A kill-team of Cadian Neo-917th Brood Brothers and Genestealer hybrids known as the "Wardens of the Verse" charge the force of Leagues of Votann Hernkyn Yaegirs known as Need's Gaârd.
Need's Gaârd is a unit of Hernkyn Yaegirs of the Leagues of Votann in service to the Farsail of Thryk Kindred of the Trans-Hyperian Alliance. They took part in the conflict that enveloped the Kin on the contested Forge World of Bheta-Decima during the Era Indomitus.
History[]
Need's Gaârd is a team of Hernkyn Yaegirs of the Farsail of Thryk Kindred who were deployed from the downed Quicksilver-class Scout Ship Vektrônn's Eye on the contested Forge World of Bheta-Decima. During the combat over the Deeprealm that was the name of the subterranean citadel of the Genestealer Cult known as the Cult of the Chittering Verse's Genestealer Patriarch, Extrication Craft Thargr 7 carrying Need's Gaârd from the Vektrônn's Eye was shot down by enemy fire.
The Kin's team leader Vynn Dreygr and his squad survived the crash but were forced to regroup as they sought to secure a Legacy Vault present in the Deeprealm, a critical Kin artefact present on Bheta-Decima that they sought to secure and return to the Votann. A Legacy Vault is an advanced Leagues of Votann cogitator technology that allows the neural makeup of individual Kin who have been slain far from their holds to be secured and stored in order to one day be rejoined with their distant Ancestor Core. To recover these neural patterns is a primary task of the Kin's Hernkyn.
An Ironbraek of the Need's Gaârd Hernkyn Yaegirs; an Ironbraek is a master sapper and explosives specialist of the Yaegirs' elite infantry teams.
The Kin kill-team fortified their position at the crash site while fending off repeated ambushes from infected Brood Brothers of the cult's Cadian Neo-917th, a former Astra Militarum regiment that had come wholly under the control of the Chittering Verse's Broodmind during its time deployed to Bheta-Decima. The guidance of the cult's magus was pivotal in this first contact, as her psychic focus allowed the commander of a Cadian Neo-917th unit named Jerran Krauss to discover the Kin's movements after they unleashed a counteroffensive on the Brood Brothers as a distraction.
As the Brood Brothers of the opposing Cadian Neo-117th unit known as the "Wardens of the Verse" launched coordinated attacks under the guidance of Krauss and the magus, the Kin retaliated fiercely but were ultimately forced to seek out a generatorium that could be used to power-up the damaged Legacy Vault so that the transfer of its precious data could begin.
The Kin discovered their communications had been compromised by the cultists, leading to an ambush by the Brood Brothers at a generator site. The situation became dire when a Purestrain Genestealer revealed itself, accompanied by more Brood Brothers and a powerful female Clamavus. Despite heavy losses, including the near-death of Vynn Dreygr, the Kin managed to fend off their attackers temporarily.
In the end, the remaining members of Need's Gaârd held out at the generatorium site while Dreygyr made a solo journey back to the Vektronn's Eye for reinforcements, leaving his team to defend the Legacy Vault. The team was resigned to fight to the death, knowing that through the Legacy Vault, their knowledge and sacrifice would return to the Votann, ensuring that their legacy would endure even if their lives did not.
Sources[]
- Kill Team: Termination (Specialist Game), pp. 4-9, 27-28