Lets dive into history

[shdwcypher13]

So I need to know about the last great hunt. This being for the reasons of building my SW chapter. well a DIY Renegade chapter. but more on that later. I just need to know when the greate hunt was and the major area's involved

[Valerian]

As far as I am aware, the following is all of the detail that has ever been provided on the Great Hunts:

 

The Ghost of Russ

 

 

No one knows what happened to Leman Russ. Some say he disappered in the Eye of Terror while searching for his old friend and rival, the Primarch of the Dark Angels. Some say that he was on a secret mission from the Emperor when he was slain in battle by a Greater Daemon of Chaos, and that his spirit is lost in the warp. Others say that, to this day, he walks disguised among mankind, watching over the people of his Emperor and guarding them from the Power of Chaos.

 

All that is known is that he vanished on the Feast of the Emperor's Ascension in the year 197 after the Emperor was incarcerated within his Golden Throne. Is is said that his eyes glazed over and that he had the look of a man who was overcome with a vision. He rose from the great table, put down his drinking horn, and summoned his most favored retainers. Of these, only Bjorn the Fell-handed, the youngest, was left behind when he departed.

 

No one knew where Russ had gone. The Space Wolves waited for his return. Every year his place was laid at the feast table, and every year his great drinking horn was filled in case he should return. Seven years passed and still he did not come.

 

After seven years the surviving Wolf Lords gathered and elected Bjorn their leader, awarding him the title Great Wolf. Bjorn gathered all of the warriors together in the Great Hall of the Gang, and announced the Great Hunt. Russ's people would seek their master. The Companies took to their ships and sailed in different directions across the Sea of Stars. They sought him in many worlds and many places. They fought battles and overcame monsters and the tale of their deeds is too long to recount, save on Allwinter's Eve when the Rune Priests gather to chant the sagas. They sought and they sought but of Russ they found no sign till eventually they were recalled to Fenris bearing nought but a few dismal prophecies and the tale of their adventure. Thus the first Great Hunt ended in failure and sadness.

 

Since that day their have been other Great Hunts. Sometimes Russ appears to a Great Wolf in a vision and tells him it is time. Sometimes he haunts the dreams of the Chapter's Rune Priests and their words cause the Great Wolf to declare another Great Hunt. These are times of daring deeds and high adventure when the Chapter takes to the Sea of Stars and seeks their lost leader. They have never been successful but each Great Hunt has achieved some great good.

 

The second Great Hunt led to the recovery of Russ's armor from the Temple of Horus on Rudra on the edge of the Eye of Terror. The fourth Great Hunt uncovered the Corellian Conspiracy and foiled its efforts to overthrow the Administratum in a bloody coup. The ninth Great Hunt led to the destruction of the Genestealer infested worlds of the Gehenna systems.

 

It would seem that whenever the ghost of Russ appears to his people he has some mighty task in mind for them. Who knows what the next one will be.

 

From WD 246, July 2000 (although the same story has appeared elsewhere, as well)

 

Valerian

[shdwcypher13]

Hmmm, Now I need to locate any history on the worlds of gehenna to hammer down a time line and "loose" a transport of say 70 space wolf and wolf priest. (and about a dozen geneseeds) to create a battle group of space Wolfe that has been separated from the emperium, but also not of chaos. In other words a 13th company like group, though more....shall we say modern.

 

And yes before you ask, I am doing deep research into the 13th for this project. This is a personal project ment to have fun on the table top and to play either side of the field. My inspiration is the gw blood wolves.