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Catachan Jungle Fighters

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Appearance & Uniform
===Appearance & Uniform===
Catachans are known to wear red bandanas that symbolize a blood oath they take when joining a regiment, also marking them out as having the skill and toughness to survive on the worst death world in the Imperium. They sport tattoos and commonly dull their regimental badges with soot and soil so as to not reveal their position.{{Fn|7b}} Disdainful of the acquisition of medals by other regiments, tattoos are used as a way of marking battle honours such as the use of skull emblems to mark five years service, daggers to mark a decade of service {{Fn|16}} and the skull and crosshairs to denote a marksman {{Fn|17}}{{Fn|17}}
A common rite of passage among Jungle Fighters is for junior soldiers to earn their ''"Catachan name,"'' a sobriquet that acknowledges their battle experiences and/or some notable quality of theirs.{{Fn|11}} For example, [[Colonel]] [[Straken]]'s nickname "Iron Hand" comes from the [[bionic]] arm which replaced the one he lost to a [[Miral]] [[Land Shark]]{{Fn|7h}}, while [[Gunnery Sergeant]] "Stonetooth" Harker's reputation for toughness is such that he was able to kill a [[Tyranid]] [[Ravener]] by crushing its neck between his biceps, and was rumored to chew glass the way other men chew tobacco (though the latter is probably an exaggeration).{{Fn|7i}}
 
===Weapons & Equipment===
The standard Catachan [[Lasgun]] is the '''Mk.IV Lascarbine'''.{{Fn|7f}} Catachans make use of many [[close combat weapons]] including the [[Catachan fang]], measuring up to 20 inches of gleaming steel, which is the most common weapon. It is also used for settling disputes between Catachans. Another knife is the '''Night Reaper''', which is smaller and blackened, effective in night infiltration and assassinations. They are sometimes poisoned to improve their kill strength, the poisons coming directly from Catachan. The '''Devil's Claw''', named after the [[Catachan Devil|great predator]] on Catachan, is the longest weapon, up to four feet long. It is closer to a sword than a knife and has achieved status among the [[Ork]]s who call it ''''Da Cutta''''. The blade is hollow and half filled with mercury in order to improve swing strength and control, and the design of this weapon has been copied by Catachan regimental officers for use as a power weapon.{{Fn|1}}
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