Colonel Culpan Toschenko

Colonel Culpan Toschenko was the commanding officer of the 616th Vostroyan Mechanized Infantry regiment during its deployment in the Vlaktes Sector. Born in the late 500s of M41, long service and above-average warptime dilation during deployments meant that, by the time of his arrival in the Vlaktes Sector at the age of 57, Toschenko had served the Imperium for well over 400 years sidereal.

A large man, Toschenko was known for heavy drinking and a vicious tactical sense that often saw him and his men in close quarters combat with the enemy.

After the death of Lord-General Lukas Mezzana during the opening stages of the Steel-Walker War, Toschenko fell into nominal command of Vostroyan Army Group A for the remainder of the conflict. At the close of the conflict, when it became obvious that the forge world Oxidia was, in fact, a latent Necron tomb world, Toschenko argued for the planet's destruction via exterminatus--a sentence he eventually aided in carrying out by leading a colossal ground assault on Necron forces to help triangulate subterranean "planet cracker" strikes from the fleet in orbit.

Toschenko's efforts to save Karka's Sun became the stuff of local legend. For his efforts, the lords of Karkason gifted him with the armor of Ybram Karka, their esteemed founder. Unfortunately, Imperial command saw the situation differently. The destruction of Oxidia--an action undertaken to save the system from an awakening tomb world--led to a military tribunal in which Toschenko was lucky to escape with his life, much less his rank. Stuck at colonel rank, the Vostroyan army group was placed under the fresh command of Lord General Lucilius Bullert, a graduate of the Militarum Academia vun Amadacia and an altogether more trusted officer in the eyes of sector command.

During his time in the Vlaktes deployment, Toschenko kept a journal.

He was an ancestor of the much more famous Lord Marshal Graf Toschenko.