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The Sons of Sidonia


Drichar Deis

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This is just a placeholder as I work on my Chapter, I have various parts recorded in draught, when I get the time, it will be transferred to here :)

I work a nine day week, so this will take a while to come together.

The Sons of Sidonia Space Marine Chapter

22nd founding

Geneseed of Gulliman stock.

Present Chapter Master: Drichar Deis

Chapter Badge

A black sword over a red planatoid on a yellow field.

Chapter Motto

"More than man, more than machine"

Meaning "More than man" - We are genetically enhanced super humans.

"More than machine" - We have our faith to guide us where logic fails.

Pre-Battle Prayer

"Our Emperor, who has called us to put on the armour of faith and to take the sword of salvation,

give thy grace we pray thee,

to the Sons of Sidonia that we may fight dutifully under thy banner against all evil,

and waiting on thee to renew our strength,

may mount up with wings as eagles,

in thy name,

who livest and reignest ever one god,

rule without end,

glory forever,

our lord."

Battle Style

Hard and Fast,

Acheive battlefield supremacy through superior firepower,

The SoS typically hold a position on the battle field raining heavy fire upon the enemy whilst land speeders harass them.

Organisation

I am thinking to leave the SoS pretty Codex pure, except for Assault squads being predominantly in Land Speeders.

Religion

The SoS follow the "Pius" cult, revering the memory of "ollanius pius", admiring the fact that one humble man can stand up to such evil.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u94/sidrioswin/Ollanius_Pius.jpg

Chapter banners

Banner of the Emperor

Banner of Sidonia

Banner of Pius

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Home World, The Planet Sidonia, In Segmentum Tempestus.

A blasted death world of sand, rocks and cutting winds.

Inhabited by nomadic people of stone age skill.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u94/sidrioswin/OPFOR/Opfor.jpg

Battles of note:

The SoS defeated "Dedruf's Reker Boyz" Deathskull clan on the Industrial world of "Sawyers Landing".

The SoS put down a mutant revolt on the agri world of "Medina".

The Sos defeated the renegade PDF force of "Col Bidvest" on "Winzoria".

The SoS purifyed the desert planet "Roamer" of a genestealer cult that had taken control of its promethium producing facilities.

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The color scheme reminds me of another Chapter, but I don't have my Codex at hand to check on it...

The Chapter badge sounds good, I'd like to see that.

Unknown Primarch is a sort of cliche route, so I look forward to seeing how you make it unique.

Plasma Weapons? The only other Chapter I know of that specializes in plasma are the Dark Angels, and they're First Founding, so they have access to all that technology. given any thought to what founding you want to put your Chapter in?

After Musing on it (pun deliberate) I think turning Cydonia into Sidonia doesn't really hide the source of the name ;)

 

As for the colour scheme looks a bit like the Fire Lords but also like Iron Man.

 

Personally whenever I see Knights in a Chapter name I think of metalslics.

What's the problem with Cydonia/Sidonia, anyway? I'm not really getting it. It's the Greek Goddess of heroic endeavor, a place in Crete, and Mars's face. What is the problem here?

 

EDIT: Oh, I see. There's a popular rock band called "Muse" and they made a song with that same name. Still don't see how it can be a problem, considering all its other associations.

My main bugbear at the moment is the Primarch, as that affects a lot.

Go with Ultras. Their geneseed is the blank slate of 40k - a chapter with UM geneseed can be almost anything. :P

 

EDIT: And I recommend any founding other than the 26th founding.

Seriously. Everyone and his dog always picks the 26th. Dare to be different - be an older chapter! :P

Agreed, Ultramarines is the way to go if your undecided.

As for the founding date, I wouldn't take a recent one either. Mine used to be, but I found the short time-line extremely limiting, so I scaled back to the Age of Apostasy. Now I have too much time, but I can flesh out my chapter's personality. Older foudings are better.

 

EDIT: Dang it! I lost my 1337 posts status!

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There's not much to work with at the moment. And in a way, that's a good thing :pirate: The best thing to do when you start off with a chapter is to think of their theme. What makes them different from the other 999 chapters out there? What is their basic driving force (ie. why do they get out of bed in the morning) or character of the chapter? From there, you can extrapolate how this affects the other aspects of the chapter, but getting this will help a lot with that. Good luck!

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