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==Overview==
Either as part of an [[Imperial Guard]] regiment or as the [[Militarum Tempestus]] Scions are used to enact missions that the regular Guardsmen can not cannot handle and often form an elite core entrusted with carrying out important missions such as spearheading assaults into heavily fortified positions or and infiltrating behind enemy lines. Scions have undergone undergo a brutal training regime and are armed with the very best weaponry available to the Guard. Their violent potential is enhanced by rigid discipline as a result of [[Ordo Tempestus]] training and they will carry out any order regardless of how inhumane it may be. Fully prepared to give their own lives for the [[Imperium]], Scions are indoctrinated with a sense of obedience and duty that overrides any instinct of personal safetyself preservation.{{Fn|1a}}
They are often dropped into the thick of combat from [[Valkyrie|Valkyrie Assault Carriers]].{{Fn|2}} Once deployed to the field, Scions typically use the [[Ryza]]-pattern [[Hotshot Lasgun]]s and [[Hotshot Volley Gun]]s. They frequently operate from [[Taurox Prime]] armored vehicles and [[Valkyrie]] aircraft.{{Fn|1a}}
