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I have a proposed character for the Iron Hands and I would like people to let me know what they think on points cost, load out, even if you can come up with a better name. I started with the standard techmarine stat line and started adding from there. I also bring fluff

Iron Father Zyrax *Counts as Chaplain/Techmarine* has Zealot USR and Bolster Defences 175 Points

Tracked Abeyance(Counts as bike that grants the following) +1W/+1T/+1S/+1 FNP Displacer FIeld

WS BS S T W I A LD SV
5 5 5 5 3 4 2 9 2+

Artificer Armor,Bolt Pistol,Power Axe with suspensors*loses unwieldy*,Frag grenades,Krak Grenades,Servo Harness

On the agriworld of Fron a distress call went out from the planetary governor for help with reports of heresy springing up across the planet. The planet of Fron was a major food source for the surrounding sub-sector and the hard farming life style and monastic ways led to cultist moving into the darker areas of the major cities and giving rise to Slaneesh worship. The Strike cruiser Hand of the Gorgon was enroute back to Medusa when it intercepted the call and made for the planet. The Iron Hands landed on the outskirts of the city setting up a small forward operating base to make the incursions into the city proper when tens of thousands of screaming cultists came pouring out of the city with a host of Emperor's Children at their backs. Recognizing there most hated foes the Iron Hands changed battle doctrine immediately and waded into the cultist crushing them without effort as they marched towards there hated foes.

Techmarine Zyrax had come down with the first wave of Iron Hands and had been providing over watching indirect fire with his Thunder fire cannon and his host of Kataphron destroyers when a group of cultist moving behind the Iron Hands position using underground sewer passages at the direction of the Emperor's Children. The cultist moving into position enacting a dark ritual summoned in to existence a host of Slaneeshi demons right behind Techmarine Zyrax's position, the first thing the Techmarine realized was wrong is when several of his servitors synaptic links went dead. Spinning in place Zyrax saw the demons, unsheathing his power axe and wading into the demons in an instant. Isolated from his brothers on the high ground above the battle field his plight going almost unnoticed except for a quick upload to his brothers about his situation.

Surrounded Techmarine Zyrax fought with all the skill and technical acumen he possessed in his cybernetic enhanced mind, Zyrax was fighting well but the Kataphron destroyers and his servitors were ripped apart so quickly he could not even assist them, fighting 6 of the demons by himself. Then she appeared an Alluress of Slaneesh, and Techmarine Zyrax knew he was in for a much more powerful fight, the other handmaidens of Slaneesh backed off as their leader waved them away she wanted this pleasure all to herself. The Alluress's speed was beyond anything the Techmarine had ever encountered even when fighting the wretched Dark Eldar, he was barley able to keep pace and every swing of his axe was parried or his grasping servo arms were easily avoided, he fired a gout of fire from his servo harness flamer which missed the Alluress and bathed her sisters in fire.

Hissing in rage she sprung over the Techmarine slicing off his flamer with her warpforged blade and she continued to slice and hack at blinding speed, even though his artificed armor was much stronger than the standard power armor of a space marine it was still being torn apart by the warp fueled creature. Realizing his speed was not nearly enough and all his programmed battle doctrine was not helping his clinical logic was slipping away replaced by a rising fury and a hatred for the weakness he felt fighting this spawn of chaos. Pushing himself well beyond the safety limits of his cybernetic implants and what his rent and torn armor could possibly stand Techmarine Zyrax did not even realize he was screaming and endless litany of detestation and rage he had heard in the Chapel's. Swinging his power axe in wide sweeping arcs trying to chop the Alluress in half she leapt over the axe and in a flash his last functioning servo arm snapped up and grasped the demon in a vice like grip holding her before him. While she hissed and spat not able to free herself from the servo arms grip, bellowing at inhuman levels right in the demons face Zyrax's axe swung down and bisected the Alluress down the center line. Their leader dead the other demonettes leapt onto the Techmarine trying to tear him apart still bellowing his rage and hatred for them finished tearing them apart, his brothers showing up as the last demon was dispatched.

After the battle was over Ironfather Goldkin approached the Techmarine and started to question him on the battle and had him upload the video footage from his auspex built into his helmet, after talking for many hours with the young Techmarine the Iron Father realized his hatred and rage had been pure and his fury was akin to Ferrus Mannus when he perceived weakness, the techmarine was to be inducted into the brother hood of Ironfathers. After many years of modification and cybernetic enhancement Iron Father Zyrax took to the field of battle atop his on personally artificed tracked Abeyance bellowing his hatred at the enemy and extolling the virtues of the Emperor and Ferrus Mannus to his brothers.