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Part I +++The Icon of the Silent Gorgon+++ In the aftermath of the Drop Site Massacre, not every Loyalist survivor was a hero in the making. Amidst the devastation of Isstvan V, a small conclave of Apothecaries from the shattered Legions — Iron Hands, Salamanders, and Raven Guard — found each other among the ruins. Driven mad with grief, rage, and the impossible knowledge of their gene-brothers’ total slaughter, these men refused to accept defeat. United by shared horror and bitter desperation, they hatched a forbidden plan: to resurrect their fallen Legions through cloning, genetic grafting, and any means necessary. They scavenged gene-seed from the corpses of their brothers, captured traitor Astartes for gene-stock, and began crude implantation procedures on abducted human candidates — in underground vaults, on derelict ships, and amid the craters of dead worlds. Their warband, known to terrify survivors and hunt warlords alike, The Echoes of Iskvara, are a shambling, patchwork force of cloned Astartes, half-finished marines, and failed gene-experiments. These are not proper legion succesors — they’re gestalt replicants of what was lost, reflections of the Apothecaries’ hatred made flesh. Fragment 717//A-Null//Iskvara Vault Archives Access Level: Sigillite-Redacted Recovered Source: Sequestered Mechanicum Noos-Loom, Orbit Iskvara-Primaris, Segmentum Obscurus Date: M31.017 Title: On the Emergence of the “Silent Gorgon” Phenomenon within Clade-Null Forces “In the aftermath of the Isstvan Cataclysm, various Loyalist Apothecarion remnants are recorded as having fled to the outlying Halo Stars. There, amid the uncharted moons and void-forgotten colony vaults, records indicate that unsanctioned replication protocols were enacted. It is within these databanks that repeated references to an emblem — a Gorgon’s visage, cracked and weeping — emerged among warbands of what later Imperial lexarchs classified under the designation Blackshields. Designation: The Silent Gorgon. The symbol was reportedly adapted from a relic-faceplate of an Iron Hands Clade-Myrmidon slain during the Drop Site Massacre. Recovered and obsessively preserved by a rogue Salamanders Praetor-Apothecary identified in fragmentary vox-records as Kordael Varn. Usage of the emblem appears linked to neuro-conditioning rituals enacted upon artificially bred Astartes progenoids — possibly a form of mythic mnemonic imprinting, instilling fear of betrayal and reverence for loyalty through the iconography of the petrifying myth-beast. Ritualized application of this sigil to the foreheads and armour-plate of vat-born clones marked them as inheritors of the Istvaan legacy, simultaneously as executioners and mourners. Surveillance reports suggest that during engagements against both Traitor and Loyalist detachments, Astartes bearing the Silent Gorgon often refrained from verbal communication, operating through gestural command and noospheric glyph-transmission only. As of this record, approximately 23 war-engines, 17 clone-squads, and 2 modified Sabre-class tanks identified as carrying the sigil have been sighted along the Alnisyan Expanse and Algethar Drift. Purge authorisation recommended.” — Fragment 717//A-Null//Iskvara Vault Archives +++ INLOAD COMPLETE +++ ++ SIGILLITE CLEARANCE ONLY ++ DATA FRAGMENT 310.AB // ISKVARA DRIFT ORIGIN: UNREGISTERED ASTROPATHIC RELAY DESTINATION: TERRA (RED-LINE PRIORITY) CLEARANCE: EPSILON-PRIME // [REDACTED] "...By the Throne, they're not dead. They're not even men anymore. We made planetfall at 0300 local cycle. Barren rock, like the whole damn Halo fringe. No signs of habitation, save for a single, ancient Mechanicum vault, half-buried in basalt and bone dust. They're here. Clad in grey ceramite so pale it seems to bleed into the mist. No heraldry, no rank marks, no Legion colours. Only that face. [REDACTED] mask of stone. Serpents for hair, empty eyes staring out from helm, from banners, even burned into the sides of their war machines. A Gorgon’s face. Silent. Staring. We tried to hail them. Vox went to static. No reply. They just moved through the fog. Killing anything that bore the marks of Warmaster or Throne alike. They're not Iron Hands, not Salamanders, not even Blackshields in the old sense. They're something else. Gestalt things. You can feel it through the helm. Like they're… connected. A single, broken mind spread across a hundred bodies. This is Apothecary-Commander Vireon of the 73rd Oathbound, final report. The moon Iskvara is lost. Do not attempt retrieval. Do not attempt contact. They remember us. And they are coming home." +++ PURGE CLASSIFICATION RECOMMENDED +++ +++ DISCONNECT DATUM-LINK IMMEDIATELY +++ +++ NOOSPHERIC BURN PROTOCOLS ACTIVE +++ << ENCRYPTED TERMINATION CODE: 02-A/THRONE/NULL >>

"Milites! cur pugnamus?" "nam Imperator populusque humanity!" "filii Imperatore! mors inimicos eius!" - Coms excerpt from 95th company during compliance of 1929-27. High Gothic was the standard battle tongue of the 10th Millennial. "I am my father's son. His shadow weighs a ton" - unknown Terran philosopher, 3rd millennium. Chapter Master Karonghyontye stared out from the balcony, drinking in the views from the fortress monastery. His captains had left, the cheers and their acclaim still ringing in his ears, following his confirmation as the new master of the Red Eagles. His reverie was broken by the polite cough of the Chief Librarian, standing in the shadows. He approached Karonghyontye and produced a stasis tube containing a battered, old book. “Again, congratulations my lord. I’m afraid to puncture the moment of your ascension but I must divulge to you the true history of the chapter that you are to lead…” +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ In the closing decades of the Great Crusade the 1929th expedition was sent on a long term mission to achieve the compliance of Wagar's Reach. The reach was home to numerous advanced xeno species and lost human worlds. Such an undertaking required significant fleet, army and legion power including: - 3rd Legion, 10th Millennial - 8th Legion, 5th Chapter - 13th Legion, 22nd Chapter - and 15th Legion, 60th Company. Warp unrest in Wagar’s Reach meant that the tumultuous Post-Ullanor events of the late crusade passed the 1929th by. Only upon it’s triumphant return to imperial space, did we become aware of the storm brewing in the galaxy. - “The Betrayed Phoenix.” By Sergeant Ali Pasha 95th Company, 10th Millennial, 3rd Legion Lord Commander Joseph Brant “The Red Eagle” was elected leader of the expedition. He was a Terran veteran of the Unification Wars, well regarded by our cousins of the other legions but less so by the Primarch. Brant’s assignment to the 1929th was a welcome exile from political foes like Lord Commander Primus Eidolon. On the eve of our return to imperial space, 10th Millennial stood approximately 3000 strong in 4 battalions of 5 companies. 91st-100th and the 391-400th companies. We of the 95th were a veteran line company, unbroken by the horrors of the crusade; but the news of our legion’s betrayal shook us to the core. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Thus begins the third incarnation of this army. I've been playing since 2nd edition and got into heresy when the card game came out and we had no forgeworld models. The first version was a cobbled together affair, the second with actual rules and to completion. And then came truescale. I'd been aware of the different methods for years and idly had a go one day. This may have been a mistake as now I'm retrofitting the whole 95th company. My test model and new scheme after the KizzDoggs method. It's so shiny! The fruits of the truescale efforts. Using the primaris as a base with heresy parts, and some greenstuff, produces some nice results.

Hi all, Looking at the fellblade, would you take the laser destroyer array or the lascannon array, and why? Both have the same strength, same number of shots and twin linked. To me, sunder and ordnance effectively mean the same, sunder = reroll failed armour pen, ordnance roll 2 and pick the highest. Lascannon is range 48 vs 36 on the laser destroyers, but the laser destroyers are ap1 and LC are ap2. So for me, the laser destroyers just edge it out, unless I'm missing something?

Hi! I was thinking to exchange Scouts bare heads for helmeted ones. My first idea was using Necromunda's Enforcers helmets. Perfect size and quite good looking for a Horus Heresy/W40K unit But, are other models, specially 3rd party, to use on them? Just to see if there are better options. Thanks in advance!