L-XVIII-2827

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The Last Light
L-XVIII-2827
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Legio

Legio XVIII

Legio Name:

The Salamanders Legion

Designation:

L-XVIII-2827

Cognomen:

The Last Light [Salamanders/Raven Guard Combined Detachment]

Allegiance:

Loyalist

Owner:

User:LordTwisted

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History

Everything changed at Isstvan.

In the black sands of that benighted world, brother fell upon brother and the Galaxy turned to madness.

Alvarex Maun, the Raven Guard Master of Descent, guided hundreds of thousands of dropships, landing craft, drop pods and spacecraft into the Urgall Depression at the start of the Isstvan V retribution operation. Utilising his Nightfall Pattern Strato-vox, the deployment of the Raven Guard Legion was a flawlessly executed ballet.

He watched the great betrayal from his command outpost. The Phoenician slew the Gorgon. The Drake was consumed in nuclear fire. The Raven was forced to take wing.

At the end of the bloody purge Maun barely managed to extract his personal Thunderhawk, with a wounded Corax aboard. The ship took more hits than even a phalanx of Tech Priests could have repaired in flight, and the ship went down hard miles outside the Depression.

Maun was thought to be dead, and Corax tearfully abandoned one of his most loyal captains as he fled into the wastes of Isstvan V.

But Maun lived.

He was dragged from the wreckage by a senior captain of the XVIIIth – Solomon Krayt. Krayt had managed to rally a force of mounted infantry and dreadnoughts to punch out of the Depression, scything through Night Lords led by the fearsome Sevatar. Most of his contingent had been lost in the mad dash to the jagged mountains surrounding the blood-soaked canyon, where they had seen a Thunderhawk go down.

Krayt himself was badly wounded at the hands of Sevatar himself – but what was worse was the haunted look he carried. He had seen Vulkan consumed by the traitorous Perturabo’s holocaustic artillery barrage.

Maun managed to raise scattered Raven Guard elements using his Strato-vox, as Krayt’s artificers coaxed the ailing machine spirit of the venerable Thunderhawk back to life, against all odds. A menagerie of Raven Guard rendezvoused with the remaining legionaries, and they sped for orbit in the Thunderhawk.

A pair of vessels slipped through the Traitor blockade to pick them up – Nocturne’s Pyre, and The Nightslip, belonging to the Salamanders and Raven Guard respectively. The captain of The Nightslip – Lukas Duskborn – managed to stealthily manoeuvre the shattered survivors to the nearest Mandeville Point, where they made an emergency warp jump to safety.

Since then, the combined forces of Krayt and Maun have been a waking nightmare for traitors all over the Ultima Segmentum. They call themselves the Last Light – a candle in the darkness of the Heresy War.

Most recently, they have made warp translation to the Golloch Cluster, following Imperial distress calls. They’ve arrived on the ruined and burning Paters World, and have made landfall, searching for supplies…


Combat Reports for L-XVIII-2827

Campaigns

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Battles

Battle Name Date Planet Battle Outcome Battle Summary
The Second Golloch War~The Taking of Sevastopol Station 249.009.M31 Sevastopol Station Traitor

April - Covenant of Fire

Sevastopol Station is the collective name for a system of docking stations, defense platforms, and weapon batteries defending Mandeville point TK-421, better known as ..→

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