Dark Swamp Company

[Luy22]

DARK SWAMP COMPANY

 

 

They are a single company of Adeptus Astartes. They must follow the codex to the book. We know they are led by an Ultramarine, named Septim. They got all sorts of different armor. Only started calling them Dark Swamp as that's where they were first seen, fighting Orks in the dark swamps of Wura XIII. They took the name themselves. We dunno much more about them than that...

 

They are mercenaries, if nothing else. They are not traitors. They are not heretics. They are not renegades. The core of the company is built up of Brazen Fists space marines, whose planet is now completely gone. They get their weapons, tools, ammunition and vehicles by stealing them from forge worlds and other Imperial sources.

 

They are led by Force Commander Septim, an Ultramarine who thought he could not help the Imperium enough within the Ultamar empire, and so he left, with three other Ultramarine battle-brothers, and a Rogue Trader (Sir Arbunkle Trantor), and gathered up his military of human mercenaries. Then they came across the Brazen Fists. The Fists were in a broken fleet of two Strike Cruisers and a Battle Barge, and were all that was left of their Chapter. Five hundred marines at max, the rest civilians and chapter serfs. They were led by Captain Nero, one of the few Fists to survive the Day of Fire, when their world was cooked by traitors. Nero landed aboard the Rogue Trader's vessel, and explained their planet was completely flooded with lava and was now inhospitable.

 

Septim accepted them into the fleet and now they fought their first battle at Wura XIII, a dense swampworld. They got their name "Dense Swamp Company" from this conflict, and then quickly moved on, to fighting Tyranids and Tau. They are mostly active in the Eastern Fringe but will go anywhere in the Imperium.

 

Their armor varies. The majority of them use Brazen Fists armor, as that is all they could come up with. Most are painted in personal designs and whatnot. The marines have many different tastes in how they paint their armor. Stolen tanks are always painted by their crews, so this varies greatly.

 

Other than these minor differences, they follow the Codex Astartes to the book, and have a copy of it on board the Voidspear, Nero's flagship and the only Battle Barge left in the Brazen Fist's fleet. Septim has moved himself with his peers to this ship. Arbunkle still follows them, lending any support he can give.

 

This is all the information that can be given at this time.

[Shinzaren]

They are a single company of Adeptus Astartes. They must follow the codex to the book. We know they are led by an Ultramarine, named Septim. They got all sorts of different armor. Only started calling them Dark Swamp as that's where they were first seen, fighting Orks in the dark swamps of Wura XIII. They took the name themselves. We dunno much more about them than that...

 

500 hundred marines is not one company, it's 5 companies.

 

They are mercenaries, if nothing else. They are not traitors. They are not heretics. They are not renegades. The core of the company is built up of Brazen Fists space marines, whose planet is now completely gone. They get their weapons, tools, ammunition and vehicles by stealing them from forge worlds and other Imperial sources.

In the eyes of the Imperium, this would make them Traitors, Renegades, Heretics, and Kill on Sight.

 

They are led by Force Commander Septim, an Ultramarine who thought he could not help the Imperium enough within the Ultamar empire, and so he left, with three other Ultramarine battle-brothers, and a Rogue Trader (Sir Arbunkle Trantor), and gathered up his military of human mercenaries.

Why did he just leave? Why did they let him leave? How did he meet a Rogue Trader? Where did he find a military of human mercenaries, and how did he hire them at first?

 

Then they came across the Brazen Fists. The Fists were in a broken fleet of two Strike Cruisers and a Battle Barge, and were all that was left of their Chapter. Five hundred marines at max, the rest civilians and chapter serfs. They were led by Captain Nero, one of the few Fists to survive the Day of Fire, when their world was cooked by traitors. Nero landed aboard the Rogue Trader's vessel, and explained their planet was completely flooded with lava and was now inhospitable.

 

That's fully half of a Codex Chapter, which a very powerful fighting force. They still have a Battle Barge and two Strike Cruisers, which is plenty. They wouldn't just join a mostly human mercenary company that was led by basically 4 Marines. Not viable.

 

Septim accepted them into the fleet and now they fought their first battle at Wura XIII, a dense swampworld. They got their name "Dense Swamp Company" from this conflict, and then quickly moved on, to fighting Tyranids and Tau. They are mostly active in the Eastern Fringe but will go anywhere in the Imperium.

 

If they are mercenaries, who pays them to fight the Tau and the Nids? How do they escape Imperial justice? How have they survived working inside a regime that would hostile in extreme towards them?

 

Other than these minor differences, they follow the Codex Astartes to the book, and have a copy of it on board the Voidspear, Nero's flagship and the only Battle Barge left in the Brazen Fist's fleet. Septim has moved himself with his peers to this ship. Arbunkle still follows them, lending any support he can give.

 

These aren't minor differences. You're no longer a space marine chapter. You are Renegades and mercenaries who have turned their back on the Emperor. Why bother following the Codex of your enemy? Also, only surviving Battle Barge implies that at one point they had more than one. Most non-First Founding chapters wouldn't have more than one Battle Barge, as they are expensive, and powerful and the AM wouldn't just give them away.

[Luy22]

Thanks for the crit mate. Will clean up in due time. :tu: