Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-4948356-20130516175846/@comment-23780769-20130926134204

my first post -  more the back ground to the Space Marines I play. Will contiune with more details in time. Feedback welcome!

The Geordie Legion/Chapter  =Official History= A Chapter of apparently loyalist Astartes, operating from a group of systems somewhere on the Northern edge of the segmentum obscurus. Their origins are unknown to almost all of the Imperium and there are no records on file before 997.M41. Members of the inquisition have grave fears over this chapter, though fiercely loyal to the Emperor and the Imperium they follow the Imperial Truth and do the official Imperial Creed.

They appear to field a large amount of arcane technology, to which the knowledge to create has been lost to the imperium. However they field a mixture of these older as well as modern patterns of armour and machines in combat. Some of the older items appear upgraded from original specifications.

It has also been noted that the Imperial Guard units that support this chapter refer to themselves as the 42nd Singles, Engineering And Logistics (42nd SEAL) regiment of the Imperial Army. There is report on file that mentions this regiment dated from M30 reporting them missing presumed lost just prior to the Great Crusade.

 =Their true History= 

The Birth of the Founder
The history of this Astartes legion begins during the Unification Wars.

During this time the Emperor was faced with a well organised opponent controlling his own small Kingdom within Albyon, who’s leader called himself The King of Northumbria, taking his name from an ancient title used in that area. He opposed Uilleam the Red.

The King of Northumbria knew that he could not stand upto the might of the Emperor and his armies, and knowing of their common for in Uilleam, he looked to diplomacy for a solution.

Seeing that diplomacy would offer a better solution the Emperor entered into negotiations. A solution was quickly reached. The King would lose his title, but manage this area in the Emperors name, and the Kings Daughter would be married to the Emperor (any noble would have satisfied the King, but the Emperor was rather taken by the young woman).

Soon after they were married both blessing and tragedy found the couple when the Princess died in childbirth, however the child, a boy named Steven survived.

Steven grew up in his father’s shadow. He was almost as powerful psyker as his farther, and as brilliant and engineer. However his was physically much weaker and lacked the prowess with weapons.

The Incident in the Imperial Palace.
The shadow of his Farther’s achievements and his Mother’s death always hang heavy on Steven. He longed for a way to impress his Farther and make up for the guilt he felt, Steven learnt much of genetic engineering even helping his farther in creating the Thunder Warriors.

As the Emperor started the Primarch program, so in the lab next door Steven worked on his own enhancement program, to improve himself, with access to a sample of the Emperor’s DNA Steven devised a series of 25 lab grown organs based on those used in the creation of the thunder warriors, that could be implanted into himself to produce the changes he wants.

The first 19 of these organs are the ones implanted into space marries to this day, the 20th was block unwanted psychic interference, and was the last to be implant to be made before the incident.

<p class="MsoNormal">The ruinous powers had been monitoring both the Emperor’s and his Son’s work via 25th implant, that would have enhanced Steven’s on psychic powers. The removing of this implant from it’s growth tank removed its psychic field from the remaining organs and allowing the ruinous powers to use the 25th implant as a medium to transmit their will, and bypass the countermeasures the Emperor has placed around his own lab. The ruinous powers scattered the 20 Primarchs across the Galaxy, blowing out Steven’s lab destroying the growth tanks of the other implants and killing everyone in the room bar Steven himself.

The Road to Exile
<p class="MsoNormal">Again wracked with more guilt over destroying his Farther’s work Steven spent his time with the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars, helping design a fleet of deep space craft to take his Farther’s plan to unify humanity into the stars, and the lost people from before the age of strife. At the same time the Emperor used the first 19 implants from his sons work to create 21 Adeptus Astartes legions, one based on the DNA from each of the Primarchs on his own work, and one on the DNA from his son’s work.

<p class="MsoNormal">The Legion based on Steven’s work had all be drawn from the area of Terra once controlled by the King of Northumbria and as no further genetic manipulation was required was the first to reach full strength. It was assigned to the first ships to be completed, including the flag ship St Mary’s Light along with support units from the Imperial Army (including the 42nd SEAL) and Adeptus Mechanicus. The Emperor himself named Steven and the commander of the fleet and they departed with one order, find your absolution. He named them the Geordie Legion.

<p class="MsoNormal">Steven vowed to complete the unification his farther desired, and return his lost step-brothers (the Primarch’s). Sadly his campaigned ended all too soon.

Into the Dark Space
<p class="MsoNormal">It did not take long for this fleet to attract unwanted attention, sensing a change that had been lost when they had not retained the Primarchs when they were taken from the imperial palace the ruinous powers attempted to envelope Steven’s fleet into the warp where they could be corrupted. However Steven’s own psychic might stopped this at a horrific cost.

<p class="MsoNormal">All men of the Imperial Army units bar the 42nd SEAL were utterly disintegrated and their physical form atomised and scattered into warp, the 42nd SEAL were saved only because they were aboard St Mary’s Light and protected by a psychic barrier Steve was able to place. The Geordie Legion, 42nd SEAL, Adeptus Mechanicus units and all the ships disappeared from normal space, and the immaterium and entered a real they called dark space. But the cost of this was Steven’s mind, which became the only link between dark space and real space.

<p class="MsoNormal">Their ships had power, but little propulsion, the one planet was in range. On it they settled to find a way home.

<p class="MsoNormal">

<p class="MsoNormal">Part 2 will cover the time until 997.M41 - The Webway project and the Astronomican's place in their history, limited returns to real space and the Dark Space rebellion (also called the Mackem Herrasy, equivalent of Horus Herrasy). Part 3 from 997.M41 to present will cover current dispoision and operations in real space with sizeable forces.