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| - The Drookian Fenguard hail from the inhospitable Feral World of Drook VI. Covered in bogs, fens and impenetrable mist, life on this world is harsh and often times deadly. The general populace govern themselves by their own laws as there is only a token Imperial presence within the handful of cities located on the planet. Every generation, a new regiment is forcibly conscripted into the Imperial Guard by means of press gangs, and shipped for service across the galaxy. Drook IV's warring clans exist at the very precipice of survival, constantly waging war in the foggy moors and fens of their harsh world, raiding and pillaging each other's ancestral territories, and looting everything that is not nailed down so that they can carry away their ill-gotten goods on the hairy riding mounts known as rekhorns. The Drookians live by a martial code and for the honour of their clan names. They are distrustful of outsiders and utterly relentless in war. Commissars assigned to Drookian regiments soon discover that in order to control these unruly and roguish Guardsmen, it is necessary to callously exploit their hatred towards foreigners. This is accomplished by helping the Drookians identify an Imperial enemy as a clan enemy, and if the situation warrants it, inform them that the honour of the ancestors of their regiments has been grievously insulted.
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