The Voidrippers are a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Blood God Khorne that plague the Caligari Sector of the Segmentum Tempestus.
Led by the Chaos Lord Kairn Golgarth, the Voidrippers were originally members of the Loyalist Stormwatchers Space Marine Chapter, which serves as the Chamber Militant of the Caligari Conclave of the Inquisition.
Warband History[]
The Stormwatchers Astartes who originally formed the Voidrippers fell to Chaos and then turned on their Loyalist brethren on their homeworld of Ascalon. When the massacre was over, the Voidrippers believed that they had wiped the rest of the Stormwatchers from existence.
The Voidrippers took up residence on a former Imperial star fort called the Fort of Echoes and used it as a base of operations to plague the Caligari Sector as they sought more skulls for Khorne's Skull Throne.
But the Stormwatchers had not gone extinct. Instead, the survivors had retreated ever deeper into secrecy in an attempt to protect the surviving Loyalists from a further assault by the Voidrippers.
This pushed the Stormwatchers closer into the embrace of the sector's conclave of Inquisitors, which used the Stormwatchers as their personal agents on classified Inquisitorial missions.
Later, an Inquisitor, allied with Grand Master Godfrey Magnusson, one of the surviving Loyalist Stormwatchers, invaded the Fort of Echoes in an attempt to reduce the Voidrippers' depredations upon the sector. The mission succeeded in removing the star fort from realspace into the Immaterium. But this raid also revealed to their treacherous brethren that the Stormwatchers had not been entirely destroyed.
Swearing vengeance in the name of Khorne, the Voidrippers under the command of the Chaos Lord Kairn Golgarth assembled an army comprised of Voidrippers, Khornate Chaos Cultists, mutated beasts, Bloodletters and Blood Slaughterers called the "Goreforged" to invade the Stormwatchers' homeworld of Ascalon.
The surviving Stormwatchers proved equal to the task and defeated the Voidrippers' invasion with the aid of the Inquisitor who had led the mission upon the Fort of Echoes. Grand Master Magnusson personally slew Kairn Golgarth and banished the Herald of Khorne the Chaos Lord had summoned during their duel.
Notable Voidrippers[]
- Chaos Lord Kairn Golgarth (KIA) - Kairn Golgarth was the commanding Chaos Lord of the Voidrippers. It was under his leadership that the Voidrippers gathered a significant army of the Khornate forces present in the Caligar Sector known as the Goreforged to launch an invasion of the Stormwatchers' Chapter homeworld of Ascalon. Golgarth met Grand Master Godfrey Magnusson of the Stormwatchers in a duel to the death and was slain by the grand master alongside the Herald of Khorne he had summoned into realspace.
Warband Appearance[]
Warband Colours[]
The Voidrippers wore the typical blood-red power armour preferred by Khornate Heretic Astartes with brass trim, both the sacred colours of the Blood God.
Warband Badge[]
The Voidrippers' warband badge is based on the original icon of the Stormwatchers, namely a stylised Power Fist. The Voidrippers have a downwards-facing Astartes gauntlet, fingers spread wide, with a red eye placed within the centre.
The gauntlet lies at the centre of an eight-pointed Star of Chaos with the Eye of Horus beneath.
Sources[]
- Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor Martyr (Video Game)