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"His courage bordered on the foolhardy, but fortune favored him until the appointed day of his death." - page 47, Codex Space Marines

- Oaka

Are we talking about Lysander from BLOODQUEST comic, or the Imperial Fist new guy?

MR.B

since it's from codex space marines I'd say the 40k one.

I heard he slipped in the shower.

He died tragicly in a teleporter malfunction. His normal yellow suit was dirty so he borrowed a "new-guys' red suit before jumping into the transporter, so of course when the transporter malfunctioned, the "new-guy" got scrambled instead of the main characters. Not even Mr Scott nor Bones could save him.

Darrian
(This is Star Trek, right?)

I don't even think he slipped in the shower, KK.  Terminator armor, in effect, is just a giant toaster.  He was screwed the second he turned the water on.

- Oaka

I heard from a friend that his teleported squad and him had a jam in the locator and had him sent into the middle of a rock,basically slicing him in two.
then he heroicly gave some guy his hammer.

or is it how he got it?....hmmm

I thought Lysander was the guy who got the hammer after some other yellow Marine uy died in a teleporter accident

Ye old banana in the teleporter pipe is what I heard.

It rumored that some of the other Brother-Captains supected he might really fancy girls. What happens in the monastery stays in the monastery.

Posted By Anung Un Rama 08/10/2006 3:26 PM
I thought Lysander was the guy who got the hammer after some other yellow Marine uy died in a teleporter accident

Correct. The Captain of the First Company was the one who ended up halfway in a wall. Lysander became the Captain after the following battle.

Posted By Oaka 08/10/2006 5:34 AM

I don't even think he slipped in the shower, KK.  Terminator armor, in effect, is just a giant toaster.  He was screwed the second he turned the water on.

- Oaka

The Imperium looks at it this way. Your armor can either protect you from an anti-tank rocket, or a garden hose. But not both.

Posted By Phausi 08/10/2006 11:14 PM

Posted By Anung Un Rama 08/10/2006 3:26 PM
I thought Lysander was the guy who got the hammer after some other yellow Marine uy died in a teleporter accident

Correct. The Captain of the First Company was the one who ended up halfway in a wall. Lysander became the Captain after the following battle.

Damn it!

close enough i guess

anybody actually have a serious answer?

Is that entry in the old dex or the new one?
cause if so,maybe there's something mentioned in the new one.In any case,there's still the possibility of ringing up GW

Yeah Lysander isnt dead...he got the hammer from  an old captain who teleported into some rocks and died giving the hammer to lysander, remember 3rd Ed lysander the guy with the bolter drill special rule...hes the guy who got the hammer and was promoted....long story short...why would GW come out with a New fancy lysander model for the 4th Ed codex if he was dead?

Cause they're GW and always think that people will buy new models.

(think of the new possessed or the newish static chaplains)

Not unless they had rules to play with the model they would not come out with one,

Unless its Sicarius.

Since the current Space Marine codex speaks of Lysander in the past tense, I think it's safe to say that he is dead. Supportive evidence?

Lysander took control of the 2nd Company of the Imperial Fists in 585.M40. Hive Fleet Kraken began it's assault into the galaxy in 993.M41. It is splinters of Kraken that is taking part in the Medusa V campaign. So that would place Lysander at over 1400 years old. I'm not 100% up to snuff on my Blood Angels fluff, but isn't Commander Dante supposed to be the oldest Space Marine kicking right now? And isn't he only just over 1000 years old?

At the same time though, GW asserts that Lysander was present to fight off a Tyranid force of Hive Fleet Leviathan, which showed up around year 997.M41, the present day time frame of the GW universe. Not only this, but in the same exact book that they speak of him in the past tense, and mention his ascencion to Captain of the 2nd Company more then 1400 years before. Way to go, Games Workshop quality control!

They already have a method in place to explain it (warp travel), and it's not the first time they've used it either. Granted it's sloppy, but that'll probably be their reasoning if you call them on it.

he is alive as it does not state he is dead. just cos they speak of him in the past tense does not make him dead as GW's garmmer is nearly as bad as mine.

I think Hermia killed him sometime after the wedding due to latent unexpressed rage from the faerie love potion incident. That girl had a temper!

And if that's not the right answer, then I'm pretty sure he died in the Peloponesian War.

Edit- Nope.  Just looked it up.  Lysander won the Pelopponesian War.  Later he was killed fighting against Thebes.  So the answer is Thebes.  Thebes.

Well in that case he's a heck've a lot older than 1400 years old.

Maybe he's the Star Child?

Dispeptic ulcer. Horrible to see a great hero of the Imperium, surviver of 100 battles, including the fight over Traitor's Gorge holding off the Knights who say 'NI!', felled by such a peasantlike ailment.

His epic last words were "why yes, yes I will have a bowl of that green chili chili with extra jalapenos. Antacids, my armored elbow. I'm a marine I can take anyth..echhhhhhh."

All lies.

no statistics. I have the medical report right here. Its amazing what a $20 will do in the right hands.


There are lies, damn lies, and statistics...

ok i just read the codex. He is DEAD. oh well the yellow marines dont even have a live hero. poor them

I heard doom rider kidnapped him and took him to the planet of abandoned heros.. Together they enter the pain glove and one rithes in pain the other in exstacy. While that death company dread does cartwheels for all eternity.

Seriously I always he figured he died to Iron warriors then I remeber pete haines no longer exists.

I heard Lycander and a few buddies borrowed the teleporter for a wild night out of the monastery. Later, the chaplain caught him praying to the chaos god "porcelainaeus" and had him summarily disemboweled and executed.

No one likes to talk about it.