Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-3416287-20140306195559

Mine is the eleventh legion, aka. the Void Dragons. Their primarch Maximus, was found on the world Arete. The humans on Arete had managed to maintain their advanced technology. The world was also populated by several other alien species. Maximus was originally raised by a family of Lacrymoles, but when his great intelligence and physical ability was discovered, the ruling family adopted him in order to give him an advanced education. This environment allowed for Maximus to become very open minded. However, the planet was in close proximity to Ork and Dark Eldar worlds. The conflict brought about by this allowed Maximus to learn the art of war.

When the Emperor came, much of the human population was dismayed that all of the alien inhabitants had to go, but put up no resistance to the genocide. Maximus had to watch as his Lacrymole family was executed. Maximus became the leader of a resistance movement that's aim was remove the Imperial presence from Arete. Due to Maximus' tactical prowess, the resistance was able to last for a long time. However, the resistance was crushed and Maximus was captured. Maximus was brought before the Emperor who told Maximus that he was his father, and offered him the position as primarch of the XI legion. Maximus agreed, but on one condition, he would be given his human family so that he may punish them for not helping the xenos population of Arete. The Emperor saw this as acceptable, and agreed to let Maximus fight his former family to death, in the arena.

During his time as primarch, he often came into conflicts with the Emperor and the other primarchs. Maximus was against exterminating xenos that had surrendered. This caused him to become distant from the others, though he was particularly close to Magnus(because both appreciated psykers), Alpharius/Omegon & Corax(because all were fond of unconventional tactics), and Ferrus Manus(because both were very interested in technology). But not even his best brothers could help him when the Emperor finally decided that Maximus was too difficult to control. A civil war was fought between Maximus and the rest of the Imperium. Maximus and the Void Dragons lost, but as Maximus' ship was going down, he interred himself in a statis pod and made a desperate teleport jump through the warp.

Maximus' pod ended up on an uncharted planet. There he sleeps, until the day that someone awakens him so that he may serve the Imperium once again... 