Terran Legion

[Captain Juan Juarez]

They have to borrow the latter. And I can't imagine that's not intentional.

It's a matter of convenience, armies are difficult to lug around.

 

Seperation of Authority anyone?

[Ezekial Gravestone]

yeah, cadia trains them in regalements as do other planets that supply stormtroopers, the ones who do not meet the big I's high standards are turned into cadian regiments, and dont forget the big I needs troops for prisons, garrison duty at fortresses and the black ships, now if we say that the storm troopers are only used for small things what else can the big I use proto marines for?

[soddinnutter]

So far. Any good?

 

Combat Doctrine

 

They just carry on to the best of their abilities as if the Emperor was still alive, despite being one of the few chapters that officially acknowledges that he is dead.

 

The moment they salvaged the dead ships from Mars they carried on with the Great Crusade, because its what the Emperor would have wanted. They have been marching to war since the Unification Wars of ancient Earth and they won’t stop now because the idea of stopping is alien to them.

 

Beliefs

The Emperor is dead. All they have left of him is a corpse on life-support. Unlike most of the Chapters Astartes who believe the Emperor is just a mortal the Legion knows he was. Because their histories stretch far enough back to recount how he rose to power, one petty warlord among many.

 

They tend to be more kindly pre-disposed towards humanity by the standards of other marines, perhaps because they believe that they are still human. They are humans that have had extensive surgery done to them but they are human never the less. It has been a constant mild irritation to them that the other Chapters have lost touch with their humanity over time.

 

Recruitment

Their different means of transformation has the benefit of being more robust than standard Marine transformation procedures. There is no real age cap for recruits and the genetic compatibility necessary is not so demanding.

 

The chapter refuses to allow any to apply to join under the Age of Awakenment, 19. They have to choose to join and they have to do so as legitimate adults. Ever has it been so, back to their founding on Ancient Earth.

 

They regard taking a child to the surgery table as something as distasteful as paedophilia, another thing that puts them at odds with their brother chapters.

 

Each recruit is expected to father at least one child to ensure that his genetic line is passed on. This is quite necessary because, unlike most marine chapters, the transformation does not always leave them sterile. It’s just probable. And there is still always the chance that it will leave them dead.

 

The gruelling tests, challenges and training are not to intentionally weed out the feeble but because the surgery is accepted more readily in a body at the peak of fitness.

 

The Legion has the enviable position of not having the restriction on its numbers as placed by the Codex. If any of the other Imperial authorities were to demand that they adhere more strictly to the Codex then they would have to acknowledge their legitimacy of the Marines as a chapter, with all the rights that that entails.

 

Equipment

Given their chronic shortage of any real Astartes grade equipment they have had to learn to improvise.

 

The Power Armour is in fact constructed from an altered support exoskeleton, the sort usually used by the extremely ancient, with a soft-shelled void suit underneath and a suit of heavy carapace armour over the top. Night vision goggles, telescopic lenses, extra-spectrum goggles, voice synthesisers and a sound detection system are also employed and linked together. A micro-fission reactor strapped to the Marines back powers all of this. Said reactor lightly irradiates the wearer with gamma radiation so it is not safely usable for normal humans.

 

It is not as good as properly made Power Armour but it is better than being shot in the head.

 

Bolters have been replaced with an archaic pattern of Melta-rifles as the standard weapon of choice for ammunition efficiency. Laser based weapons are used extensively for the same reason.

 

Still using Stormbirds for landing craft, and an out dated looking Valkyrie pattern for preference as a troop carrier.

 

The Inquisition

 

The Inquisition is responsible for getting the Mechanicum to stop supplying them with the materials they needed to continue the Emperors Great Crusade. This has led to a slight resentment.

 

The Mechanicum

 

Their inability to get requisitions is not so much because they don’t get along with the Mechanicus, because relations have always been good, so much as because the Mechanicus stopped supplying them as soon as they realised they had been sending valuable resources to a military unit that had become obsolete a very, very long time ago. It took them until about 900 years after the death of Horus to realise they were still supplying a remnant from the history books which just shows that its not just the Administratum that is drowning in paperwork.

 

The descendants of the Martian refugees picked up by the Terran Legion continue to keep the antique and out-dated fleet of the Legion in working order.

 

By now the ships that they stole have been forgotten about, their loss was attributed to the misfortunes of war.

 

The Fleet

 

Battle Barge - Tear of Terra

Frigate - Bad Omen

Frigate - Broken Promice

Frigate - The Unforseen Consequence

Frigate - Hammer of Titan

Frigate - Shrapnel

Frigate - Retribution

 

Comprised of one ship just slightly smaller than a Battle Barge and about half a dozen smaller support craft.

 

All are amalgamations of ancient derelicts, cut and stitched together. None of the ships that comprise the resultant ships could be considered anything now but relics whose time has past an age ago. The fact that they are still in working order is testament to the interchangeability of STC technology and the diligence of the Mechanicum that inhabit the ships.

 

On no less then seven occasions their fleet has been mistaken for Ghost Ships of the Deep Warp.

 

Also they haven’t been able to afford a Navigator since the late M33 so travel is either slow and predictable or fast and inaccurate.

 

Other Chapters

 

‘I think that I have realised why they hate us so. We remind them of all they have lost. We remind them of a glorious era when they could look at themselves and feel pride. We remind them of a time when they had far less to be ashamed of.’

 

Most, if not all, other chapters refuse to recognise their legitimacy as Marines.

 

Most consider them to be humans imitating their betters. This is sometimes met with something not entirely unakin endearment. It is often met with derision and mockery. Occasionally it is met with hostility.

 

The Terran Legion have an abiding feud with the Marines Malevolent, Minators and Black Templars for centuries of ridicule and scorn. These chapters hate the Legion for, respectively, not following their orders, enduring 47 weeks of mockery and then not offering assistance to a company stranded in ork held territory resulting in the loss of nearly the entire company and having one of their scouts put a sniper bullet through a Chaplains right knee-cap for claiming those of the chapters fallen were Burning With Horus in Hell.

 

They dislike the Ultramarines and spit on the memory of Gulliman because they see Gulliman’s reforms as a betrayal of the Emperors Vision for the galaxy. The Ultramarines don’t like them because they refuse to acknowledge the Codex and refuse to show respect to Gulliman.

 

The have always gotten along well with the Salamanders and their descendants, even during the Great Crusade. The Salamanders and descendants are never quite sure what to make of the Legion.

[Grey Hunter Ydalir]

I have to say, despite a metric tonne of inconsistencies and problems some people may bring up with this chapter, I really like this.

 

I get the 'feeling' of the Legion, I understand them and their crusade and I can identify with it. It's also written in such a way that you sympathize with them.

 

Character to character, my Blazing Sons would like these guys, because they have chosen to continue to serve the Emperor and his ideals, rather than fading away or giving in to defeat like others before them.

 

These guys get an unequivocal thumbs up from me, the new re-write is great. :blink:

 

The only thing I'd pull back on is when the writing lapses into far too modern phraseology or common, modernly used terms and words.