IA: Death Heads

[Ferrus Manus]

Dunno what Grey and Ferrus' excuses are though. :P

Ummm.... Let me get back to you when I can think of something so spectacularly and amazingly out there it could be true. :P

 

Also, if your still willing KHK I'm more than happy to pick up where I left off in regards to the campaign <_<

[skamp]

ermmm arent the executors already a chapter? Like the ones on the pentient crusade?

 

Executor [Noun]: a person who executes, carries out, or performs some duty, job, assignment, artistic work, etc.

 

Executioner [Noun]: an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuance of a legal warrant.

 

Lexicanum: The Executioners Chapter

 

Lexicanum: The Executors Chapter

Hint: They don't exist.

 

Spelling [Verb]: to name, write, or otherwise give the letters, in order, of (a word, syllable, etc.)

 

My conclusion: You fail at it.

 

1. Think before you act.

2. Don't dig up my threads to say something wrong.

 

EDIT:

 

Otherwise, I've been slowly working on the IA. Here is the current version of the Origins section.

 

Origins

By the end of the thirty first millennium, the High Lords of Terra sought the finest of the Emperor's chosen to raise the next generation of Space Marines in the Third Founding. Caphon Derii, a veteran of the White Consuls Chapter, and his cadre would be amongst the first to return to Terra in preparation of their task.

 

Venerable Caphon, nearly as old as the Imperium itself, was brought into the galaxy at the premature close of the Great Crusade. A neophyte of the Ultramarine Legion during Loregar's attack on Calth, Caphon witnessed the death of his home world, powerless to fight the invading foe. Traumatized, Caphon isolated himself behind servos and ceramite, watching the Imperium through a skull mask. Lifeless eyes saw the deaths of countless heroes, and cosigned the lives of their murderers, twice sealing them beyond the Cadian Gate, within the Eye of Terror.

 

In nearly a thousand years of service, Caphon never left his position in the Veteran Companies of neither the Ultramarines nor the White Consuls. A leader in crisis alone, Caphon saw his brothers through the maelstrom of combat across countless worlds. Coerced by his brothers into accepting the High Lords' invitation, Caphon pledged to see their will done. He could no longer be a shadow, as empty eyes were filled with life and purpose. With a thousand Space Marines in his hands, Caphon followed his pledge into the light.

 

Caphon would give his brothers purpose, just as they had given it to him. They would be the Emperor's instruments, the Executors of His will. Just as He had forged the Space Marines in the fires of war, Caphon would lead the fledgling chapter through the greatest inferno in history. The Great Scouring would be rekindled by a single hand, and a thousand more would fuel the flame. Caphon's Eternal Purge would ignite their legacy, and its light would never dim.

whoa whoa I meant no disrespect I was only questioning good sire ^_^ also lol never noticed it said executors kept reading it as executioner once more my apologies lol

Edited July 10, 2011 by skamp

[Ace Debonair]

Dunno what Grey and Ferrus' excuses are though. :P

Ummm.... Let me get back to you when I can think of something so spectacularly and amazingly out there it could be true. :P

 

Also, if your still willing KHK I'm more than happy to pick up where I left off in regards to the campaign ^_^

 

"So, there I was, outnumbered four hundred to one...":P

 

EDIT:

 

"...And typos assailing me from the flanks..."

Edited July 10, 2011 by Ace Debonair

[Donkey Kong]

Ummm.... Let me get back to you when I can think of something so spectacularly and amazingly out there it could be true. :)

 

Also, if your still willing KHK I'm more than happy to pick up where I left off in regards to the campaign :cuss

 

I appreciate it, Ferrus, but right now I want to finish my IA. I also have no idea how I want to change things up with the campaign. Unfortunately, that whole project is now on hold, but the Liberites still have that community campaign to look forward to.

 

Anyway, it's still insultingly short, and I still have no idea how to add to it. Please, suggest anything that comes to mind!

 

IA: Executors

Origins

By the end of the thirty first millennium, the High Lords of Terra sought the finest of the Emperor's chosen to raise the next generation of Space Marines in the Third Founding. Caphon Derii, a veteran of the White Consuls Chapter, and his cadre would be amongst the first such marines to return to Terra in preparation of their task.

 

Venerable Caphon, nearly as old as the Imperium itself, was brought into the galaxy at the premature close of the Great Crusade. A neophyte of the Ultramarine Legion during Loregar's attack on Calth, Caphon witnessed the death of his home world, powerless to fight the invading foe. Traumatized, Caphon isolated himself behind the servos and ceramite of powered armor, watching the Imperium through a skull mask. Lifeless eyes saw the deaths of countless heroes, and cosigned the lives of their murderers, twice sealing the traitors and their abominations beyond the Cadian Gate, within the Eye of Terror.

 

In nearly a thousand years of service, Caphon never left his position in the Veteran Companies of neither the Ultramarines nor the White Consuls. A leader in crisis alone, Caphon saw his brothers through the maelstrom of combat across countless worlds. Coerced by his brothers into accepting the High Lords' invitation, Caphon pledged to see their will done. He could no longer be a shadow, as his empty life was filled with life and purpose. With a thousand Space Marines under his command, Caphon followed his pledge into the light.

 

Caphon would give his brothers purpose, just as they had given it to him. They would be the Emperor's instruments, the Executors of His will. Just as He had forged the Space Marines in the fires of war, Caphon would lead the fledgling chapter through the greatest inferno in history. The Great Scouring would be rekindled by a single hand, and a thousand more would fuel the flame. Caphon's Eternal Purge would ignite their legacy, and after nearly ten thousand years, its light never dimmed.

 

Homeworld

In order to carry out their Eternal Purge the Executors go against the traditions of the Legions and base themselves within their mighty fleets. The Chapter's flagship, the Nausicaä, is a venerable vessel that has served the Imperium since the early days of the Great Crusade. Once a component of Battlefleet Solar, it was refitted by the Martian Mechanicus and given to the Chapter during its founding. Thrice the size of a traditional Battle Barge, she serves as the Chapter's spiritual home, and within her hull lie the Chapter's greatest treasures.

 

Executors regularly bolster their flotilla by capturing smaller craft. Raiding heretical and pirate fleets, Executors trade their spoils of war, ancient and conquered battleships, with the Adeptus Mechanicus in exchange for repairs for their own vessels and captured cruisers and escorts. Restored craft often join small reserve fleets, left in the hands of venerable battle brothers with serf crews to defend the Chapter's Keep Worlds and serve as replacements for any ships lost or damaged in battle.

 

The Executors drawn recruits from a number of worlds through the construction and maintenance of small fortresses known as Keeps. Uft'ni was the first world to construct an Executor Keep, and the only keep constructed under Derii's command. For a time, it was the Chapter's only home, and its people have left their everlasting mark on the Chapter. Derii came to this world in hopes of refitting his forces before continuing his Eternal Purge. However, the Uft'ni fascinated him with a history not unlike his own.

 

During the Horus Heresy Uft'ni was prepared as a bulwark against Horus' advance. Relentless combat ruined the world, and left Imperial forces in shambles. With the ever looming threat of defeat, the decision came to bombard the world's ice caps from orbit, and drown it. Only the tallest mountains and spires of its greatest city hives escaped the rising waters, while untold trillions, Uft'ni and heretic alike, were lost beneath the surface.

 

The world's new seas changed it forever. Terrifying monsters rose from the depths of new oceans. Whether creations of heretical powers or natural evolution, none would ever know. Upon hearing this, Caphon pledged to rid the world of its monsters. Executors and Uft'ni alike tell a tale of Caphon setting out with two dozen of his finest space marines on a vessel gifted to him by the people. He returned in three days with five of his battle brothers, with a ruined ship, towing behind a great tentacle fifty meters long, that dyed the sea red with blood. Neither he, nor any other, would tell of what happened. Caphon's actions would speak louder than he ever could. The greatest mark upon it's people would become the Chapter's own, and its terrors would become its greatest guardians.

 

Chapter Organization

A child of Calth, and veteran of the White Consuls, Caphon Derii built his Chapter as his gene-father, Roboute Gulliman, would have wanted. In accordance with the Codex Astartes, Caphon's Executors would have ten companies, and a thousand battle ready space marines between them. He would shun neither psyker nor Reclusiarch, and he would allow the Adeptus Mechanicus to train his brothers in their sacred art.

 

The First Company is comprised of veterans drawn from its four battle companies. Each is a hero amongst heroes, and a legend in his own right. Brothers of the First Company are known as Black Spots for the Uft'ni omen of doom adopted within their heraldry, a single, dark circle between the mandibles of the Kraken. These venerable warriors are trained to operate the Chapter's treasured suits of Tactical Dreadnought Armor, and are spread throughout the Chapter to foster learning amongst their brothers.

 

The Chapter's Second through Fifth Companies are its battle companies, venerable warriors organized in traditional squad arrangements as dictated by the Codex Astartes. They are experts in their chosen craft, having passed through the reserve companies and every face of war. The Sixth through Ninth Companies are initiates, spread to support and learn from their battle brothers, so that they may one day take their place in the battle companies.

 

The Executor's Tenth Company serves as much as a second veteran company as it does an active training unit. Since Caphon's passing, the Executors have claimed more and more worlds, and reaped the benefits of greater sources of recruitment. In order to train prospective marines, Black Spots are regularly seconded to the Tenth. Assignment is as much a curse as it is a honor, the single greatest slight on Gulliman's text, and the future of the Executors, hand in hand.

 

Combat Doctrine

Following in the footsteps of their Primogenitor, the White Consuls, Derii's Executors are learned in the countless tactics found in Gulliman's Codex. They are a flexible force, fluent in the art of war and capable of bringing to bear the full militant might of a Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes in any environment.

 

By the very nature of Caphon's teachings, Executors have developed a particular affinity for close quarters combat, fighting with fists and blades as often as their their bolters. To keep pace with their battle brothers, commanders regularly forgo heavily armored vehicles in favor of lighter and faster ones. The Chapter's armory still maintains a host of battle tanks for front line use, and deploys them in conflicts that cannot be broken by the might of the space marines alone.

 

The chapter's zeal is matched only by its tenacity. Their stubborn fervor is frequently subject to the scrutiny of other Imperial entities. Executors pay little heed to the criticism of lesser beings. For the Chapter, there is no greater shame than retreat, and battle brothers will refuse to yield a single step to any foe. Every battle is won by the Executor's strength to persevere in the face of any threat, for the Emperor and humanity.

 

Chapter Cult

With the acceptance of Uft'ni as their home, Caphon ordered his captains to don helmets matching those of the warlords: Majestic kraken masks, taken up in the centuries following the Great Flood to honor the beast, the symbol of the Uft'ni leaders and their strength. The helmets sealed the bond between the Executors and the Uft'ni people, the Chapters first family.

 

The Changing of Faces is a practice whose origins can be traced back to the Chapter's founding. The skull mark worn by every battle brother, originally adopted from Derii's own remembrance of Calth, was the first heraldry to ever unify the Executors as a Chapter. However, the passage of time has transformed the face into a mark of the individual and a ritual of growth, as Chaplains began to detail Caphon's own change to the face of the beast as such an evolution. Every initiate, upon entering the Chapter, earns his first face, a human skull, a symbol of everything the initiate is, and, synonymously, nothing at all. In the ceremonies following battles, battle brothers who believe they have surpassed their previous achievements tell tales of their victories. Their feat is judged in the company of their brothers, and, if declared worthy, the skulls of their newly vanquished foes are fused with their old face to create the next.

 

Trophy taking has long coincided with the reclaimer mentality of Executors. Bones, trinkets, and relics are only a fraction of the treasures that brothers seize to bolster their worth and honor the Emperor. Trophies claimed from the battlefield are shared with the Chapter, and given to Reclusiarchs and Librarians to determine their worth. True treasures, Imperial relics and xeno technologies, earn their claimer praise and prestige. However, more often than not, these trinkets are rejected. These barbaric decorations often receive ill response from fellow chapters of the Adeptus Astartes, declaring them worthless at best, and heretical at worst. Though these claims have never endangered the Chapter's relationship with the Imperium, they have created a gap between the Executors and the greater Imperium.

 

Together, the changing of faces and spoils of war have given the Executors a boastful swagger and flamboyance alien to many chapters of the Adeptus Astartes. Executors are eager to share the tales of their exploits, telling all those willing to listen of battles they've fought and enemies they've slain over the centuries. Facinating tales find their way into the Chapter's Librarium, immortalizing the battle brothers in the Lexicanums' retellings long after their deaths.

 

As modern carriers of the Emperor's will, the Executors embody his creed for the expansion of humanity. It is common belief that those who would turn from the Emperor are far worse than those who already stand in His way. Mutants and xenos are undeserving to bask in the Emperor's light. They have no place in his grand design. Heretics have been given a choice, and have willingly denied the bountiful gifts offered to them by the Emperor. Foremost amongst those gifts are their lives, and the Executors are eager to exact His dues.

[Donkey Kong]

I've done some more work on the IA

 

IA: Executors

Origins

By the end of the thirty first millennium, the High Lords of Terra sought the finest of the Emperor's chosen to lead the next generation of space marines in the Third Founding. Caphon Derii, a veteran of the White Consuls Chapter, and his cadre would be amongst the first such marines to return to Terra in preparation of their task.

 

Venerable Caphon, nearly as old as the Imperium itself, was brought into the galaxy at the premature close of the Great Crusade. A neophyte of the Ultramarine Legion during Loregar's attack on Calth, Caphon witnessed the death of his home world, powerless to fight the Word Bearers. Traumatized, Caphon isolated himself behind the servos and ceramite of powered armor, watching as the Imperium tore itself asunder. Lifeless eyes saw the deaths of countless heroes, and cosigned the lives of their murderers. A skull faced automaton, Caphon rebuilt the Imperium, twice sealing the traitors and their abominations beyond the Cadian Gate, within the Eye of Terror.

 

In nearly a thousand years of service, Caphon never left his position in the Veteran Companies of the Ultramarines nor the White Consuls. A leader in crisis alone, Caphon saw his brothers through the maelstrom of combat across countless worlds, when his superiors no longer could. Coerced into accepting the High Lords' invitation, Caphon reluctantly pledged to see their will done. He could no longer be a shadow. As he was filled with life and purpose, he tore down his walls. He would give his newfound brothers purpose, just as they had given it to him. They would be the Emperor's instruments, the Executors of His will. Just as He had forged the Space Marines in the fires of war, Caphon would lead the fledgling chapter through the greatest inferno he had ever known. The Great Scouring would be rekindled by a single hand, and a thousand more would fuel the flame. Caphon's Eternal Purge would ignite their legacy, and even after ten thousand years, its light has never dimmed.

 

Homeworld

To carry out their Eternal Purge the Executors went against the traditions of the Legions and base themselves within their mighty fleets. The Chapter's flagship, the Nausicaä, is a venerable vessel that has served the Imperium since the early days of the Great Crusade. Once a component of Battlefleet Solar, she was heavily damaged during Horus' assault on Terra, and removed from active service. Refitted by the Martian Mechanicus at Caphon's request for a crusade worthy fleet, the Nausicaä was gifted to the Executors at their founding alongside a half dozen other vessels. Thrice the size of a traditional Battle Barge, she serves as the Chapter's spiritual home, and within her hull lie the Chapter's greatest treasures.

 

Since their founding, the Executors have regularly bolstered their fleet by capturing smaller craft, and trading their spoils of war, ancient and conquered battleships, with the Adeptus Mechanicus in exchange for repairs for their own vessels and new cruisers and escorts. On special occasions, the Executors request certain ships they capture be refitted for their use. These newly acquired craft often join forward fleets, allowing damaged vessels to fall back and repair at the Chapter's Keep worlds. Ships are frequently rotated between crusading and reserve fleets, appeasing both the mighty vessels' machine spirits and their serf crews.

 

The Executors drawn recruits from a number of worlds through the construction and maintenance of fortresses known as Keeps. Uft'ni was the first world to construct an Executor Keep, and the only Keep constructed under Derii's command. For a time, it was the Chapter's only home outside of their flotilla, and its people have left their everlasting mark on the Chapter. Derii came to this world in hopes of refitting his forces before continuing his Eternal Purge. However, the Uft'ni fascinated him with a history not unlike his own: During the Horus Heresy Uft'ni was prepared as a bulwark against Horus' advance. Relentless combat ruined the world, and left Imperial forces in shambles. With the ever looming threat of defeat, the decision came to bombard the world's ice caps from orbit, and drown it. Only the tallest mountains and spires of its greatest city hives escaped the rising waters, while untold trillions, Uft'ni and heretic alike, were lost beneath the surface.

 

The world's new seas changed it forever. Terrifying monsters rose from the depths of new oceans. Whether creations of heretical powers or natural evolution, none would ever know. Upon hearing this, Caphon pledged to rid the world of its monsters. Executors and Uft'ni alike tell a tale of Caphon setting out with two dozen of his finest space marines on a vessel gifted to him by the people. He returned in three days with only five of his battle brothers and a ruined ship, towing behind a great tentacle, fifty meters long, that dyed the sea red with blood. Neither he, nor any other, would tell of what happened. Caphon's actions would speak louder than he ever could. The greatest mark upon it's people would become the Chapter's own, adopted within their heraldry, and its terrors would become its greatest guardians.

 

Chapter Organization

A child of Calth, and veteran of the White Consuls, Caphon Derii formed his Chapter as his gene-father, Roboute Gulliman, would have wanted. In accordance with the Codex Astartes, Caphon's Executors would have ten companies, and a thousand battle ready space marines between them. He would shun neither psyker nor Reclusiarch, and he would allow the Adeptus Mechanicus to train his brothers in their most sacred art.

 

The Executors' First Company is comprised of veterans drawn from its four battle companies. Each is a hero amongst heroes, and a legend in his own right. Brothers of the First Company are known as Black Spots for the Uft'ni omen of doom adopted within their heraldry, a single, dark circle between the mandibles of the Kraken. These venerable warriors are trained to operate the Chapter's treasured suits of Tactical Dreadnought Armor, and are spread throughout the Chapter to foster learning amongst their brothers.

 

The Chapter's Second through Fifth Companies are its battle companies, venerable warriors organized in traditional squad arrangements as dictated by the Codex Astartes. They are experts in their chosen craft, having passed through the reserve companies and every face of war. The Sixth through Ninth Companies are its tactical, assault, and heavy reserve forces, comprised of initiates, spread to support and learn from their battle brothers, so that they may one day take their place in the battle companies.

 

The Executor's Tenth Company serves as much as a second veteran company as it does an active training unit. Since Caphon's passing, the Executors have claimed more and more worlds, and reaped the benefits of greater sources of recruitment. In order to train prospective marines, Black Spots are regularly seconded to the Tenth. Assignment is as much a curse as it is a honor, the single greatest slight on Gulliman's text, and the future of the Executors, one in the same.

 

Combat Doctrine

Following in the footsteps of their Primogenitor, the White Consuls, Derii's Executors are learned in the countless tactics found in Gulliman's Codex Astartes. They are a supremely flexible force, neigh matching the Ultramarines themselves, fluent in the art of war and capable of bringing to bear the full militant might of a Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes against any foe, in any environment.

 

However, by the very nature of Caphon's teachings, Executors have developed a particular affinity for close quarters combat, fighting with fists and blades as often as their their bolters. To keep pace with their battle brothers, commanders regularly forgo heavily armored vehicles in favor of lighter and faster ones. Although, the Chapter's armory still maintains a host of battle tanks for front line use, and deploys them in conflicts that cannot be broken by the might of the space marines alone, however rare such circumstances may be.

 

Chapter Cult

When Uft'ni was accepted as the Executors' home, Caphon ordered his captains to don helmets matching those of the Uft'ni Warlords: Majestic kraken masks, taken up in the centuries following the Great Flood to honor the beast, the symbol of the Uft'ni leaders and their strength. The helmets sealed the bond between the Executors and the Uft'ni people, the Chapters first family.

 

The Changing of Faces is a practice whose origins can be traced back to the Chapter's founding. The skull mark worn by every battle brother, originally adopted from Derii's own remembrance of Calth, was the first heraldry to ever unify the Executors as a Chapter. However, the passage of time has transformed the face into a mark of the individual and a ritual of growth, as Chaplains began to detail Caphon's own change to the face of the beast as such an evolution. Every initiate, upon entering the Chapter, earns his first face, a human skull, a symbol of everything the initiate is, and, synonymously, nothing at all. In the ceremonies following battles, battle brothers who believe they have surpassed their previous achievements tell tales of their victories. Their feat is judged in the company of their brothers, and, if declared worthy, the skulls of their newly vanquished foes are fused with their old face to create the next.

 

Trophy taking has long coincided with the reclaimer mentality of Executors. Bones, trinkets, and relics are only a fraction of the treasures that brothers seize to bolster their worth and honor the Emperor. Trophies claimed from the battlefield are shared with the Chapter, and given to Reclusiarchs and Librarians to determine their worth. True treasures, Imperial relics and xeno technologies, earn their claimer praise and prestige. However, more often than not, these trinkets are rejected. These barbaric decorations often receive ill response from fellow chapters of the Adeptus Astartes, declaring them worthless at best, and heretical at worst. Though these claims have never endangered the Chapter's relationship with the Imperium, they have created a gap between the Executors and the greater Imperium.

 

Together, these traditions have given the Executors a boastful swagger and flamboyance alien to many chapters of the Adeptus Astartes. Executors are eager to share the tales of their exploits, telling all those willing to listen of battles they've fought and enemies they've slain over the centuries. Facinating tales find their way into the Chapter's Librarium, immortalizing the battle brothers in the Lexicanums' retellings long after their deaths.

 

As modern carriers of the Emperor's will, the Executors embody his creed for the expansion of humanity. It is common belief that those who would turn from the Emperor are far worse than those who already stand in His way. Mutants and xenos are undeserving to bask in the Emperor's light. They have no place in his grand design. Heretics have been given a choice, and have willingly denied the bountiful gifts offered to them by the Emperor. Foremost amongst those gifts are their lives, and the Executors are eager to exact His dues.

 

Edit:

 

The IA still needs to be expanded. These are my ideas right now:

 

I'd like to add a paragraph detailing the Executors' use of Great Crusade era iconography like the Emperor's Thunderbolts. In an odd circumstance, I could also imagine Caphon shunning the Aquila since it was the mark of the Emperor's Children. I just don't know where this would belong in the IA, or if it would belong there at all. Right now I think it would fit in the beginning of the Chapter Cult.

 

I'd also like to detail the combat doctrine, I'm just not sure how I should do it. I don't think that the "relentless, head on" really fits the "pirate" theme, so I'd like them to be more "hit and run," constantly giving heavy punches without letting the enemy strike back. This could tie in with their use of armor and equipment, ie:

 

-With ten thousand years of history, and relations with the Mechanicus, they have the resources to equip nearly a full company in Tactical Dreadnought Armor, but only put it to use when necessary (Boarding, Space Hulks, Siege Breaks, etc.).

-Jump Pack Tactical Squads.

 

I'd love to hear any suggestions and commentary on what I have so far. Thanks!

Edited August 25, 2011 by KingHongKong