The Scintillan Fusiliers is the name given to the combined arms regiments hailing from the Hive World of Scintilla in the Calixis Sector. Composed largely of mechanised and line infantry regiments with a handful of armoured formations and Grenadier units, the men of the Scintillan Fusiliers are drawn from the best and brightest that the Scintillan nobility has to offer. These pampered sons and daughters of idle nobility receive the finest training, are equipped with the highest quality wargear, and are curently assigned to the most prestigious billets on the Spinward Front in the Calixis Sector's Periphery Sub-sector, where warfare has been raging in a three-way struggle between the Imperium, the Secessionists of the Severan Dominate and an Ork WAAAGH!. The Scintillan 17th, called the “Spi