Cat Guardswoman

Stoic. Bitter, Vengeful. Mourning.

Catherine has lost everything due to some sick twisted game from the imperial nobles of her home world. Now once a most loyal guardsmen, she is now a penal unit trying to repent for crimes she never committed.

It is the 41st Millennium. For more than a hundred centuries the Emperor of Mankind has sat immobile on the Golden Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will of the gods and master of a million worlds by the might of His inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He is the Carrion Lord of the vast Imperium of Man for whom a thousand souls are sacrificed every day so that He may never truly die.

Yet even in His deathless state, the Emperor continues His eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested miasma of the Warp, the only route between distant stars, their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic manifestation of the Emperor's will. Vast armies give battle in His name on uncounted worlds. Greatest amongst His soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the Space Marines, bio-engineered super-warriors. Their comrades in arms are legion: the Imperial Guard and countless planetary defense forces, the ever-vigilant Inquisition and the Tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus to name only a few. But for all their multitudes, they are barely enough to hold off the ever-present threat to humanity from aliens, heretics, mutants -- and far, far worse.

To be a man in such times is to be one amongst untold billions. It is to live in the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable. These are the tales of those times. Forget the power of technology and science, for so much has been forgotten, never to be relearned. Forget the promise of progress and understanding, for in the grim dark future there is only war. There is no peace amongst the stars, only an eternity of carnage and slaughter, and the laughter of thirsting gods."

Catherine was born into these dark times to a family line of guardsmen. Starting from her ancestors and leading down her bloodline to her currently. Catherine was born a Felinid, a abhuman known for their feline like traits despite still being human. Catherine is a full bloodied one meaning she looks like a Anthro cat, being tall and strong bodied across her frame to some baseliner humans this is a affliction a disease, being a abhuman is a insult to the emperor's vision of humanity, to others being a abhuman is in fact the nature of humanity, evolving to take different forms being the ultimate life form to shape itself for survival. And to many it matters not what you look like as along as your willing to fight for the emperor's vision.

Catherine has grown up during the times of strife, originally coming from a rural farming community Felinid peasants of small fame due to their tall nature making them excellent soldiers for their planetary governor. Her home planet of Carcosa has been loyal to the Imperium of man for countless generations despite its abundance of abhumans a rarity to most in the galaxy. The planet a government based on the old feudal ways of holy Terra. One ruling family to guide the planet. This family's abhuman strain gave them Anthro deerlike qualities and they were known for their marshal and Navel prowess. Being able to command many battleships during the emperor's reunification of the human worlds across the galaxy and in the later conflicts of the millennia.

Catherine was a bit of a tomboyish scrapper taking fights to various bullies of her village and getting into tussles against the taller kids who she saw as unfair and mean on her old home world. She also often found herself watching and playfully marching behind her father who was enlisted as a guardsman always dreaming to be a soldier like him. Like most children of the guard however, one day he never returned but she now kept that spirit in her and soon she would see that dream come true, but it turned out to be far harsher than she realized. Months after months of field battles, sieges, she found herself acquiring many scars during her time of holding the line with her fellow guard of the 3rd Carcosa Claws. Her first battles were simple against the common rebels of the imperium nothing that ever left her out of the fight however her first real conflict and test of will came when her regiment was put to hold back a Ork onslaught, firing her Laz rifle while defending a dug in trench. Her left eye has been lost in a battle involving a rabid Ork's battle axe when her trench line was charged by the hulking savages, leaving a viscous stitch scar across her upper nose to the socket of the eye lost to the blade of the axe the phantom pain being burned into her memory now but also the feeling of victory having stabbed the ork through the jaw with her bayonet.

She soon saw conflict all across the galaxy with her regiment. Working her way up to be a sergeant. Going to battle against the Xenos of the mystic Eldar, The deceiving Tau, The Savage Orks. Ever starving tyranids. The Undying Necron. And finally, the degenerate Cultist of Chaos. Bringing glory to the emperor and her regiment with every single battle she faced. The only thing she never saw was the legendary space marines of the emperor.

However, her life was not always so Gallant. After a brutal miss hap by one of the generals put in charges of the Claws. The regiment would take over 75% casualties. Leaving the rest horrified and scarred. Enough to the point where many of the regiment deserted and became Gangsters of Carcosa's under world and she followed as well. Taking part in various ransom kidnappings and heists against the local nobles and commonfolk. On one particular heist the gang had managed to nab the governor's son whose name was Matthew. After a fire fight with his elite bodyguard unit causing them to route, they held him for ransom. However, after spending time with the soft-spoken boy and seeing him bullied and picked on by the crueler members of the gang. She had a change of heart and freed and protected him from her former gang for days until the governor sent the Arbites to bust and completely rout and destroy the rogue guardsmen. She was thankfully pardoned by Matthew, and she was soon granted the position as his personal marshal teaching him the ways of the imperial guard.

Over time both had grown close and soon became lovers during their times together. Matthew becoming probably the best thing that happened in her life of strife. As his father died and he took the throne, she became the second planetary governess and marshal helping to keep her husband's world safe along with enacting reforms to the regiments to bring a time of grant victories across the fronts of the galaxy. During this time of prosperity Matthew and her would have two children. The oldest a girl deer abhuman that took after her father by the name of Mattie. The youngest, a son. A Felinid boy bearing his mother's strength and feistiness named Cathrinus. Both her kids and her husband became her world over the time as she grew into a soft and loving mother.

Things were not meant to be, however. Carcosa had an issue across Multiple ages of deadly rebellions often by various groups and factions vying for control. All of which were loyal to the imperium so often these acts were overlooked by the inquisition and the imperium as a whole as a matter of simple planetary politics that was supposed to be settled out themselves. Thus, when a coup took place on Carcosa, there would be no help from the main imperial fleet and the royal family was left alone to try to weather the storm. in three days, the planet became all out civil war with Catherine having to command her loyalist forces against the rebel upstarts, a group of human purists that sought to completely wipe the abhuman populations away in the name of the emperor. At the beginning the loyalist began to properly get a hold on the rebel forces. Clearing them out of the hive cities. Capturing their acting command centers.

If only Catherine had looked at her husband's council. In reality the entire court of the royal family was ready to bring demise to them after Matthew's father's death. And they did just that. All of the court's honor guard units stormed and completely over ran the family's one night, Catherine beheaded and chopped and reaved through many of the rebels with her chain sword but a painful laz shot in her knee caused her to buckle. and soon the family was brought out on their knees in front of their steward Callipho Lepontus. A smug horrid man and the revealed leader of the rebellion. Matthew bargained that it should not be like this that he would give up the throne peacefully. Callipho very much did not want anything to be peaceful. In an instant Callipho shot the sweetest man in the world as Matthew fell back. A Laz shot through his throat while an enraged Catherine shredded her arms trying to get free. The next shot struck Mattie. And the third Cathrinus. Completely leaving her alone. The royal court would soon frame Catherine in the horrid crime, that her and her honor guard completely executed her family in a bid for power and when a entire council of baseliners turns their backs on one abhuman the imperium believes the oh so noble baseliners. Catherine was stripped of her ranks and put into a penal unit. Now being transferred who knows where to earn her repentance by the emperor. They of course didnt know that Callipho was not only corrupt morally but, by the chaos god slannesh. Not even she knows. and if she ever returned to Carcosa, She will find that how much evil has been done there by the cultists now in charge. But as far as she knows it was just a standard rebellion.

She commonly uses a chain sword for larger conflicts. She is a skilled master of the blade, having fought in many battles character has grown into a seasoned veteran and knows how to stay focus even with the most chaotic clash of steel around her. She is also a skilled marksman with a laz rifle and pistol and even has high marks when armed with a bolt pistol as well despite the heavy gun kicking like a mule.

Catherine is unusually intimidatingly tall and strong, even outmatching most men in her era, a trait she inherited from her father and so is strong bodied and being able to take heavy amounts of physical stress. Punches not making her flinch even when one is launched into her eye she can rapidly recover and give a brutal knockout punch of her own. Catherine wears her hair down over her damaged eye as a way to block it from view. Her face is covered in scars from her final days of trying to crush the rebellion. A suture scar going across her muzzle and nose with her hair blocking her left eye to hide her scar

Catherine's body is also clad in imperial tattoos she has gotten during her years now as a penitent. from skulls to the sign of the imperial double headed eagle. Tattoo like chains binding her arms. And one that goes across her abs spelling the words "repent."

Catherine's mentality is a bit of a far cry of what she once was. Originally a gallant officer, and a stoic woman holding away a tenderness to her. All has been burnt away leaving a bitter false convict. Any slight is met with violence. The warmth of her smile is long since dead. But maybe she can learn to trust again in due time. Catherine also like her younger years still feels sympathy for innocents like children affected during the wars across the Galaxy, especially now after losing her children. Worst still she has begun to collect skulls from both enemies and fellow inmates which she believes the emperor is driving her to do this, this drive that has a unfortunate connection to chaos. Showing it might not be the emperor whispering these things to her. For the chaos gods hate each other just as they hate the Emperor.

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