L-XVI-2548
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History
The 29th Company of the Sons of Horus Legion can trace their heritage back to the earliest years of the Great Crusade. Following the pacification of Luna, the XVI expanded their numbers rapidly at the behest of the Emperor. The 29th were forged in these days of heady glory, and were at the forefront of the Great Crusade for nearly two hundred years, spreading the Emperor’s light to worlds beyond number.
As the Legion was moulded anew by the intake of recruits from Cthonia, the traditions of Terra were shrugged off. Highly flexible and fanatically loyal to their Primarch, the 29th favoured rapid tactical drop strikes and rarely deployed to the field of battle en masse. Their battle barge, the Heart of Cthonia, was equipped with archaic teleporter engines powerful enough to warrant the issuing of an unusually high number of tactical dreadnought suits, ensuring that the 29th were always at the heart of any battle they took part in. The 29th Company were the only Astartes attached to the 939th Expedition of the Great Crusade.
By the time of Isstvan III, the Captain of the 29th was Helos Perdiccas, a veteran from Terra given command by Horus himself decades before the triumph at Ullanor. However, the Warmaster chose to not to include him and the other Terran members of the 29th in the great conspiracy that was to set the galaxy ablaze. Perdiccas died alongside billions of others on the blasted surface of Isstvan III, and with him the last link the company had to their Terran nobility was lost forever.
In the aftermath of Isstvan III, the 29th was left leaderless, and rumour spread that an outsider from another company was to be promoted to the captaincy; a source of great shame for the notoriously prideful Cthonians. When the Warmaster summoned the youthful lodge member Apophis Kantarah to Lupercal’s Court, many within the company were perplexed at the possible ramifications.
Kantarah returned from the Vengeful Spirit with the fires of fanaticism burning in his eyes. The 29th had not failed the Warmaster; they had been refined to a point, and now truly were the edge of the spear. As with the rest of their Legion, they had been purged of those not worthy of serving their Primarch. Apophis Kantarah was to lead the 29th into damnation alongside his gene-father.
Now wearing the black of the Warmaster’s chosen elite, Kantarah led the 29th down the left flank of the Urgall Depression on Isstvan V, meeting the charge of the Raven Guard head on. In the wake of the battle, with 17 confirmed kills to his name, Kantarah was officially promoted to Captain of the 29th Company of the Sons of Horus Legion. As the traitors fanned out from Isstvan V, the Heart of Cthonia powered up her warp-engines, determined to set the galaxy ablaze in the name of Horus Lupercal, the true master of mankind.
It is not for nothing that we are named the greatest of our transhuman kind, my kin! We are the scions of Lupercal, the chosen praetorians of the true Emperor of Mankind! These men that face us are no longer your brothers and were never your equals. By the end of this day their legacy shall be measured in tally markings, etched into our wargear! In the name of the Warmaster and the 29th Company, kill for the living! Kill for the dead! LUPERCAL! LUPERCAL! ~ Apophis Kantarah as the treachery of Isstvan V was revealed
Combat Reports for L-XVI-2548
Campaigns
| Battle for Cambrius Minor | |||||
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819.006.M31 | Cambrius Minor | Traitor |
In the wake of Horus' treachery on Istvaan V, Systems have been declaring outright for either ..→ | |
| Inferno Campaign | |||||
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047.007.M31 | Inferno | Unresolved | ||
Battles
| Battle Name | Date | Planet | Battle Outcome | Battle Summary |
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| Battle for Idranos | 890.006.M31 | Cambrius | Traitor |
Idranos was the home of an ancient Mechanicum facility, featuring a powerful distress beacon. The Iron Hands of Captain Daniel Sharrayk knew that the forces of the Warmaster would come, and prepared ..→ |
| Inferno Campaign~Phosphex Reserve Incursion | 334.007.M31 | Inferno | Unresolved |
The Warmaster was not pleased with the progress of the Inferno Campaign. The Loyalists had established a strong foothold on the planet and were rapidly gaining momentum, with multiple key facilities ..→ |
