'another one dead today' W1LL14M thought as he buries the last of his comrades that survived the crash.

He has died due to food poisoning probably due to the purple glowing fruits he ate. W1LL14M made a note to not eat any purple glowing fruits as they're poisonous.

It had been months since they crash landed on this Emperor-forsaken moss ball and everything is deteriorating by the day.

Half of the crew died on the crash and many more followed suit when the ship exploded.

Only a hand few managed to get out of the ship in time before the explosion, they only managed to bring with them a hand full of supplies and only the most essential equipment namely a distress Beacon.

While they are considered disposable but the discovery of a habitable planet would naturally be of great interest for the Imperium, the Imperium could turn this planet into an agri-world feeding billions.

Now their mission is to safeguard the beacon until the imperium arrives, unlikely as it might seem as they're using a Vox based beacon. Due to their astropath being dead they have limited means of communication.

Not long after the survivors further dwindled in number brought on by starvation and native wildlife attacks.

Now months later only he is left standing, even so he'll still fulfill his duty in guarding the beacon until the imperium locates them.

He prays to the Emperor and congratulated them in having fulfilled their obligations to the Imperium. (Their obligation is naturally to die for the Imperium.) With their duty complete they are now free to rest besides the all mighty Emperor.

After his prayer to the fallen guardsmen, W1LL14M sights a bit as he looks down to the ground lamenting when will the Emperor relive him of his duty.

He didn't stay down for long as he still has a mission to complete, he still had to maintain the beacon for as long as possible or unlikely as it seems until reinforcement comes.

After the funeral of his friend, William went back to his daily routine of gathering edible fruits and trying to find anything worth salvaging of the wreckage of the ship.

So far he has little luck on the matter as the stuff he found is mostly scraps of metal or heavily damaged equipment that is obviously beyond his capabilities to repair as he is not a tech-priest.

Even so that still didn't stop him from gathering what he thinks might be useful and stuffing them in a cave. He is doing this in the hopes of somewhere in the future when the imperium discovers this place they'll be able to repair or make use of them one way or another.

Weeks later

The beacon suddenly stopped working, W1LL14M tried to figure out what's wrong with it but he obviously failed his dice roll so he has no idea what is wrong with it.

William stares at the broken beacon for a few moments carefully considering what to do next.

The idea for shooting himself in the head and calling it mission complete came across his mind a few times but he pushes that thought aside as life is the currency of the Emperor and he'll be damned if he would waste it.

While Krieg might seem to throw away lives willy-nilly sending waves upon waves of soldiers straight into machinegun positions but there is a method their madness. Krieg would see which area where soldiers die slower and would mark that area out as a possible weak point in the enemy's defense.

There's a big difference between sending men straight into machinegun positions and telling your men to march off a cliff. One has the possibility of doing damage to the enemy or at the very least the enemy would have to waste some ammunitions in mowing down your men, while the other is simply throwing away lives for no particular reason at all.

While dying in the name of the Imperium is the most glorious death that every kriegsmen could dream of, but ending his life just because he is sick and tired of living on this moss ball of a planet simply a coward's way out that wouldn't reflect greatly in the Emperor's eye.

If he were to die it would have to be a natural one in the line of service to the Imperium.

He pushed any suicidal thoughts aside and concentrated surviving for now.

A few days later

Some happened today as he was foraging for food he could eat.

In the far distance he saw a small craft landing near the wreck.

'Could this be reinforcements?' William thought exitedly as he made sure to groom himself to look as nice as possible for the landing party.

He dust off his great coat and polished his gear to be nice and shiny. He hung his laspistol and power sword at his sides that indicates he is an officer

Truthfully speaking the power sword belongs to the captain but it got entrusted to him when he got critically injured when a native wildlife sneaked up on their foraging party.

Suffice given the circumstances knowing that he'll only be a burden to the group in his injured state, he decided to pass on the command to William by giving his sword to him and honorably ended his own life in his quarters.

William saluted him for the tremendous sacrifice he made and worshiped the captain as a personal role model.

That is the perfect example of the ideal Kriegsmen.

Rather then be a burden to the group, a kriegsmen would rather end himself then be a burden. Such heroic sacrifice is rate very highly in kriegan society.

William also hope that his final moments would be in the form of such heroic sacrifice.

This is one of the primary reason why he didn't kill himself when the beacon broke, he wanted his death to be heroic and meaningful.

Anyway he exited the cave and goes to the wreck to meet the arrival.

As he enters the clearing William suddenly finds that the Imperial reinforcements he was hoping for wasn't all that Imperial at all.

Instead he saw a bunch or ragtag group of humans exiting some sort of lander that is not in any designed he recognize.

--story end--

This is part of the story will be based on role-playing if that that one line about dice roll didn't give it away.

The thing about role-playing is that insane shit can happen if you roll good enough or bad enough. Hmmm... This could explain why everyone in star wars misses all the time.

Watched a few role-playing videos and found that people misses all the time even when they're point blank range.

What will happen next? I bet some of you could probably guess a few of the details.