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The Blackguards

"Yo ho, yo ho, hail the stars, we sail the void cause it never gets old, yo ho ho!!"

- Blackguard's favorite shanty -

The Blackguards are one the 20 chapters of the First Founding Legions of the Space Marines. Long thought to be lost along with their Primarch when they were tasked by the Emperor to destroy the human Webway that has been compromised by the dameons of the Warp. Trapped within that shattered realm for 10,000 years, they returned to the Age of the Imperium where there's only war.

The Blackguards are a very unique Legion unlike any other in every way. They are among the few Astartes who still maintain Legion formation of old, as they are still being led by a living, breathing Demi God, the long thought lost Primarch, Richard 'Greybeard' Vervuut. Instead of a single planet, their homebase is their flagship, the Gloriana Class, originally named the Accord, after their return to realspace and learning of the state of the Empire after the Heresy, they modified and renamed the ship: the Emperor's Revenge, in the Emperor's honor.

Yet... although they have no love of Chaos and its agents, it is a hard stretch to say they are loyalist. For even though they do not consort with the Ruinous Powers, they certainly do not act like a typical Astartes.What they need they take, they pillage and plunder. With subtlety or with force. They care little over the defense of the Imperium, only the destruction of its enemies and what will be their next target of plunder. Their only loyalty is to themselves.

In every way, Inquisitors who were even remotely aware of their existance damned them to be no better than the Traitor Legions. And insofar, the Blackguards have done nothing to refute this condemnation. Chief among their most unruly behavior, the Blackguards often dabbled in Xeno technology to complement what little Imperium equipment they have. After all, doing so is what gave them mastery over the most advamced and reliable teleportation and warp travel technology in the known galaxy. Masters in Void Combat and navigating the vagaries of the ocean of stars, the Blackguards's fleet are extremely mobile. No ship in the Imperium, even ones that belong to the Inquisitoon can hope to match or even catch the mobility of the Blackguards.

Truth is... the only thing stopping the Blackguards from turning fully into the Ruinous powers... is simply their true inability to do so.

They are an impossible Astartes. A Legio Astartes that should not be, for each and every member of the Legion was a human which hold the Pariah gene within them, making them the anathema of Daemons and Chaos. Their Blacksoul has no reflection on the warp, and thus the Ruinous Power could not found purchase on their soulless beings.

Chapter History

The concept of Null Astartes was born out of an experiment. When the Emperor first became aware of the Pariah Gene within humanity, he pondered if this gene can be weaponized in His Astartes. While He already possess the might of Psychic Blanks in the Sister of Silence, the Emperor ponder if there's way to maximize the potential of the Pariah gene by introducing it into his Super Soldier program. Alas, initial results with the Thunder Warriors were less than satisfactory - it was an abject failure. Eventually, the Emperor attempted one last, most daring trial: by adding His own divine gene to stabilize the Pariah Gene within one of His twenty children, the one who will become the Primarch of the Blackguards.

Unfortunately, before the project reached its fruition, the Chaos spirit away the Emperor's children and scattered them across the stars. Even though the Primarchs were lost to the stars, enough of their genetic material remained that something else can be created: the Adeptus Astartes - Space Marines. Transhuman super soldiers created from the genetic Material of the primarchs. The Blackguards were made from their Primarch's geneseed. And being the Dmeigod that he is, the Primarch was the most powerful Pariah in the galaxy. and as such, no normal human can receive of his geneseed, only those who also possess the Pariah gene can hope to survive the implantation.

Null humans are exceeedingly rare. Only one every one billion human can possess this trait. To makes matters worse, they are generally hated by the society. With more enemies than friends in a brutal society, very few live long enough for the scouts to find the prospects. Between this, and the high risk involved in transofmring a human into an Astartes... the Blackguard legion was never able to amass in large number. In fact, even before their Primarch was found, several generations of the Blackguards had been wiped out during the initial stages of the Great Crusade. The Geneseed harvested from the fallen Null Astartes could not be used to create new ones, as for some reason, the aspirants body would reject the organs grownd from Geneseed of fellow Astartes. Only the Divine touched Geneseed of the Original Primarch will suffice... and the Emperor's stockpile of Richard's pure Geneseed soon ran out. By the time Richard Greybeard Vervuurt was found... the original Blackguards had long died out.

Perhaps as a consolation, the Emperor, noting the Primarch's natural skill in void combat is second to none, he gave the Primarch full command of every battlefleet, every starship in the Great Crusade, naming the Primarch with the exclusive newly made rank of Lord Commodore of the Imperial Navy - answerable only to the Emperor. Despite the great honor, the Primarch still took it upon himself to rebuild the Legion from ground up, one Astartes at a time, if he must. True to his oath, slowly, but surely, the Blackguard Legion was rebuilt. As they work closedly with the Imperial Navy, the Blackguards themselves, as they slowly rebuilt from the flesh and blood of the Primarch himself, became masters of Void combat, one that allow the Imperium of Men to stand toe to toe against others with thousands of yeas ot seniority, such as the Aeldarii. Yet they do not shy away from direct combat. In fact, they relish it. Boarding actions and teleportations are their forte.

But where they truly shine... is when they were pitted against an enemy that all of the Imperium, safe the Emperor, knew not: The Daemons of The Warp.

Every member of the Blackguard was created from Humans with Pariah gene within them. Putting aside the small chance of success of surviving the transformation process into an Astartes, Human Blanks are extremely rare: only one every a billion human possess this gene. Worse, Pariahs are hunted and killed by the rest of humanity because of their trait. For this reason, the Blackguards never managed to get their number any higher than a thousand Null Astartes. But a thousand Null Astartes was all it take to tear asunder a reality that has been warped by the Ruinous Powers. Their very coming severed any connection a Warp touched may have to the Warp, Daemons's root upon the physical world unraveled in their presence, illusions and corruptions broke apart... They were the true anathema of the Ruinous powers itself by their very nature.

It was this power that the Emperor tried so hard to protect and preserve. Sensing His own doom in the coming Horus Heresy, the Emperor ordered their very existence to be destroyed in the Edict of Obliteration. The last mention of their existence, was when the Emperor, now entombed in the Golden Throne, ordered the entire Legion to enter the human Webway network, which was being ravaged by the Daemons of the Warp, a result of Magnus the Red's misguided attempt to warn his Father of Horus' treachery. They were ordered to destroy it from within to prevent the Daemons from entering. It is a suicide mission which they obeyed willingly. The entire legion was then swallowed by the collapsing Webway Network, never to be seen or heard of again, and they remain so for the next 10,000 years.

At the Age of the Imperium they return to find the Emperor's dream in ruins. Now, aboard their Battleship, the Emeperor's Revenge, the Blackguards and their Primarch plied the stars, sowing both Terror and Hope equally to the furthest reaches of the Galaxy.

Description

The Blackguards

"Yo ho, yo ho, hail the stars, we sail the void cause it never gets old, yo ho ho!!"

- Blackguard's favorite shanty -

The Blackguards are one the 20 chapters of the First Founding Legions of the Space Marines. Long thought to be lost along with their Primarch when they were tasked by the Emperor to destroy the human Webway that has been compromised by the dameons of the Warp. Trapped within that shattered realm for 10,000 years, they returned to the Age of the Imperium where there's only war.

The Blackguards are a very unique Legion unlike any other in every way. They are among the few Astartes who still maintain Legion formation of old, as they are still being led by a living, breathing Demi God, the long thought lost Primarch, Richard 'Greybeard' Vervuut. Instead of a single planet, their homebase is their flagship, the Gloriana Class, originally named the Accord, after their return to realspace and learning of the state of the Empire after the Heresy, they modified and renamed the ship: the Emperor's Revenge, in the Emperor's honor.

Yet... although they have no love of Chaos and its agents, it is a hard stretch to say they are loyalist. For even though they do not consort with the Ruinous Powers, they certainly do not act like a typical Astartes.What they need they take, they pillage and plunder. With subtlety or with force. They care little over the defense of the Imperium, only the destruction of its enemies and what will be their next target of plunder. Their only loyalty is to themselves.

In every way, Inquisitors who were even remotely aware of their existance damned them to be no better than the Traitor Legions. And insofar, the Blackguards have done nothing to refute this condemnation. Chief among their most unruly behavior, the Blackguards often dabbled in Xeno technology to complement what little Imperium equipment they have. After all, doing so is what gave them mastery over the most advamced and reliable teleportation and warp travel technology in the known galaxy. Masters in Void Combat and navigating the vagaries of the ocean of stars, the Blackguards's fleet are extremely mobile. No ship in the Imperium, even ones that belong to the Inquisitoon can hope to match or even catch the mobility of the Blackguards.

Truth is... the only thing stopping the Blackguards from turning fully into the Ruinous powers... is simply their true inability to do so.

They are an impossible Astartes. A Legio Astartes that should not be, for each and every member of the Legion was a human which hold the Pariah gene within them, making them the anathema of Daemons and Chaos. Their Blacksoul has no reflection on the warp, and thus the Ruinous Power could not found purchase on their soulless beings.

Chapter History

The concept of Null Astartes was born out of an experiment. When the Emperor first became aware of the Pariah Gene within humanity, he pondered if this gene can be weaponized in His Astartes. While He already possess the might of Psychic Blanks in the Sister of Silence, the Emperor ponder if there's way to maximize the potential of the Pariah gene by introducing it into his Super Soldier program. Alas, initial results with the Thunder Warriors were less than satisfactory - it was an abject failure. Eventually, the Emperor attempted one last, most daring trial: by adding His own divine gene to stabilize the Pariah Gene within one of His twenty children, the one who will become the Primarch of the Blackguards.

Unfortunately, before the project reached its fruition, the Chaos spirit away the Emperor's children and scattered them across the stars. Even though the Primarchs were lost to the stars, enough of their genetic material remained that something else can be created: the Adeptus Astartes - Space Marines. Transhuman super soldiers created from the genetic Material of the primarchs. The Blackguards were made from their Primarch's geneseed. And being the Dmeigod that he is, the Primarch was the most powerful Pariah in the galaxy. and as such, no normal human can receive of his geneseed, only those who also possess the Pariah gene can hope to survive the implantation.

Null humans are exceeedingly rare. Only one every one billion human can possess this trait. To makes matters worse, they are generally hated by the society. With more enemies than friends in a brutal society, very few live long enough for the scouts to find the prospects. Between this, and the high risk involved in transofmring a human into an Astartes... the Blackguard legion was never able to amass in large number. In fact, even before their Primarch was found, several generations of the Blackguards had been wiped out during the initial stages of the Great Crusade. The Geneseed harvested from the fallen Null Astartes could not be used to create new ones, as for some reason, the aspirants body would reject the organs grownd from Geneseed of fellow Astartes. Only the Divine touched Geneseed of the Original Primarch will suffice... and the Emperor's stockpile of Richard's pure Geneseed soon ran out. By the time Richard Greybeard Vervuurt was found... the original Blackguards had long died out.

Perhaps as a consolation, the Emperor, noting the Primarch's natural skill in void combat is second to none, he gave the Primarch full command of every battlefleet, every starship in the Great Crusade, naming the Primarch with the exclusive newly made rank of Lord Commodore of the Imperial Navy - answerable only to the Emperor. Despite the great honor, the Primarch still took it upon himself to rebuild the Legion from ground up, one Astartes at a time, if he must. True to his oath, slowly, but surely, the Blackguard Legion was rebuilt. As they work closedly with the Imperial Navy, the Blackguards themselves, as they slowly rebuilt from the flesh and blood of the Primarch himself, became masters of Void combat, one that allow the Imperium of Men to stand toe to toe against others with thousands of yeas ot seniority, such as the Aeldarii. Yet they do not shy away from direct combat. In fact, they relish it. Boarding actions and teleportations are their forte.

But where they truly shine... is when they were pitted against an enemy that all of the Imperium, safe the Emperor, knew not: The Daemons of The Warp.

Every member of the Blackguard was created from Humans with Pariah gene within them. Putting aside the small chance of success of surviving the transformation process into an Astartes, Human Blanks are extremely rare: only one every a billion human possess this gene. Worse, Pariahs are hunted and killed by the rest of humanity because of their trait. For this reason, the Blackguards never managed to get their number any higher than a thousand Null Astartes. But a thousand Null Astartes was all it take to tear asunder a reality that has been warped by the Ruinous Powers. Their very coming severed any connection a Warp touched may have to the Warp, Daemons's root upon the physical world unraveled in their presence, illusions and corruptions broke apart... They were the true anathema of the Ruinous powers itself by their very nature.

It was this power that the Emperor tried so hard to protect and preserve. Sensing His own doom in the coming Horus Heresy, the Emperor ordered their very existence to be destroyed in the Edict of Obliteration. The last mention of their existence, was when the Emperor, now entombed in the Golden Throne, ordered the entire Legion to enter the human Webway network, which was being ravaged by the Daemons of the Warp, a result of Magnus the Red's misguided attempt to warn his Father of Horus' treachery. They were ordered to destroy it from within to prevent the Daemons from entering. It is a suicide mission which they obeyed willingly. The entire legion was then swallowed by the collapsing Webway Network, never to be seen or heard of again, and they remain so for the next 10,000 years.

At the Age of the Imperium they return to find the Emperor's dream in ruins. Now, aboard their Battleship, the Emeperor's Revenge, the Blackguards and their Primarch plied the stars, sowing both Terror and Hope equally to the furthest reaches of the Galaxy.