Name: Commissar Karl Venetti

Faction: Imperial Guard

Sub Faction: Commissariat and 128th Cadian Shock Troopers

Sex: male

Age: 55

Rank: Commisar

Specialty: Propaganda, Morale boosting

Equipment: 
Commissar´s cap and coat
Carapace breastplate
Power sword
Bolt pistol
Bottle of high quality amasec

Psyker: no

Personality: Where the other commissars try to be feared by their soldiers and executions are their daily bread, Karl tries an entirely different approach. He is skilled orator and mister of propaganda and uses these abilities to inspire a courage and cohesion in his men rather than dread. He remembers names and little details about every men he is serving with and often stops by them to chat and share a glass of amasec. Because of this, he is adored by his men and they even sometimes refer to him as to Father Venneti. 
Although friendly and cheerful to his comrades, in battle he is merciless and coldblooded foe that isn´t afraid to go any lengths to secure the victory of Imperium and punish those who defy Emperor´s will with righteous zeal and devotion, the strongest weapons of truly pious men.

[hider=History]Karl is, like every other commissar, a product of war, refined by constant drills in Schola Progena. He doesn´t remember much, if anything, about his childhood before becoming progena, his only information coming from scarce words of drill abbots. He came from some desert world that faced an ork waaagh, during which his parents died, but not before they secured their son´s future.
In Schola, he wasn´t really and an extraordinary example of a perfect student. His fighting skills were average at best, but he make it up with his determination, passion and devotion, abbots were even thinking about handling over to the Adeptus Ministorum. In the end, he succeeded in his Commissar training and joined the fresh 3rd Gefian Janissaries as a commissar cadet.

His mentor was a zealous and merciless man, infamous for a tendency to whip soldiers for any sign of weakness and shooting regularly to "motivate" them. Unfortunately for Gefian Janissaries, Karl soon adopted his mentor´s practices and became as hated as he was.
After a year of service, they were sent to a besieged hive city of Bogstad and hold it until the arrival of reinforcements. They did what was ordered and defended the city against endless armies of cultists, shattering wave after wave, but promised reinforcements weren´t coming.
What should be a few weeks of defensive became months long war of attrition between the hive and numberless hordes fanatics, but to Karl, the worst enemies were his own soldiers. His mentor died in first month of fighting and young cadet, now the only commissar in the entire hive, inherited all of his duties. Janissaries immediately take an advantage of Karl´s lack of experiences and became wild and unreliable. He tried to stop these disciplinary problem by executing the worst troublemakers but it was no solution, because he couldn´t afford to lose so many man when there was an enemy literally at gates. His other attempts to restore morale of soldiers also weren´t really successful, but he was at least able to hold them from breaking and taint.

He almost lost all of his hopes when reinforcements, slowed by unreliable warp tides, finally arrived and started with a liberation of the planet. Karl was awarded for his ability to hold the city for so long, even if he took it as a personal failure. His old regiment was almost wiped out and they merged it with another decimated regiment. To Karl´s relieve he was transferred to different regiment and became a commissar serving with 128th Cadian Shock troopers. He took this assignment with a new enthusiasm and promised himself that he won´t repeat the mistakes he did in Bogstad.
Now he served with Cadians for three decades without breaking his oath.[/hider] 

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