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Vivica Sautine

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Vivica Sautine was a Lieutenant of the 57th Armoured Regiment of the Perlian Planetary Defence Force during the Siege of Perlia in 929.M41.

Biography

Sautine and her tank crew belonged to an all-female unit, the "Vixens," which were as rare among PDF forces as among the Imperial Guard. Their tank took its name from this unit, and featured a crude drawing of a "red furred" creature in a uniform on the side.[1a]

When the Imperial forces on Perlia's western continent were overrun by the orks of Waaagh! Korbul, they scattered into random elements that conducted guerilla actions against the orks. Sautine, left in command of a single Leman Russ Battle Tank, the Vixen, was forced to run when the supply base she was heading for was occupied by the orks.[1a]

Fleeing to an alternate base, pursued by orks, she joined up with the ad hoc force led by Commissar Ciaphas Cain. Though Cain's force was preparing to move out and had already booby-trapped the supply cache, Felicia Tayber managed to snatch a few pallets of shells for the tank's Battle Cannon, which were used to great effect to annihilate the incoming orks.[1a]

Sautine's Leman Russ was the first armoured vehicle Cain's force acquired, but several more joined the force in the following weeks, and Cain put her in charge of his armour contingent.[1b] She was instrumental in the battle at the Valley of Daemons[1c], and survived when the force finally broke through to the Imperial lines.[2]

Decades later, in 999.M41, Cain reluctantly led Perlia's forces again during the Second Siege. Recalling memories of the First Siege, Cain saw a Leman Russ and half-expected Sautine to pop out of the turret, only to remember that she had died of old age years earlier.[2]

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