12th United Kolin Army Battalion

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## Logo

### Nicknames

"Planetary Devastators""The Rouge Battalion" "Butchers of Worlds"

### Motto

"Scorn and burn, until they're worlds are no more!"

## Equipment

### Powered armour

Mark 2-4 Power Armour + variants, SCA-5 Power Armour and Husker Armour.

## Service history

### Wars

Roacist War, Kolin-Obcy War, Collective War

The **12th United Kolin Army Battalion** mostly known as the "**Planetary Devastators**" are a specialist battalion which heavily utilizes siege and assault tactics to level even the strongest of fortresses or brutalize the enemy in closer ranges. The battalions home world is/was **Lubrika** where the battalion was founded with most of their weapons and vehicles however coming from **Tallon** , **Kolonar** and **Kolinea**, since Lubrika being an agricultural world has little to no military industry. The 12th's headquarters was located on the planet's capital **Shamaria City** being one of the largest and few military installations on the plant, despite this the tractor factories and regular imports of equipment with the appropriate spare parts made sure the military forces mainly the 12th were properly supported.

## **Sub Units**

### **8th "Marked Men" Assault Company**

After the 12th's last survivors on Lubrika left their fortified underground mountain bunkers, they immediately regrouped and battled the Roachos garrison force left behind on Lubrika. They slaughtered and assaulted their way to an old evacuation transport, that was kept in a mountain side aircraft hanger awaiting conversion into a museum ship. The remaining survivors (most of who were from the 8th company) fixed up the transport as best as they could, managing to restore even the Hyperdrive. They took off and manage to slip past the Roachos Corvettes and escape the solar system eventually regrouping with the other half of the 12th Battalion.

However, the survivors of the 8th were forever changed by the horrors and devastation they've witnessed as they battled across their 'corpse' world, the loss of everything and everyone they'd ever loved changed the entire battalion. But the 8th company was afflicted by the vengeance filled blood must the most, always being at the front of every battle and were always overly brutal. The satisfaction from getting vengeance from killing Roachos soldiers however became too extreme even for the newly renamed Planetary Devastators, and after a bunch of minor war crimes, they were excommunicated from the 12th.

Despite being cut off from their fellow soldiers and supplies the 8th company went off to seek their revenge until they were all killed off or the war was over becoming increasingly bloodthirsty with every engagement. But since they didn't want their battalion to potentially suffer the Roacist's retaliation for their rage filled revenge, they dubbed themselves the "Marked Men" and changed the blue on the "Butcher's White and Blue" colour scheme to red. Speciesism against the Roachos (Roacist or not) was encouraged throughout the company which resulted in tons of Specially charged caricature art being drawn on vehicles and aircraft, along with slurs being used in nearly every conversation.

Marked Men were also responsible for various variants of equipment which were adopted and later standardized by not only the rest of the 12th but other parts of the Kolin Military. The effective but brutal M-113A1CQA and the completely original KPS-1 Plasma sword which became quite popular with officers, along with lots of other plasma melee weapons such as axes or maces which remained large exclusive to the Marked Men. The standard issue weapons for the Marked Men were the KAR-18P, KSMG-82 Sub-Machine Gun or a shotgun as the primary weapon and a KP-19 pistol or plasma melee weapon as they're secondarily weapon. Although it wasn't uncommon too for some crazed soldiers to dual wield melee weapons instead.

At the end of the Roacist War, the Marked Men were the only Kolin unit tried for war crimes during the Lubrika trials, with most of their senior officers being sentenced to lethal injection or life imprisonment. The Marked Men vengefully committed various war crimes with extreme prejudice as they cut a wide swath across occupying Roachos garrisons. Some of the war crimes committed by the Marked Men were:

* Killing or wounding a combatant who, having laid down his arms and surrendered or having no longer means of defence.
* Employing weapons, projectiles and materials and methods of warfare that are of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering.
* Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives.
* Intentionally directing attacks against civilian objects, that is, objects which are not military objectives.

with they cells or execution dates Ironically mixed in with the Rochos War criminals.

## **Power Armour**

Armouria Industries Mark 4 Power Armour

Mark 4 Power Armour Variants

## **Vehicles**

### **Armoured Personal Carriers**

#### **M-113**

##### **M-113A1CQA**

The M-113A1CQA is a specialized and unique M-113 variant created and operated exclusively by the 12th, this version is designed to suit the 12th's close ranged assault tactics. The 12th added 4 gun ports equipped with either full automatic shotguns or machine guns and armoured, bullet proof glass vision blocks were added on each side of the M-113.

Both weapons have been modified to be firing port weapons, with the cooling system, firing speed and targeting computer being greatly improved along with the weapons having an greatly increased ammunition capacity. While a power armoured soldier can still dismount the weapons and utilize it outside the vehicle it's extra weight and attachments make it more cumbersome compared to regular infantry weapons.

The normal tracks were replaced with large spiked steel tracks, this was due to various 12th mechanics and engineers working on various civilian and constructions vehicles before enlisting so they had lots of experience with modifying treads. The hope is that the vehicle's tracks would behave like a Landfill compactor's steel spiked wheels, shredding, tearing, compressing and penetrating the enemy soldier the vehicle ran over.

Large blades made of Viranium (the sharpest material in the universe) were also welded onto the vehicles lower glacis pointed forward so the driver could ram and impale an enemy on them.