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==History==
 
==History==
Kasteen was a captain and the last remaining senior officer of the former 296th Valhallan, an all-female rear echelon regiment, when it was nearly wiped out by the [[tyranid]]s on [[Corania]]. The regiment was merged with the all-male 301st, a planetary assault regiment, and Kasteen was made the regimental colonel by virtue of three days' seniority over her second-in-command, Major [[Ruput Broklaw]] of the former 301st (who had more combat experience). Tensions between the two former regiments - who continued to use their former regimental identities - came to a head onboard the troopship ''Righteous Wrath'' on its way to [[Gravalax]] in 931.M41, in a mess room brawl resulting in the deaths of several troopers and Naval provosts over the use of the 296th's traditional dinnerware. Realizing the situation, [[Commissar]] [[Ciaphas Cain]] - recently assigned to the 296th/301st - had the regiment redesignated the 597th (296 + 301), and the regiment integrated at squad level so that the number of male and female troopers was equally dispersed.
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Kasteen was a captain and the last remaining senior officer of the former 296th Valhallan, an all-female rear echelon regiment, when it was nearly wiped out by the [[Tyranid]]s on [[Corania]]. The regiment was merged with the all-male 301st, a planetary assault regiment, and Kasteen was made the regimental colonel by virtue of three days' seniority over her second-in-command, Major [[Ruput Broklaw]] of the former 301st (who had more combat experience). Tensions between the two former regiments - who continued to use their former regimental identities - came to a head on board the troopship ''Righteous Wrath'' on its way to [[Gravalax]] in 931.M41, in a mess room brawl resulting in the deaths of several troopers and Naval provosts over the use of the 296th's traditional dinnerware. Realizing the situation, [[Commissar]] [[Ciaphas Cain]] - recently assigned to the 296th/301st - had the regiment renamed the 597th (296 + 301), and the regiment integrated at squad level so that the number of male and female troopers was equally dispersed.
  
Kasteen led the regiment during the [[Gravalax Incident]], in which the 597th was primarily involved (particularly as Kasteen was present, along with Cain, when the tau ambassador was assassinated in the planetary governor's palace - by the governor himself, as later events proved), and was successful for averting a potential war with the tau based on Cain reaching a rapport with the tau commander. The following year on Simia Orichalae, with Cain's backing, Kasteen declared martial law on the planet - the site of a prometheum production facility - when it became clear that the [[Administratum]] was unprepared for the defense against the [[ork]] incursion on the planet, and also ordered the planet's evacuation with the discovery of [[necron]] activity beneath the facility. She then aided in the discovery and defeat of a Chaos cult attempting to make the planet [[Adumbria]] into a Daemon World five years later, pointing out a pattern in the ritual sites discovered on the surface.
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Kasteen led the regiment during the [[Gravalax Incident]], in which the 597th was primarily involved (particularly as Kasteen was present, along with Cain, when the tau ambassador was assassinated in the planetary governor's palace - by the governor himself, as later events proved), and was successful for averting a potential war with the tau based on Cain reaching a rapport with the tau commander. The following year on Simia Orichalae, with Cain's backing, Kasteen declared martial law on the planet - the site of a [[promethium]] production facility - when it became clear that the [[Administratum]] was unprepared for the defense against the [[Ork]] incursion on the planet, and also ordered the planet's evacuation with the discovery of [[Necron]] activity beneath the facility. She then aided in the discovery and defeat of a Chaos cult attempting to make the planet [[Adumbria]] into a [[Daemon World]] five years later, pointing out a pattern in the ritual sites discovered on the surface.
  
 
==Personality==
 
==Personality==

Revision as of 22:10, 12 May 2009

Colonel Regina Kasteen was the commander of the 597th Valhallan Ice Warriors regiment in the 930s.M41.

History

Kasteen was a captain and the last remaining senior officer of the former 296th Valhallan, an all-female rear echelon regiment, when it was nearly wiped out by the Tyranids on Corania. The regiment was merged with the all-male 301st, a planetary assault regiment, and Kasteen was made the regimental colonel by virtue of three days' seniority over her second-in-command, Major Ruput Broklaw of the former 301st (who had more combat experience). Tensions between the two former regiments - who continued to use their former regimental identities - came to a head on board the troopship Righteous Wrath on its way to Gravalax in 931.M41, in a mess room brawl resulting in the deaths of several troopers and Naval provosts over the use of the 296th's traditional dinnerware. Realizing the situation, Commissar Ciaphas Cain - recently assigned to the 296th/301st - had the regiment renamed the 597th (296 + 301), and the regiment integrated at squad level so that the number of male and female troopers was equally dispersed.

Kasteen led the regiment during the Gravalax Incident, in which the 597th was primarily involved (particularly as Kasteen was present, along with Cain, when the tau ambassador was assassinated in the planetary governor's palace - by the governor himself, as later events proved), and was successful for averting a potential war with the tau based on Cain reaching a rapport with the tau commander. The following year on Simia Orichalae, with Cain's backing, Kasteen declared martial law on the planet - the site of a promethium production facility - when it became clear that the Administratum was unprepared for the defense against the Ork incursion on the planet, and also ordered the planet's evacuation with the discovery of Necron activity beneath the facility. She then aided in the discovery and defeat of a Chaos cult attempting to make the planet Adumbria into a Daemon World five years later, pointing out a pattern in the ritual sites discovered on the surface.

Personality

When the 296th and 301st were consolidated, Kasteen was protective of her former comrades of the 296th, and was hostile towards her counterparts in the 301st. Once the regiment was fully combined and the changes Cain had introduced took hold, Kasteen took to her position as commander of the mixed-gender 597th.

Like most Imperial Guard officers, Kasteen had very little patience for the bureaucratic pandering of the Administratum, which influenced her decision to declare martial law on Simia Orichalae (Cain later wrote in the Cain Archive that Kasteen had an even lower tolerance for idiots than he did) when the Administratum representative droned on about procedural protocol involving the Simia promethium facility.

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