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LORD-CAPTAIN CAMINA BALTAZAR

The neglected secondborn daughter of Lord-Captain Dominica Baltazar, Camina grew up used to the finer things in life. All the luxuries of wealth and power with none of the responsibilites. Then, within a year of each other, her mother was kidnapped by Drukhari and her older brother Gideon was lost on the far side of the Cicatrix Maledictum that had suddenly torn the galaxy, and the Baltazar protectorate of the Lion's Head Nebula, in half. The realm she inherited is plagued by rebellions and on the verge of collapse. And now there's also Hive Fleet Leviathan.

Camina is by no means stupid, but her mother hadn't bothered to teach her... anything really. She is a fervent reader and well-versed in the history and culture of the Imperium, but barely knows how to fire a lasgun, let alone fight a war on two fronts.

ADRIC VAN VALL, Seneschal to the Rogue Trader

Guilliaume Van Vall was the glue that kept the Baltazar realm together during the sudden disappearance of two Lord-Captains. His son Adric never wanted to take his place and Guilliaume never forced him to. Adric instead chose to become a field medic and his father used his connections with the realm's well-to-do to have his son trained with the sisters Hospitaller of the shrine world of Saint's Manger, one of only a handful of men in the history of the Adepta Sororitas to have the honour. When he dragged his father's mutitlated corpse out from under a dead screamer-killer, he know the worst had come. His father never found a successor. It went to him.

Adric's time with the sisters taught him pious devotion to the Emperor, but it also taught him mercy and compassion. To the rest of the Imperium, weakness.

F-11D SEGALA, Magos Biologis

Segala began her training under one magos Varnak. When Varnak died, Segala devoted her life to the study and eradication of the thing that killed him: Tyranids. Her hunger to learn about them grew very literal, and she secretly implanted herself with an illegally acquired omophagea, the organ that allowed Space Marines to gather information from the flesh of creatures they ate. When they learned what she had done, the upper ranks of the mechanicum banished her from Mars.

She has been hiding in the Baltazar realm ever since, slowly gathering dirt on Mars's upper eschelons so that she may extort her way back to the red planet.

Iron Ravens third captain LARISSA MORROW

The Imperial Truth states that women are incapable of becoming Space Marines. Morrow is a living violation of that Truth. She would have been shot through the head as soon as she was unthawed on the Zar Quaesitor, were it not for captain Farren of the nascent Iron Ravens chapter taking her in as his lieutenant. When he was entombed in a dreadnought, Morrow took his place as captain. She is a skilled and competent leader, known for being able to pull victory together from whatever table scraps her fractured and disorganized chapter could muster.

When one lives as a fact that contradicts The Truth, it breeds a certain baseline level of hatred. Morrow has adapted, but a century of humiliation by imperials of all ranks wears down the spirit.

AND A (very crude) MAP!