The Life and Troubles of Kilrayne Ayth: The Background

[Machinegunkelly]

Salvath

The planet Salvath is a quite insignificant system in the outskirts of the Imperium. Mostly it is cold and windswept. The flora is sre dominated by pinetree forests and tundra. Salvath import and export what it can on a quite a small scale.
The main export product is meat from the large native Borch animal. Most of the fauna are quite big and so are therefore the predators.

This has made the humans populating Salvath a very rural people used to take care of themselves.

The Ork Warlord Goorgh arrived in the system with a small fleet bent on war and destruction. Most of his escorts where destroyed closing in on the planet. But quite a few managed to get through. Being a particular clever Ork he realised that he had to make planetfall with all the ships at the same time and relatively close to each other to have a good chance of taking the planet. So in a stroke of Ork genius he calculated all the landing trajectories for the remainder of his fleet.

According to most Imperial scholars this is what saved the planet. In turned out Goorgh had no clue about the concept of math. Turning the landing into a real disater.

Instead of having to face an army of orks who had achived a beachhead and could fight together they faced pockets of surviving Orks. Of course a few of the battles where the bigger ships had crashed or there where many survivors there would be some hard fought battles. But all in all it was within the ability of the local defense forces to take care of.

And the men and women of Salvath flocked to the Planetary Defense Force. One of these men where Kilrayn Ayth.


Kilrayn Ayth

Kilrayne where born on a farmstead and spent most of his time in the wilderness. He had a caring father and two younger sisters. His mother passed away when they where very young. It was a hard life but they also had lot of fun. Every one in the family where devout in their faith in the emperor and as often as possible whent to the church in the closest village.

A week before Oorgh arrived in system Kilrayne went to visit relatives in the capitol. It was his first time and he was as excited as a 18 year old boy from the farmlands can be when visiting a large city for the first time in his life.

One of Goorths ship crashlanded in the area Kilrayne grew up and after accepting his home, friends and family was gone he signed up for the army.

His background made him a natural scout so he was assigned to the Light infantry and his personality as a natural leader made the officers assign him to Seargant training.

Rules

WH40K, not the latest rules but the one before them. Whatever number it happens to be. They are slightly modified to fit only using a few soldiers.
I will also cheat and bend the rules when neccessary to tell a good story.

I guess a system for character development will come up but as of now there are none.

Whats the point with this?
Since I am stuck waiting for stuff for other project and was very bored I decided to tell a story. The story of Sgt Kilrayne Ayth. I will follow his progress and model and paint his evolution from a sgt of a squad of conscripts and onwards to whatever his fate will be....

[Predatorpt]

As a firm believer in writing backgrounds for my universes/games/characters, I can only applaud your initiative! Can't wait to see more 

[Machinegunkelly]

Thanks. I hope you have read the AARS since thats where the action is.

Now for some details.

AAR 1

Sergeant Kilrayn Ayth
Count as guardsman. Armed with laspistol and chainsword.
Kills: 3 all in CC

3^rd squad contains of 9 troopers.
Count as conscript. Armed with lasguns except one who are armed with a flamer.
Kills: 9
Losses: 4 Amongst them are the corporal, the comm trooper and the flamer armed trooper.

Total:
Kills: 14
Losses: 4

AAR 2

Sergeant Kilrayne Ayth
Count as guardsman. Armed with laspistol and chainsword.
Kills: 1 in CC

3^rd squad consists of 9 troopers
Count as conscripts. All are armed with lasguns except one who are armed with a flamer.
Kills: 5
Losses: 6 amongst them the corporal and the flamer equipped trooper.

Total:
Kills: 20
Losses10

AAR 3

Sergeant Kilrayne Ayth
Count as guardsman. Armed with laspistol and a chainsword.
Kills: 3

3^rd squad consists of 7 troopers.
Kills: 13
Losses: 4 amongs them the Corporal and the comms trooper.

Total:
Kills: 33
Losses: 14