The Penal Legions mod is an additional race modification for Dawn of War Soulstorm, based on Penal Legions and also Abhumans from Militarum Auxilla, the division of the Astra Militarum that contains most of the Abhuman units of the Imperial Guard. Penal Legions are Imperial Guard forces consisting entirely of convicted criminals, debtors, liberals and other social transgressors against the Imperium of Man. By serving in the Penal Legions these individuals are given the chance of redeeming themselves in the eyes of the Emperor. An Abhuman is a descendant of baseline Human settlers whose ancestors mutated and physically adapted to various extreme environmental conditions after being isolated for thousands of standard years on colony worlds across the galaxy. Some Abhumans may also be intentionally genetically engineered mutants created for a specific purpose. The mod is still on development!
Cadet Commissars are commissars-in-training. Assigned to Commissar Training Squads, they are armed and equipped with the standard gear of a regular guardsman, although they maintain their usual commissar panoply. Their training has no set duration, and a cadet-commissar will only be graduated to full commissar status upon being deemed worthy by their superiors in the Officio Prefectus. Commissar cadets who fail in their training can often get a commission in a Penal Battalion.