Saturnine Cohort

The Saturnine Cohort stood among the oldest and most honoured formations of the Solar Auxilia, its lineage reaching back to the void wars fought in the shadow of Saturn's rings during the earliest days of Unity. Raised from the hardy population of the ringed world's moons and orbital plates, its soldiers were void-born to a man, bred to the cold and the dark and the merciless discipline of shipboard life. The cohort carried more battle honours than most of the Legions it served alongside, a century and more of compliances won across the length of the Great Crusade, and it bore them with a cold pride that bordered on arrogance. In battle the Saturnine were the very image of Auxilia perfection, their steel-blue ranks advancing in flawless order beneath banners heavy with honours, their volkite volleys reducing the enemies of Mankind to drifting ash. When the Heresy came, the Saturnine Cohort held true to the Emperor without a moment's hesitation, and its veterans spent themselves without complaint in the war to hold the Imperium together. To the traitor Auxilia who had once been their brothers, the sight of the Saturnine banner became an omen of a hard and disciplined death, for the ringed world's soldiers gave no ground and asked no quarter.