[@DepressedSoviet][@Jbcool] ...maybe the Imperial Bureaucracy strikes again, and he gets taken away despite his father actually still being alive, somehow? I dunno, his mother died in childbirth, and then the Adeptus [s]Ministorum[/s] Administratum takes ten years or so to get round to marking both her and (mistakenly) his father as deceased, at which point they basically kidnap him and put him through the Schola. Enough time for him to develop distinct Texanisms, but also enough time for him to be put through the Schola Progenium properly and become a Cadet-Commissar, with perhaps a very recent promotion to Junior Commissar (who don't have the authority to execute people without a Commissar's permission, mind) to justify his being relatively alone with the PC squad. And it also makes for a somewhat tragic tale, though that matters not in a grimdark universe of woe.