Last saturday, or maybe sunday, some people rolled up a new Spess Mehreen chapter. This is a follow-up thread to create some more fluff for them, if anybody cares/wants to do that.
Okay, so we're an Iron Hands successor, founded in the 40th Millenium, on a Crusade. We hate Heretics and have a tendency to destroy everything. Being an IH descendant, we have a fondness for bionics but we’re not as manic about it as our predecessor.
Our Occulobes are oversensitive, which gives us 'night vision' but makes it hard for us to see in 'daylight', but are otherwise fine mutation-wise. Because of this Bionic Eyes are the most common augmentation to be seen in our chapter.
One of our old Chapter-Masters was a fucking badass who led many glorious campaigns and slayed countless foes of the Emperor... until, for reasons unknown to us, he was slain along with a significant portion out our chapter by the Officio Assassinorum, leaving us understrength.
Our Homeworld is a Feral Desert world, called Kerakion, that we really only bother with when we need something/something important happens, otherwise we let the Planetary Governor run it for us. Most of our Space Marines come from Kerakion, but we use some other feral worlds for recruitment too.
We diverge from the Codex Astartes a bit, but not too much, and specialize in Terror tactics. We have a special fighting style (general consensus is that we use dual chain-axes, though that could still change) which helps us with that, possibly helped along by our buddies in the Admech.
We venerate the Emperor above all, like any good Imperial Citizen should, and have an immense hatred for the Emperor's Children, especially one particular EC-led warband, called the Scions of Lust, that we slaughtered at one point. Unfortunately enough members escaped to reform the Warband with new recruits - most of the survivors were Emperor’s Children, who are much more resistant to our terror tactics than the mortal cultists.
TL;DR We’re a loyalist Iron Hands descendant who act like a mix between the World Eaters and the Night Lords, with a hateboner for the Emperor’s Children.
>[Still Unnamed Chapter]'s Tactics
>The [Insert Name Here] are a lesser-known descendant of the Iron Hands, known primarily for slaughter of their slaughter of the Scions of Lust, a Slaaneshi-worshipping Chaos warband led by some Emperor's Children traitor marines, during the Battle of Mytus V.
>The [Insert Name Here] are usually recruited from Feral Worlds, especially their Homeworld of Kerakion, a harsh Desert planet that spends half the year locked in day and the other half locked in night due to it's rather bizarre orbit around it's system's star. Because of this, their armour is often decorated with primitive trinkets, such as the remains of their enemies, with the purpose of intimidation.
>While the trinkets probably help, the primary reason the [Insert Name Here] are so effective in inducing terror into their enemies comes down to their habits of forcing their enemies to fight them in the dark where they have an advantage, their brutal fighting style, their relationship with the Adeptus Mechanicus usually allowing them to get bionics specifically crafted with intimidation in mind and other associated tactics that were definitely not inspired/taken from records of the Night Lords, because that would be heresy..
Possible Names:
>Blooded Hands (OP’s favourite)
>Iron Sovereigns
>Steel Gorgons (Seemingly the most popular)
>Iron Dragons
>Hands of Vengeance (OP’s third favourite)
>Blood Hounds
>Iron Hounds (OP’s second favourite)
>Brazen Bulls
>Iron Rocs
>Steel Ghouls
>Brass Sphinxes
>Silver Wyrms
>Centaurs
>Iron Chimeras
>Steel Titans
>Iron Giants
If people aren't interested I'll try again tomorrow, at an earlier time hopefully.
>>47718650
>have a tendency to destroy everything
> for reasons unknown to us, he was slain along with a significant portion out our chapter by the Officio Assassinorum
I think I discovered the reason behind your epidemic of suicide by gunshot to the back of the head.
>>47719683
Y'know, that might just be it.
Really? Not a single person?
Damn...
Feral desert recruitment planet? Iron/Crimson/Blood Jackals
>>47721741
That's pretty similar to the Bloood/Iron Hounds idea.
