Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-1734134-20190906112145/@comment-17657610-20190910210852

Hi I'm Mongoose, and I'm new. Here's my character:

Ishmael used to live a comfortable life on his native Hive World, dealing in various substances ranging from chems, illegally obtained xeno technology, and child organs. He carried out some hits, killed some people. Ishmael was a little fish in a very big pond, so he expected no one to really take notice of him. Unfortunately for Ishmael, someone did.

Apparently one too many families in Ishmael's area turned up with children missing their organs, and the trail lead straight back to him. Before he could ever beg for mercy or plead a word in his own defense, Ishmael was whisked off by enforcers to a local prison. Now that Ishmael thinks about it, that move probably saved his life in the short term, at least from getting lynched by angry family members.

After a short stint in prison, Ishmael and many others in their overcrowded prison were shipped off to an equally crowded but further away Penal World. Ishmael spent a couple of agonizing years on that Penal World and did not have a pleasant time at. Life turned out to be very hard for a someone a head shorter than most of other convicts. Some days, he just wanted to run for the fence and get it over with. He could never do that though, for one reason or another. He had to survive.

It came as no relief when word came that the Emperor needed a new Penal Legion to defend one of the Imperium's worlds from another encroaching threat. Ishmael was picked along with many others to join the fight, and that scared him. He knew that men sent off-world to fight never came back, and Ishmael had overheard the overseers joking about how they would no doubt die "in the thousands". Ishmael loves the Emperor as much as any other emperor-fearing Imperial citizen, but he is not enthusiastic about dying. Nevertheless, he has no choice now, and Ishmael now fights not only for his survival but also for the Imperium.

Equipment: 1 Lascarbine, 4 Charge Packs, Explosive Collar, Frenzon Dispensers, Imperial Guard Penal Legion Prisoner Uniform