The Collected Works of Brotastic

[Conn Eremon]

You can check out my Eyes of Tivan. It is completed in the sense that I have nothing else to add, and everyone has seemed to like it rather than critique it.

 

But if you mean completed as in formatted with all those headers and sidebars popular in finishes IA/ITs, then it is not.

 

Link is on my such, but it is also on the first or second page.

[Gorkimedes]

Not worried about format just interested in seeing what others have included in their warband fluff. Loyalist chapters seem a bit more straightforward since most include sections on the homeworld etc.

[Conn Eremon]

For mine, I removed gene-seed and home world, and created two additional Origin categories to make up for it. Pre-Heresy, Heresy and post-Heresy.

 

But the ITs can have as much as IAs do.

 

Gene-seed sections can include the effects of the Warp such as mutations, ascensions or spawnhood. Plenty of Warbands may have ports of call, like worlds, ships, outposts, both within the Warp-tainted regions like the Eye and the Maelstrom or without.

 

Removing too many might make it seem bareboned, but perhaps that is fitting. You can always expand more on others, like the Origins, or add something else, like Recruitment, to retain that bulk. Perhaps something that reveals their standing among other Traitors. Do they have allies, are they subordinated to another force. Are they loyal to the Warmaster, or are they segregated and ostracized.

[Gorkimedes]

Figured I'd work on stuff in separate posts and move it up when I'm done. Don't want to risk breaking the glass bridge that is this formatting.

M.35 The 10th Astartes founding takes place. The Iridescent are created and spend the first three centuries of their service crusading in space not under the domain of Terra.

M. 35 The Iridescent begin to recruit solely from the world Mubala

M. 36 The charter creating Sector Altansar is ratified by the High Lords of Terra acting in the Emperor's stead

M.36 16th Astartes founding, the Knights of Pir and Solar Foxes are given homeworlds within Sector Altansar

M.36The Altansar League is formed to encourage unity and brotherhood between the chapters in the sector

M. 37War on Hiveworld Do'Lesch

M.37The Burning of Mubala, the homeworld of the Iridescent is attacked by a warband led by Tryket Verinan. Several prominent members turn rogue during the battle but the loyalty of the chapter as a whole is deemed fit. Harvests upon the burned world are halted for several years. Without the vital chemicals taken from the planet millions die from otherwise treatable wounds and illnesses.

M.41Massacre of Pir and Heshet, homeworlds of two of the sectors Astartes chapters are attacked with devastating results. Recovery is deemed possible but uncertain

M.41Sector Altansar is used as the staging grounds for the formation of a crusade to retake the neighboring Sector Mariastana after it secedes from the Imperium

[Gorkimedes]

So the basic idea behind one of the chapters I was working on is that they royally messed up early on and are constantly seeking to rid themselves of weakness and make up for this failing. I had them spending decades are scouts, needing to prove themselves over and over. Chaplains torturing them in the pain-glove etc.

 

But recently in class we were using a handout that had this on it

 

"The amygdala is central to fear. When a rare brain disease destroyed the amygdala ( but no other brain structures) in the patient neurologists call "S.M.." fear disappeared from her mental repitoire. She became unable to identify looks of fear on other people's faces, nor to make such an expression herself. As her neurologist put it, " If someone put a gun to S.M.'s head, she would know intellectually to be afraid but she would not feel afraid as you or I would.""

 

Idea got me wondering, would messing with their brains be something in character for a space marine? Perhaps they rob themselves of fear but this causes them to have a sour relationship with guardsmen of the sector? Constantly putting the soldiers in harms way and not understanding why they're upset.

 

Thoughts?

 

 

[Lord-Captain Cepinari]

Maybe. I seem to recall there being at least one 40k story where a Marine said the "and they shall know no fear" part of DA EMPRAH's speech wasn't entirely accurate, and that Marines don't not feel fear so much as they've become really really good at controlling it, so a Chapter that tried a different approach with some side effects might be interesting.

[Conn Eremon]

It kind of goes back and forth, but most descriptions that I have seen have Marines being exactly like S.M.. I think it was Loken that described it best in the opening Horus Heresy trilogy. Marines don't face fear. They don't overcome fear. They are not unaffected by fear.

 

Fear just . . . doesn't happen.

 

But sometimes, something happens that is just too dangerous, too frightening, for even an Astartes. When that happens, they are intellectually aware of it and they wonder if that is what fear is. But they have no concept of it. It is as alien to them as a sentient microbial organism that thinks in the seven dimensions is to us.

 

So, according to most depictions, S.M. stands for Space Marines, though it takes something particularly exceptional for them to even have that intellectual awareness S.M. has when in danger.

[Lord-Captain Cepinari]

Also, the ability to radically alter someone's personality and emotions by carving out chunks of their brain is extremely scary.