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As the title says, this is a try and maybe not a finished product.

Homeworld: Ferrum Sentio(Iron Judge)
Specialty: Harsh winter/urban, ambushes.

The planet of Ferrum Sentio is actually an ice/rock world with an abundance of minerals. While the majority of the minerals are decorative, the planet still contains many that have a significant purpose. In order to survive in this climate large domes were erected and supplied with a large heat generator that keeps the entire dome at around 70 degrees farenheit. Dome terrain varies as some contain jungles along with hives or farming land in order to keep a food source ready. The entrances of these domes are actually a series of airlocks that prevent the harsh air to enter the domed cities. The mining operations are conducted in the same manner, causing many workers to wear rebreathers as the dome's filters do not allow the exhaust of the mining equipment to exit. The biggest feature of the planet is the "frozen ocean" which takes up 46.3% of the planet's surface.

The planets defence force consists of two armies. One is responsible for patrolling and engaging hostiles in the freezing climate and are equipped with more archaic weaponry such as valkries that appear to be more of a helicopter than a skimmer. The Glacies(Ice) Corp, also maintains over 75% of the planet's armored units and transports. Glacies Corp members wear M38 cadian pattern armor with navy blue armor and shadow grey tunics with thermal underwear and fur lined helmets. The Civitas(city) Corp wear lighter armor and rely more on quicker units to engage hostiles. As the name insists the Civitas Corp is responsible for defense when the dome has been breached, their lack of clothing does not subject them to the cold as the dome's heat generator will continue functioning to maintain warmth inside of the dome even during a breach. They often style themselves similar to a catachan warrior often wearing cream colored shirts and red pants. The Civitas Corp contains about 55% of the planet's guardsmen and 90% of the planet's sentinel squadrons.

Ferrum Sentio's location is remote and means that the defense force is armed with older versions of LRBT variants. It is not uncommon to see spearheads comprised of Executioner variant Leman Russ's in the garrison. To prevent extreme damage, the force contains no hellhounds, but instead relies on banewolf's whose chemicals dissipate 30 minutes after use and do no damage to the planet itself. While the planet's remote location does allow it to keep older and more powerful weapons it does open the planet to near constant eldar pirate raids or ork freebooter attack. Thanks to extensive training, the Glacies Corp will often hide underneath massive snowbanks in order to surprise their enemies. This tactic alone has ended more than several attempted invasions by freebooters.

Chaos threat is virtually non-existent on Ferrum Sentio and has only one recorded raid by the alpha legion several thousand years ago. It is believed by Many "Sentians" that their pious faith alone prevents an invasion by chaos forces. As such, it is also uncommon for the two Corps to spar with members of the Dark Angels chapter. While the Corps will usually falter to the strategy of the Dark Angels, there have been several ocassions when a relatively new Dark Angels captain has been ambushed and defeated by the Corp. The war games between the two yield suprisingly low casualties, over the 4,000 years that this has been going on only 350 have died, 13 of them being Dark Angels. The Dark Angels' casualties were mainly new recruits who had managed to drown in Ferrum Sentio's frozen ocean.

The Battle for Lapis Mine.(an actual battle report)

Commander Gwiness was tired. He had spent the last 74 hours awake and planning possible plans to circumvent the ork lines before they reached the main mining structures. If the orks breached the perimeter and destroyed the main coupling, the derrick above the mine would collapse killing the 20,000 or so miners still working in the mines despite the current attack. Their faith protected them in the form of Gwiness's men.

His elite forces were ready in ambush for the ork attack, he had shosen to face them in an older power station far from the mining base in order to route the orks before they had a chance of even seeing the precious mine. The wind blew and a blizzard was incoming within the next 48 hours and the severe cold did nothing to console the fact that he was facing the collective forces of two freebooter captains. The thing was that these two captains seemed to complement each other, one was a mek and the other a boss, one with heavy weapons, one for assautls. He was lucky enough that a small contingent of Dark Angels had been willing to join them in this battle.

The ruined habs of the old power plant crew hid the Glacien 32nd well enough for Commander Gwiness. His men were waiting in the ruins save two squads of penal legion troopers acting as bait for a trap. The Dark Angels under Brother Captain Repin occupied the power plant itself which had been activated by the Glacien 32nd techpriest to let the orks think it was still in use. They had brought their best and were waiting for the chance to strike.

The wild cackling and firing announced the arrival of the ork forces and as expected two large battlewagons arrived toting their respective freebooter captains while artillery and kans hammered shots into the ruins. Gwiness's men were fine, they had trained to avoid incoming fire while in cover and awaited the order to strike.

"Snowblind" Commander Gwiness yelled into the vox, the Glacien 32nd sprang into combat letting loose volleys of las fire along with heavy bolter and autocannon fire. Shouting resonated from the ruins. A small squadron of Glacien armor let loose their fire, the LRBT "Gargantua" shredding two killa kans with its main cannon and heavy bolter fire. While the punisher pattern "Heavy Rain" dismembered the remaing kan. The vanquisher "Titus" under command of one of Ferrum Sentio's finest tank commanders spotted the boss's battlewagon and destroyed it with a single round. Artillery fire guided by a forward observer wreaked havoc on a group of boys that had been following the kans into battle while a forward basilisk aimed at the ork artillery.

Ork deffkoptas zoomed overhead, unleshing their payloads on their respective targets, killing a forward sniper unit and wounding the vox officer for Sgt. Berius's Squad. The penal legion moved forward along the left hand side of the battlefield to distract fire. As the big mek's battlewagon barreled over them, Commander Gwiness realised that they had done their job. The Land Raider "Exitus" barreled towards the charging orks while a single mob managed to reach the plants control room, overwhelming the elite stormtroopers positioned inside. The orks began to overwhelm the left side as Gwiness had formulated. On the left side, las fire began to dwindle as bikers and foot soldiers alike mobbed the hapless guardsman stationed there. However, the orks had grouped their forces in that little area.
"Thin them out." Gwiness said to the artillery's forward spotter.

Artillery hammered the boys along with fire from the basilisk "Unending Justice" and the "Gargantua" and "Heavy Rain" joined the chorus of gunfire and explosions as well. The next thing Gwiness noted was the explosion of the "Exitus" and the boss standing proudly on the burning wreckage, lifting the charred remains of a battle-brother with his power klaw. Boss "Wrekazug" began to feast upon the battle brothers' entrails in display for all to see. Issuing a challenge of faith to the imperial forces.

In an act of spite, a squad of storntroopers emerged from hiding next to the mek's battlewagon and turned it to ashes with the use of a meltagun. The boys inside the wagon leapt towards the troopers as it exploded, they wanted to get revenge for the wagon and used their burnas to scorch the troopers and the ground around them until refreezing water remained. Two banewolfs flooded the control structure with chemicals, forcing the mob's survivors to the roof where they met assault marines who were more than eager to avenge their comrades. A trukk rammed one of the banewolfs while it withered away under bolter fire. Techpriest Zandeg quickly looked over the ruined banewolf and began repairs. Drop pods rained from the sky releaseing their payloads into the ork's vanguard. The Venerable Dreadnought housing the ancient Battle Brother Victeeze tore a looted wagon in half in it's rage while the other drop pod released rocket fire from its turret.

The orks quickly overwhelmed the turret while a renzied group of gretchin attacked the assault marines, their slaver impaling only one of the marines before he himself was bisected.

The bikers continued their surge forth only to be met by autocannon fire and las fire and had to change course to avoid certain death. The big mek "Gitblasta" aimed his weapon and sent snotlings into the promethium tanks of the "Gargantua" rendering it immobile until Techpriest Zandeg could reach it. Screams and gunfire filled the air for a 34 mile radius around the combat zone while the smoke from the battle had managed to reach the mining complex that was well over 40 miles away. Artillery fire boomed and turned orks into mist, guardsmen were torn to pieces by rampaging orks. Boss Wrekazug eyed the now wounded "Gargantua" and stalked towards it, the gun crew realized the Boss's next plan and prepared to fire upon him and his retinue of nobs. "Heavy Rain" managed to get it's cannon firing first, tearing the nobz to pieces with a hail of rounds. "Gargantua" also opened fire with its bolters, while it's lascannon dealt the boss the final blow, evaporating the Boss where he stood.

The mek turned to see a large dreadnought directly behind him as it raised its giant fist. The mek tried to raise his weapon to fire, but was crushed into paste by the Dreadnought that unceremoniously burned the mek's remains. The boys were now without leadership and frenzied while the vanguard fell back. Gwiness realised that it was a feint and reading for a last and brutal counter. He was not disappointed.

The orks surged once more even without leaders to guide them and began to overwhelm the imperial lines. Their attempts were futile as they could not pierce the armor of the Galcian armored division. Yet, they still bellowed the last of their Waaaghs as they chopped the hapless guardsmen to pieces only to be cut down themselves. Commander Gwiness felt cold for the first time since the beginning of the battle, it was all over.

Wow,that ws beast,Guard FTW