Calimshan (Imperial World) and the 42nd Calimshan Legion (Mixed Units)

Luck is with you in another way as well you are part of a mixed legion, and you are one of about 10% of your legion who is male. (This is what happens when a world has a 'male only' induction policy and the Arch Fabricator of the Adeptus Mechanicus sector forge world approves gender selection technological developments for the planet about 30 years ago... The Imperium doesn't give a flying fuck WHO you send to serve as long as the tithe is paid on time and with 70% of the people of inductable age being female: that policy is right out of the window so fast it leaves a contrail.) Even though about 75% of the women you serve with are >[(Bond Girl + Ripley) X (Rambo + Xena)]< level psycho amazons who are gung-ho to “Kill some filthy Xenos!”, the other 25% didn't volunteer, they were drafted, and are in many cases very anxious to A: not die never having known a man's touch, or B: have a few more good orgasms before they will most likely bite it. You have a few months of training aboard the Troop Transports in which to 'fraternize' with the female NCOs before all of you will most likely die and the first thing you all think of as your ships take off is home.

You remember your home-world with fondness. Calimshan is a vast planet not too different from the one the readers are familiar with, there are cities, fields, forests oceans, beaches, mountains, rivers, trains, cars, ships, phones; the one major aspect of our own world that is missing is a civilian internet. The internet exists, but it is strictly for 'official' communications, file sharing, and public announcement websites. For example, something close akin to CODIS exists, as does something much like Web MD, and goarmy.gov, but such things as Facebook, Amazon, Craig's-List, and the website you are currently reading, DON'T, let alone Pornhub or the cesspool of Four-Chan's /b/, to say nothing of the darkweb. Other than that the world is much like our own, save that office holding is partially hereditary and such positions are held for life or until the person is **** to step down by scandal or infirmity. (For those of you familiar with historical Great-Briton think of the House of Lords at the turn of the 20th century but with modern technology for national governments and the addition of the U.N. and a Planetary Governor for world leadership and you will not go too far wrong.)

In most other respects, except the existence of the Greater Imperium, the world is very much as Earth is today. Some nations are well developed, others poor and under served, crime is rife, great powers wage proxy wars to test their rivals, the public are free to move about their nations, and if they are wealthy enough visit other countries. People are aware of the Greater Imperium, and that there are two other worlds in their system that are occupied by human colonies, but not of how easy it actually is to reach out into space, let alone how exactly the five million or so men and women who leave the planet each year get shipped to the Greater Imperium's war zones, just that it happens.

The Legions raised by Calimshan are drawn from various nations one regiment at a time, according to their population and ability to provide training and equipment, more so the people and training than the equipment. Most nations do this largely by means of draftees, penal battalions, and volunteers from their armed forces, one of the biggest wrangles in the UN equivalent each year being what percentage of each and total number of regiments that each country owes towards the tithe.

Just this year a new Legion was demanded to replace the 37nth which had been annihilated to the last man in the cleansing of Drummond's World and for their bravery and selfless sacrifice their banner was being taken to be added to the collection on the steps leading to the throne room of the sector governor who ordered the '37nth Calimshan Legion' designation to be retired. As such the '42nd Calmishan Legion' was raised to replace them, which by order of the Brand New Planatary governor elected only 4 years earlier, (the first Female Planetary Governor in the history of your world, by dint of there being no eligible male candidates,) was to be raised as a mixed gender legion, the 'Only Male Inductees' rules being struck from the planetary code of laws by executive order.