hunt for a runaway traitor.

## Appearance

Members of the Talon Eclipse have a distinctive appearance, often clad in adaptive camouflage patterns based on the environment of their current mission. They wear specialized gear suited for covert operations, including lightweight armor with integrated communication devices, and carry a variety of concealed weapons for versatility. Major-Commissar Canth Rahl and some key members wear the group's emblem, an enblazoned Iron Cross, signifying their allegiance to the Inquisition.

## Colors

Their primary colors are adaptive camouflage patterns, adjusting to the environment of their current mission. The emblem, an Iron Cross emblazoned on the right pauldron, is typically in subdued metallic tones. Individual units within the group may adopt distinct color schemes based on their specialization, allowing for quick identification on the field.

## Relations

### Adahm's Retinue

The Talon Eclipse excels in covert operations and cleanup after Inquisitorial missions. They work closely with Adahm's retinue to ensure that the operatives leave no traces behind. The regiment's proficiency in infiltration complements the retinue's expertise in investigation and confrontation. During missions, the Talon Eclipse provides tactical support and field intel to Adahm's retinue. This includes advanced reconnaissance, securing escape routes, and ensuring that the retinue has the necessary resources for success. The regiment's adaptability allows them to adjust strategies based on the retinue's needs.

### Skitarii Purge Forces

The Talon Eclipse maintains a professional and cooperative relationship with the Skitarii Purge Forces. They often collaborate on missions that require a combination of covert infiltration and technological prowess. The Experimental Skitarii provide advanced technological support and firepower, complementing the Talon Eclipse's skills in covert operations. The Talon Eclipse Regiment coordinates seamlessly with these specialized Skitarii units. Each unit brings unique capabilities to the table, and the Talon Eclipse ensures that their diverse skills are utilized effectively in various missions. The integration of these Skitarii forces enhances the overall effectiveness of Adahm Klerixus's Inquisitorial operations.

### Astra Militarum Support

The Talon Eclipse Regiment maintains a symbiotic relationship with the Astra Militarum Support forces. These individuals, seconded to the ship by Adahm, serve as a personal regiment for specific missions. The Talon Eclipse relies on the Astra Militarum Support for additional firepower, conventional military support, and versatility in dealing with a variety of threats. The Astra Militarum members, in turn, benefit from the specialized skills and covert expertise of the Talon Eclipse.

### Mercenaries and Favors Network

The Talon Eclipse Regiment is closely tied to Adahm Klerixus's network of mercenaries and favors. These individuals, owing debts or having alliances with Adahm, often find themselves working alongside the Talon Eclipse in covert operations. The mercenaries provide additional manpower and a diverse set of skills, enhancing the adaptability of the Talon Eclipse Regiment.