Mortressan Highlanders

Recruited from the Calixian Death World of Mortessa, the Mortessan Highlanders believe that life is meaningless and that only the manner of a man's death matters.

They have no compunction or guilt about what they do, a psychological foible that endears them in the eyes of Sebiascor Ebongrave, Lord Commander of the Canis Salient of the Achilus Crusade. Indeed, when Ebongrave needs people he can trust to execute their fellow Imperial citizens or soldiers, he calls upon the regiment's 14th.

The Mortessans serve in the Field Purgation platoons who root out ideological failings among the guard regiments, and in the execution details in the Black Zone. The Guardsman standing watch over an interrogation cell in Sepulchre Sigma is likely to hail from Mortessa.