Marsello
Marsello was a Guardsman of the 7th Paragonian Super-heavy Tank Company, who served as the Third Loader aboard the Baneblade Mars Triumphant.[1a]
Biography
Back on Dostan (one of the Paragonian colonies), Marsello was a member of Clan Meggen. However, since all three of Mars Triumphant's loaders were from the same clan, only the First Loader went by his clan-name, with Marsello and Ralt instead using their mother-names to avoid confusion.[1b]
Marsello was one of a batch of reinforcements recruited from Dostan to reinforce the Battlegroup that included the 7th Paragonian.[1b] By the time of the Kalidar War he was the youngest crew member aboard the tank, having replaced another Guardsman who was killed by the eldar in the Indranis Campaign.[1a][1b]
In 328.397.M41, the 7th Paragonian was stationed in Macaree's Tablelands on Kalidar IV, the tanks powered down for reactor maintenance. However, an ork warband used a dust storm as cover to attack the Imperial positions. The crewmembers of the 7th's tanks who remained onboard during the maintenance cycle were forced to use the tank's small arms to prevent the tanks being boarded by orks, with Ganlick and Marsello manning Mars Triumphant's sponson heavy bolters. Despite the weight of fire, however, one of the orks made it to Mars Triumphant, climbing into the tank and attacking the crew. In the fighting, the ork stabbed Marsello in the chest with its knife, killing the young man.[1c]
