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L-VI-3528
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Legio	Legio VI
Legio Name:	The Space Wolves Legion
Designation:	L-VI-3528
Cognomen:	The Twelth Great Company of Jarl Edric Vaettassen
Allegiance:	Loyalist
Owner:	User:Grazer

History

THE FORMATION OF THE VI LEGION:

In the dim, half-forgotten times before the Great Crusade, the VI Legion Astartes began their long and proud history. Even before they were adopted by their gene-sire, the mighty and cunning Primarch Leman Russ, the warriors of the VI were a fearsome and unique fighting force, selected for the most ferocious actions and most desperate missions where failure could not be contemplated.

The Legionaries of the VI were originally organised into the newly-emerged Emperor's Regiments of proto-Astartes, the gene-crafted superhumans designed and bred to retake firstly Terra, the Sol System and ultimately to reclaim the human colonies lost during old night. Perhaps lesser individually in brute strength than the Thunder Warriors who preceded them, but most assuredly mightier both in warcraft and guile, the newly created proto-Astartes were the next step in humanity's development; their role was not simply to fight, but to think, to command and to eventually govern.

During the latter years of the Unification Wars, the new breed of Astartes saw their first actions. Organised into twenty Regiments simply referred to by simple low-gothic numerals, each quickly developed their own characteristics and unique fighting styles, defined by the very genes the Emperor had designed for them. Some Regiments, like the VII, specialised in defense; others, like the IX and the XII, were feared for their phenomenal close-quarters fighting. The VI Regiment quickly grew into their own role, that of elite stormtroopers; oftentimes, the VI would be tasked with delivering a lightning-fast raid to the most heavily defended of foes to effect the pinpoint elimination of strategic targets.

After the culmination of the Unification Wars on Terra, the Regiments were reorganised into the twenty Legion Astartes, a formalisation of the rather more ad-hoc Regiments from the early years of their formation. Despite the Emperor's insistance that the Legions be internally sub-divided into 'chapters' of roughly-equal numbers, the headstrong VI Legion strayed from orthodoxy, and instead organised their newly-formed Legion into thirteen Great Companies, based more on the structure of the Nordyk fighting forces of antiquity. This peculiarity aside, the VI Legion were in all other ways fiercely loyal. To an outsider they may appear savage and brutish, but this carefully crafted persona masks the truth; the VI Legion are highly intelligent, cunning warriors with a mastery of tactics, strategy and wargear every bit the equal of any of the more so-called cultured Legions.

LEGENDARY BATTLES OF RENOWN:

Of the thirteen Great Comanies, the Terran veterans of the Unification Wars were organised into the Twelth Great Company of the VI Legion. These grizzled proto-Astartes warriors are the battle-hardened survivors of some of the most appallingly ferocious battles in human history, and so are rightly revered within the ranks of the Astartes as living legends. During their illustrious history, the veterans of the VI were able to call upon battle tactics honed during the pacification of Terra and the subsequent reclaiming of the Sol System. In particular, their experiences and successes in ship-to-ship boarding actions made the Twelth Company veterans of the VI Legion a specialist in these types of missions.

One particular campaign of note in which the veterans of the VI were involved was the re-taking of the Pr'Kin Driveworks Complex on the moon of Kallysto, the second-largest satellite of Jupiter. The Driveworks were the possession of the Pr'Kin clan, a fierce and proud family who governed the Driveworks independant of all other controlling influences. During old night and the unification eras, the Pr'Kin clan had grown rich by building plasma cores and ion-drives for spacecraft of all types, and for all sides involved in the millenia-spanning conflicts that had scarred the Sol System. To the nascent Empire of Man, led by the newly-announced Emperor, the means to explore space was a prime requirement, and so possession of the Driveworks became a high priority. After repeated ambassadorial fleets had been summarily destroyed even as they made orbit around the moon of Kallyst, the Emperor realised that diplomacy would not win over the Pr'Kin clan as it had done with the Mechanicum of Mars.

A more direct approach was called for.

The task fell to the VI Legion. The Emperor's brief was simple; to wrest possession of the Driveworks from the Pr'Kin clan, at a minimum of collateral damage to the factoriums and manufacturies. The VI understood immediately that a straightforward invasion of the complex would become a protracted and bloody affair against the well armed, elite mercenary army which the Pr'Kin employed for defence. Instead, the VI executed a lightning offensive to isolate and eliminate the ruling clan's command structure before their mercenary defenders even realised an assault was underway.

First, the Legionaries of the VI attacked the communications relay station that fed constant realtime data to the nerve centres of the Pr'Kin facility. Inserting via converted asteroid-mining drills, the proto-Astartes disgorged from their makeshift transports even as the clamping jaws of the archives bit deep into the ferrocrete walls of the comma centre. Moving stealthily, the Legionaries infiltrated the servitor-manned base, wary of the possibility of detection and alarm-raising by the dull-witted but omnipresent cyborgs. Quickly the warriors of the VI located the mainframe cogitator at the heart of the comms base. Placing time-lagged melta bombs around the vast computational engine, the Astartes stole away as silently as they had arrived. As the claws of their transports retracted from the walls, a violent, seismic thud radiated from the datacore and the whole comms base crumpled. The first phase of the plan was complete.

Having silenced the Pr'Kins only means of wide-area communications, the VI next launched a decapitation strike against the command centre of the mercenary defence forces. Located in a geostationary plate in low orbit around Kallysto, the star fort bristled with heavy calibre ship-killing armaments to rival the heaviest battle cruisers in the Sol System. This time, no subterfuge would hide the attack; instead, the VI Legion launched a textbook close-quarters assault on the mercenaries' floating fortress. First, the warships of the VI Legion battlegroup cruised into view of the defence plate from high anchor beyond neighbouring Ganymede and immediately began to unload massive broadsides of fire against their mercenary foes. The star fort launched a retaliatory barrage that tore two Imperial vessels apart in silent reactor breaches of rupturing nuclear fire, but those were acceptable losses as the VI closed the distance between themselves and their quarry. A third warship was left a drifting, lifeless carcass as the Imperials weathered the mercenaries' storm of fire, but soon the gap had been reduced to a scant handful of miles, and the remaining three Astartes ships launched a flurry of boarding torpedoes in an assault that had become a signature trademark of VI Legion warfare.

Wave after wave of the Imperial assault craft were cut down by short-range blizzards of fire, but ever more came upon the beleaguered battle station. A few tense minutes after their ballistic assault had begun, the first boarding torpedoes made their thundering impacts with the tortured hull of the star fort. The industrial drill-heads of the assault craft whirred into hydraulic action and they tore great rents in the weakened hull plates of the orbital stronghold. In moments, the boarding torpedoes had bored through the pierced outer hull-plates and the veteran VI Legion warriors swarmed out of their transports and into the maze of corridors inside.

As soon as they had penetrated the platform's hull, the Legion veterans began to enact the first phase of their plan. Moving swiftly, the first wave of Astartes secured a defensive ring around their boarding positions, spewing forth a blazing torrent of fire toward the vanguard of the defending mercenary warriors. Next, the Legionnaires opened a gap in their post-human cordon and a small but deadly unit of Astartes rushed the mercenary lines, unleashing the controlled ferocity for which the VI were to become legendary for. In a visceral growl of revving chainsabres, the Pr'Kin defenders in the front line were cut down, mercilessly but emotionlessly.

There was no red mist, nor savage brutality; the enemy were in the way, and they were efficiently eliminated. This would ever be the way the VI would conduct their warcraft.

making extensive use of the 'Termite' boarding torpedo, as well as the newly-issued Mechanicum Dreadclaw and Kharybdis craft

....to be continued!

making extensive use of the 'Termite' boarding torpedo, as well as the newly-issued Mechanicum Dreadclaw and Kharybdis craft

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