Liber Challenge: Order of the Trident

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Name: Order of the Trident

 

Homeworld: Poseidon

 

Founder's name: Magos Athena Erectheus

 

History: The Order of the Trident was not founded under the Ministorum's aegis, but under the Adeptus Mechanicus'. It was originally a unit of female Skitarii, raised on the forge world of Poseidon during the Age of Apostasy, given arms and armor similar to the Brides of the Emperor so they may defend the Mechanicus' interests from Goge Vandire's excesses. At the time, the Mechanicus forbid Ministorum Priests setting foot upon its worlds; this law was a source of much conflict between the organizations. After Vandire's fall, Sebastian Thor asked the Mechanicus to repeal this law and restore peace between it and the Ministorum. The Order of the Trident "escorted" Ministorum Priests as they ministered to workers on forge worlds- in truth, to monitor the Priests' actions, restrict their movements, and to censure them if they speak out against the Mechanicus- this initially caused conflicts between the Order of the Trident and the Adepta Sororitas members who served as the Priests' honor guards, but the Sisters reconciled when a Ministorum Priest uncovered a Heretek cell on Poseidon. Eventually, the Ministorum and Mechanicus Orders' beliefs began merging, and the Order of the Trident began to undertake duties traditionally assigned to the Adepta Sororitas, such as providing charity to the poor.

 

Beliefs: The Sisters venerate the Emperor in his guise as the Omnissiah, the "Machine God" the Adeptus Mechanicus worships. They wear the Mechanicus' cogwheel emblem in place of the Aquila. As a Skitarii unit, they do not answer to the Ecclesiarch's authority, but to the Fabricator-General's.

 

Notable Sisters: Amphitrite Halosydne, a Centurion during the Battle for Poseidon (note the Skitarii rank), to whom the Steel Confessors gifted a shock claymore in honor of her valor. Caenis Atrax, a Praetorian during the Second War for Armageddon, named a Living Saint for holding up a tank manufactorum's roof (which was structurally weakened due to an Ork artillery attack) so the workers may finish assembling their vehicles and then drive to safety in the completed tanks; she let go when the Orks entered the manufactorum to loot it, killing approximately 96-100 of the xenos; her augmetic enhancements allowing her to survive the structure's collapse, and she was martyred in the act of impaling an Ork Nob upon the broken barrel of her arm-mounted autocannon.

 

Notable allies: Iron Hands, Steel Confessors/Steel Crusaders, Skitarii

 

Significant battles joined: Battle for Poseidon (10th Black Crusade). Second and Third Wars for Armageddon

 

Specialty: Armored assault, air and artillery support

Edited March 20, 2015 by Bjorn Firewalker

[Bjorn Firewalker]

http://orig12.deviantart.net/533d/f/2015/079/1/8/sister_of_the_order_of_the_trident_by_armamentdawg-d8mi7jm.jpghttp://bolterandchainsword.com/ss.php?

The red is to represent the Adeptus Mechanicus. The armor color is supposed to be steel-gray, with silver fleur-de-lis. (I intended to replace the Aquila and the Inquisition symbol with the Mechanicus Cogwheel, but that's currently beyond my abilities.)

 

FINALLY got the ing thing to work. Thank you for your help, Spacefrisian, Furyou Miko, Knurd, and Conn Eremon.

Edited March 22, 2015 by Bjorn Firewalker

[Spacefrisian]

Hover over the 2nd row of icons, there is this square blue greenish thingy that says "image". Click on that and you get an url request, just copy paste the url and presto you have posetd youre image.

 

BTW, the img code (if you know it) doesnt work.

Edited March 20, 2015 by Spacefrisian

[Bjorn Firewalker]

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Edited March 22, 2015 by Bjorn Firewalker

[*Furyou Miko]

You'll need to screen cap it (Print Scrn if windows), paste it into an image editor (MS Paint, GIMP, whatever), save it, upload it to your gallery, then get the URL of that image for the [img ] tags

[Bjorn Firewalker]

Added two notable Sisters to my entry. Note that, as the "Sisters" are Skitarii, they regularly replace their flesh-and-blood limbs with weapons, caterpillar treads, turbines and anti-gravitic plates...

[Knurd]

I had a similar problem. I right clicked the finalized picture and clicked on Copy Image URL. Then used that link to post the picture.

[Conn Eremon]

Couple other ways to go about it:

1. Right-click on image. Save it as a jpg/png/whatever. Upload.

 

2. Open imgur or something similar in another tab. Click and hold the Sisters image, drag it over to the imgur tab and drop it when the upload pop-up appears. Use provided image link.

[Bjorn Firewalker]

http://orig05.deviantart.net/7de0/f/2015/081/e/c/sister_of_the_order_of_the_trident_by_armamentdawg-d8ms9dn.png

I changed the collar from gray to red, darkened the colors, and used a Sons of Medusa decal from http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/files/file/77-sons-of-medusa-decal-sheet/ to represent the Mechanicus cogwheel. (The Adeptus Mechanicus decals from http://www.bolterandchainsword.com/files/file/107-adeptus-mechanicus-decal-sheet/ were too large.)

[Bjorn Firewalker]

I recently wrote fluff and rules for the kitbashed result of replacing a Knight's torso with the Land Raider chassis, and mounting the Land Raider's sponson-mounted weapons on the Knight's forearms. I thought the Sisters deserved a variant for themselves. I considered naming it the "Knight Latona", after Leto's Roman name (she's the goddess of motherhood, who gave birth to Apollo and Artemis); or the "Knight Cleito" (Cleito gave Poseidon ten sons, who were rulers of Atlantis); ultimately, I think "Knight Nereid" is most appropriate for the theme.

 

Differences between the Nereid and the Conquistador (its Space Marine counterpart) include mounting an Exorcist missile launcher on the carapace, and replacing the forearm-mounted twin-lascannons with twin-multi-meltas. (Hurricane bolters and flamestorm cannons are already an option.)

Edited December 11, 2017 by Bjorn Firewalker