For you the reader it is nearly impossible to know that I am restraining myself, my own bias leads me to place Unit in high standing, after all, how could I not.
While all members of Unit are Humans, they are without a doubt chosen by the Emperor.
The sheer number of events that occurred are so numerous that if the videos, first-hand accounts, and even relicks discovered that I would think of all of these events as nothing more than the collection of happenings that occurred and simply given to a select few individuals.
People that would be used as nothing more than figureheads.
Had I done such a thing, I would be known as a fool and rightfully be shot for my stupidity.
It is said amongst the inmates, that Unit was at one point sentenced to death, the team's influence had grown considerably, to the point that had they ever wanted they would and could take control of the penal world that they call home.
The story is spoken amongst campfires, often to those who are pedal born or those that are noted to not be able to survive in that world.
They were placed on a severely damaged ship and given command of an extensive force of criminals, none of which were capable of fighting.
Some were Imperial citizens from worlds that had recently brought into the fold, while others were too young- too old- to injured or sick to be of any real use.
They were given no armor and what little weaponry they had been given would more likely kill its user than the enemy.
Despite Arturia stepped forward and began to hastily train the penal units while they were on headed to their destination, it's said that she glowed with a golden ora that inspired even the weakest of the men to continue training until he fell unconscious.
Isha displayed her mastery of chemicals and medicine, several of the guards had by this point taken plenty of her medication to cure one or more members of their families and allowed her to freely move around the ship.
She took oils that were dripping from machinery and somehow separated what could be used from that which was lethal to the people.
Guy who had been under the watchful eyes of the guards didn't have much to do, until a guard opened the door of the cage he was being held in.
Whatever was said between the two of them is unknown but what is known is that for the rest of the journey Guy was not seen and several strange happening occurred all over the ship.
Computers began to run faster and fuel cells cooled far more rapidly than they had any right to and systems long-dormant reawoke within the ship itself.
The only reason why the magos on the ship didn't just kill guy is simply that one or perhaps several of them were with him during this time.
From their accounts, Guy followed a path long forgotten within the ship itself and it's there that he found a functioning computer, the man just stepped aside and let the Adeptus Mechanicus do what they do best.
It's important to know that this particular ship was, in fact, a pre'heresy ship, meaning that it existed long before the time of the Horus Heresy and in fact could very likely be from the Dark Age of Technology.
What the Magos found within the computer is still affecting us to this day.
It is known that information has been long forgotten, not in the sense that ship designs have been lost, and while that may be true.
The information that was discovered, was the proper ways of repairing and restoring coding and machines long forgotten within the ship and those like it.
It's even been hinted at, that the only reason Warp Drives are now being repaired and stabilized in a way never imaged before, is the very information within the computer.
I am inclined to believe that the reason why the Adeptus Mechanicus began to search for ships similar to the one Unit was on, is simply because they wanted to claim the information long hidden within those ships.
Weapon's long lost began to be mounted on starships, weaponry cooled faster and could be fired far more rapidly than ever before.
It's even been said by some captains, that from what their navigators have told them the machines spirits sing in a way never thought of before.
Of course, none of this mattered as the events occurred long before the empire, reunited with the greater Imperium.
It was a single ship and regardless of the people's new devotion to Arturia, they were under-armed and poorly trained.
It was a world that had long been lost and by all rights should have remained lost.
Perhaps it was a greater power at work, perhaps it was fate, but Unit and all of the undesirables were sent there to die, of course, this included the captain and all of the crew.
Perhaps this was the reason they granted Unit their freedom and why Unite rejected it, not because they were insane, but rather as a slap to the face of the Warden.
The details have been lost to time, or perhaps I am unwilling to give them to you, regardless the results are the same.
In a world so distant from any other traveled before, a single Imperial ship fought against dozens of Zeno's ships, and a penal Legion became a legend.
Calls for help were sent out during this time and Unit received an unspeakable number of casualties, but by the time reinforcements did arrive.
Only one ship remained in orbit, heavily damaged, but from what the records say.
The ship looked like an enraged beast, surrounded by the torn corpses of its prey, that just drifted in orbit.
Unit had taken a pice of the world and claimed it as their own and slowly they were expanding pushing back the enemy.
What recordings have been uncovered by those that answered the calls for help, is that the Penal legion used the corpses of the alien to build their walls.
There were so many dead that the walls themselves could be walked on and the person doing so would never touch the ground.
Ritualistic burials were performed for those men and women that died, and its believed that this is something both Arturia and Guy have taken part in before, as it was them that laid the dead to rest.
It's important to note that several of the ships that answered the calls for help, were ships belonging to captains that had once fought alongside unit and as such their soldiers outright refused any order to shoot the two while they were performing the burial ritual.
Only those that have gained the Emperor's forgiveness may have their souls laid to rest and yet by the time the planet was taken, nearly all of those accompanying Unit were laid to rest.
The last of them was buried five years later, by Arturia and his corps lies forgotten in an equally forgotten world.
This story is passed down to those that will die in the penal colonies for a reason.
That reason being is that somehow someway the golden light of Arturia has grants the souls of the dead rest, the men and women have earned the Emperor's forgiveness.
Something that shouldn't be possible and yet Arturia does this.
Isha is known to perform something similar but the way that she allows the dead to rest is peculiar for the soul of the dead are kept safe until another soul walks out of the warp and takes them to their resting place.