I used to think I was a good man. But I know that anything good inside me died a long time ago. And if not having good in me, if only being filled with hate and anger and bitterness and rage, if that makes me a bad man, if that makes me the Butcher, the Helldog that people call me behind my back, so be it. But know that I will give my all to being this 'bad man' every single day, because all I have is my devotion to my Empress, my Empire, and my Legions. When I look around at these machines of death and ranks of soldiers, I see all that I am, and all that I ever will be. Maybe one day there will be peace, once all the enemies of the Empire are brought to their knees. I know that when that day comes, I won't be there to see and live it. No. I will die knowing that I was the one who made it so.
-- Beregon Fledge, Commander of the 13th Legion, "Empress' Own"
