Mercenary

A compact is only as good as the names that are signed to it.

- Orrin Peth, Mercenary^[34]

An Ork Freebooter, which frequently act as mercenaries^[21]

Mercenary refers to any number of guns-for-hire that exist across the Galaxy.

Known Mercenary Factions

Humans & Abhumans

• Rogue Trader Households^[1a]
  • Darke's Company - Mercenary force of Rogue Trader Janus Darke^[31a]
• Navigator House Mercenary Armies^[2]
• Vega Rams - Squat Company^[16]
• Warbands of the Lost and the Damned^[17]
• Forsaken Chaos Space Marines^[19a]
• Nielsen's Raiders - Renegade Humans^[26]
• Da Rippas - Ogryn mob^[26]
• Lunk's Ladz - Ogryn mob^[29]
• Vessorine Janissaries - Imperial Human mercenary bands from Vessor^[33]

Xenos

• Kroot^[1a]
• Ork Mercenaries and Freebooterz^[1b]
• Dark Eldar - Specifically Incubi,^[5] followers of Vileth,^[3] etc..
• Eldar Corsairs^[6]
• Eldar Outcasts^[27]
• Cortax^[19c]
• Demiurg^[11]
• Enoulians^[23]
• Fra'al^[27]
• Galg^[27]
• Greet^[28a]
• Loxatl^[15]
• Morralians^[27]
• Nicassar^[28a]
• Ostense Council^[28a]
• Scythians^[19b]
• Sslyth^[24][27]
• Tarellians^[18][27]
• Verminthiculians^[9]
• Vespid^[28b]
• Viskeon^[25]
• Zoats^[20]

Known Mercenaries

• Zhebdek Abaddas - Fallen Angel^[14]
• Xarius - Renegade Space Marine^[32]
• Grendl Grendlsen - Squat^[16]
• Irn-Bonce - Squat^[30]
• Shorty - Ratling^[30]
• Jiynko Chagrill - Kroot^[8]
• Lucu Trosk - Kroot^[8]
• Dahyak Grekh - Kroot
• Kaptain Badrukk - Ork Freebooter
• Skarburn Zapdakka - Ork Flash Git^[13]
• Lukas Kupferberg - Human Rogue Trader^[10]
• Hans Nielsen - Human Captain of Nielsen's Raiders^[26]
• Lucius Devlan - Human^[7]
• Space-Dout Sam- Human^[30]
• Fast-Star John - Human^[30]
• Plunderino Pete - Human^[30]
• Worldburner- Human^[30]
• Old World Jack- Human^[30]
• Mad Morris- Human^[30]
• Hacker Harris- Human^[30]
• Kylla Condotti- Human^[30]
• Abbadon - Human^[30]
• Breakout Con - Human^[30]
• 'Sarge' Rockhard- Human^[30]
• No-Face Fargo- Human^[30]
• Catachan Luke- Human^[30]
• Kham Bell - Human^[31b]

See also

• Bounty Hunter
• Desperado

Sources

• 1: Rogue Trader: Into the Storm:
  • 1a: pg. 52
  • 1b: pg. 66
• 2: Rogue Trader: Battlefleet Koronus, pgs. 49-50
• 3: Death From the Skies (7th Edition) — Scions of Vileth
• 4: Kill Team (Novel) ^{[Needs Citation]}
• 5: Codex: Dark Eldar (7th Edition), pg. 20 — The Shrines of the Incubi
• 6: Warhammer 40,000 Chapter Approved - The Book of the Astronomican, pg. 43
• 7: Inquisitor Rulebook, pg. 131
• 8: White Dwarf 286 (UK), pg. 89
• 9: Dark Heresy Core Rulebook, pg. 258
• 10: White Dwarf 112 (2016) — 'Eavy Metal Extra
• 11: Battlefleet Gothic Armada, pg. 110
• 13: White Dwarf October 2019, pg. 94
• 14: Eye of Terror (Novel), Chapter 12
• 15: Fabius Bile: Primogenitor (Novel), Part One, Chapter Eight
• 16: Necromunda Gang War 2, pg. 5 — The Gang Wars Rages On
• 17: Codex: Eye of Terror (3rd Edition), pgs. 42-46
• 18: Codex: Tyranids (5th Edition), pg. 26
• 19: Dark Heresy: The Radical's Handbook:
  • 19a: pgs. 58-59
  • 19b: pg. 201
  • 19c: pg. 135
• 20: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, pg. 202
• 21: Codex: Orks (7th Edition) — Freebooterz
• 22: Brothers of the Snake (Novel), Part 2, Chapter 2
• 23: Dark Heresy: Creatures Anathema, pg. 87
• 24: Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition), pg. 35
• 25: Xenology (Background Book) - Artifact Studies
• 26: 'Ere We Go: Orks in Warhammer 40,000, pg. 204
• 27: Sons of the Hydra (Novel), Part I, Chapter δ: The Viper's Nest
• 28: War of Secrets (Novel):
  • 28a: Chapter Seventeen
  • 28b: Tau Xenolexicon
• 29: Warhammer Community: Meet Bad Krumpany, the Blood Axe Orks Who Think the Astra Militarum Has Some Really Great Ideas (Posted on 04/11/2021) (Last accessed on 4 November 2021)
• 30: White Dwarf 95 (UK), pg. 43 — Mercenaries
• 31: Farseer (Novel): ^{Heretic Tomes}
  • 31a: Chapter Four
  • 31b: Chapter Seven
• 32: White Dwarf 486, pg. 15 - A Tale of Four Warlords
• 33: The Inquisition (Background Book), pg. 91 - Vessor
• 34: Black Crusade Core Rulebook, pg. 269