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Retirement from the Imperial Guard is unlikely, as is any hope of returning to ones one's world of origin. However , if a [[Regiment]] has been so badly mauled that it is considered a waste of time and resources to combine it with others, they may be assigned garrison duty of a nearby planet, usually the same one they had just been fighting over. With the population center often decimated and the planet is in tatters, the Regiment may be awarded custodianship of the world as a reward . The officers of such forces inevitably become powerful , and wealthy figures whose descendants form the new noble class.{{Fn|13}}