IL XX Alabaster Order

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*IMPERIAL LEGION*

~XX~

~*~ALABASTER ORDER~*~

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

A LEGION IN SUPPORT

THE PLANET PARADIS TROVATO

HISTORY OF GUSTAVE

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GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Numeration: XX (Twentieth) 

 

Cognomen: The Alabaster Order

 

Primogenitor: Gustave Dunant

 

Noteworthy Domains: Paradis Trovato,(Homeworld) The Fegefeuer System 

 

Fortress Monastery: The Turm de Misericordia (Tower of Mercy)

 

Allegiance: Traitorious Perdita (Nurgle)

 

Flagship: Heilung della Souffrance (Cure of Suffering)

 

Colors: White Primary, with limited Red Accents

 

Strength: 100,000

 

Original Recruitment Area: Europa, Franc, and Jermani

 

Motto: Tu nichts, es muss weniger Schaden angerichtet werden (Do no harm, less harm need be done)

 

Symbol: An equilateral white cross on a red field.

 

Observed Strategic Tendencies: Humanitarian Operations, Front Line Legion Support, Rapid Aerial Insertions and Extractions. Strong Infantry focus, with vehicular support.

 

Rank Structure:

 

Alabaster Order 

(lowest to highest)

 

Rank and file:

 

Einleiten - Aspirants.

Funktionär - Initiate of the Medical Corps.

Feldmediziner - Brother of the Medical Corps.

Leitmediziner - Ärzteteam (medical team) leader.

 

Veterans:

 

Apotheker - Veteran Brother of the Medical Corps.

Apotheker Adept - Leader of a Rettungssanitäter. (emergency medical team)

 

Command:

 

Apotheker Primus - Second Surgeon.

Chirurg - Lead Surgeon of a Medical Corps.

 

Anathame Brotherhood 

(lowest to highest)

 

Rank and file:

 

Aspirants

Neophytes

Ritter Bruder - Battle Brother

Ritter Sergeant - Sergeant

 

Veterans:

 

Haubenritter - Veteran Battle Brother

Haubenritter Sergeant - Veteran Sergeant

 

Command:

 

Kommandant der Ritter - Captain

Großmeister - Grand Master

 

Secondary Ranks:

 

Behandlung Der Chirurg - In charge of the monitoring and implantation of both Neophytes of the Amathame Brotherhood, and Funktionär of the Medical Corps.

Behandlung Der Apotheker - monitors the progress, and assists in the implantation process of Neophytes and Funktionär.

Leiter der Kybernetik - In charge of a Corps' cybernetics department.

Kybernetik Apotheker - works in the Cybernetics department.

Leitender Bioingenieur - In charge of Bioengineering and research.

Bioingenieur Apotheker - works in the Bioengineering and research department.

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A Legion in Support

 

Drawn primarily from the populations of Europa, Franc, and Jermani, the Twentieth Legion would only see limited action by the closing days of the Unification of Terra. Under the command of Legion Commander Koloman Geiger, they would serve in mostly supporting roles alongside the more experienced Legionnaires of their fellow Legions. 

As the Legions marched forth into the stars, the Twentieth would continue to serve in this capacity, and as a result, the honor rolls of this period in the Imperium’s infancy make sparse reference to their exploits. So few are these accounts in fact, that even the most argent chronicler would find the task of researching the early years of the Twentieth a near impossible task. However, for the most determined of those that seek the truth, there is one event in the Legion’s history that remains readily accessible, even to this day, although the actual factors leading up to its tragic outcome are still a matter for debate among the scholars of the Imperium. An event known simply as the “Jupiter Incident.”

 

The Jupiter Incident

 

During the closing days of the Sol campaign, as the God-Emperor began to set his divine gaze beyond the borders of the cradle of Humanity; the Twentieth found themselves regrouping over the planet Jupiter, mustering in just one of the many orbital stations used by the Imperium. With the entire might of the Legion either aboard their docked ships, or aboard the station itself, it was deemed impossible that any enemy of the Imperium still present in the Sol system would be foolish enough to attack such a heavily defended location. As a result, though still inhumanly vigilant, the Legionnaires of the Twentieth were caught nearly unaware by the disaster that was about to befall them. A disaster orchestrated by a resistance cell present in the region at the time.

Whilst even the notion of such an organization existing in the God-Emperor’s Imperium of today seems mock-able at best, at the time various factions of dissidents remained within the borders of the Sol System. One such faction, known as the JRB, or Jupiter Resistance Block, operated small scale cells in Jupiter’s orbitals, as well as the various orbitals and stations of its moons. Though they had never been so blazen as to attack a Legion position in the past, they had managed to remain a surprisingly persistent thorn in the side of Imperial Command, attacking Army supply convoys and Imperial garrison patrols.

Though the exact details of how the attack was carried out remain a mystery, what is known is that a small cell of JRB operatives had somehow managed to infiltrate the station the Twentieth were occupying, and had assimilated into the station’s mortal population. Soon thereafter, the stations’ plasma reactors went critical, and gave birth to a small, short lived sun that consumed everything in its immediate vicinity, including just over ninety-thousand Legionnaires of the Twentieth Legion, as well as just under nine-tenths of their allotted fleet assets. 

 

A Legion Saved by Chance

 

By happenstance, Legion Commander Koloman Geiger, along with ten Chapters of the Legion that had deployed with him, were waylaid on their journey to the muster site by a humanitarian crisis occurring on a mining colony within Sol’s inner belt. As it lay just off their planned Warp route to the muster site, Geiger had ordered his fleet to respond to the colonist’s hails for aid. Though an unintended consequence, it would be this decision to help the citizens of the Imperium in need that would save the Legion from complete annihilation, and enable them to seek out the remnants of the JRB, and visit upon them a sort of wrath only the God-Emperor’s Angels of Death are capable of. Regardless, a legion so drastically reduced in strength was doomed to see themselves incorporated into the rosters of one of their fellow Legions, and well aware of this fact, the Twentieth resigned themselves to their fate. One that remained an ever present possibility for just over thirty-six years, and was prevented only by the timely intervention of the recently discovered Primarch of the Eighth Legion, Koschei Kharkovic.

 

The Dreamer

 

Impressed by the Twentieth’s perseverance, The Primarch Koschei, recently reunited with the Eighth Legion, the newly named Godslayers, took it upon himself to petition the God-Emperor himself to allow him to take the Twentieth under his command, until such time as their Primarch was discovered. While his request was granted, he determined that he would not interfere with the workings of the Legion, and allowed Legion Commander Koloman Geiger to retain his command. 

For just under ten years, the Twentieth served alongside the Eighth, and were fortunate to share with them the glories won under the leadership of Koschei Kharkovic. Through him, they were able to regain a measure of their lost honor, and though the process was slow, they were able to rebuild their numbers to about a quarter of what they had once had. Such was the state of the Legion, battered, but unbowed, that when they found themselves called to the planet Paradis Trovato they were able to stand before their Gene-sire, Gustave Dunant, with hope in their eyes, and pride in their hearts.

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The Planet Paradis Trovato

 

-WORK IN PROGRESS-

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GUSTAVE HISTORY

 

-WORK IN PROGRESS-

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"There are few things that will set the mind of a novice guardsmen at ease more effectively than the knowledge that the twentieth is supporting his campaign, for he knows, should he fall in combat, that there are few more gifted in the medical arts than the Apotheker of the Alabaster Order, and none more willing to stand between him, and those who would do him harm, than those brothers of the Amathame Brotherhood."

-Colonel Stonegrave, 28th Beoni Infantry Regiment.

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Alabaster Order Armorial with legion iconography

An Alabaster Order legionary

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The Scalpel of Choice

 

The value sought after by the Twentieth Legion among their recruits was vision. Martial skill, courage, discipline, while having their place, were placed secondary to the ability of the Legionary of the Twentieth to understand and to execute what Gustave believed to be the singular mission of his Legion: the preservation of Humanity. Every marine needed to understand that the battlefield was a mere physical barrier to what the true destiny of the Astartes was. That a Legionary's life was valued in only the lives of humanity could be saved. Only those who could adopt this creed within their spirit would be granted the opportunity to join their ranks. 

 

Undoubtedly, this emphasis on what might be labeled as the strategic objective is what allowed Gustave to produce an unusual number of transhuman doctors and medics. While intelligence was not presented as the same obstacle as vision was, there was a natural tendency for the Alabaster Order to seek out individuals who possessed the necessary mental aptitude to strengthen the apothecary corps. It was rumored that one reason the Twentieth Legion could compensate for its exacting recruitment protocols was the liberal use of its own medical specialties to find the young men who had the genetic components to produce a proper Astartes. Officially, the Alabaster Order denied any secret genetic testing methods not approved by the Mechanicum's Biologis wing and simply had a particularly stable gene-seed strain.

 

The difference in intelligence potential could often determine in which segment a new Legionary would serve. The higher the intelligence rating, the more likely the recruit would be encouraged to join the Alabaster Order. The less gifted recruits would often be relegated to the more militant Brotherhood wing of the Legion. Another important distinction would be attitude. Some recruits, for however bright they may be, could not accept the less martial Alabaster Order. Likewise, those who wanted to serve as best as they could in protecting humanity were given some role in the Order. 

 

Ultimately, though, a recruit did have the final say in their destination. The Twentieth Legion was loathe to force a decision upon a recruit who had resolved upon one Legion branch or the other. So long as they were ready to heal or die on the behalf of their parent species, Gustave was satisfied.

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Paradis Trovato

 

Paradis Trovato is the barren Civilised World that is the homeworld of Gustave Dunant and the Alabaster Order. Once a lush, temperate garden world, the population had spread throughout the planet, and coexisted peacefully. Science, the arts, and philosophy were common focuses.

 

 

A deadly disease known as the Ravager Plague broke out and swept across the world, infecting all the animals, humans and even plant life. The surviving humans were forced into living in domed mega-cities, with the rest of the planet being a barren wasteland roamed by nomadic tribes of scrappers. The Dome Dwellers fare little better, and appear as a people besieged by an invisible foe. All inhabitants wear Personal Protective Equipment (oftentimes worn or recycled), and any sign of sickness is violently cast out.

Medicae Adept Reine Lanicca

 

Reine Lanicca is a human woman, and is basically Gustave's research assistant. She's a brilliant doctor, and is unique in Gustave's circle as being someone who actually seems to understand Gustave's drive. She's probably best described as being in the height of her physical prime, with black hair, and glasses. She's prone to pushing her glasses up sub-conscientiously, and she chews on her stylus when she's thinking.

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Legionary and Armorial of the Amathame Brotherhood, the militant arm of the Alabaster Order

 

Art by Algrim Whitefang

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Art of the Primarch Gustave Dunant by Slaine