"Recruits! You've all been raised with the belief that the strongest swords are forged in fire. That's a lie. In the next six months, we're going to do it with ice..." It is said that the only things colder than the wind-blasted glaciers of Venelia are the men and women who train to fight on them. The Venelia Ice Rangers are one of the most well-regarded militias in known space, and for good reason. The planet Venelia, where they are trained and where many of them are born, only has a habitable band of about 30 degrees surrounding the equator. The rest of the planet is deemed too cold to be truly habitable. The Ice Rangers train at the poles. They are the ultimate survivalists and the hardest, coldest of soldiers. Each man is capable of living for up to a month in weather so frigid that there are nights where the nitrogen in the air turns to liquid. And in combat their motto is "Sweep in like a gale. Strike like an avalanche." While at least 6 regiments worth have been donated to serve off-world with the Terran Protectorate Colonial Marines, in truth only the Ice Rangers know how many of them there are. Some say there are only a few thousand, but some speculate there are as many as one million. Their armor is unmarked, their voices disguised with modulators and their faces are covered in reflective white helmets so it is almost impossible to know if you've seen or talked to the same soldier before, and they won't tell you. It is presumed that their helmets have internal HUDs that help them identify one another and their rank. Enjoy, and let me know what you think.