Only in Death Does Duty End

The release of Unlocked and Loaded brought a new face to the Mourningstar. Commissar Darinda Dukane has assumed command of the Moebian 53rd regiment - the famed Steelheads. These stalwart troops have been deployed to Tertium at the behest of the Planetary Governor, Lord Margrave, who is disturbed by the perceived lack of progress made by the Inquisition.

But what is a Commissar of the Astra Militarum?

The Commissars of the Officio Prefectus are fearsome, iron-fisted authoritarians who keep the wheels of the Astra Militarum in motion. To the masses of Humanity, most of whom recognise the black greatcoat, peaked cap and polished boots of a Commissar from hab-block propaganda frescoes or grainy recruitment vids, these inflexible men and women are Imperial authority made manifest. Their amorphous remit is to ensure that all do their duty in the Emperor’s name, and the high rank and wide-ranging powers of these Departmento Munitorum agents give them leeway to enforce discipline at all levels. Should discipline and morale falter, should orders fail to be obeyed in anything less than exemplary and immediate fashion, it is these ruthless men and women in black who take whatever steps necessary to restore order –
no matter the cost.

A Commanding Presence

Commissars rarely assume direct command of a regiment and the circumstances by which Commissar Dukane came to head up the 53rd remain shrouded in mystery - or are at least snarled up in the processes of the Imperium’s infamous bureaucracy. However, it is plain that she enjoys the full confidence of the sectors lord militant, and has swiftly moved to assume immediate control of the Atoman warzone, masterminding aggressive deployments by the 53rd and rallying the winnowed survivors of the Moebian 21st - until now, the only official Astra Militarum presence in Tertium.

Uneasy Allies

With initial drop zones secured, Dukane has taken station on the Mourningstar and even now casts a suspicious eye over Grendyl’s warband, whose motives and masters she clearly does not trust. Nonetheless, she is too practical not to recognise the necessity of allies and has assigned the finest drill sergeants of the 53rd to tutor the rejects in proper weapons drill. Expendable allies they might be, but every heretic the members of the warband eliminates is one less heretic to stand in her path.

But not everything is going Dukane’s way. Tertium’s insidious cult refuses to let this upstart newcomer foil their long-held plans. Even as the 53rd secures new ground the heretics prepare to strike a humbling blow, presenting Sergeant-Major Morrow with an opportunity to prove the warband’s worth…

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Can we have her outfit as cosmetics?

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i like how she looks like a woman unlike our own female rejects with male torsos…

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She can afford to have a female torso our reject can’t you know imperiums budget is tight

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very cool fatsharkstrawhat, thank you. (i need her drip pls i beg you and my life for you is yours)

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I wonder if that’ll translate in something, maybe some new training thing outside of the Psykanium ?

Is this supposed to be the Rolling Steel mission or something that’ll come later ?

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Nice! Is it a teaser for advancing DT story in November / December?

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Your never ending warehouse of memes is admirable

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Very proper image, like right out of a Ciaphas Cain recruitment poster…

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I always had a thing for Blood Ravens… and Trazyn.

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This reads quite cool! I‘m actually quite hungry for lore and story concerning the Moebian domain - keep it up!

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This kinda stuff would pack so much more punch if it came at us ingame in the form of communications.

Imagine us going up to a data terminal, popping in our Inquisitorial ID number and getting the latest brieings and data packets. With the appropriate rattling and clunky sounds as it spits the data at us.

Truth be told, I’ve managed to stay entirely up to date in Darktide by visiting the forums weekly, and logging in game for an hour once in the last 4 months.

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it´s literally explained in the headlines :rofl:

Does that mean you’ve not played the Moebian special condition?? Oh man it’s the best thing I’ve played in the game since forever. Insane fun!!!

And they just removed it from the game today. I could cry. I’ll go back to painting figures until they put the condition back in. Just not as fun without it. I didn’t play a single game using any other condition the entire time it was live. I just couldn’t resist it.

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i want to…sooooo much… but darktide and space marine 2 taking my freetime 100%… i need a sponsor :dollar: :money_mouth_face:

meanwhile my tyranids and kasrkin remain boxed and my blueberry marines torn apart after priming… damn those addicting games :heart_eyes:

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We are indeed spoiled for choice at the moment! I’ve not felt compelled to return to SM2 after finishing the campaign though.

DT with the Moebians blew it out the water imo.

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Dont you mean body type 2? Lmao

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Has she? Because the only thing we’ve seen is, according to Rannick, fallen for a trap that nearly got her base blown up.

It would be neat if, again, this was somehow represented in game.

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you mean the armoured, faster groaners? the regular enemies in moebian armour yes? I played that in the very brief log in I did back when the crafting dropped.

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