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As for Knight-Captain Aximander Jlas (my Sicarus counts-as) up there, the bit of fluff around him is as follows.
For his entire career as a tactical marine, Brother Aximander had served in the 3rd company under Knight-Captain Sulla Victor, as Aximander was inducted at the same time Victor was given rank over those 100 Astartes. Eventually, Aximander had earned a spot in the Command Council of the 3rd and, at the same time, curried the favour of his Captain by his deeds. The two became close, in Victor, Aximander had found a mentor, and in Aximander, Victor a pupil to whom he could teach the art of conducting war. It had been clear for sometime that Victor was grooming Aximander for leadership. Eventually, Aximander was promoted into the ranks of the honoured 1st company and their tutelage ended. Though, often Victor would request an attached Sternguard squad Sargented by his student to accompany elements of his company on lightening-strike actions.
One such action would be the The Crowley Incident on the Waits' World. A beleaguered planetary-governor by the name of Crowley had sent a request of aid to a passing Cloud Giants' fleet, Waits' World had been undergoing political and civil unrest, and the governor had indicated that there was now evidence of heresy on the planet. Kinght-Captain Victor agreed to send help and selected a war council of his command squad and Aximander's Sternguard to personally meet with Crowley and hammer out a plan to press against the traitors.
The court of the governor was attended by two of his own generals and their honour guards known as Dragoons, men ensconced in heavy armour not unlike that of the Adept Soritas. They all met as friends, and Knight-Captain Victor was clad in a brown, leather tunic, as is the custom of the mountain folk of respite. It was customary among the Cloud Giants to hold court with men unarmoured, though the reasons for this is lost to time. Despite the Knight-Captain's modest garb, his Astarte council was in their power armour, and Victor's sword, Alfano, hung at his side.
But Crowley had a traitor's heart. At a signal, the forty some honour guard turned on their guests. A sword punctured the side of Victor before he could draw his blade, though it slowed him none. Once the treachery was revealed, the Captain instantly and with bare-hands killed the governor before he could flee, even as lances and blades cut his body.
The fifteen Cloud Giants were all equally beset, the heavy armour of their foes proved sounder than the Astartes had expected. Bolters roared.
Aximander saw his Captain, blood streaming for a score of wounds, fending off the attacks of the Dragoons and tried to rush across the court-room to assail his attackers, but the crush of bodies was too great. Aximander watched as a power-lance of a Dragoon leader exploded into the side of his most beloved mentor. Aximader bellowed like a beast wounded and fired his bolter point-blank into the men blocking him. The advantage of surprise spent, the traitors began to wilt in the heat of the Cloud Giants' wrath. Tears streamed down Aximander's face as he and his battle brother's slaughtered their attackers.
In the aftermath of the ambush, Victor and his entire command squad had been slain, and Aximander himself was gravely wounded by a plasma blast that incinerated his arm. It was later uncovered that Governor Crowley had intended to offer the geneseed of the war council to ruinous powers as a tribute to tear open a wound in reality into the warp.
With the entirety of the command structure of the 3rd company killed, Aximander stepped into the role of commander of the engagement on Waits' World, and conducted a viciously efficient campaign. In his missive to the Master of the Cloud Giants informing of the Knight-Captain's death, he said, "From each traitor planted in the soil of this world, I will grow and tend my mourning."
The turmoil on Waits' World was quelled within a month. Before he was even fitted for a prosthetic arm, Aximander Jlas was sworn-in as Knight-Captain of the 3rd Company.
I finished another tactical squad at the same time as squad Angriff and I managed to get some pictures of them yesterday. So I present to you, Tactical Squad Obcisor.
Squad Obcisor is one composed of the youngest members of the 3rd company, and as such they are often the most eager to prove themselves to their more elder battle brothers. To this end, Sargent Jad Abbenrod has expertly drilled the Astartes in his charge with plasma weapons --a rare weapon set among the Cloud Giants. This load-out sees that Squad Obcisor is usually found in the path of enemy armour and heavy infantry; each battle brother can proudly point to a dozen scars earned in combat.
Sargent Abbenrod himself is armed with an ancient plasma pistol, Sunspit, and chain-sword, Hextor, awarded to him after The Crowley Incident where Squad Obcisor played an instrumental role in disrupting the armoured columns of a traitor guard force. He strides into battle wearing a heavily modified suit of MKIV armour, with the notable addition of a MKIII helmet. This helmet lacks the targeting systems of the more advanced suits of power armour, something that the Sargent is proud to tell his fellow battle brothers. Abbenrod is also a skilled diplomat, a trait fostered in all commanders of the Cloud Giants. And as such, he and his squad are often seen in advisory roles to Imperial Guard forces in the systems near Respite, expecting that their favours will be returned at some point.
Obcisor's 2IC is a brash and argumentative Astartes named Barter Reynard. In diplomatic matters, Abbenrod often unleashes Rynard's verbal fury before himself stepping in to smooth things over, allowing the Sargent to look like the good brother.
Brother Timmin is armed with one of the few plasma guns in the 3rd company's armoury. His power armour is modified with a MKIII chest plate and a MKVIII helmet with integrated ocular targeter.
Squad Obscior exclusively uses the Tigrus pattern bolter, prized for its light weight and simplicity of action.
What do you guys think?
He looks fantastic and that prosthetic arm hints at a very nasty fight.
