On the battlefields of a distant future, only a madman knew no fear. Arvin Larn was not a madman. At seventeen, he was drafted into the Imperial Guard and immediately found himself in the maelstrom of the first war. Untold hordes of orks captured the world that the Imperial Guard is trying to take back from them. Born for battle, orks know no fear—so it’s hardly surprising that the average lifespan of an imperial guardsman who arrives on this forsaken world, forgotten by gods, did not exceed fifteen hours…