IA: Death Heads

[Donkey Kong]

Then they will be called the Executors, and anyone who compares them to this or this will be my arch-nemesis forever.

 

EDIT: Thank you Heru, red feet too please :D ! kthxbai!

Edited January 30, 2011 by KingHongKong

[Heru]

this

The boxes on that page are in your Chapter's colour. :lol:

kthxbai!

When did you turn into a anime obsessed Japanese schoolgirl?

Seriously "kthxbai!"... what are you smoking/drinking/injecting between your toes?

EDIT: Alt version:

Edited January 30, 2011 by Heru Talon

[Grey Hunter Ydalir]

I like the second one.

 

Didn't know you were such a dab-hand there Heru.

[Donkey Kong]

The boxes on that page are in your Chapter's colour. laugh.gif

 

You. Arch-frienemy. Forever.

 

When did you turn into a anime obsessed Japanese schoolgirl?

 

Seriously "kthxbai!"... what are you smoking/drinking/injecting between your toes?

 

I just compared my chapter's new name to Star Craft and Pokemon. I HAVE THE RIGHT! Also shrooms. I have those too :sweat: .

[Grey Hunter Ydalir]

Sounds like a fun time to be had by all! :sweat:

[Heru]

Anything else you want done with the image KHK?

 

Edit: Also Executors even without the SC and Pokemon connections doesn't seem to fit very well either... it's too clinical.

 

Edit: Perhaps something with "Slayers" in it?

 

Edit: The Devil Slayers? (I like this one for some reason). Your choice though.

 

Edit: It's the imagery of one of your guys armed with a sword grappling with some monster from the deep that makes me think "Devil Slayers".

 

Edit: Went swimming and dragged something up from one of your old threads: Scally'ized Captain

Edited February 1, 2011 by Heru Talon

[Donkey Kong]

Anything else you want done with the image KHK?

 

Not until Brother Argos finishes the painter and I can use Mk. 6 armor as a flat plate for a skull face. Unfortunatly Mk. 7 doesn't work very well for conveying the image, it always ends up looking bad. Thank you, though :D !

 

I wish I could find the marine Dazzo made to show what I mean.

 

it's too clinical.

 

Wait. The marine who saw his home world attacked by his once brothers as a neophyte (meaning he couldn't really do anything about it even if he wanted to), put a skull on his helmet to brand the occasion into his mind for the rest of his life, slaughtered traitors back into the Eye of Terror, and went on to found a Chapter based on the ideal of reviving, not the Great Crusade, but the Great Scouring which followed it with the intention of cleansing the galaxy of all traitors so that no one would ever betray the Imperium again, and made his fleets go on never ending hunts to ensure his oath is too cynical?

 

I actually rather like it because it brings to mind all of those bloodthirsty jokes about Lawyers and how they're heartless bastards who take your stuff and thrive on the tears of man children.

 

Why don't sharks attack lawyers?

 

Professional courtesy :P !

Edited February 1, 2011 by KingHongKong

[Heru]

Executioners, Starcraft, Pokemon and now lawyers?

And you were the one going:

"Oh, I don't want to call the first company Megalodons because of all those cheesy shark 'horror' movies."

"I don't want to call them Death Heads anymore, because it is so close to the Death's Head Titan Legion."

Anything else you want done with the image KHK?

Not until Brother Argos finishes the painter and I can use Mk. 6 armor as a flat plate for a skull face. Unfortunatly Mk. 7 doesn't work very well for conveying the image, it always ends up looking bad. Thank you, though ;) !

I wish I could find the marine Dazzo made to show what I mean.

http://philipsibbering.com/blog/1000-chapt...gpage=4#gallery

I'm pretty sure I can make a flat plate to replace the grill and pipes. Like I did on the old painter ages ago:

Edited February 1, 2011 by Heru Talon

[Grey Hunter Ydalir]

You sir, are an artiste-extroadinare.

 

I doff my hat to you.

[Heru]

So what do you want on it exactly, a skull like the Dazzo image?

[Ace Debonair]

I just compared my chapter's new name to Star Craft and Pokemon. I HAVE THE RIGHT! Also shrooms. I have those too :D .

 

Gosh.

 

At this point, if I was less restrained, I'd make jokes about your Librarians being psychic types, your chapter being weak against fire and the suggestion the Executors go on a big crusade to hunt down as many chaos warbands as possible in the attempt to catch 'em all.

 

Then there's all the jokes about pokeballing recruits, never running while indoors, and your marines evolving into sergeants.

 

But, thankfully, I'm just restrained enough to stop myself from mentioning anything like that. :D

 

Heru, that gold and blue colour scheme is awesome, likewise the flattened faceplates.

[Heru]

I need a skull with shading..., but is that anything like you were aiming for KHK?

EDIT:

I give up. Someone else can do it better.

EDIT:

Better. I also have a version with the skull just on the lower helmet (face plate).

Edited February 1, 2011 by Heru Talon

[Donkey Kong]

But, thankfully, I'm just restrained enough to stop myself from mentioning anything like that. msn-wink.gif

 

:P !

 

Executioners, Starcraft, Pokemon and now lawyers?

 

And you were the one going:

"Oh, I don't want to call the first company Megalodons because of all those cheesy shark 'horror' movies."

"I don't want to call them Death Heads anymore, because it is so close to the Death's Head Titan Legion."

 

You have made me ashamed of myself :unsure: .

 

On the space marine, a little more like an animal or alien to show that the face has changed, but that's awesome work, Heru!

 

That's not the Dazzo image I meant though, it was made by him, but there was one in Mk. 6 that is now lost to the interwebs :P .

Edited February 1, 2011 by KingHongKong

[Heru]

I added an edit whilst you were posting.

Edit: Not sure how I'd make it more animal/alien. Hmm.

Edit:

MONSTER TEETH!

Edited February 1, 2011 by Heru Talon

[Donkey Kong]

How do you do this? Paint.net makes me feel incompetent, or maybe I'm just incompetent.

 

I imagine the more common foes the Executors would fight would be heretics and demonic allies. For this reason, I imagine a fusion between the skull on Emile's helmet from Halo Reach, the Word Bearers flaming skull, and horns like lesser daemons, Bloodletters, Plaguebearers, etc. Also, I imagine that the skull would be more stylized, kind of like your first in post 187, without the bone color.

 

Kind of a difficult pallet to fit on a face :) .

[Heru]

I imagine the more common foes the Executors would fight would be heretics and demonic allies.

Oh so they are also literal "Devil Slayers" too.

Edit:

The first one with shading:

I'm not doing anymore with this. If you want someone to make it more like you describe, they can use my "blank" faceplate as a base.

Edited February 1, 2011 by Heru Talon

[Donkey Kong]

Thanks for your time and effort Heru! It's greatly appreciated :P .

 

Oh so they are also literal "Devil Slayers" too.

 

Yes. The Exeggutors Executors are resistant to psychic daemon slayers.

[Donkey Kong]

I edited it again. I think it might be MISS, but how would it sound if I added a few sentences about how techmarines infrequently modify tank engines to keep up with the Executor's fast paced combat doctrine (ala Blood Angels Lucifer engines)?

B

y the turn of the millennum, the High Lords of Terra sought leaders to raise the next generation of Astartes in the Third Founding. Born from the fires of the Great Scouring, the Executors would be amongst the first to breathe new life into the reconstructed Imperium of Man.

Caphon Derii would teach his fledgling brothers to soar. A child of Calth, Derii bore witness to the Word Bearer's attack on his home as a neophyte of the Ultramarine Legion. The scars left on Caphon's mind would be forever manifest through a black skull across his helm. His vengeance would be taken in the years following the siege of Terra, during the Great Scouring, as one of the first White Consuls, and would continue the purge with his own Chapter.

Derii and his brothers would revive the Great Scouring, and the fear it inspired in heretical hearts. Traitors would be made to answer for their crimes, from Calth to Terra, and the very Eye of Terror itself. With the Astartes at their side, humanity would reach out across galaxy once more, united under the Imperium of Man, and those who turned from the Emperor's light would be cast away into the void. This was his pledge.

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ecruits are drawn from a number of worlds through the construction and maintenance of Chapter Keeps. Against tradition, the Executors base themselves within their mighty fleets. The Chapter's flagship, the Nausicaa, is a venerable vessel that has served the Imperium since the early days of the Great Crusade. An old ship in Warfleet Solar, it was refitted by the Martian Mechanicus and given to the Chapter during its founding. More than three times the size of a traditional Battle Barge, she serves as the Chapter's spiritual home. Within its hull lie the Chapter's greatest treasures, including its vast Librarium.

Executors regularly bolster their flotilla with smaller craft. Raiding enemy fleets, the Chapter trades its spoils of war, ancient and conquered battleships, with forge worlds in exchange for repairs for their own vessels and refits for captured cruisers and escorts. These repaired ships join small reserve fleets, often 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 the migrant fleets.

Uft'ni was the first world to construct a Chapter Keep, and the only keep constructed under Derii's command. For a time, Uft'ni was the unofficial home world of the Chapter. Uft'ni is a living monument to the Imperium, and the treachery it has suffered. Once a world of city spires built during the time of Old Night, it was peacefully assimilated in the Emperor's Great Crusade. However, its surface would be drowned in the chaos that followed.

In the Heretic's push towards Terra, Uft'ni was prepared as a bulwark against the traitors' advance. The hive cities bore witness to the fiercest fighting of the Heresy excluding the traitor legions. Relentless combat ruined the world, and left Imperial forces in shambles. With the ever looming threat of defeat, the decision came to bombard the ice caps from orbit, and flood the world. Only the tallest city peaks escaped the rising waters, while untold trillions, Uft'ni and heretic alike, were lost beneath its surface.

The world's new seas changed more than geography. Countless nobles who had gone into underground bunkers with the families, and died in the torrent, left the Uft'ni aristocracy frighteningly thin. A world now populated by warlords and their soldiers, both members of house armies and planetary defense forces, as well as civilians and gangers armed to fight the foe. All still loyal to the Emperor, they would lead an age of debate and infighting, eventually leading to the creation of the council of warlords, rotating the title of planetary governor as the powers shifted.

Passing centuries brought more changes as terrifying monsters rose from the depths of new oceans. Whether creations of heretical powers or natural creations, none would ever know. The very existence of these horrors, the most fearsome amongst them to be the kraken, brought change to the new lives of the Uft'ni. Derii came to this world in hopes of refitting his forces before continuing their eternal purge. Welcomed with the stories of the Horus Heresy, this world fascinated him. The greatest mark upon it's people in recent times would become the Chapter's new heraldry, the kraken that lurked in impenetrable, azure depths.

Like him, Uft'ni wore its wounds as trophies. Like Derii, Uft'ni would father Astartes.

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child of Calth, and veteran of the White Consuls, Caphon Derii would go on to build his Chapter as his gene-father, Roboute Gulliman, would have wanted. In accordance with the Codex Astartes, the Executors would have ten companies, and a thousand line Astartes between them.

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

The Chapter's Second through Fifth Companies are its battle companies, comprised of venerable warriors in traditional squad arrangements. They are experts in their chosen craft, having passed through the reserve companies and experiencing every face of war. The Sixth through Ninth Companies are comprised of newly inducted initiates, spread amongst the first four as support. The Tenth Company is made of neophytes, recruits from all keep worlds, to be tempered and tested before advancing through the reserve companies. Those that fail die in battle or continue to serve their would-be brothers as serfs. Each company is led by a Captain, a veteran of the first company.

F

ollowing in the footsteps of their Primogenitor, the White Consuls, Derii's Executors are learned in the countless methods of waging war found in Gulliman's Codex. They are a flexible force, fluent in their art and capable of bringing to bear the full military might of a chapter of the Adeptus Astartes.

However, litanies of hate have given the chapter a blood lust satisfied by ferocious shock and awe campaigns through orbital assaults and drop pod strikes. By the very nature of their attacks, Executors have developed a particular affinity for close quarters combat, fighting with fists and blades as often as their their bolters. It is common practice for Executors to fix bayonets to their weapons. One such fusion has earned the Chapter infamy. A fusion of bolt pistol and combat blade, the Executor's pistol swords are a terrible sight to behold in their hands.

To keep pace with their battle brothers, commanders will regularly forgo armored tanks in favor of lighter, faster vehicles. Bikes and Land Speeders are commonplace at the point of Executor's spearheads. The Chapter's armory still maintains its heavier vehicles for front line use, and employs them in conflicts that cannot be broken by the might of the astartes alone.

The chapter's zeal is matched only by its tenacity. Their stubborn fervor is frequently subject to the praise and persecution of other Imperial entities. Regarded as both holy conviction and headstrong stupidity, the Executors care little for the opinions of others. 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 foe. Death before dishonor.

C

aphon Derii and the Keep Worlds have both taken their part in shaping the core beliefs of the Executors, a combined cult of Imperial loyalty and tribal tradition. The Uft'ni Warlords traditionally wore kraken helmets, and Caphon Derii would begin the same tradition amongst his Chapter. Each Captain would don a helmet, crafted by the Chapter's forge to meet the standards of the Astartes, and the aesthetic majesty of the Warlords. This seal would bond the Chapter and their first Keep World.

The Changing of Faces is has been a practice since the Chapter's founding. The skull mark, originally adopted from Derii's own remembrance of Calth, was the first to be used as both the Chapter's heraldry, and a mark worn by all of it's brothers. Every initiate, upon entering the Chapter, an initiate earns his "face". The first face has always been a human skull, a symbol of everything the initiate is, and nothing at all. Age changed the face into more than a mark of the Chapter, but a mark of the individual. In the ceremonies following battles, battle brothers who believe they have surpassed their previous achievements tell of their victory. Their feat is judged in the company of their brothers, and if declared worthy, the skull of foe they vanquished is fused with their old face to create the next.

Trophy taking has long coincided with the reclaimer mentality of Executors. Bones, trinkets, and reclaimed relics are only a few 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, are returned to their claimer with ceremony after they have been studied. However, more often than not, they are rejected. These barbaric decorations often receive ill response from fellow astartes, declaring them worthless at best, and heretical at worst. These claims have never endangered the Chapter's relationship with the 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. Tales of the most accomplished brothers will find their way into the Chapter's Librarium, immortalizing them in the Lexicanum's retelling long after their deaths.

The Chapter's fixation on purity stems from a common thread that first connected Caphon to Uft'ni, the hatred of the traitor. As modern carriers of the Emperor's will, the Executors embody his creed for the expansion of humanity. However, 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.

Edited February 5, 2011 by KingHongKong

[NightrawenII]

I can't say, I'm impressed with the name. It's too similar to Executioners.

 

Chapter Organisation

A child of Calth, and veteran of the White Consuls, Caphon Derii would go on to build his Chapter as his gene-father, Roboute Gulliman, would have wanted.

- We already know this. Repetitive.

 

Each company is led by a Captain, a Black Spot.

- Out of nowhere. /// Call them Blackbeards. ;)

 

Combat Doctrine

It is common practice for Executors to fix bayonets to their weapons.

- The fixed bayonet is here to emulate a spear. It will be practically useless on bolters.

 

Chapter Cult

Every initiate, upon entering the Chapter, an initiate earns his “face”.

- Formatting error.

[Captain Juan Juarez]

Combat Doctrine

It is common practice for Executors to fix bayonets to their weapons.

- The fixed bayonet is here to emulate a spear. It will be practically useless on bolters.

 

The Godwyn-Deaz pattern used by the Adeptus Sororitas are used commonly with bayonet attachments.

[Donkey Kong]

I can't say, I'm impressed with the name. It's too similar to Executioners.

 

There's no pleasing some people, is there?

 

- Out of nowhere. /// Call them Blackbeards.

 

Nah. Although I suppose "a black spot" should be replaced with "a veteran of the first company"

 

- The fixed bayonet is here to emulate a spear. It will be practically useless on bolters.

 

And yet earlier editions had them. The idea is more to convey their nature, the fact that the bolter isn't very long to begin with should only exaggerate that blood thirst even more.

 

- Formatting error.

 

To be fixed immediately.

[Captain Juan Juarez]

I can't say, I'm impressed with the name. It's too similar to Executioners.

 

There's no pleasing some people, is there?

 

You can please some of the people some of the time.. The rest must die.

 

 

As long as you're happy with it, that's all that counts - which I'm aware you know, but I like my pithy quote above ;)

[NightrawenII]

Combat Doctrine

It is common practice for Executors to fix bayonets to their weapons.

- The fixed bayonet is here to emulate a spear. It will be practically useless on bolters.

The Godwyn-Deaz pattern used by the Adeptus Sororitas are used commonly with bayonet attachments.

Yeah, because everything GW does is gold and smells like violets. ^_^

[Captain Juan Juarez]

Combat Doctrine

It is common practice for Executors to fix bayonets to their weapons.

- The fixed bayonet is here to emulate a spear. It will be practically useless on bolters.

The Godwyn-Deaz pattern used by the Adeptus Sororitas are used commonly with bayonet attachments.

Yeah, because everything GW does is gold and smells like violets. ^_^

 

Did I even hint at that? No.. I provided an example where Bolters are used with bayonet attachments - You don't have to like it, you just have to accept it happens.

[NightrawenII]

Don't be so defensive.

I said that the bayonet on bolter is useless. Your argument of "GW did it with Sororitas" doesn't change the validity of my point.