Post by Roland Muleto on Apr 8, 2009 16:37:35 GMT
INDEX ASTARTES: OMEGA MARINES
Battle-brother from the Omega Marines' fourth company
Battle-brother from the Omega Marines' fourth company
Our symbol will be the omega, for we are proud sons of Guilliman. Our colors will be white upon black, for we yearn to be a light of hope, shining upon a galaxy of darkness.
- Solomon Weylands, first chapter master of the Omega Marines
Origins
In the second half of the 40th millennium, the Imperium was confronted to the raising threat posed by two of the vilest xenos races to the segmentum Solar : the increasing activity of the depraved Dark Eldars and appearance of the mysterious Necrons fleets. After the Yuctan incident and the loss Vidium, the menace posed to the Imperium was deemed intolerable. To counter them, the High Lords of Terra wisely decreed a new founding, the 25th, during the celebration of the century in 700M40.
Due to their accomplishments in the latest wars the honor of supplying the gene-seed for one of these new chapters was granted to the Angels Porphyr, and their third company's captain, Solomon Weylands, was designated to become its first chapter master.
Weylands named his men Omega Marines, taking the symbol of Roboute Guilliman as a tribute to the revered primarch. He vowed for his chapter to be a gleam of hope against the darkness they would be facing and decided that their heraldry, half purest white, half darkest black, would show this to both friends and foes.
The Misery of Oduna
The third war for Armageddon
The Bonai crusade
Homeworld
Having been created to fight two elusive races, Weylands and his cadre of officers decided not to claim a world as their home. Instead they chose to make the Omega Marines fleet-based, so that they will be able to patrol a largest portion of the segmentum and react with the utmost rapidity to any call.
Aknowledging these necessities the High Lords of Terra blessed the chapter with several logistic vessels to give them the response capability they needed, such as the forge-ship Will of the Iron.
More remarkable is the history of the chapter's third battle barge, the Sanctified. The ancient Sovereign-pattern battleship was discovered in 836M40 as a part of the space hulk Misery of Oduna. A partnership between the Adeptus Mechanicus and the Omega Marines allowed the cleansing of the Misery and the recovery of precious technologies, including several ships which were previously part of the gigantic menace. As payment of their services and compensation for their casualties the astartes chose a battleship as prize of war. This ship was baptized Sanctified due to its purification and benediction by arch-cardinal Szolaki.
The possession of such a ship is highly unusual for a space marine chapter and is only tolerated by the imperial navy out of regard for the extreme cooperation of the Omega Marines and their need of heavy anti-ship firepower during their patrols in the segmentum Solar.
As many crusading chapters they maintain a vast fleet, with a great number of escort ships to protect the weakest one which serves as a replacement for their fortress-monastery rather than combat units.
Since the chapter has no world to call his home, they recruit from any promising imperial world. They show no preference for any kind of world, recruiting from hive worlds as well as death or feudal worlds, granted the population is hardened enough, either by the life on the planet itself or by the rigors of war.
Two separate traditions are known : the tradition of war and the tradition of trial. The tradition of war is the recruitment made after a call for help is answered by the chapter. Each marine is asked to watch their allies with great attention, so that the can spot any fighter whose age and abilities would prove useful for the chapter. The tradition of trial is called whenever the chapter come peacefully to an imperial word in search off supplies. The local government is asked to present every young volunteer which are confronted to numerous trials until only the most able are selected, the others being free to join as serfs for the fleet or to return to their world where their reputation will surely earn them a fine military career.
Organization
Combat doctrine
The chapter's doctrine, while closely following the Codex, tend to use their naval resources to their best. As such, orbital and aerial support is frequently called both in the usuals heavy bombardments against fortified opponents and devastating ultra-precise tactic strikes.
Likewise, orbital supremacy is considered a key to victory and is the initial stage of most campaigns.
Space engagements are a specialty and can see unusual tactics as the chapter's ships have armaments rarely available for astartes fleets. The chapter is as a matter of fact one of the few to control a battleship designed for naval combat instead of planetary assault and support.
Chapter Cult and belief system
Gene-seed
The gene-seed of the Omega Marines comes from the wide-spread bloodline of Roboute Guilliman through the primogenitor chapter of the Angels Porphyr. As such their genes belong to the purest and most stable pool of all.
Recruitment from a great number of different planets has been known to be a potential source of deviance as new genetic material always brings the possibility of interactions but no organ has shown any sign of significant deterioration since the founding.
Battle cry
Bring the light of the Emperor to this galaxy of darkness.
Heroes of the chapter
Chapter master Solomon Weylands
Master of the fleet Fastius
To do list :
- Writing a lot of history for both the chapters and its two famous heroes, Weylands and Fastius.
Questions to answer :
- Who are our great heroes? Does Fastius is one of them, did his death on Armageddon was the great feat of arms that distinguished him? What is the destiny of Weylands in the battle of Gate IX ? Is he still our chapter master or did his "reign" came to an end with his entombment in a dreadnought ?
- How did the chapter managed in the war for Armageddon? The fourth company suffered heavy losses, is it the same for the others This war was probably the biggest one we fought (possibly with the first and second war), did it change the chapter? Are the Orks our "favorite" enemies like Tyranids for the Ultramarines?