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Lt. Colonel Amos Calgeran: An Imperial Guardsmen from the planet Vertaz. Born into a long line of Vertaz PDF officers, Amos continued the family tradition by joining the PDF himself. Within the PDF he managed to gain the rank of Captain. Amos had a wife that he loved dearly, and a newborn son. He also had a best friend named George Cartick who joined the PDF with him. At some point Amos and a number of the Vertaz PDF were recruited into the Imperial Guard for the purpose of a campaign. While he felt bad about leaving his wife and their infant son, Amos knew that it was his duty to go and fight. In order to console his wife Amos swore that he would survive, and would someday return to see his family again. Amos would go on with the rest of the Vertaz 527th to fight in a number of campaigns. During one particularly costly campaign against Dark Eldar George was killed. Furthermore when he was attacked by a Dark Eldar Haemonculus Amos himself was horribly wounded, and left with permenent and hideous scars. He would go on to fight in many campaigns with the memory of his freind, and the hope of seeing his family spurring him on. He came to be known as a reliable soldier and leader to the rest of his Regiment. Seeing his competency the leader of Regiment, Colonel Andrews Manek decided to promote him to Lt. Colonel, and his personal right hand man. Amos would command his men for 15 years. At one point he and the men under him offered reinforcement to the Space Wolves in a conflict near their home world, Fenris. As the battle was costly to the Regiment, they were given special permission to recruit some warriors from Fenris to recover their losses. After 15 years of constant fighting Amos finally got his wish. His Regiment were rotated back to Vertaz for garrison duties. When he got home he went to see his wife, but when they met she was horrified by the ghastly wounds he had accumulated. She left him, and forbade him from meeting with his son, who told that Amos had died in the line of duty. Amos, feeling that he had lost his reason to go on, hit an all time low. For weeks he spent his days drowning his sorrows at a local bar. Eventually his men managed to pull their commander out of his funk. With new clarity Amos decided that he would dedicate himself to the life of a soldier both for the sake of his men, who he now considered brothers, and so that his son might be spared the tragedies that had befallen him. Amos is a tough professional soldier. He has fought all manner of enemies, and has the scars to show it. He loves his comrades dearly, and will stick up for them through thick and thin, though he is still a proficient officer that knows that the Imperium winning is an important thing for the survival of humanity, and that this often required sacrifices. Amos carries a lasgun, as he feels it would be unfair for him to be better equiped than his men, but it has been heavily customized over the years, optimizing its perfomance. He carries with him Melta Bombs for anti-armour purposes. Finally he carries a combat knife that his men refer to as "Old One Draw" as it is rumoured that he has never had to draw it twice for the same opponent. Tell me what you think.