From c4d2775678458de0f65ba54b54d98308ead6d538 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alessandro Barbieri Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 11:17:26 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] chapter approved 2003 --- en.txt | 14 +++ en/wh40k/t | 278 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ en/wh40k/w | 20 ++++ 3 files changed, 312 insertions(+) diff --git a/en.txt b/en.txt index b34eadb..ca340a7 100644 --- a/en.txt +++ b/en.txt @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ BELIAL BLADEN Ba'al Bacharia +Badab Badenhall Baran Barantom @@ -311,10 +312,12 @@ Kult Kur Kyublai LAERAN +LAMENTERS LICTOR Laconfir Laer Laeran +Lamenters Larkin Lascannons Lasrifle @@ -337,6 +340,7 @@ Lotin Lukiz Lysades MEPHISTON +MINOTAURS MORIAR Macharius Machinesmith @@ -351,6 +355,7 @@ Majoris Malakur Malleus Malus +Maran Marine Marines Marneus @@ -374,6 +379,7 @@ Mhagdhash Mhakkan Mikhaels Ministorum +Minotaurs Monthal Moonstrike Mordian @@ -404,6 +410,7 @@ Ordo Ork Ork's Orks +Ossmodula PORPHYR Patterner Perturabo @@ -422,6 +429,8 @@ Primus Proccuppio Pyran Quan +Raffenburg's +Rakman Ratling Ravensburg Ravenwing @@ -476,6 +485,7 @@ Sororitas Stormseers Strike Stromm +Subjugators Svergan Sylelle TEARERS @@ -596,6 +606,7 @@ beakies beaky bearhug belive +bided bloodlust bloodprice bodyweight @@ -638,6 +649,7 @@ earnt ecstacy electro em'll +epiphiseal everyfing eyepatch fieldcraft @@ -672,6 +684,7 @@ havocs hawkishly hearted hivers +homeworld humies iashupu ichor @@ -761,6 +774,7 @@ sniggered sorceries sorcerous spiritu +starship stealin stoneworks straffing diff --git a/en/wh40k/t b/en/wh40k/t index cf400dd..acea4b5 100644 --- a/en/wh40k/t +++ b/en/wh40k/t @@ -605,6 +605,77 @@ hoped so. “Farewell brother,” he whispered. “You will not be forgotten.” +% + THE BLACK DRAGONS +One of the many zygotes neophytes are +implanted with is the Ossmodula. This +small organ has a complex function within +the body of a Space Marine. It monitors +and secretes hormones affecting epiphiseal +fusion and ossification of the skeleton while +at the same time, engineered hormones +encourage the forming bones to absorb +ceramic based chemicals administered in the +Marines diet. Two years following +implantation, the long-bones will have +strengthened considerably and there will have +been a general increase in the size of the +recipient skeleton. Extreme ossification of +the chest cavity caused by growth of ribs +forming a solid mass of inter-laced bone +plates provides a Space Marine with an +armoured layer to protect his secondary +heart and lungs. + +But the Ossmodula zygote of the Black +Dragons functions in an abnormal way +causing the growth of bony crests on the +head, and blade-like protuberances from the +forearm and elbow. Like the Death +Company of the Blood Angels, warriors +inflicted with such abnormal developments +are formed into a separate fighting unit. +Known as the Dragon Claws, they sharpen +these additional protrusions to a killing +edge, and sheath them into adamantium to +turn them into deadly close combat weapons. +This strains the tolerance of the Inquisition +and there are many recorded instances of +other Space Marines Chapters (notably the +Dark Angels and Marines Malevolent) +refusing to fight alongside them. + +It is even rumoured that the Black Dragon +Apothecaries deliberately encourage such +growths, even going so far as to knowingly +implant aberrant zygotes into some initiates. +This is exceptionally dangerous, and the +practice is forbidden by Imperial edict, but +old traditions die hard as the ferocity of the +Dragon Claws is much valued by the +Chapter Masters. + +Each Chapter is required to send 5% of its +genetic material to the Adeptus Mechanicus +on Mars. This 'tithe' serves two purposes: +enabling the Adeptus Mechanicus to monitor +the health of each Space Marine chapter, +and store gene-seed with a view to founding +new chapters. The Adeptus Mechanicus has +on several occasions threatened the Black +Dragons with military action unless it +complies with this decree and even when the +Chapter has submitted genetic data, its +veracity has often been considered suspect as +each sample provided has passed the most +stringent genetic purity checks without fail. +Without being able to prove anything, many +Adepts believe that the Black Dragons +submit genetic material culled from other +sources. How this can be possible is +unknown and the Adeptus Mechanicus is +eager to fully investigate the medical +practices within the Black Dragons. % The candles flickered as the Sanctum door was quietly opened. The @@ -1151,6 +1222,54 @@ Liutenant started laughing, the harsh, uncaring sound becoming muffled as he hit the controls and the door slammed down, plunging them into darkness once more. +% +THE FLAME FALCONS +Next to nothing is known of the Flame +Falcons Chapter, for they were declared +Excommunicate within a century of their +inception. Initial combat trials involving the +chapter were a resounding success, and they +were put on active service on the Southern +Rim, based on their new homeworld of Lethe. +Their first engagements, with Orks and Eldar +pirates promised a great future for the chapter, +as they were observed to be hardy and +courageous, even for Space Marines. + +It was at the battle of Raffenburg’s World +that things began to go awry for the Flame +Falcons. At the height of the battle, their +largest engagement at that point, the first +company were observed to spontaneously +immolate at the height of the fiercest fighting +against the rebel forces. Fearing witchcraft, the +chapter’s commander reinforced the front line +and sent for an Inquisitor who was +accompanying the Imperial army. When it was +reported by the reinforcing Space Marines +that the members of the first company were +not dead, but were in fact fighting with +renewed savagery covered in flames to which +they themselves were immune, the commander +declared it a miracle, a gift sent from the +Emperor. + +The Inquisitor had a different opinion. +Knowing that he could not assault the Flame +Falcons immediately, he bided his time, +witnessing the remainder of the chapter +undergo the same change as the first company. + +Upon the successful completion of the +campaign, the Flame Falcons returned to Lethe +in celebrant mood convinced, as they were, that +their unique ability was a manifestation of the +Emperor’s grace. Soon after, the Grey Knights, +at the Inquisition’s behest assaulted Lethe, +ruthlessly destroying the cursed chapter. It is +thought that a small number of Flame Falcons +escaped that day, but of their fate, nothing +whatsoever is known. % THE IRON CAGE @@ -1253,6 +1372,82 @@ The gene-seed captured was sacrificed to the Dark Gods in return for Perturabo’s elevation to Daemon Prince. One insult had been avenged, and since then the Iron Warriors have lived only to settle accounts with the corpse on the Golden Throne. +% +THE LAMENTERS +It has been speculated by some Imperial +scholars that the inception of the Lamenters +was an attempt to utilise the Sanguinius strain +of gene-seed, breeding out the deficiencies +known to mar that otherwise superior DNA. If +such an experiment did in fact take place then +its primary objectives seem to have been +achieved, in that the Lamenters adhere to a +strictly ‘Codex’ formation and the chapter does +not field any Death Company. However, the +Lamenters appear to have suffered from the +most appalling twists of ill fortune and tragedy, +and are undoubtedly stricken with a morose +curse that is reflected in the bleeding hearth and +teardrop emblems adorning their power armour. + +Two major incidents in the Lamenters’ history +illustrate their continued bad luck. In the last +decade of the ninth century of the 41st +Millennium, the Lamenters made the mistake +of siding with the renegade Astral Claws +Chapter in the Badab Uprising. It was later +found that it was not any notion of rebellion +against the Imperium that brought about the +Chapter’s involvement in the uprising. Rather, +they viewed the Imperial attack on the Astral +Claws, who the Lamenters had crusaded +alongside during the Serpentine Straits Wars, +as a challenge to the sovereignty and +independence of the whole Adeptus Astartes. +In short, the Lamenters allowed their pride to +dictate their actions, and those actions were ill +considered in the extreme. + +Following the Lamenters’ involvement in the +Badab Uprising, they were investigated and +eventually granted the Emperor’s forgiveness +subject to a one hundred year long penitent +crusade. The chapter’s ill luck followed them +however, as that crusade led them straight +into the jaws of Hive Fleet Kraken. Today, +barely three companies of the Lamenters are +at large in the galaxy, and it would seem +their curse of sorrow and ill fortune follows +them still. +% +THE LEGION OF THE DAMNED +The Legion of the Damned is a legend +amongst the Adeptus Astartes. Appearing as +ghostly apparitions to aid beleaguered Space +Marines, this mysterious force has intervened +in desperate battles on numerous occasions. +The legionnaires reportedly wear power +armour painted black and adorned with +symbols of death, skeletons writhing in the +flames of purgatory being a dominant theme. +Eyewitnesses report the visible areas of the +Space Marines' flesh are in a state of decay, +lending the legionnaires a horrific, charnel +aspect. + +The examination of starship debris recovered +in the Maran sub-sector suggest a link +between the Legion of the Damned and the +fate of the Fire Hawks Chapter. The Fire +Hawks were declared Lost in the Warp in +983.M41, twenty years after the entire +chapter set out for Crow's World on a +counter-invasion mission against the Eldar. +The Inquisition are unsurprisingly keen to +discover if the Legion of the Damned and +the Fire Hawks are in fact one and the same +chapter, and is so, how they gained their +mysterious and deadly abilities. % THE LION AND THE WOLF @@ -1384,6 +1579,41 @@ of the remainder of the brood, and within seconds the Ravenwing were on the hunt once more. % +THE MINOTAURS +The Minotaurs are a chapter that operate +largely within the structure of the Imperial +war machine, although the Inquisition and +the Ecclesiarchy have on numerous occasions +attempted to investigate on them. The +Minotaurs, like all other Space Marines +chapters are an autonomous organisation, and +will therefore only answer a call to arms on +their own terms. On many occasions, the +Minotaurs have responded to a besieged +world's pleas for aid faster than other +forces, engaging the enemy in a massive +frontal assault and then withdrawing when +other chapters would consolidate their +position in order to meet a counter-attack. +It has been stated by several Imperial +commanders that the Minotaurs are an +unreliable and unpredictable force that they +would prefer to avoid altogether in +preference to more tactically balanced, if less +assault-oriented allies. + +The Minotaurs' most famous action, and the +only one for which they have been officially +recognised, was their assault on the +Lamenters' fleet during the Badab Uprising. +The Lamenters, thought also to be a 21st +Founding Chapter, had sided with the rebel +Astral Claws in the uprising, and the +Minotaurs vented their full fury on their +wayward kin in a series of savage boarding +actions that severely depleted the Lamenters' +numbers and forced their eventual surrender. +% The Ork Killer Kan toppled backwards, thick black smoke spewing from its interior and rivulets of molten metal streaming from the plasma impacts. An injured creature struggled to free itself from the @@ -1497,6 +1727,54 @@ that his power comes from the living energy of Fenris as well as from within. Th innate power of Fenris can be channelled into his totems by the Rune Priest, so that he may always carry this power with him wherever he may be within the galaxy. % +THE SONS OF ANTAEUS +The Sons of Antaeus are only officially +recorded in one source; the chronicles of the +Third Inter-Guild War of the Inca Sector of +850.M41 to 901.M41. The chapter is listed as +having answered the pleas of the Guild +Fathers for aid against pirate forces sponsored +by business rivals, and according to the +records acquitted themselves courageously +before departing. + +Since that time, a force matching their grey +and black livery has been sighted by a +number of chapters in the Ultima +Segmentum, and these accounts have always +made specific mention of the size and +apparent hardiness of these mysterious +Adeptus Astartes. They are reportedly capable +of surviving hits from weapons that would +slaughter another Space Marine. + +One such eyewitness account, submitted by +Captain Rakman of the Subjugators Chapter, +records an incident in which his force found +itself under attack by the Eldar of the Void +Dragons pirate fleet. Surrounded and under +heavy fire by the pirates’ ultra-rapid anti-grav +vehicles. Rakman states that a force bearing +the livery of the Sons of Antaeus appeared +unexpectedly and attacked the enemy vehicles +from behind. Forced to redeploy, the Eldar +suddenly found themselves faced with the +prospect of having to make a breakout. The +Eldar Falcons and Wave Serpents made +straight for the Sons of Antaeus, judging +them the lesser of the two Space Marine +forces. The incredulous Captain Rakman gives +an amazing account of the Sons of Antaeus’ +stand in the face of a storm of Eldar +firepower, against which the mysterious Space +Marines stood seemingly impervious. The +Subjugators were able to press their attack on +the enemy rear as the Sons of Antaeus held +the Eldar in place, and the pirates were +destroyed in short order, caught between the +immovable anvil of the Sons, an the +irresistible hammer of the Subjugators. +% The training I undertook upon my assignment to the 122ⁿᵈ Cadian Regiment was different from the normal activities involved in most regimental training. I has thus far undergone in my career with the Imperial diff --git a/en/wh40k/w b/en/wh40k/w index f8d1970..a438ce9 100644 --- a/en/wh40k/w +++ b/en/wh40k/w @@ -112,6 +112,26 @@ the tanks of the Imperial Guard! Lord Commander Solar Macharius % +With a soft hum, the doors opened and a burly figure +stepped through, swathed in a red cloak. As the elevator +doors hissed shut behind him, Inquisitor Thraxx gazed +around the chamber. + +“Apothecary Malus?” Thraxx asked the room in general +and one of the assembled Space Marines stepped +forward, his power armour replaced by a long white +robe. + +“I am he,” the Apothecary replied in a deep voice, +bowing his head slightly to look at the Inquisitor. + +“I have come to Varsavia to further investigate the purity +of the Silver Skulls’ gene-seed, following a study of the +reports by your Lord of the Household,” + +“Of course, Inquisitor,” Malus replied smoothly. “I shall +show you our Apothecarion. We have nothing to hide.” +% Who pledged his loyalty? The Warmaster Whom did we serve in faith?