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Revision as of 15:07, 17 May 2009

Quotes made by members of the Imperial Guard.

Author/Alphabetical order Quote Source
Imperial Manuals / Books / Publications All of the worlds of the Imperium shall look to their own defense. They shall also look to the defense of the Imperium, and the prosecution of such wars as the Emperor in His wisdom shall decree.

Therefore, each populated planet shall raise and maintain its own planetary defense force, and from the ranks of this defense force it shall provide the best of its troops for recruitment into the Imperial Guard, according to such requirements as shall be imposed by the Administratum.

- from the Introit to the Codex Exercitus

Warhammer 40,000: Compendium p. 142
Statistically, you will almost certainly die when assaulting a well-maintained fortress with a competent commander. You must strive to make your death useful.

- Training Manual, Penal Legion, Suicide Bomb Squads

Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

- Imperial Guard Tactical Manual

The Traitor's Hand (Novel)
A They died doing what they loved, that's all that matters.

- Colonel Alathis after seeing several Hellhounds being destroyed by a large group of Tyranids

Old artilleryman's saying Infantry win firefights. Tanks win battles. Artillery wins wars.

- Old saying amonst Imperial Guard artillery officers

Codex: Imperial Guard(5th Edition) p.52
Fifth Company, this is the moment of truth. You will not fear. You will not falter. You will not give a single step to the enemy.

- General Lukas Alexander, Commander 1st Kronus Regiment

Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
Enemies of the Imperium, hear me. You have come here to die. The Immortal Emperor is with us and we are invincible. His soldiers will strike you down. His war machines will crush you under their treads. His mighty guns will bring the very sky crashing down upon you. You cannot win. The Emperor has given us his greatest weapon to wield. So make yourselves ready. We are the First Kronus Regiment, and today is our Victory Day.

- General Lukas Alexander's address to enemy forces in Victory Bay

Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
B Blessed is the mind too small for doubt.

Commissar Groden Bevro

Warhammer 40,000: Compendium p. 49
C Well then, I seem to recall a rather pleasant little restaurant not far from here. Care to see if it's still standing?

Commissar Ciaphas Cain after the Chaos attack on Adumbria +++

What do I ask of my officers? Merely that they do their duty with fire in their bellies and a prayer on their lips.

Lord Castellan Ursarkar E. Creed +++

Codex: Imperial Guard (3rd Edition, 2nd Codex) p50
Although all documents surrounding the final fate of the original Mordant 13th - the “Lucky 13s” - have been sealed by order of the Inquisition, I, on behalf of the Cadian High Command, order another regiment to be mustered and given the name “The Mordant 13th”. The psyker cadre that advises my High Command have divined, through the Emperor’s Tarot, that just such a regiment will be able to protect the Imperium from all of its foes. It is with all haste that this regiment be raised and trained. We need these men to be hardened fighters in the service of the Emperor before the year is out.

— Ursarkar E. Creed, Lord Castellan of Cadia

GW Homepage USA
Children you call them? They can pull a trigger just as well as veterans, and they have the spirit of a bull narthax. Call them children if you wish - I call them troops.

Colonel Marus Cullen, Pannonia 5th Infantry Regiment on Whiteshields +++

Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p. 41
D I have at my command an entire battle group of the Imperial Guard. Fifty regiments, including specialized drop troops, stealthers, mechanized formations, armored companies, combat engineers and mobile artillery. Over half a million fighting men and thirty thousand tanks and artillery pieces are mine to command. Emperor show mercy to the fool that stands against me, for I shall not.

Warmaster Demetrius, at the outset of the Salonika Crusade, 733.M38 +++

F Ogryns. If we time it just right, the Eldar will all be going "What the..." just when what's left of the Company breaks cover over here and piles into them. No spreading out, no fancy stuff, just smash through. Let's see how those degenerate sophisticates handle a healthy dose of pure unreasoning violence.

Commander Fleyitch +++

Warhammer 40,000: Compendium, p. 48
Give me a gun, a google-eyed alien to shoot it at, and I’ll die a happy man.

— Guardsman Franx +++

“Gentlemen, today we will cover unique fire support options available to commanders of most Imperial Guard and Adeptus Mechanicus forces, primarily from Imperial Cruise Missile. These deadly weapons are unique in their long range, accuracy, and wide variety of warhead choices. It is the warhead choices that make these weapons truly unique. For Imperial Cruise Missile are one of the few in which commanders can tailor to meet their combat needs. Whether that need be creating battlefield obstacles, providing cover for your advancing troops, or smashing any enemy war engine to bits. Gentlemen, you must, however, analyze your mission and the enemy wisely before you make any warhead decisions. For once the warheads are mated to their missile airframes you will likely be stuck with them for the duration of an entire operation.

— From the lectures of Commissar Von Fredrick at the Imperial Officers Academy, Bakker+++

Titans? They're just like anything else. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

Captain Miklos Furnow, Hydrae 15th Guard Regiment +++

G If you will not serve in combat, then you will serve on the firing line.

— Commissar Anton Gebbet, 1st Kronus Regiment +++

Dawn of War: Dark Crusade
Beastman bad. Bad Beastman. Dirty. Emperor no like. Beastman love Emperor. Give blood to Emperor. Give heads to Emperor. Say sorry.

— Packmaster Grasht, attached to 7 Company, Gratanor 14th Regiment +++

I have seen war in all its forms. I have seen feral world savages braining each other with stones, and I have monitored the death of a whole planet at the hands of a virus bomb. I have seen Space Marines drop to certain death, and win. I have seen Titans crush whole platoons underfoot. But there is no more stirring sight in war than the charge of massed cavalry.

Dravin Gratz, 14th Tharinga Regiment, Imperial Guard +++

Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p37
No problem. We showed them skinny Eldar. Come on lads, says I, we're gonna go over there and bury them in their own holes, no worries. There was no worries about cover, 'cos there wasn't any cover. No worries about timing, 'cos us lads were first in. Easy as breakfast.

— Sergeant-Ogryn Graxugg, only survivor of an entire platoon +++

Men of Tanith! Do you want to live forever?

Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt +++

Gaunt's Ghosts (Novel Series)
"Pain is temporary, Honour is forever"

Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt +++

Gaunt's Ghosts (Novel Series)
"As the Emperor protects, so must we."

Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt +++

Sabbat Martyr (Novel)
"Hold Fast!"

"They're killing us!" "So kill them back!"
- Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt to an unknown Fortis Binary trooper

Gaunt's Ghosts (Novel Series)
I have a reputation, Modile, a reputation as a fair, honest man who treats his soldiers well and supports them in the face of darkness. Potentially, that reputation makes me soft. It seems I understand failure and forgive it. Some, like Kowle, believe me to be a weak commissar, not prepared to take the action my rank demands. Not prepared to enforce field discipline where I see it failing. I am an Imperial commissar. I will enflame the weak, support the wavering, guide the lost. I will be all things to all men who need me. But I will also punish without hesitation the weak, the incompetent, and the treasonous.

Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt +++

Necropolis (Novel)
Choose, for courtesy's sake, summary execution or a firing squad of your own men.

Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt +++

Necropolis (Novel)
I am a Commissar. I am empowered to deliver justice wherever I see it lacking. I am empowered to punish cowardice. I am granted the gift of total authority to judge, in the name of the Emperor, on the field of combat.

Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, prior to the field execution of his uncle General Aldo Dercius +++

First And Only (Novel)
You've just been volunteered for the Last Chancers. For your crimes against the Emperor and humanity you will spend your life in this, the XIII Penal Legion, until such time as you receive the Emperor's Absolution from the Colonel or the Emperor himself. And of course the only way you can receive the Emperor's personal absolution is when you're dead...

— Sarge Green to a new "volunteer" for the Last Chancers +++

"When you decide to die, remember to give your enemy the same honour."

Commissar Grenville +++

H So here I am, in a lose-lose position. Stay here and die at the hands of alien heretics - or throw in my lot with two superhuman psychopaths with a death wish!

— Trooper Halvus on Colderon V on Brother-Captain Invictus +++

Been on a death world once. That was a bit like home. Most places are better, though. And there's regular rations. We get more if the Emperor's really pleased with us.

— Sergeant-Ogryn Hrathlagg on the joy of life in the Imperial Guard +++

Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p49
K Marching through this green hellhole, getting slowly eaten by flies, drowning in our own sweat and choking on sulfur fumes? I can’t see why that’s not a good idea.

Kage +++

For seven terrible years the Siege regiments of the Imperial Guard carried out their onerous duty, manning the hundreds of miles of trenches and fortified positions that served to contain the archheretic’s forces. Success was measured in yards of ground gained, and every inch of that deadly ground was bought with the blood and lives of men.

— From the official history of the Kaiserschlect Campaign, M41.745 +++

Of course they’d come to Mordant for the saviors of the galaxy! We’re the hardest gakking troopers you’ll find in all the Segmentums! I’m proud to lead these warriors of the Emperor where ever he needs us to fight. We’ll stand fast against the myriad of foes that batter at the gates of the Imperium. I’ve scoured the mines and shanty-towns for the fiercest low-lives I could find. As I speak to you now, my men are already suffering through the most rigorous boot camp you could imagine. No soldier of the Lucky 13s will be grist for the mill.

Colonel Jago Kallowen +++

GW Homepage USA
I don't care how bloody sanctioned they are, a psyker's a psyker, and anything to do with the warp is more trouble than it's worth.

General Karis The Traitor's Hand (Novel) +++

I don’t know what effect they have on the enemy, but by the Emperor, they frighten me.

General Karis on the Valhallans under his command +++

For the Emperor (Novel)
Trust? Trust’s got nothing to do with it. I just don’t want them out of my sight.

General Karis after granting full access to his command bunker to the local PDF commanders on Vortovan +++

For the Emperor (Novel)
Weep for him - for his faith was not sufficient.

Rejoice for yourselves, for my faith is bottomless! Forward, for the Emperor!
Commissar Krieglust after executing an officer +++

Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p151
And from the deeps there arose a mighty beast, of many eyes and many limbs. And the beast from the darkness did set upon the light of mankind with hateful thirst and unnatural hunger.

Kronin

And the bounties of the Emperor shall go to those who have worked hard in his service.

Kronin

And the Emperor’s thanks for those who have been bountiful in their gifts would be eternal.

Kronin

And Saint Phistinius went unto the enemy unarmed and unarmoured.

— Kronin +++

And the heretic priests of Eidoline came forth, bringing false images for the praise of the lost people.

— Kronin +++

Last Chancers (Novel Series)
Unto death I shall serve him. Unto life again shall he serve the Emperor.

— Kronin +++

There are bounties and treasures aplenty for those of the true faith.

— Kronin +++

There was rejoicing upon the Square of the Evernight, for the darkness had passed and the light had returned.

— Kronin +++

There was a great light, and all around was the beauty of the Emperor.

— Kronin +++

And there shall be space in the Emperor’s heart for all true believers.

— Kronin +++

And they smote the enemies of the Emperor with a righteous fury, for they knew they were doing His work.

— Kronin +++

All was lost. The Xenos scum, who smashed us for two days straight, were hurtling towards us again. We readied ourselves for death. And then Death came. Ten Space Marines appeared in the midst of the alien swarm. They were all in black and they set about the foe with the very fury of the Emperor himself! They saved us, and the whole damned Imperial line.

— Guardsman Kyod, after the recapturing of Heliad VII +++

M What is the strongest weapon of mankind? The god-machines of the Adeptus Mechanicus? No! The Astartes Legions? No! The tank? The lasgun? The fist? Not at all! Courage and courage alone stands above them all!

— Lord Commander Solar Macharius +++

Strike fast and suddenly. Attack without warning. Secure victory before the foe is aware of his danger. Remember always, a war is easily won if your enemy does not know he is fighting.

— Maxims of Macharius the Second Lord General Solar, quoted in The Macharian Heresy by Lord Inquisitor Kryptman +++

I give men dreams and men are led by their dreams.

— Lord Commander Solar Macharius

Codex: Imperial Guard (3rd Edition, 2nd Codex) p9
Peace? There cannot be peace in these times.

— Lord Commander Solar Macharius

Codex: Imperial Guard (3rd Edition, 1st Codex) p23
You can waste as many Imperial Guard lives as you care, that’s your stupidity and not my responsibility.

Warmaster Menitus

I'd check my instruments if I were you. No-one in his right mind would lay a minefield in a place like...

— reported last words of Imperial Guard Captain Forgus Merd +++

Warhammer Siege
Peace is not in my vocabulary.

— Attributed to Jarra Mordiker, Commander, 13th/5th Support Regiment +++

Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p91
O - C and D platoons, move up. Follow the Robots. Other units hold position. Gardiner, where are the Ogryns?

-In small pieces all over breakout zone Charlie, sir. Shurikens took'em apart. Only three survivors.

-Patch me through to them. Hello, who's that?

-Ordrogg.

-Grathyogg still alive?

-Nah.

-Listen, Ordrogg, the Emperor's very pleased with all of you, OK?

-Him? He's pleased?

-Very pleased. He's watching you now. He says he wants you to go over to the Robots and stick with them. You got that?

Yerr. On our way.
— Transmission to an Ogryn unit

Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p148
P As swift as a lash mamba, as sharp as a sineleaf, as stubborn as a wild grox.

Colonel Pannent in praise of the Catachan warrior +++

We hold them here or we fight them on the hallowed ground of Terra itself. I for one would rather see a million human lives lost here than allow a single Ork to set foot on Earth.

General Pavlov, Armageddon Command Guard +++

Your foe is well equipped, well-trained, battle-hardened. He believes his gods are on his side. Let him believe what he will. We have the tanks on ours.

Colonel Joachim Pfeiff, Krieg 14th Armoured Regiment +++

R A friend of death, a brother of luck and a son of a bitch!

Major Elim Rawne on Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt +++

Gaunt? He’s a despicable bastard who left my world to die and one day I will slay him with my own hands.

Major Elim Rawne on Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt +++

I hate last stands, there's never time to practise*1: them.

Major Elim Rawne +++

We've run into scorpions the size of battle tanks, three men died from Eyerot last week. I've sweat enough to fill a lake, my boots got sucked into a sink-swamp and the trees are so thick in places, you can't squeeze between them. Emperor help me, I love this place! It's just like home!

— Captain Rock of the Catachan III 'Green Devils' commenting on Varestus Prime +++

They’re sending us where? The want us to fight who? Well, I guess the Emperor knows what he’s doing, because those bureaucrats in the Administratum sure as gak don’t!

— Trooper Gage Rorsche, 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, Mordant 13th, “The Lucky 13s" +++

GW Homepage USA
S You're all here because you are traitors to Mankind and the Immortal Emperor. You are here because you have failed in your sworn duty to protect his domains and subjects, and you have perverted his trust in you for your own misguided ends. You have sacrificed your part in securing the future of the whole of humanity for your own selfish gain. To kill you would be to accept that you can no longer save your immortal souls. If you were to be ushered into the Emperor's presence now, the scales would tip badly against you when the deeds of your life are weighed up by his Almighty Presence. This is why I give you a last chance to prove yourselves worthy of the Emperor's forgiveness. This is why you are here - to save yourselves from eternal damnation.

Colonel Schaeffer to his Last Chancers +++

You will atone for your sins, and when you die you will thank me for allowing you to!

Colonel Schaeffer to his Last Chancers +++

You are all here because you are scum. But you are the Emperor's scum. You have skills that are useful to our Immortal Lord and whether you wish it or no, they will be made use of.

Colonel Schaeffer to his Last Chancers +++

Those we left behind were weak. To give in to alien domination is one of the greatest acts of treachery against the Emperor.

Colonel Schaeffer +++

They have seen more death and ruin than another soldier sees in ten lifetimes.

General Sejanus +++

Codex: Imperial Guard (3rd Edition, 1st Codex) p23
In war, best know what enemies are around you in your camp, before you step out to face the foe and wonder why you do so alone.

Warmaster Slaydo +++

Do not ask how you may give your life for the Emperor. Ask instead how you may give your death.

— Warmaster Slaydo +++

Never!

— Warmaster Slaydo's answer to the question when to order a retreat +++

Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.

— attributed to Imperial Warmaster Solon +++

Warhammer 40,000 2nd Edition Rulebook p18
Captain, the reason we've got these tracks is to get us into trouble faster. Now I suggest you mount up and move out. The enemy is that way, don't stop 'til you find him, and don't come back 'til you've beaten him.

— Colonel "Snake" Stranski, Commander Cadian 114th Mechanised Infantry +++

To each of us falls a task. And all the Emperor requires of us Guardsmen is that we stand in line, and we die fighting. It is what we do best: we die standing.

General Sturnn, Commander Cadian 412th +++

Dawn of War: Winter Assault
Although the Golden Throne of Terra orbits a distant star far from here, the Emperor's hand is on your shoulders today. You have fought and displayed bravery and loyalty far and above your calling as Guardsmen. You have faced the full brunt of an Ork Waaagh! as well as stared down the horrors of the Warp in the fallen Space Marines, and in that I am honoured to have led you.

General Sturnn, Commander Cadian 412th +++

Dawn of War: Winter Assault
- This is General Sturnn of the Cadian 412th Regiment Imperial Guard. Only fools believe that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Still, the Eldar proved useful enough to bring my men into position, admittedly at cost to their own lives. They lay outside, being cut to the last as I speak. I cannot risk helping them. I will not trade the lives of my men for theirs. -

- You will fail this day, General. Without our soulstone the battle will be lost. The Necrons will sweep over you and drink your life out from the hollow vessel of your corpse! Without us you face your doom. -

- Eldar! The Cadian 412th have faced doom before. We bested it then and we will best it today! Die well! -

General Sturnn's address to Farseer Taldeer +++

Dawn of War: Winter Assault
The most dangerous thing on the battlefield is a junior officer with a compass and a map.

General Sulla The Traitor's Hand (Novel) +++

T I cry out for troops and you give me rhetoric - I plead for ammunition and you give me speeches - I ask you again, Commander, what can you pledge me?

- A heroic death, Captain
— Reported holocom conversation between Commander Gulim Tarrel and Captain Roima of the besieged Alharmo Garrison shortly before the final Ork assault +++

Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p81
Walls of stone do not a fortress make. But they're not a bad start.

— Commander Rango Thaxx +++

When the Titan walks, only the dead have no fear. The brave warrior faces his fear and the Titan, and kills the enemies of the Great Brother-Warrior Horus. The Titan's steps shake the land beneath our feet, lightning is in its veins, and the sun is in its heart. The shadow of the Titan weighs upon our hearts, yet we fight against it. My knife and my gun-of-light will conquer, and the Titan's death scream will be my prayer, for my weapons shine with courage.

J'blann Threekiller, Tiger Lizards (12th/23rd Davin Regiment) +++

A small mind is easily filled with faith.

— Commissar Exen Treuer, 23rd Moradia Regiment, Imperial Guard +++

Warhammer 40,000 Compendium p50
It is always better to find your enemy, before your enemy finds you.

Commander Tulathan, Vastadt 4th Independent Tank Regiment +++

Munitorium Swamp Warfare instructors may tell you the swamp is your friend. More Realistic instructors may claim it's just neutral. Let me tell you; the swamp is not neutral and it most certainly is not your friend. It's your enemy, and you'll soon learn to hate it.

Rifleman Tyla, Scout Company, Pardus 34th Regiment +++

U When you fight Tyranids you face not only those before you on the field of battle but the untold thousands which seek to surround you, which attack your supporting units and destroy your supply lines in perfect synchronicity.

Lieutenant-Colonel Uskra, 13th/23rd Tiger Lizards 1 +++

Victory is achieved through mettle.

Glory is achieved through metal.
— Uttica 1st Tank Company motto

V Does the God-Emperor sit much?

-Sergeant Ceglan Varl of the Tanith First and Only

Traitor General by Dan Abnett
The Emperor protects...and dumps on us from a great height

-Sergeant Ceglan Varl of the Tanith First and Only

Traitor General by Dan Abnett
X Who told you to die? Keep fighting!

— Commissar Otto Xavier +++

http://www.dawnofwargame.com
Y I have followed you too far to fail now Ghazghkull Thraka. I bear the gift of death. You cannot outrun me. There's no place in this universe where you can hide. I have waited a long time for vengeance. I'm tired but not so tired I cannot kill you. Maybe then I won't see the faces of the dead. Maybe then I'll be able to sleep.

— Commissar Yarrick before the Battle for Golgotha +++

The green tide of Orkdom is upon us and we are alone. There can be no mercy. No surrender. If we survive this day it will be a miracle.

— Commissar Yarrick at Armageddon +++

Codex Imperialis
He was an avalanche from an unexpected quarter. He was a thunderbolt from a clear sky.

— Commissar Yarrick on Ghazghkull Thraka +++

There will be no retreat from Hades Hive. We will fight to the end.

— Commissar Yarrick +++

It is the purest folly to believe that an individual can save Armageddon. Wars are not won by heroes, they are won by firepower and force, and the application of strategy and tactics.

— Commissar Yarrick +++

We stand at a junction, with roads leading to both abject defeat and glorious victory. In order to choose the right path to follow we need first to look back along the road that has led us to this point…

— Commissar Yarrick +++

Heroes of Armageddon! You have withstood the evil savagery of the Orks, and they have nothing left for you to fear. So raise high the black banners of vengeance - now is our time.

— Last transmission from Commissar Yarrick prior to departing with a Black Templars crusade to hunt down Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka +++

Z Competence on the battlefield is a myth. The side which screws up next to last wins, it's as simple as that.

Lord General Zyvan +++

The Traitor's Hand (Novel)
Incoming fire has the right of way.

— Old artilleryman's maxim The Traitor's Hand (Novel) +++

Another day nearer the battle,

So drink up my lads and look brave,

'Cos every day nearer the battle

Is another day nearer the grave.
— A warriors' song of the Imperial Guard +++

Hurry up and wait.

— Guardsman's traditional summation of the process of deployment +++

The Traitor's Hand (Novel)
Whatever happens, we have got

The Emperor’s blessing. They have not.
— From The Guardsman’s Duty, a popular ballad For the Emperor (Novel) +++

When in deadly danger,
When beset by doubt,
Run in little circles,
Wave your arms and shout.

— Parody of the Litany of Command, popular among Commissar Cadets For the Emperor (Novel)+++

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

— Ancient Terran General +++

Fear not. The Emperor will provide.

— Commissariat maxim +++

Things can always get worse.

Valhallan proverb The Traitor's Hand (Novel) +++

From the skies!

— Regimental motto of the Elysian 23rd Drop Troops Regiment +++

Once seen in battle, you never forget a Titan: the shaking of the land beneath your feet; the sound of its guns; the lightning-smell of its passing. But when you look at your comrades remember that they have the power to kill the monster. And remember this: the Titan's crew knows you have the power to kill them.

— Unknown +++

Any Cadian who can't field-strip his own lasgun by age ten was born on the wrong planet.

— Anon +++

We’ve been claiming this damned planet for the Imperium all of my life, and all of my father and grandfathers lives before that. I just wish someone would get round to telling those damned Orks to get off our damned land!

— Anon +++

Please try to run. It would save me lots of problems.

— Unknown Commissar +++

Last Chancers (Novel Series)
Glory for the first man to die, charge!

— Unknown Commissar +++

Dawn of War: Winter Assault
Stop bleeding and fight back!

— Unknown Guardsman +++

Dawn of War: Winter Assault
Capturing it was easy. Holding it will be hard.

— Unknown Guardsman +++

Dawn of War: Winter Assault
Those are Eldar? I thought they'd be taller.

— Unknown Guardsman +++

Dawn of War: Winter Assault
Tanks! Where are the bloody tanks?!

— Unknown Guardsman +++

Dawn of War: Winter Assault
Concentrate all fire on that big bruiser!

— Unknown Guardsman +++

Dawn of War: Winter Assault
For every one of us who falls, ten more will take his place!

— Unknown Guardsman +++

Dawn of War: Winter Assault
'The reinforcements were greatly appreciated... erm, have you got any more?'

— Colonel Strickland +++

WD34 (CAN)
Popular Valhallan folk saying 'It's never too late to panic.' For the Emperor (Novel)