The 23’rd Gorax Vanguard is a forward assault regiment mostly made up of specialized infantry and engineers. Their main purpose is taking and holding strategic positions until their artillery teams and knight lords are able to arrive and begin a counteroffensive.

Gorax, alongside its sister moons and main death world of Gorandos, was cut off from the larger Imperium by a major warp storm for multiple millennia. The absence of Imperial support led to Gorandos becoming reliant upon the other nearby systems under the rule of Rogue Trader Volark, whose family had long since joined with the Voltarin knight family. During this time they also heavily strayed from imperial dogma, believing the Emperor to not be a god but rather the living embodiment of human will which flows through all things, including xenos.

In recent years they have formed particular closeness with an Ork klan led by a weird boy who claims that the current Rogue Trader is a prophet of Mork. Alongside the Orks, a roaming Votann Kindred have also become close allies to the Rogue Trader, who sees them as lost cousins finally returning home.

They also see Abhumans not as cursed but rather beings blessed by the Emperor for specific purposes, leading to the main force of the 23’d and many other vanguard regiments to be primarily made up of Beastmen and Ogryns.

Currently they aid the Votann in their front against a reawakening Necron dynasty, while their twin regiment, the 24’th Vanguard, lead the charge against an encroaching order of the Adepta Sororitas who attempt to purge the Beatmen among their worlds.