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The Ashla shock-troops were posthuman cyborg soldiers created and designed by the Silversmiths' Coterie for the Blood Coteries. (PROSE: "Siloportem" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

They were humanoid, but their bodies were mutable; as their brains were moved to a less vulnerable location, their heads appeared flattened. They wore bulky, elegantly-decorated cyborg exoskeletons or power-suits covered in silvery armour with spiny crests running down the back.

The Rivera Manuscript described soldiers resembling Ashla shock-troops attacking the Homeworld at the start of the War, but there was no instance in documented posthuman history where shock-troops could have done this, nor was there documentation of The Enemy using Ashla shock-troops. Upon seeing the troops, the manuscript's narrator commented, "I don't think I've faced such a beautiful enemy, or such a dangerous one." (PROSE: "Notes on the Rivera Manuscript" [+]Part of The Book of the War, Lawrence Miles, et al., Faction Paradox novels (Mad Norwegian Press, 2002).)

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