1st Kansu Protectorate Militia

1st Kansu Protectorate Militia
Affiliation	Word of Blake
Parent Command	Word of Blake Protectorate Militia

The 1st Kansu Protectorate Militia is one of the many militias raised by Word of Blake to defend the Word of Blake Protectorate. The unit was deployed in Kansu. As of 3075 there were two unit raised from this planet, the 1st and the 2nd.

History

When the Word of Blake invaded during the last two weeks of October 3069, the militia defending the world used artillery strikes to disable many of the invaders as they traveled through Kansu's forests. The high explosive rounds caused the methane stored in the trees and other plants to explode, inflicting serious losses on the Blakists. In retaliation, the Blakist fanatics detonated a nuclear weapon, apparently hoping to cow the defenders and destroy their morale. Instead the thermonuclear explosion ignited all the methane stored in the native flora for kilometers, triggering massive secondary explosions across the world. These explosions also triggered the release of methane stored in the undersea ice sheets and Kansu's polar regions. The resulting explosions created a runaway greenhouse effect that forced humans to live completely underground for more than a decade. The formerly arctic world has had its ecosphere completely disrupted, with temperatures at the equator exceeding the boiling point of water. Most of the population remains underground, with some relocating to Kansu's moon.

The militia's fate is unknown.

Officers

Rank	Name	Command
Commanding Officers of the 1st Kansu Protectorate Militia

Composition History

Protectorate Militia Divisions were equipped with enough DropShip capacity for transportation, but not JumpShips.

Bibliography

• Dark Age: Republic Worlds (3130)
• Jihad: Final Reckoning
• Jihad Secrets: The Blake Documents