The people of Gell are pragmatic and are sometimes accused of cruelty. In a practice dating back to Old Night, criminals would not be executed but volunteered for numerous deathly duties. If they succeeded, they were forgiven. Over the millennia, this practice became systemized, with specific crimes requiring completing tasks of various worth. Those that fail, or refuse, are isolated from the rest of society. If resources were scarce, they were executed and recycled.

That itself is not unique, many benighted worlds did far worse. Gellans, however, suffered tremendously for their mercy and bent their attention to preventing the selfish crimes of a few from affecting entire communities. The first step in prevention was the forced level of education for all Gellans, which is maintained to this day, and had an effective impact against lesser crimes. It's truly remarkable that this feat was completed during the Age of Strife as the Gellans fought to raise the standards of living for everyone.

But the selfish few remained and festered. The practice of disinheriting entire families for truly heinous crimes, effectively cutting off that branch from the rest of society, came just before the Great Crusade. These segregated communities were volunteered en masse to the then-Imperial Army. The tithes were gladly accepted, and most of the disinherited perished in the grand efforts, earning Gell some acclaim in the young Imperium. The Horus Heresy started Gell's slow decline as more and more families are disinherited, their branches pruned of bloodlines that are desperate enough to take what they need to survive in the world's stratified society.

Not even the Gellans know anymore how many families have been tithed to the Imperium or how many regiments of the Disinherited they've raised. Whatever crimes they committed are forgiven in the service of the Imperium, and many of these regiments (and many naval crews) can trace their founding to the dawn of the Imperium. The few that have returned to Gell over these last ten thousand years are welcomed as long lost sons, alien but family. It's this forgiveness that draws further scrutiny by the Inquisition who already are suspicious of Gell's low numbers of psykers.

All newly raised Disinherited regiments bring their entire immediate family with them, a practice only tolerated by the Imperium due to Gell's shipyards. In addition to tithing its share of criminal outcasts (men, women, and children), the Gell Yards produce significant numbers of bulk transports that the Imperium sorely needs. Each newly raised Disinherited regiment is given one of these bulk transports to call home for the rest of their lives, and their family's existence. In dire times, Gell has assembled squadrons of such vessels crammed with the unwanted.

Though few, these outcast Gellans have themselves developed a code they instill to the next generation at a very young age, though few outsiders are privy to its details. Though it isolates them from other regiments, it grants the rogues a measure of respect. Their battlefield service, however irregular, is considered exemplary due to the Disinherited's vicious zeal. There also appears to be a stratified ranking system within the communities they bring with them, and the actions of the soldiers can change their family's standing: greater shares of supplies, better lodgings, even improved education and other opportunities are afforded to the regiment's heroes. Off the battlefield, the Disinherited are an unsavoury lot and often the source of the moral degeneration of other, more upstanding, regiments.

Older Disinherited regiments still have the element of the rogue with them, but centuries or millennia of larceny pale in comparison to their accumulated battlefield wisdom. The Departmento Munitorum is loathe to demobilize these elder regiments but still do so to seed the veteran community on new frontlines. Without meaning to, Gell has founded communities if not whole colonies everywhere in the Imperium and even beyond. Their generation ship remains with them, grand and baroque "battlewagons", providing orbital support and defense, and these seeds are expected to maintain the hard-earned military traditions and bring forth new regiments.

Homeworld: Penal Colony

Commanding Officer: Maverick

Regiment Type: Guerilla Regiment

Special Equipment: Covert Strike, Sharpshooters

Regimental Drawback: The Few

Favoured Weapons: Sniper Rifle, Man Portable Lascannon

Characteristics: +3 to any two of Agility, Strength, Toughness. Also gains +3 Perception, -3 Fellowship.

Aptitude: Ballistic Skill (Sharpshooters)

Skills: Intimidate, Linguistics (Low Gothic), Stealth

Talents: Peer (Underworld) or Street Fighting, Resistance (Fear), Ambush, Deadeye Shot (Sharpshooters)
Special: +10 to acquire illegal or contraband items, only 15 points for Standard Regimental Kit, +10 to acquire "sneaky" stuff, Hard (-20) to replace a fallen comrade if regiment is deployed, or Ordinary (+10) if not.
Wounds: +1

Kit: 1 Lascarbine (4 packs) (Main), 2 blind grenades, 2 stun grenades, 2 frag grenades, 1 suit of synskin, 1 preysense goggles

Standard Regimental Guardsman Kit

Targeter (Sharpshooters)

Two extra weeks rations

Chrono

312nd Gellan Disinherited (The Lovebirds)

A more recent founding full of adulterers and and polygamists, the Lovebirds as they are known, are unique that fully half of its original members did not bring their families with them, only a partner or three. The other half brought two or more partners, any children, and their own parents. The first half were guilty of adultery and in a rare act of mercy only the participating people were judged villainous enough to be disinherited. The second half is more typical, with entire groups of families removed wholesale. The tight-knight polygamist families often suffer as their members are seduced, embroiling the regiment in epic dramas. These two groups are rarely mixed, and on the battlefield, compete with one another for status as is the way with all the Disinherited.

Special Equipment: Scavengers instead of Sharpshooters

117th Gellan Disinherited (Rebel Scum)
Taking the epithet as a virtue, the Rebel Scum are groups of older, well-to-do families guilty of insurrection, conspiracies, or being politically inconvenient. Though fractitious and frequently embroiled in intercenine fighting, the Rebel Scum are the best organized and most disciplined Disinherited regiment in service. Perhaps owing to their sense of propriety and order, these aristocratic outlaws often allow others to do most of the fighting by specializing in vox communications or guiding bombardments and strikes. Their vessel is richly appointed and is filled with decks upon decks of opulent quarters full of disgraced Gellans.

Special Equipment: Electro-Vox Warfare or Forward Observation instead of Sharpshooters

31st Gellan Disinherited (The Redeemed)
The regiment identified as the 31st Gellan Disinherited is in fact the fourteenth regiment to take up the name. Perhaps due to tradition or incompetence, the 31st are constantly rebuilt with armed malcontents. The natural Gellan proclivity for marksmanship is evidenced by all of the Redeemed who are sometimes attached to other regiments as sniper support teams. The Redeemed are the pattern by which almost all other Disinherited regiments are trained to emulate as the other regiments cannot rely on being resupplied with new men and women. At least, not until the next generation is raised from within. The 31st Gellan travels with a larger than usual retinue of fleet ships as the families over the years have abandoned the primary battlewagon, the Redemptor Gracus , when new families are brought in.

453rd Gellan Disinherited (Seniors Discounted)

One of the latest foundings displays the Gellans' utter inability to forgive. A decade ago, the children and parents of the 453rd were part of a riot that destroyed several massive manufactories and killed hundreds of thousands of workers, thrusting the Gellan economy into a massive recession. Most of the guilty ones were rounded up and made part of the previous two foundings. Recent evidence, however, uncovered even more guilty members and proved that the riots were part of a widespread destabilizing conspiracy. Or so the ruling parties claimed. As a result, grandparents and young orphans were Disinherited, guilty of no crimes other than a child that died in the riots. The fury of the older soldiers shines keenly on the battlefield, making great use of the favoured Lascannon to hunt down and destroy heavy targets. Though the children are being raised to hate their parents and love their grandparents, it will be a long time before they are ready to fight and have children of their own.

Favoured Weapon: Replace Sniper Gun with Triplex Pattern Lasgun