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[[Image:Tona-Criid.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Sergeant Tona Criid]]
[[Imperial Guard Sergeant|Sergeant]] '''Tona Criid''' was a distinguished non-commissioned officer of the [[Tanith First and Only]] during the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]].
Criid was one of many civilians from the [[Hive]] city of [[Vervunhive]] on [[Verghast]], recruited after the city was [[Siege of Vervunhive|destroyed]] by the forces of [[Chaos]]{{Fn|2}}, and helped smooth the way for the numerous female troopers absorbed into the formerly all-male Tanith's ranks.
==HistoryBiography==
===Vervunhive===
Tona Criid started life as a down-hive woman on [[Verghast]], a rough veteran of a dozen different [[Hive]] gangs, with the tattoos to show it. She was around sixteen years of age at the time of the Siege. By chance, she was near the transit station at '''Veyveyr Gate''' when explosions and shrapnel killed [[Livy Kolea]], but not her two young children, [[Dalin Kolea|Dalin]] and [[Yoncy Kolea|Yoncy]].{{Fn|1a}} Criid saved them from falling debris and kept them in her care for the duration of the Siege, appointing herself their "Aunt Tona."{{Fn|1b}}
During the third, desperate defense, Tona and her two children took shelter with the Ghosts, and she and Caffran exchanged names, even as they both fought desperately against the Zoican soldiers.{{Fn|1e}}{{Fn|1f}} When Caffran noted that she was not the children's mother, she defiantly shouted that they were all she had, and no one would take them from her.{{Fn|1f}}
===Ghost===Tona and the children survived the Siege, and Tona eagerly accepted [[Warmaster]] [[Macaroth]]'s [[Act of Consolation]] to the citizens of the devastated Vervunhive, to join the [[Imperial Guard]] {{Fn|2}} - on the condition that she be allowed to choose the Ghosts as her unit. {{Cite this}} She and Caffran adopted Dalin and Yoncy, who accompanied the Ghosts on their future campaigns.{{Fn|1g}} {{Fn|2}} Ironically, the children's real father, [[Gol Kolea]], had also joined the Ghosts as a [[Imperial Guard Sergeant|Sergeant]], but continued to believe that his entire family had been killed in the Siege{{Fn|1g}} until he saw Criid holding a pendant that contained their pictures.{{Fn|1g2}}
Following the regiment's actions in the retaking of the city of [[Cirenholm]], a combination of battlefield casualties and the pressing need to more fully integrate the Verghastite elements of the Tanith First led [[Colonel-Commissar]] [[Ibram Gaunt|Gaunt]] and [[Commissar]] [[Viktor Hark|Hark]] to put forward a number of Verghastite Troopers for consideration for promotion. Gaunt suggested Criid, but Hark disagreed, citing that the pride of the men of Verghast may be damaged further by the perception that the Verghastite women were the best that they could offer, combined with the fact that a number of prominent Tanith holdouts still disliked the influx of women into the regiment.{{Fn|3}}
==Wargear==
**{{Endn|1f}}: Chapter Sixteen
**{{Endn|1g}}: Chapter Nineteen
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Honour Guard (Novel)]] — [[The Saint (Omnibus)]], Chapter Six
*{{Endn|3}} [[The Guns of Tanith (Novel)]] — [[The Saint (Omnibus)]], ''A Reappraisal of Combat Policy'', Section One
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