Post by rarves on Nov 28, 2007 1:07:26 GMT -5
Blake's 9th Blitzkreigers hail from the world of Reich III. The world of Reich III was settled during the golden age of man, before the Horus Heresy. The planet's first military force started out as a PDF. After defending themselves from a rogue band of Space Marines, the Dark Astartes, they gained the attention of their little seen Imperial masters. The citizens of Reich III had always paid tribute to the Imperium, but never had direct contact from the Imperium. Upon further research by the scientists of Mars, it was discovered that Reich III still had in it's possession a invaluable building template from the days of lore. When a large Adaptus Mechanicus fleet arrived for the template. The Reichians were soon to hand it over when the Inquisition stepped in to stop it. One of the results of Reich's long separation was that Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism were still widely practiced. The Inquisition found that this was heresy and that the template was tainted. Without thinking Inquisition agents broke into the Faktoristag, the planets main industry university, and destroyed the template. After discovering this terrible decision the Mechanicus fleet from Mars contacted Terra for permission to destry the much smaller Inquisition fleet. Reich usually had little or no way to contacted High Terra, due to it's location near a spatial anomaly, but the Mars fleet Fired first even without permission. with no regard for the citizens of the planet the two forces clashed, ensuing the surface of the planet in war. Where ever the the two opposing forces met the local population joined them, due to the Inquisition and Mar's fleet being much more powerful than the PDF. After generations of this war, which did little but destroy the planet's surface, the remnants of the population that had not taken sides decided to drive both Imperial forces off the planet. The Inquisition and Martian forces each controlled large portions of the planet. The Inquisition controlled Theocracy in which everyone's life was completely controlled by the Imperial church. The Adaptus Mechanicus lead a horrific regime in which everyone from childhood toiled away in large dangerous factories. The small remnants that was all that remained of the planets original government decided drastic measures were needed to drive the Inquisition and Mechanicus armies off the planet. They contacted a group of former enemies for help in this situation, they agreed to help on one occasion, that part off the planet is given to them and a small portion of the population is given to them. soon afterward a fleet of aging Dark Astartes battleships arrived in orbit. After a long and arduous war that claimed millions of lives the Inquisition and Mechanicus forces were destroyed. The Reich forces soon started to rebuild and followed through on their deal with the Dark Astartes. They were relieved to find that the marines were simply rogue and not Chaos followers. Over many more generations the two forces grew to compliment each other in battle and a strong alliegne formed between them. Sometimes skirmishes would erupt between the two forces on other planets due to misunderstandings, but they were always soon forgiven.
The planet's forst call to arms came when a help signal was received from the nearby LaVoss system. The two forces each sent task forces to discover the threat. What the found was worse than they ever could have imagined. They discovered a splinter of a Tyranid hive fleet that had gone through the Eye of Terror and emerged beyond nightmare. The task forces were engaging the Tyrranids on the ground and in space when an opening appeared that would allow a small strike force to enter the central hive ship and destroy it from the inside.
Continued soon, I'm tired and am going to bed.
The planet's forst call to arms came when a help signal was received from the nearby LaVoss system. The two forces each sent task forces to discover the threat. What the found was worse than they ever could have imagined. They discovered a splinter of a Tyranid hive fleet that had gone through the Eye of Terror and emerged beyond nightmare. The task forces were engaging the Tyrranids on the ground and in space when an opening appeared that would allow a small strike force to enter the central hive ship and destroy it from the inside.
Continued soon, I'm tired and am going to bed.
