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606th Southend Light Infantry
The 606th Southend Light Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Guard come from a star called Southend, which is at the southern end of the Zanzibar region, at the northern near side of the Damocles Gulf in Segmentum Ultima.

History
The Regiment is over 500 years old. It began as a PDF unit and has become an elite unit of light mountain infantry, stressing high-mobility operations over broken terrain, scouting, reconnaissance and sniping. The Regiment has been extensively blooded against Ork and Tau, as well as human enemies of the Empire.

Home
The star Southend is a medium-sized yellow G-type star that has two planets inhabited by humans orbitting it. Southend itself is a hot desert planet with extensive underground mining projects, located 0.9 AU out. It is a slightly low-oxygen (20%), heavy-gravity (1.1x) planet. Equatorial surface temperatures during apogee approach 150 degrees fahrenheit, and are at the far limit of human endurance. Near the poles, the planet is significantly cooler and very mountainous, with peaks exceeding 15 kilometers in height.

The other inhabited planet in the Southend system is Southend 3, which at 2.1AU is a frozen desert planet, dominated by frozen plains of brittle sand and volcanic cones rising 20 kilometers above the surface. Rapidly-frozen lava is frequently falling on the surface around these volcanoes. On this planet, which is enormously rich in diamonds and gold, human life exists almost comlpetely below the surface, burrowing into the thin crust for warmth and protection.

Cobra 3-2 (talk) 21:17, April 19, 2015 (UTC)