Imperialis Militia - Order of Battle: The Imperialis Militia was not a coherent, galaxy-spanning organisation by any means, and, except in times of great emergency, was not subject to the chains of command of the Excertus Imperialis. Rather, each was a colonial defence force raised from a planet's own populace and its commander-in-chief was the Imperial Commander of the world it defended.Some were ancient martial classes with their roots in the Age of Strife, while others were irregular levies activated only in direst need, and in most cases the template of command structure and hierarchy imposed by the Imperium's Principia Militaris was adhered to only in its generality.Just as varied were the standards of equipment and pattern of accoutrement of individual Imperialis Militia regiments. Some wore gaudy dress uniforms or burnished plasmesh chainmail, others furs and hides, while some few might be clad in advanced armour such as local pattern semi-powered Carapace Armour; all as dictated by the culture, environment and technological base of their homeworld, and so also the diversity of their weapons, within a minimum standard issued them from the Principia Command.In theory at least, Imperialis Militia armies were irregular in nature, each member first and foremost a subject of their world only called to arms in times of emergency, but many worlds with large populations required a standing army simply to maintain civil order as well as deal with any outside threat.In practice, many Imperialis Miliita forces consisted of a core of professional soldiery, supplemented by an influx of men and women called upon or drafted to serve a period under arms as needed, after which they returned to their previous lives.The core of professional commissioned and non-commissioned officers of the Imperialis Militia were usually career soldiers, even on worlds without a strongly martial culture, and in many cases, these were often older Imperial Army veterans retired from the Great Crusade into a position where their skills and experience might still serve the Imperium.The darker side of this coin was the indenture of prisoners, recidivists and thousands considered to be members of Abhuman mutations below the standard of the accepted Human baseline norm, but not so debased as to warrant immediate extermination.These forces often served the Imperialis Militia entirely unwillingly, their control guaranteed by cadres of veteran Discipline Masters, and the ruthless application of lethal sanction and chemical inducement where and when needed.In almost all cases, Imperialis Militia supply lines were limited to their own world, and barring an initial bequest of equipment during their founding, it was unusual for them to be regularly equipped by off-world sources unless the Imperial Commander of the militia's homeworld was prepared to negotiate supply compacts with nearby Forge Worlds or other centres of industry.Given the widely divergent technological levels of worlds across the Imperium, it was impossible to standardise supply of Imperialis Militia forces, necessitating local manufacture and provision in the vast majority of cases.When it came to heavy vehicles and armour however, most Imperialis Militia were equipped from the Imperium's strategic reserves as very few worlds then or now are capable of manufacturing such fearsome engines of war as the Leman Russ main battle tank or the Baneblade super-heavy tank.Thus it was not uncommon to see a tribal warrior in warpaint and animal skins manning the command cupola of a Baneblade, or a company of warriors wearing primitive chainmail armour charging from the troop bay of a Gorgon armoured assault transport, Mars-manufactured Lascarbines in hand -- such was the diversity and span of the Imperium in both its earliest days and even now.