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My WH40k army,a new Human faction.

History:

When the Emperor started unification of Mankind, he came across system consisting of 5 planetary systems. Here live the highly advanced Humans who greet the Emperor and sway their loyalties to him. They share their technological genius with Adeptus Mechanicus and Imperium as a whole. But, they also led politic that Mankind should live with non hostile aliens at peace. They where not very popular in the top of Imperial body with their ideas, but the Emperor like it and left it for "to-do list" when the unification of Humanity was complete. But, sadly, Horus Heresy begun and Battle for Terra was waging. Overseers use their advanced warships to counter traitor fleet, eventually defeating it - but with a heavy cost. After Horus Heresy was over, and Emperor put on the Gloden Throne, Overseers have come under suspicion by the agents of Inquisition. Even with the Primarchs opposition to their plan, the Inquisition getter large force and attack the Overseer worlds. In one week it was over, of countless billions Overseers only 3 billion survive the mayhem. They fled to the Halo zone, hoping that Inquisition would not follow them there. There they meet Virions, a race of powerful alien race - but quite peaceful. They give Virions their technology and make bond that last even now. And now they are slowly rebuilding their society, free from the Inquisitorial threat. With the Virions help they continue their technological advancement and now they are most advanced civilization in galaxy. With ships that can go across the galaxy in a matter of hours, and highly trained infantry with personal shielding. Even if they are renegades to the Imperials, they have many times came to aid them against the forces of disorder. They also help other alien races, like the Tau or Eldar. They have many friends within the Imperium. Various planetary governors, Space Marine chapters - even some Sister of Battle orders. And together with the Virions, they are waiting time when the galaxy will be in most need of help. Or when the final battle against Chaos will take place...

Codex:

Location: Halo zone, more than 15 planetary systems.

Population: around 150 billion

Capital world: Ilos (population 11.5 billion)

Main allies: Virions

Other allies: Tau Empire, Eldar Craftworlds of Biel-Tan, Ulthwe, Alaitoc and Iyanden, some Imperial officials.

Battle strategy: mainly highly advanced armor, highly trained infantry and special units.
Fleet: Highly advanced ships with tremendous firepower.

Tactics: hitting on poorly defensible positions and supply paths. Using heavy units to punch trough fortresses and heavy defensible positions. Using fleet only when necessary...have a heavy load of EMP torpedoes specially design to disable ships of other factions.

Main ideology: the Code of Honor (made with the Emperor on Terra before the Heresy), the Code is followed by every Overseer alive. The Code suggest to help anyone in any time, no matter the race or the belief.

Psyhic ability: none at all, with their obsession with reason and technology warp do not have affects on the Overseers. But they use the Warp in same way as the Imperial, but they can go trough it with FTL drives.

Technology: Highly advanced, they use Cold Fusion and Warp generation to power their cities. Food or water is no problem with energy generator that can make anything from molecules around it (much like Replicators is Star Trek). There is no traffic jams or traffic with the use of state of the art Teleporters, witch have power to teleport person from planet to planet with the range of an entire solar system. Infantry rifles use nano sized bullets witch have the power like Tau pulse rifle, and generator that is producing them. They can never ran out of ammunition, but their rifles can overheat (like rifles from Mass Effect 1). For close combat they use small plasma sword on their hand (similar like Protoss in Starcraft), and for defense every solder have shield generator. And in case of emergence on their left wrist they have nano-shield generator - when active it can produce nano-shield 1m in diameter for personal protection (similar like Shadow Broker in Mass Effect 2 DLC "Lair Of The Shadow Broker).

Biology: similar like Imperial Human, but can live around 2500 years.

Special ability:
-instant teleportation (like Eldar Warp spider, but faster)
-massive EMP attack (for disabling enemy fleets and armor companies)
-quick hit and run actions (for breaking the enemy positions)

Army list:

HQ:
-Commander
-Admiral
-Tactical officers

Special units:
-Teleport Commando
-Assasination team
-Ilos Guard

Troops:
-Overseer Marines

Heavy support:
-Overseer Anti-tank team
-Overseer Tactical nuke team

Vehicles:
- M-44 "Dorn" medium tank
- M-55 "Lion" heavy tank
- M-88 "Emperor" super-heavy battle tank
- "Tornado" transport
- "Watcher" AA tank
- "Mech M-04" support heavy mech
- "Mech L-03" close combat heavy mech

Fast attacks:
- "Reapers" heavy close-combat jet pack troops
- "Lightning" high speed infantry support vehicle

Other:
- "Raptor" high orbit support fighter (similar to F-22 Raptor)
- "Lasta" high orbit drop ship
- "Wrath" gunship
- "Cyclone" high altitude support gunship (like Specter Gunship from C&C Generals)

Overseers in 41'st Millennium:

In the grim darkness of the far future, Overseers and Virions are only faction in galaxy engaged in helping others. The main concern of Overseers are Necrons, Tyranids and Chaos. Rising of the Necrons mean extinction on galactic scale. Tyranids mean not only extinction, but also death of billions of worlds. While Warp energies meant that our whole universe is in danger of being consume in the eternity of madness and suffering.

Overseers have one more problem at their hand...their technology is not compatible with the effects of the warp. Witch means that the closer the Overseer fleet is to Eye Of Terror (where the Warp field effect is at it's strongest) the technology is that much useless to them. There are even the reports of Overseer ships shutting down, their shield and weapons overload and explode or even entire outpost run out of power for being close to the wapr storm. In that case, Overseers use Virion technology (origin are Overseer, but Virions develop in their own way...) witch is more stable in the proximity of warp fields.

Main task of the Overseers in 41'st Millennium is to bring the Emperor back, but the conditions of Emperor's body is to bad to try anything and even if they found a way - the Inquisition won't give them permission to get near Terra. Overseer scientist are still far away for finding a formula to super-regeneration witch would bring the Emperor's body at state it was 10.000 years ago. But, they are very close to the formula that helped the Emperor to create original Space Marine Legion, that will allow to renew the creation of Space Marine chapters and bring so needed stability to some sectors of the galaxy.

Notable Overseers:

-Grand Chancellor Mathew (Leader of the Grand Council on Ilos)
-General Alexander (Commander in Chief of Overseer forces, Commander of veteran 35'th Milon Regiment - the original Home world of Overseers witch was destroyed by Inquisitorial strike force after the Horus Heresy)
-Captain Marcus (Captain of elite Ilos Guard)
-"Fisher" (Best Commando that Overseers have, survived more than 1000 missions over 300 years)
-Admiral Archer (Commander in Chief of Overseer fleet, Commander of 2'nd fleet that guard Ilos)
-Sgt. Ashley (Sargent of Assault troops of 35'th Milon Regiment, Alexander 2'nd in command)

Overseer quotes:

"Forget your past life son, you are in the army now. Here there are lot of individuals, but in combat you become one large body. And if one part of this body fail's the whole body dies. Remember that and you will stay alive"
-General Alexander gives speech to new regruts - 41.032 -

"We Overseers have one important rule: don't f*** with Virions"
-Message to Inquisition fleet invading Overseer space - 39.589 -

"Chaos, Orks, Necrons, Tyranids... mankind have more than enough enemies at their hands.... Let's hope we can make them see reason and made alliance with the Eldar and Tau. Or we will all suffer because of their stubbornness."
-Grand Chancellor Mathew giving speech on Ilos - 40.999 -

"The only thing worth dying, is the thing that is worth living for"
-unknown Overseer solder-

"Don't worry sir, well be back in 5 minutes."
-Last words of Sargent Harrison shortly before planet Seviron V was overrun by Tyranids - 41.989 -

"Look at Virions, they are tall, they are proud, and they are bad-ass"
-Sargent Ashley - 40.336 -

"Imperium should have been our greatest hope, but instead it become land of opportunity for those corrupted by power. They are superstitious, have no love for aliens and barely holding the enemies of Man at bay. Thank God for Space Marines"
-General Alexander in Virion military academy on Imperium - 40.589 -

If they are running from the Inquisition why would they be allied with some Sister of Battle orders?

They sound interesting it's just that part stood out the most to me.

Unfortunately their highly advanced tech might also gain some suspicion from the Adeptus Mechanicus. I'd say to avoid the Inquisition they would need to be extremely wary about which members of the Imperium they communicate with.

As for the EMP, they'd be largely useless I'm afraid. Tau has significant shielding, and I'm only assuming the Imperial ones would too. Eldar and Necron technology would be completely immune to begin with. Maybe something about the missile sending out nano-bots.

n0t_u wrote:If they are running from the Inquisition why would they be allied with some Sister of Battle orders?

They sound interesting it's just that part stood out the most to me.

Unfortunately their highly advanced tech might also gain some suspicion from the Adeptus Mechanicus. I'd say to avoid the Inquisition they would need to be extremely wary about which members of the Imperium they communicate with.

As for the EMP, they'd be largely useless I'm afraid. Tau has significant shielding, and I'm only assuming the Imperial ones would too. Eldar and Necron technology would be completely immune to begin with. Maybe something about the missile sending out nano-bots.

Because they help them several times, so in good faith those SoB orders are helping them if they are in the sector.
Do not worry about the Inquisition, Overseer state is in Halo star zone. No Imperial ship have ever got there and came back.
I was thinking the same thing, conventional EMP is useless. But with some modifications...it could disable even Necron ship. They have Virions to help them with nano-technology, and each they they discover some new things to use in their war against forces of disorder.

The Oversers look like an awesome army, if only you could show us some pics of them, maybe use some as reference.

/sorry but inqusitors did not exist yet at the time of the HH, although supposedly they big emp has started it with Nathanial Garro, but they would not of come into power for some time...
But overall i like your fluff!

Lord of battles wrote:/sorry but inqusitors did not exist yet at the time of the HH, although supposedly they big emp has started it with Nathanial Garro, but they would not of come into power for some time...
But overall i like your fluff!

They are driven off AFTER the Horus Heresy, some 60 years after that. Because of their idea of living with non-humans in peace.
Thanks for your support, I will continue to update on them.

Overall I like your army, especially since i'm no good with making up stories for my own chapters and such. Also, I know this isn't what you meant but when you said living in peace with non-humans i pictured a Space Marine and a Tyranid.

the inquisition wasn't a major player till long after the loss of the primarches i think