Respite from Struggle Against Autistic-Horrorism

At an unnamed Imperial Green Zone and aerodrome south of the Babylonian capital of Ishtar, a welcome moment of relaxation and renewal-- Zouave officers from Shawnee National District watch with polite circumspection as irregular troops wager well-earned francs on a ponce-beetle race. These intrepid Imperial Soldaten had mere hours before completed an arduous week-long reconnaissance through the primeval cedar forests of Western Babylonia in search of detached groups of Autistic-Horrorists allied to the Baalist brigand-priest Baphomet Q'ung.