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Background
The Golden Guard was once a Loyalist chapter created during the 6th Founding. They were a chapter of ultra elitists, striving to be the most preminent - indeed the ultimate chapter in the Adeptus Astartes. For all their loyalty and zeal they were rank with arrogance and artifical purity.

They would eventually be destroyed by an awakening C'tan Shard.

History
The chapter was founded as a part of the 6th Fouding.

Organization
The Guard held standards so high and exacting that they could only maintain three hundred marines. These three hundred were logically organized into three companies respectively, each with its own attachment of Techmarines, Apothecaries and Immortals.

Specialist Units & Formations

 * The Immortals - Also known as the Thirteen Immortals, they were the absolute elite of the chapter. To be an Immortal was to be unto a level all of its own, to be purged of all weakness. In the place of an Reclusiam they would safe-guard the chapter's purity and moral integrity, ironically representing the very flaws of the chapter itself. The deeds of the Immortals were painstackingly recorded and archived, but never mentioned any names. Indeed, none of the Guard ever knew the identity of an Immortal as they never removed their helms and their names were wiped from all records and very memory of their brothers, allowing them to be truly Immortal. Outside the chapter, dark rumour speak of intense mind-wiping, psycho-surgery and chemo-enhancements.

Equipment
The Guard only accepted arms of the highest quality from their armor to bolters. Clad in highly ornate power armor of gold remisicent of the Adeptus Custodes, wearing helms emblazoned into the form of the Imperial Aquila.

Background
The Star Children are a loyalist chapter of the 10th Founding. They are known for their elitist nature, upholding high standards on the battlefield.

Campaigns

 * Perseus Crusades -

Background
The Roaring Maws are a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to Khorne. Even amongst other Khornate warbands they are deeply devoted to serving the Blood God, having fought  for so long that they are mostly held together by cybernetics and fueled by combat-stimulants.

Origins
The origins of the Maws stretch back to the Great Crusade, where the Space Marine Legions crusaded to unite Mankind under the banne of the Emperor. What would become the Roaring Maws started with the World Eaters 13th Assault Company led by Captain Abdaron. Abdaron served with distinction under his Primarch and truly looked up to his Primarch to lead his Legion to glory. He eventually joined the Devourers to -in his mind- better serve Angron. Contrary to that, Angron barely spared his bodyguards a glance and repeatedly left them behind, something that deeply angered Abdaron. In his Terminator armour Abdaron could not hope to catch up to his lord. Nevertheless he allowed Angron into the Horus Herey and partook in both the Shadow Crusade and the Siege of Terra.

After the Battle of Skalathrax, Abdaron took his company and struck out on his own.

Equipment
The Roaring Maws are nothing if not unique in their armaments. Rather than a simple chainaxe, all Maws charge into battle with a massive two-handed chain pole-axe, able to cleave other space marines in two.

Thanks to their dealings with the Dark Mechanicus their warband is host to a variety of dangerous cybernetics. Each and every Maw is implanted with a Malefica Device grafted directly into their spines.

(MORE TO FOLLOW)

Campaigns

 * Black Crusade of Raltath -
 * Dominion of Fire -
 * First War for Armageddon -

Khimera
The Khimera were a series of biological weapons created by the mad lord of the Bronze Claws chapter.

History
The Khimera were originally developed by Chapter Master Vorshiel of the Bronze Claws as his chapter began to devle into the heretical research of xenos technology.

Anatomy
The Khimera are the basic Astartes genome warped by vast quanities of alien sciences and even xenos genes fused. They appear as silver-skinned giants very closely reminicent of the base Astartes form. Aside from their steel skin they appear relatively normal. However the similiarity is only skin deep.

Underneath their anatomy may as well be completely alien. Not only is their skin silver, but their bones are metallic and even their flesh was silvered. In their veins flowed a black cruor in the place of blood that was reflected in their purely black eyes.

Dedaran Voldur
Dedaran  Voldur was a Warsmith of the Iron Warriors Space Marine Legion during the Great Crusade. Unlike most of his brethern he refused to join Horus in rebellion.

Great Crusade
Dedaran was inducted into the IV Legion not long after its reuniting with Perturabo. Olympian by birth he was recruited from one of Olympia's many city-states and successfully became an Iron Warrior.

Throughout the course of the Crusade, the Iron Warriors were selected for grueling sieges and garrison duties. He was a part of the 31st Grand Company, a veteran but ragged force that was often tasked with the most dangerous operations. For much of the Crusade, Dedaran was a Breacher Siege marine and would be for most of his life, always baring the brunt of the worst combat situations in the worst campaigns such as the tunnel war of Obrak and Siege of Uunn. His prodigous skills as a fighter and as a leader of men under horrendous conditions made him the primary choice for such assaults by his superiors. Either it was tedious boredom or desperate fights for his very life and eventually began to suffer from combat fatique. Like the rest of his legion, Dedaran slowly became bitter with both the Emperor and their role in the Crusade. He himself grew bitter of his role with his own legion.

However something happened during the Thersher Campaign. His Grand Company was in the midst of laying siege to a alien xeno-hold. As always Dedaran lead the charge into the breach. However the alien's defenses proved formidable and the attack stalled. He was about to be killed by an alien champion when it was distracted by a lone army trooper who stabbed it with his bayonet. The distraction was all that he needed to slay the alien and was able to carry the attack thanks to the impromptu charge of the 13th Thorakitai Regiment. Dedranan never thought of the mortals highly but was greatly suprised by this act of courage. It would not be the last. Throughout the next several campaigns he began to see normal humans in a new light, fighting to unite mankind and free it from tyranny, fighting for a better tommorrow to inherit. In the tedious lull between battles, Dedaran thought about the abilities of the weak mortals and remembered that he was once human too, a weak and frail human that was made into something more. His will to fight was rekindled by the courage of normal men and decide that he would fight, not for the Emperor, but for Mankind and the ideals of the Great Crusade.

Despite the odds put against him, Dedaran was a survivor and percievered. Within a hundred years and after the death of his Warsmith, Dedaran became the new Warsmith of the 31st Grand Company.

Horus Heresy
Towards the end of the Crusade, the 31st Grand Company recieved grim news. They were slated for garrison duties on a Imperial world, Sebantus V, until further notice. For Dedaran this was crushing news. After being put through the worst wars in the Crusade he was shelved. Even though he wished desperately to return to the frontlines he accepted his orders without fail, but became angry at his own primarch.

So they remained on Sebantus V. He tried to convince himself and his men that while this was not a glorious mission, it was a vital one, that the Imperium needed a stable chain of supplies and communications to keep the Crusade alive, but it was all hollow. Mard in bordom, the Grand Company turned to what they knew best, siege craft. They actively began to extend the defenses of Sebantus, raising walls and bastions worthy of any works of the IV Legion. His greatest work would be the Sentinel Gates, a silver bastion that was situated on a high plateau that overlooked both the Sea of Stars and Sharja City, something that he believed that even his primarch would approve of. Years ground on with the Iron Warriors nothing to do but train and maintain the planet's defenses. Dedaran fervently wished to a return to conflict, he would get it, but in the worst way possible. Among the wider Galaxy the Horus Heresy erupted at Istvaan III. At first Dedaran did not believe it, that any legion, especially Horus of all people, would betray the Emperor. It had to be a malgn rumour, misinformation spread by some as-of-yet unknown enemy. Nevertheless the 31st Grand Company went on full alert in preparation of conflict.

Then came the most crushing news of all. A fleet of IV Legion ships appeared in orbit over Sebantus V and the 31st welcomed their brothers. Unfortunetly it was Dedaran's rival Warsmit Krulger, normally so abrasive but was haunted by the message he bore. Olympia had rebelled and the IV Legion had slaughtered their own people. Compounding this, Perturabo had joined Horus is his rebellion and the 31st Grand Company was ordered to use Sebantus as a staging area and secure the Traitor's lines of resupply for Horus' campaign against Terra. Sebantus V was a vital strategic point that would allow the Traitors to shorten their supply lines and securely outflank several Loyalist bastions.

After a moment of complete shock, Dedaran made his descision. In one swift motion he and his Honour Guard turned on the Traitors, executing Krulger's guards before they could respond. When Krulger asked why he remained loyal to the False Emperor when he had so callously used their legion, Dedaran responded that he has not for it was Mankind and the Crusade he was loyal to. Before being executed Krulger replied that he was bigger fool than he imagined. After a brief skirmish the Traitors are driven off.

Understanding that the time to act was now, the 31st Grand Company prepared to defend Sebantus V. Dedaran galvanised the planet's defenders, enforcing new discipline on the PDF troops on the world and preparing the planet for the Traitor's inevitable return. Thousands of miles of trenches were dug, complete with steel bastions, bunkers, decoys positions, minefields and other suprises. However he knew that his company was outnumbered, even with the three million pinnicle-grade fighting men, the men of the A10K Kill-Regiment and a quatro-legio of Titans.

Equipment

 * Hardened Power Armour -
 * Combi-Melta -

Relations

 * Warsmith Shazr - Oldest friend and fellow Loyalist during the Heresy. Warsmith of the 66th Grand Company.
 * Lieutenant Karver - Loyal second in command during the Siege of Sebantus V.
 * Warsmith Krulger - Rival

Operation: Shadowfall
Operation Shadowfall was a Tau plan to invade and potentially conquer Ultramar. However with the end of the 3rd Sphere Expansion, Shadowfall was shelved as strategically it was not currently feasible.

Planning
The task of planning Shadowfall fell to a special research group. Composed of strategic analysts and gue'la experts tasked with studying gue'la hard targets and mapping out future invasion points.

Assumptions & Considerations
The tau planners took into consideration many aspects about their enemy that would undoubtably have an effect on the outcome of Shadowfall.

They assumed that...
 * "That operations in the region will face stiff opposition not only from competant military forces but also a fanatically hostile population."
 * "That Shadowfall will face three major divisions of military opposition, the Adeptus Astartes, their Auxilia, and the Imperial Guard."
 * "That the enemy may resort to unconventional warfare: Orbital bombardment, assassins, and psionic forces"

Taskforce Arrow
The forces composing Taskforce Arrow will, as per projected nessecity, be a small fleet containing stealth ships. Their accompanying Contingent would be a light raiding force designed to harrass and pick-off isolated forces suited for Phase ll.