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Right, to take a break from my currently stalled attempts at getting the Rainbow Warriors completed, I thought I'd try getting the Steel Wings complete. It's now the third attempt at getting them done, and their forth incarnation (no they aren't Gallyfrayan, although that would be cool and I've been beaten to the punch in that regard anyway ) Here is the last disasterous attempt After a lot of thought, I've been thinking about making them Iron Hand successors. Why? Well, having the word Steel in the name in part. They never rang true being Blood Angel or Ultra successors to my mind, just by dint of the name. I know that this isn't a prerequisite for a name to be logical, but I digress. I've been thinking about back story (for some time), about how a fairly (but not too) adept society would be preoccupied with flight. I first came about the idea having watched a few (semi) dramatized programmes about Leonard Da Vinci. It showed how fascinated with flight he was, not just the flight itself, but the process involved. That got me thinking. If I could find a plausible way for me to create a world that isn't too primitive, but not too advanced either, who are fascinated with flying. My ideas were varied: A Civilization that relied on crude flying mechanisms to get from one place to another (think of the "flying rocks" in Avatar), because the alternatives are either too risky or too difficult (rope bridges etc) I'm not necessarily saying that the World has flying rocks, but (hopefully) you get the point. A Civilization that has myths and legends of Gods (The Emperor etc), living in the sky and their attempts to reach them. The above are two of the more plausible ideas. In either case I was rather hoping to have this Civilization to be experiencing a kind of 40k Renaissance, where they are exploring things and making discoveries. Before anyone states that 40K is the Grim Dark version of the Dark Ages, which is true enough in a sense, what I mean is, Imagine Europe around the time Da Vinci lived and transpose that to this world. I wasn't going to have them make dangerous/Heretical discoveries that the Ad Mech would stomp them out for! How does this tie in with the Iron Hands? Well, as some Frater have noticed, that all of my DIY's are successors of First Founding Chapters that aren't....represented so much. As I have a life long fascination with Tech (Mecha, whatever you want to call it), the Borg, Cybermen et al, you'd think that I'd have gone for Iron Hands from the start. Not so, as back in the day, the Iron Hands were no where near what they are today. The Mantra of "The flesh is weak etc" was no where to be found, and I honestly found them to be rather uninspiring. But, the more I explored the site, I more I found them not to be so (mainly to reading posts from such Frater such as Bannus and Basswave), so that leads us here. My intention is that the Steel Wings have a predilection towards tech that fly (Jump Packs, Land Speeders). I'm not going to state that they have massive amounts of the above but that they prefer using them, much in the same way that Sallies love Heat based weapons and Thunder Hammers etc, an Iron Wing if you will So, below I'll be filling in stuff as it occurs to me and hopefully forth (or should I say 0000100 ) time is the charm. Edit: Just realized that I've posted past 1k posts.....damn, it seemed like a long time ago when I first posted. Where does all the time go?