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Hello,

 

Does anyone know of any fluff to do with Garviel Loken's company?

 

After getting Horus Rising free on iBooks (for this week only), I am inspired to make Garviel's company just for fun, and to make all the characters cited in the book.

 

Thanks.

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The first trilogy of the HH: Horus Rising, False Gods and Galaxy in Flames all focus on Loken, so you'll find out most of what we know about 10th Company there.

 

Notable members and Squads are as follows:

 

Loken (obviously :P )

 

Sergeant Xavyer Jubal (pre-Whisperheads) and Hellebore Tactical Squad

 

Sergeant Nero Vipus and Locasta Tactical Squad.

 

Can't think of anyone else of the top of my head, but there might be more.

Straight from Laurie Goulding himself (an editor at BL):

 

At the time of 'Horus Rising', Garviel Loken is Tenth Captain of the XVI Legion 'Luna Wolves'. Tenth Company is made up of about 300 legionaries, across 13 formal squads and command groups. The First Squad is called Hellebore, though Third Squad is Loken's favourite - Locasta Tactical Squad.

 

There are named sergeants for each squad:

Vipus of Locasta

Jubal of Hellebore

Rassek of the single Terminator squad

Talonus of Pithraes

Kairus of Walkure

and eight more.

 

Hope that helps!

 

 

Anyway, if there is anything else to say, it might be that Loken is a semi-senior captain, and he could have one or two centurion-level captains leading squads in tenth company. He doesn't appear to, though.

In Horus Rising, when they were embarking onto Stormbirds to go to Whisperheads, it said something like 300 of them were embarking on this deck into 6 stormbirds, and another 6 stormbirds on the other side of the ship. So I concluded his company should be around 600 strong, or I'm missing something? Of course there are only 13 sergeants, not enough to deal with 600 marines, but...

In Horus Rising, when they were embarking onto Stormbirds to go to Whisperheads, it said something like 300 of them were embarking on this deck into 6 stormbirds, and another 6 stormbirds on the other side of the ship. So I concluded his company should be around 600 strong, or I'm missing something? Of course there are only 13 sergeants, not enough to deal with 600 marines, but...

Well, according to Horus Heresy Book: 1 Betrayal the size of the companies in the 16th Legion varied vastly,  the smallest company recorded was only 36 marines and the largest company 972 marines.  

Well, according to Horus Heresy Book: 1 Betrayal the size of the companies in the 16th Legion varied vastly,  the smallest company recorded was only 36 marines and the largest company 972 marines.

 

Yes, I know that, but in addition we know that Loken had only 13 sergeants, which is not enough for 600 strong company. On the other hand, book is really old and naming was not yet established at the time, so could be that Abnett meant centuripns or senior sergeants or something like that?

 

Well, according to Horus Heresy Book: 1 Betrayal the size of the companies in the 16th Legion varied vastly,  the smallest company recorded was only 36 marines and the largest company 972 marines.

Yes, I know that, but in addition we know that Loken had only 13 sergeants, which is not enough for 600 strong company. On the other hand, book is really old and naming was not yet established at the time, so could be that Abnett meant centuripns or senior sergeants or something like that?

 

It's possible.

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