"The Imperial Guard has a special place in my heart, and among them the Cadians to me are some of the coolest of the bunch, even if some call them too "generic". While the lasgun, full body Flak Armor, are very good by modern standards, they're just flashlights and t-shirts compared to the automatic death launchers and magic power armor of the rest of the galaxy - the Guard make up the difference with sheer nerve, and among the guard, Cadians have always shown to be awesome for their battlefield accomplishments! Here are a few other reasons from 1D4chan why I think they deserve respect:
- Being drafted before you can walk, learning to shoot before you can count, and getting thrown in the meat-grinder (mostly figuratively, sometimes literally) by the age of 16.
- Learning how to shoot so young that when you're toilet-trained you're told to aim your ♥♥♥♥ like it's a lasgun.
- Marauding bands of Chaos Space Marines and assorted heretics trying to kill you.
- Random WAAAGH!!!s of greenskins trying to kill you.
- Stealthy platoons of Space Elves trying to kill you.
- Your own superior officers trying to ki-*BLAM!*
- No privacy whatsoever for your entire life.
- Constant fear of death before you reach puberty.
- Constant fear of death during puberty.
- Constant fear of death after puberty, but chances are you'll die before this, have your soul sold to/claimed by a chaos deity and for their lolz spend your death in constant fear of puberty.
- Superior officers barking orders down your neck for all the years that you're alive.
- The top fashions in Cadia are camo patterns and body armor.
- Heretical cults springing up by the dozen every week.
- Mutants springing up everywhere wanting to try out the new pincer claw they just got on your neck."