One Easily-Missed Space Marine 2 Detail Shows The Dev's Dedication To The Source Material

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Playing through , it's impossible not to hear the battle cries and motivational speeches given by Cadian soldiers, piqueing new players' curiosity. Fighting tooth and nail in, these soldiers prove themselves time and time again as the bravest the empire has to offer. But the Cadians are just one of the ways 's developers at Saber Interactive pay homage to the franchise, proving it's made by fans for fans of the iconic setting.

It takes a lot of courage to stand against the terrifying Tyranid in , but the Cadian Guardsmen do so in stride. Without the use of eight-foot-tall, near indestructible body armor,these brave Guardsmen of the imperium fight side by side with Titus and his Ultramarines. While each soldier in the Imperium of Man has to have nerves of steel, the Cadian Guardsmen are known as some of the most disciplined in the universe, and the Cadians' purple eyes show Saber Interactive was thorough in making lore-accurate.

Cadian Shock Troops are soldiers of the Astro-Militarum born and raised on the planet Cadia. What makes the Cadians and their planet so significant is its proximity to the Eye of Terror, a warp gateway into the nightmare realm of Chaos. From this proximity, Cadia stood as the first line of defense against any and all invasions from the warp, being constantly bombarded with crusades of daemons and corrupted Space Marines alike.

Any Cadian who can't field-strip his own lasgun by age 10 was born on the wrong planet.

Faced with the unending hordes of nightmarish creatures, Cadians had a strong culture of military service at any age, even for young children. As an anonymous Cadian once said (per the ), "«Being the closest of the three military worlds defending against the warp,Cadia took the brunt of every assault, with their soldiers becoming extraordinarily battle hardened as a result.

The fall of Cadia is one of the most tragic events in history, second only to the heartbreaking Horus Heresy. Similar to the Fall of Reach from , Cadia was a