Description

Astra Militarum novel by Russell Zimmerman, forcing Castellan-Colonel Orysian Roane into command of a despised abhuman auxilia. A young Cadian who preferred to leave leadership to others inherits a ragtag regiment of failures, survivors and veterans from across the Imperium. Hated by their commissar and ignored by the Departmento Munitorum, the unit is thrown into a civil war on a broken world before Roane can hammer it into any kind of shape.