We were assigned to assault the planet kronus and clear a base for the 1st kronus imperial guard unit. They called us the 53rd conscripts. Win news of the attack on kronus came out the Emperor ordered our entire planet of Coris to be assigned the duty to clear a new base for the main force. There were approximately 2 billion of us that were going to charge the ice plains of kronus. My name is Kitawa I was 1st Sgt. of the 2nd regiment. My regiment was going to part of the 1st wave.
So there I was looking out of the window of my assault ship as we began to descend in the soon to be called hellzone. I was just about as worried as the rest of my men that weren't even truly trained just handed a rifle and told to assault a whole planet. Approximately 2,000 feet above ground zero laser burst and flak shells began to explode left and right as they hit our hull and many others on our descent. When I turned my head to look out the window behind me the ship that was next to us was hit with several flak shells the veered out of control and plummeted towards the ground. Shortly after the downed craft some shrapnel ripped through our hull tearing one of my men's heads clean off. At exactly 500 feet our ships above us began firing orbital canons on the LZ hoping to clear it. When the loud thumb of our ship hitting the ground and the doors open and my 49 men started to poor out about half of them were immediately torn into several pieces by long range artillery. When I stepped out onto the frozen planes I immediately ducked as an artillery shell hit the carrier I just ran out of. The violent blast through me on my stomach pushing me deep into the snow. I moved my hands to my face wiping all of the grime and blood off my face. I then looked for my standard issue las rifle and began trying to find any of my fellow soldiers. All I saw was a kroot about 6 foot tall standing over a wounded soldier getting ready to impale him with his own bayonet. I shouldered my weapon trying to get a bead on his head when another arty shell blew up making me fire accidentally hitting nothing but air. As I recovered from another blast I rolled on my back to see a kroot looking me in the eyes then everything went dark.
The 53rd conscripts secured a base at the cost of 1.75 billion lives including Kitawa's. 2 days after they secured a base they found his body but missing a head.