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The Duzhonev Imperium survives and thrives on war. Under the Blood Banner of the Human Purity Party, conquest is not only justifiable, it is a divine mission. On thousands of worlds, the innumerable guardsmen of the Duzhonevian Imperial Guard serve the God-Emperor's will, incapable of any thought but fighting and dying for the Imperium. The guardsmen of the Duzhonevian Imperial Guard are clones, decanted from massive factory-wombs by the millions for the sole purpose of creating unquestioningly loyal, and completely expendable, soldiers. Lacking superfluous organs, the guardsman's body is fed with a nutrient slurry processed from agricultural waste and the corpses of fallen comrades, foes, and civilians. A guardsman has little capacity for independent thought, and must take orders from the baseline human Commissars that lead them in battle. Otherwise, guardsmen are completely incapable of any battle tactics but constantly advancing and destroying anything that is not marked as a friendly. Guardsmen are completely incapable of any thought that would be superfluous or detrimental in battle, such as compassion, empathy, fear or anger. The guardsman knows only duty.

To the Duzhonevian government, the raw materials needed to manufacture a guardsman's equipment are more valuable than the guardsman itself. For this reason, a guardsman is equipped only with the bare minimum needed for service. The Duzhonevian Combat Tunic is made out of carbon fiber cloth, a material as useful as cardboard against modern infantry weapons. Rifle guardsmen are not issued modern body armor, but their Combat Tunic does come with a Blood Banner armband that marks the guardsman as the Imperium's property. The Combat Tunic is environmentally sealed, so the horrific biological and chemical weapons the Duzhonevians use on the battlefield do not kill too many of their own men. To further intimidate the enemies of the Imperium, guardsmen are not allowed to remove their masks outside of their barracks, where they are cyrogenically stored between battles. This guardsman is armed with a Maehlmesse 46 aetheric machine gun, a weapon that fires unstable aetheric plasma and is notorious for exploding and killing the user.

Description
Image by Imperial-Ascendance and posted with his permission. Link to the original for the full sized version.

The Duzhonev Imperium survives and thrives on war. Under the Blood Banner of the Human Purity Party, conquest is not only justifiable, it is a divine mission. On thousands of worlds, the innumerable guardsmen of the Duzhonevian Imperial Guard serve the God-Emperor's will, incapable of any thought but fighting and dying for the Imperium. The guardsmen of the Duzhonevian Imperial Guard are clones, decanted from massive factory-wombs by the millions for the sole purpose of creating unquestioningly loyal, and completely expendable, soldiers. Lacking superfluous organs, the guardsman's body is fed with a nutrient slurry processed from agricultural waste and the corpses of fallen comrades, foes, and civilians. A guardsman has little capacity for independent thought, and must take orders from the baseline human Commissars that lead them in battle. Otherwise, guardsmen are completely incapable of any battle tactics but constantly advancing and destroying anything that is not marked as a friendly. Guardsmen are completely incapable of any thought that would be superfluous or detrimental in battle, such as compassion, empathy, fear or anger. The guardsman knows only duty.

To the Duzhonevian government, the raw materials needed to manufacture a guardsman's equipment are more valuable than the guardsman itself. For this reason, a guardsman is equipped only with the bare minimum needed for service. The Duzhonevian Combat Tunic is made out of carbon fiber cloth, a material as useful as cardboard against modern infantry weapons. Rifle guardsmen are not issued modern body armor, but their Combat Tunic does come with a Blood Banner armband that marks the guardsman as the Imperium's property. The Combat Tunic is environmentally sealed, so the horrific biological and chemical weapons the Duzhonevians use on the battlefield do not kill too many of their own men. To further intimidate the enemies of the Imperium, guardsmen are not allowed to remove their masks outside of their barracks, where they are cyrogenically stored between battles. This guardsman is armed with a Maehlmesse 46 aetheric machine gun, a weapon that fires unstable aetheric plasma and is notorious for exploding and killing the user.