Geckoling System

The Geckoling System is the crown jewel of Sub-sector Lacerta, featuring 6 populated worlds, a dedicated defense fleet (Battlefleet Geckoling) and hundreds of listening posts, defense stations, and civillian trade hubs.

Though each of the 6 true planets that comprise the Geckoling System have unique names, anyone born in the system is considered a Geckoling. Imperial Guardsmen raised on these worlds, or born anywhere in the system are typically utilized as reinforcements to an existing Geckoling Regiment, however in desperate times or in case total destruction of a Regiment has occurred, additional new Regiments may be raised.

Military service in the system is nominally voluntary, but the strong martial tradition running deep through Geckoling society ensures that some 80% of the population serves in either the Guard, PDF, or Imperial Navy for some part of their lives.

The Founding
Exact details of the founding of the system have been lost to time, but this much is known: Sometime before the Horus Heresy, a large detachment of Solar Auxilia and civilian vessels was sent to colonize the system and surrounding area, and the human presence within Sub-sector Lacerta is nearly entirely composed of their descendants.

Owing to these roots, Geckoling Imperial Guard Regiments can in times of serious need call upon ancient Leman Russ Incinerator tanks, hardened voidsuits, and other such weapons and armor of the bygone Great Crusade era. While the ability to replace losses to such equipment is limited by the knowledge being confined to one single forgeworld, Ballius, that they are still produced in any quantity is in and of itself remarkable in the Imperium.

Geckoling PDF
Unlike the Planetary Defense Forces of other worlds, which are typically only useful to slow an attacking foe or quash the occasional rebellion on a single world, the Geckoling PDF (Known as the Greycoats) would be better understood as a Sub-sector Defense Force.

Well trained and better equipped than most typical Guard regiments, components of the Greycoats are attached directly to Battlefleet Geckoling as well as serving in garrisons throughout the system. This gives Imperial Commanders great versatility in responding to threats both within the Geckoling System itself, as well as to those in other systems within the Sub-sector.