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2016/10/25 13:07:03
Subject: Re:Justification for older MK power armor in 999.M41 and beyond
For my "custom homebrewed special snowflake chapter" the super short fluff of them is they woke up on their cruiser with no clear memory or records of what happened and possibly went missing sometime around the heresy or a relatively short time after.
Spoiler:
Basically they probably entered the warp for FTL travel and popped out thousands of years later. No chapter/legion heraldry remained besides a defaced XIII that has two bars worn/cut/scraped away, all records destroyed or corrupted into a incoherent mess, and nobody can remember anything beyond little bits and pieces of battles. Carved into the walls are the words like traitor, heretic, forgotten, deceived, and betrayed. Something (probably Tzeentch fethery) caused this and being a "chapter" that has vanished for thousands of years makes others raise a lot of suspicion and attract inquisitorial attention which brings up questions they don't have answers to. They are loyal to the emperor but loyalty alone doesn't clear your name when ignorance can be mistaken for lies to hide heresy. Without any support from any official IoM logistics they resort to scavenging equipment, material, even to the point of having to abduct children to convince or even force them to undergo the astartes transformation process and to fill their ranks of serfs by means of impressment. A few hundred years of this type of activity (along with fighting xenos and chaos threats whenever they appeared) resulted in them developing into a force that excels at reaving, ship boarding actions, and deep strike ground tactics. Their reaving typically targeting pirates or outlaws but sometimes going after grey area operations like raiding Rogue Traders or even going after official Imperium supply transports when situations get desperate enough.
Due to the lack of any official resupply and forge world support they have been primarily working off of the initial suits of armor found on their cruiser and scavenge parts off power armor they come across or cannibalize parts from unfixable suits.
