I have been working on my custom Imperial Guard, Astra Militarum force. Wanted to go for the Vostroyan Firstborns but I it doesn't fit the story I wanted. So they might appear in the future but as for now, presenting to you the Tenebrose Legion.
Spent a while painting them as I have been really busy but its finally done. Rather the Infantry is done for now anyways, going to add more slowly in the future.
Group Shot
Command Squad - Captain 'Mad Hound' Dynch
The 'First Rank Fire Second Rank Fire' Squad - 1st Squad
The 'Fixed Bayonet' Squad - 2nd Squad
3rd Squad
4th Squad
A total of 45 bodies and counting. I'll post up some pictures of other warriors of Tenebrose that I have worked on in another future post. As for now, enjoy the backstory:
The Tenebrose Legion
Once a proud and noble system, the Tenebrose system. The men
of Tenebrose march forward into the stars, waging wars in the Emperor’s name.
Purging the xenos, killing the heretics. An unbreakable sword as they pierced
through the stars, claiming victory after victory.
Though strong and proud they may be, they yearn to return
home one day, as all men does when the fighting finally ends. But to all, such
was the dreams that can never be fulfilled.
When the chance came to them to return, they never knew it
was to be under such circumstance. The Tenebrose Grand Fleet was sent back to
their home, not as victors; not as heroes, but as enemies. While they raged war
across the stars, their home fell into darkness. Chaos set its roots deep into
the core and plunged the whole system into fear and horror.
Rage and anger consumed all of the Tenebrose warriors as
they crashed right into the chaos fleet in the system. Calling vengeance from
all Tenebrose, a total of 7 Grand Fleet of Tenebrose came home, annihilating
the chaos fleet in a show of force and made straight for home.
In a single order, tens of thousands of dropships made haste
to the surface alongside at least a million Tenebrose scions teleporting onto
the planet surface. What they saw was no longer what they remember as home. The
Emperor’s monuments defiled, chaos banners flew high in the wind, demons
unleashed across the entire lands. What was once the proud and noble warriors
of the Tenebrose are now but mutant cultist of chaos.
Bitter fighting soon ensued as the order to retreat came. Harried
by the merciless demons and cultists, barely a quarter of the fighting force
made it back to orbit. There was no more hope for what they call home. This no
longer is their home.
Though reluctant, the command was given, Exterminatus
Extremis. The Grand Fleets of Tenebrose unleashed their fury unto the heretics
who defiled their home. Watching with heavy heart and tears within the eyes of
every warrior, they watched their home slowly killed off.
One by one, the planets within the system ruptured and
exploded under the full fury of the Grand Fleets. Within the month, there was
no life left within the Tenebrose system. The asteroids, what was once the
planets of the Tenebrose system, was all that’s left.
The Inquisition saw to it that Tenebrose system will never
surface upon the maps the Imperium again. Only those of Tenebrose shall know of
this place. The warriors of Tenebrose are henceforth labelled as traitors of
the Imperium.
Carrying the scars of this tragedy, the warriors of
Tenebrose seek to redeem themselves through combat into death. They seek to
redeem their tarnished name and avenge those who sacrificed defending their
home.
The last seen of the warriors of Tenebrose, now calling
themselves the Tenebrose Legion, was at the very edge of the Emperor’s
Astronomican.
Some claim to have seen them fought against the heretical
fleets of chaos, others claim they single-handedly halted the advance a
splinter hive fleet leviathan at the far flung reaches of the sector. Yet these
reports were placed into confidence.
As till now, the fate of the Tenebrose Legion slowly unfolds
into a bitter end.
This is just a backstory, a history of the Tenebrose hidden dark past. Stay tuned to look out for the second part as to what they have been doing :D and I'll see y'all in the next post.
Winters
