Scorpions of the Damned

Scorpions of the Damned are a Chaos Warband made up from the renegade elements of the traitorous 5th Siege Force of the Crimson Scorpions Space Marine Chapter. This renegade force possesses the true records and history of their former parent chapter as well as their earliest records of their heroic deeds. Their loyalist kin of the Crimson Scorpions responded to their betrayal by destroying their own Chapter records and reforming themselves from five to four siege forces. Ever since, the Scorpions of the Damned have vowed eternal vengeance as they go about attacking isolated Imperial worlds or beating a smaller warband into submission. The Scorpions of the Damned also make up a rather unique stance on their organisation for a Chaos force. Instead of everyone being under just one Chaos Lord's boot, there are five other warlords (each a powerful Chaos Champion in their own right) that can command parts of the warband. Each leader (or sub-leader) primarily commands either the warriors of one patron Chaos God or leads the Forces of Chaos Undivided.

Before the Betrayal
The 5th Siege Force of the Crimson Scorpions were a rather bellicose and vicious part of the chapter as they garnered a fell reputation for the brutality of their assaults, leaving nothing but broken bodies and pools of blood in their wake. The 5th Siege Force was under command of the Forge Walker Enbar the Unbreakable during this time. Enbar inspired brutal fighting in his siege force, often being called "Worse than the Black Rage.." at times due to their violent practices of warfare. The 5th Siege Force often spearheaded the most brutal fighting and cleansing of worlds, slaughtering all that was even remotely near the vicinity of Chaos; even if they were still pure, they were put to the blade. Even at that time, the Crimson Scorpion Chapter still practiced the reclamation of Chaos wargear and armour in order to try cleansing it of taint and using it for themselves. However, this practice would soon prove to be the damnation of the 5th Siege Force.

The lead Mind Reaper Talaz and Spirit Walker Rhalaz had secretly fallen to the corrupting influence of the Ruinous Powers and were taking wargear from fallen Champions of Chaos and giving it to their marines. The Mind Reaper and Spirit Walker carefully proceeded on giving a piece of damned wargear every five months and supposedly "checking" this gear and their marines for any sign of Chaotic taint if concerns from Chapter command were brought up. Eventually, Rhalaz found a two-handed chainaxe from a fallen Khorne Berserker and proceeded to "cleanse it" of taint by repainting it and getting rid of the Mark of Khorne. Rhalaz was discovered by a Reaper Talon, but the witness was quickly dealt with. After almost being discovered, he hid the body in the walls of his chamber and proceeded to "gift" the axe to Enbar. After three long brutal years, and the secret efforts of Rhalaz and Talaz, they managed to corrupt Enbar and other members of crucial status of their siege force. Soon all the siege force's Mind Reapers, Spirit Walkers, Poistas and Ingozen were corrupted, as more and more corrupted wargear found their way to the marines within the siege force. It was rather fortunate that the 5th Siege Force was almost completely ignored by their fellow Astartes due to their brutal tactics which allowed the conspirators' plans to proceed unhindered by rest of the Chapter.

There was one fatal flaw however - they had assumed that rest of the siege forces were doing the same practices, and soon after the entirety of the 5th Siege Force was corrupted by their tainted wargear as they linked up with the rest of the Chapter that was fighting against Word Bearers traitor forces in orbit. At the height of the battle the Chaos-corrupted 5th Siege Force finally declared their true allegiance and were stunned to see that the rest of the chapter was still loyal to the 'Corpse-Emperor'. They quickly found themselves being bombarded by their former brothers during the fighting, as Chaos warships moved into position to support the newly corrupted Astartes. The Word Bearers most likely thought they could absorb the renegade force into their own ranks but were quickly proven wrong. Instead of staying and fighting alongside the traitors at their side, they used them as a scapegoat as they warped back to their Chapter's home sector and sailed into the warp rift that they were once tasked with guarding.

Warband Activity since Damnation
The Scorpions of the Damned have been inside the warp most of the time since their damnation. Mostly praying on smaller war bands forcing them to join by beating them down or slaughtering most of their numbers. The most common of these small war bands that are ambushed are Iron Warrior and Word Bearer legionaries. There has been times where they recruited the shattered few of a loyalist chapter or recently traitor chapter with few to their name. When not praying on the smaller war bands under chaos the Scorpions of the Damned attack isolated Imperial Worlds, face off against eldar on craft worlds, and at some points fighting the necrons. They also are behind the near destruction of the Royal Scorpions promising a Emperors Children War band powers that could make them immortal to anything in the mortal realm and possible demon hood. However this plan was thwarted when the Gray Knights arrived and helped the Royal Scorpions decimate the Emperors Children war band. When the Gray Knights appeared from warp space the Crimson Scorpions fled with their plans in ruin.

Dark Imperium
Since the warp storms started splitting the imperium Talaz has convinced the Scorpions of the Damned to go back to their old home and bring damnation to their counter parts and parent chapter. Along the way to their old home the warband has employed numrious small warbands to attack the Royal Scorpions and Crimson Scorpions as well as preparing to summon demons to rampage across their worlds. Since their arrival to the sector the warbands under their employment began their bloody business of slaughtering loyalist as the Main fleet are holding back at a safe distance summoning warp storms and demons upon the homeworlds of the Crimson Scorpions and Royal Scorpions. Although Enbar hates sitting around not slaughtering loyalist in the name of khorne Talaz has convinced the warband to stay out of it and come in as saviors to be the final damnation. Across the planets of Callet and Carinus Demons, Traitor legion warbands, and Cultist run amok the surface slaughtering all in their path as the planets with their space marine defenders desperately fight back against the invaders.

Home World
The Scorpions of the Damned have no real home world as they are a fleet based war band. They live on various ships in their large fleet of heretical ships. The flag ships Damnation of the Loyal is where most of the khorne worshiping marines along with Enbar the Crimson can be found. At times the undivided marines will live on the ship as theirs is under repair. All surgery augmentations to become traitor astartes take place upon the flag ship but only a few ascend to such a status. Due to this the warband has no real homeworld and relies on their fleet for nearly everything.

Notable Campaigns

 * unknown demon planet(unknown) - At a unknown time due to the nature of the warp the Scorpions of the Damned engaged word bear forces above a demon planet dedicated to lord Nurgle. The fight was rather one sided as the PlagueFather lead his forces in bording action against the word bearers and used their unholy gifts from Nurgle to infest the marines and ships with deadly plagues. Those who didnt die from the many plagues of Nurgle submitted to the Scorpions of the damned and joined the ever growing chaos forces as followers of grandfather Nurgle and the ships added to the fleet.


 * Sagnul M.38-M39 - Sagnul is a planet of snow and ice housing some monsters however was habitable. The people were proud and stubborn and fought to the last man against the Heretical marines. Sagnul itself had just made gunpowder weaponry its main way of conducting warfare and could be compared to 15-16th century Poland Terra. The Scorpions of the damned fleet jumped into real space above the planet and quickly unloaded all its forces upon the planet sending dreadclaws, thunderhawks, gun ships, and hell drakes into the capital castle. The soldiers inhabiting the castle were many but however proved ineffective against the brutality of the chaos warriors as their weapons bounced and bounced off the heretical marine armor. Even the entire planet fought against the chaotic warriors but all failed to even slay one. The planet was sent into the warp as tribute to the dark gods and it changes constantly as the army of the chaos gods fight over the world.

Karthos Sector (Unknown.)
There was a sector known as Karthos as it had a forge world and mining worlds to supply the endless demands of the factory so war gear may be produced. At the heart of the sector war a Imperial Navy fleet of a considerable size as they guarded the sector from pirates and the enemies of man. Between each planet was a rather heavily populated lane of trade of supplies from one world to another. On the forge worlds imperial knights and guardsmen stood ever ready to ward off any threats to the forge worlds as the mining worlds had little defenses and a few PDF regents if that. The prime jewel of the Karthos Sector was Kuntharas Prime as dubbed by the locals of the sector. Towering walls hosting large amounts of defense points and anti air defenses as Imperial knights stood at the ready to deploy against any invaders.

The ruthless war band leader Enbar the Crimson and his fleet emerged from warp space in a rather menacing fashion as they were already in battle formation with heavy cruisers and battle ships at the front ready to lay down heavy fire and tank most damage as other ships were ready to reinforce and outflank. Just behind the first line was a swarm of Crimson Rams filled with crazed cultist. The imperial navy moved quickly to engage but due to being cough off gaurd slightly as they were vulnerable at their left flank which the Warp Blessed ship and those under its banner exploited. As Enbar the Crimson lead his forces into a brutal void war sending bording partys as a endless swarm as bording torpedoes, landing craft, and Crimson Rams smashed into the imperial ships unloading their unholy cargo of chaos marines and cultist slaughtering the loyalist aboard. Screams of guardsmen and crew filled imperial voxes as Enbar personally boarded the capital ship along side his honor guards slaughtering the command crew leaving the command among his butchered crew. Enbar ordered his gaurd to slaughter more loyalist dogs as he knocked out the fleet commander and dragged him along slaughtering any "brave" guardsmen that were in his path. After the fleet was dealt with they were quickly scavenged by the cultist and any ships that were still usable were manned by the cultist and marines of the Undivided. The fleet commander was taken aboard the capital ship and was fed to a mauler fiend which Enbar kept as a pet.

During the bording actions taken by Enbar the Crimson the Tzeentch's Whisper leader Talaz the Untouchable lead his small fleet in a flanking operation causing massive confusion and panic among the imperial navy. Upon his flag ship The Warp Blessed he used the warp engine to teleport his ship behind the navy battle lines along side some strike cruisers as they began raining down a massive hail of macro rounds, torpedoes, and lances into the imperial fleet quickly destroying one of their minor capital ships. The damned warships of the Scoprions of the Damned under Talaz's command proved to be unforgiving with their fire power destroying ships that had surrendered in a vain hope that they would be added to the war band and allowed to live. As Talaz devastated the fleet along Enbar the Crimson the other commanders of the war band moved in to occupied or support in bording actions among imperial ships.

Once the battle was finally over Enbar the Crimson and his honor gaurd reembarked their ship as Enbar called his commanders to plan their strategy of attack. After a few hours the commanders decided that spreading their forces would be the best as they could take out the minor planets and then move to support in the slaughter of the forge world. Enbar the Crimson and Rhalaz the Undivided took their forces and began their assault on Kuntharas Prime. The sky blackened with the sight of the damned ships as they unloaded their hate filled cargo onto the planet using drop pods, gun ships, thunder hawks, and their jump packs. Quickly black clouds formed in the sky as the forge worlds capital opened fire with its array of anti air weaponry. In response to this Enbar ordered all hell drakes and bombers to destroy the AA and incoming imperial fighters. Imperial fighters and chaos hell drakes clashed in the sky as a massive dog fight broke out as bombers raced to their targets to unload their deadly cargo. The drop pods slammed into PDF positions unloading Chosen of the Four and Ax Reapers as they began carving a crimson path. The leader of this spear head attack was the infamous Cuvarn the Black Hearted as he used his unholy gift to breath flames onto the unlucky PDF soldiers in front of him as he used his two chain axes to cleave the area clear of opposition. Soon the thunder hawks and gun ships began landing and unloading warriors from The Khorne's Disciples, and The Undivided, as they quickly joined the fray as their armor moved in to destroy any imperial armor or support infantry in a fire fight.

After a brutal few hours of bloodied combat the initial PDF forces were defeated as the chaos forces attacking the planet landed their armor and reinforcements as cultist were set loose to attack imperial positions or draw attention away from the main force. They were mostly sent to destroy or distract imperial knights as they were given meltas and melta bombs to help them destroy imperial knights. Some cultist even strapped the melta bombs to themselves and charged into the imperial knight in a suicidal charge. Rhalaz lead the Undivided in the initial bombardment and attack of the main forge world as Vindicators bombarded the walls as mauler fiends and defilers made their way to the imperial walls and began breaking them down. The mauler fiends climed into the walls and started to slaughter the unfortunate souls defending the walls as they quickly met their end. It wasnt long before the walls crumbled to the might of chaos as Rhalaz lead his forces into the multiple breaches and began a long and bloodied fight for the breaches. The fight was slowly progressing in favor of Rhalaz and his forces but Cuvarn felt this was taking too long as he lead the Khorne's Disciples that were on the planet into the breaches as their fury and rage quickly pushed the balance of battle in their favor. Soon the PDF forces scattered and began retreating to other positions as a Imperial knights and a few handfuls of PDF guardsmen refusing to break were left to gaurd the retreat but were quickly broken. One the breach was made damned landraiders were deployed along side the rest of the Undivided and khorne Disciple forces. Enbar the Crimson embarked on a land raider as the land raiders spear headed the attack in the large forge city. A few minor skirmishes happened as Enbar the Crimson lead the bulk of his forces to the center of the city as Talaz lead the Undivided on the left flank. The right flank was the responsibility of Cuvarn the Black Hearted and the warriors put under his command.

The Enbar the Crimson and his honor gaurd lead the charge of the main bulk of the Khorne Disciples using their rhinos and damed land raiders to quickly deliver themselves into the center of the forge world. However before they reached their destination they were cut off by a large force of PDF forces and three Imperial Knights as a rhino exploded from a executioner leman russ. The warriors of chaos quickly charged their transports and engaged in a full fledged slaughter as the transports that managed to reach the lines unloaded their deadly cargo of raged filled warriors of chaos as more charged from behind due to their rhino being destroyed. The Imperial knights however were proving to be a challenging foe to the chaos forces as they had no real anti tank weaponry except for the land raiders already focusing their fire on the leman russ tanks. Knowing this Enbar the crimson called for air support as he swung his ax calming 13 PDF guardsmen lives before they knew what really hit them. As the battle progressed the area was filled with fallen PDF guardsmen and chaos marines and the sounds of battle still ringing freshly as the warriors of chaos and the PDF along with their knights continued fighting for that street. Quickly hell drakes and chaos gun ships dropped in from the sky and started targeting the Imperial knights mostly distracting them as they did so. However during this a swarm of hell drakes latched onto what seemed to be the lead Imperial knight and proceeded to rip armor and weaponry off the Imperial Knight. After what seemed to be an eternity for the Imperial knight the torso of the knight was ripped from the legs and tossed into another Imperial knight knocking it over. The Imperial Knights were quickly swarmed and destroyed by the hell drakes and chaos gun ships giving a large advantage to the Chaos warriors as they quickly swept aside the PDF forces claiming their skulls for their bloodied handed god Khorne.

Soon the planet fell along with the sector as the other forces of the Scorpions of the Damned claimed the other planets for their ruinous gods. The chaos forces left after taking many munitions and supply before leaving into the warp to find their next prey and left the worlds as shrines to the chaos gods with cultist running about. Other than the cultist and shrines to the ruinous powers there only laid destroyed imperial knights, armor, and mangled PDF bodys on the planet along with slaughtered civilians that weren't turned to chaos. About 500 years later a force of Imperial Fist, Black Templar, and Steel Legion gaurdsmen retook the planet supported by titan legions and the adeptus mechanicus but was a costly battle as demons had appeared on the planets between the departure of the chaos marines and arrival of loyalist forces.

Warband Beliefs
The Warband takes a unique stance on Chaos as they have different sections and structures of their Warband. Each Chaos God is worshiped in this warband and the worshipers are put into their own separate 'caste'. They do this in order to generate favour of the Chaos Gods and have lesser Chaos warbands flock to them. This can cause problems in the warband as there are often clashes between the various worshipers of the warband. However, these conflicts are often solved in their own way.

The warband also has a strong belief that the Crimson Scorpions are the true traitors and the real reason for their damnation. They hold this belief closely and in a zealot fashion as the rest of the chapter had opened fire upon them after discovering their corruption. Ever since, they have vowed an eternal war against their former brethren and their precious sector. Their hatred of the Crimson Scorpions and progenitors, the Royal Scorpions, will always burn in their hearts and minds, often clouding their judgment. This hatred is taught and passed onto other traitor marines that join the warband.

Warband Gene-Seed
The warband's gene-seed originally comes from the Crimson Scorpions, however, since their damnation they often trade or pay other warbands for captured gene-seed of the Crimson Scorpions or other gene-seed of the Blood Angels and their Successors. They trade primarily go after gene-seed of Blood Angels stock, as this is the easiest for the warband to augment and deal with. Another reason they trade for Blood Angel gene-seed is because of the twin curses The Black Rage and The Red Thirst, marines afflicted with this are put into the Khorne cast as they are most effective there.

Warband Organisation
Overall every marine and heretic fall in line whenever Enbar the Crimson commands it, as he is the warband's leader and brutal despot who rules with a brutal and uncompromising iron grip. This renegade force also has a rather organised structure compared to other Forces of Chaos as they are divided into five castes. No matter what, however, everyone follows the orders of Enbar either out of fear or respect for their leader. Each squad is also split up into the favoured number of the Chaos Gods. Followers of Khorne are put into squads of eight while Nurgle worshipers are put into squads of seven or three depending on their role. Slaanesh worshipers are put into squads of six while the followers of Tzeentch are put into squads of nine and the followers of Chaos Undivided are put into squads of ten or five. The Chaos Cultists of the warband are not noted in the structure as they are used as cannon fodder - tools to spawn demons or something to kill when not engaging loyalist forces.

The Khorne Disciples

 * Crimson Father - This is the title given to the leader of the Khorne Disciples however there has only been one Crimson Father named "Enbar the Crimson" as he is the warband leader and the Champion of Khorne in the warband. If there was an event where the warband leader fell a new Crimson Father would be elected and all Khorne Disciples would heed to his raged filled commands.
 * Skull Priest - This is the name of the spiritual leader that primarily worship the Chaos God Khorne and inspire the disciples of Khorne to even greater dark deeds to please Khorne. Skull Priest are in rather short supply as they tend to be targeted by hostile forces first.
 * Skull Leader - This is the name of a squad leader as they are usually more brutal than their brothers and are trusted to lead a squad into battle and slaughter the loyalist and xenos.
 * Ax Reapers - This is another name for chosen marines as they specialize in close-quarters combat and use an array of melee weaponry. However the most favored amongst the Reapers are chain axes as they make a lovely sound ripping through flesh, armour and bone for their bloody-handed god.
 * Crimson Marauders - This is a name of a basic marine follower of Khorne and typically get treated worse than other sections of the warband due to the brutal nature of the followers of Khorne. This however is a highly favored trait in the warband as they can take more punishment and deal more brutal and decisive blows.
 * Khorne's Embodiment - This is the name given to those lucky enough to use terminator armor as they will often be guards of the Crimson Father and give their life to protect their lord should there be a foe about to strike him down.

If there is an event where two marines under the Khorne disciples have an argument they are taken to a bloodied arena with blood stained sand as the ground. Their armour is removed and they are only allowed to use what they find in the area or what is thrown to them. The fight is over when one of the two is either dead or has surrendered. The loser must bite his tongue about the situation and give one piece of wargear as a sign of being sorry. These fights can also take place between entire squads and in one event between M39 and M40 the area was filled to the brim as half of the Khorne Disciples fought the other half as there was two worlds to pillage and which one would burn first. Being dragged off by a Khorne Disciple from this warband is the second worse thing that could happen to someone as they are usually used for target practice, food, punching bag, or forced to kill their friends and at times children. The only thing worse is being dragged off by a Slaanesh worshipper from this warband

Nurgle's Pox
The Nurgle's Pox section of the warband have no terminator armor as Enbar the Crimson Forbid them to have any as the terminator is a rare piece of wargear for any warband to have and doesn't want to decease of nurgle to damage the rare armor. If there is any disputes between marines in the Nurgle's Pox they will be put in a small pit and then have a test of arms as they wrestle. This is considered one of the more safe ways of settling disputes as the Marines will fight using only their bodies without the aid of any weaponry. The fight ends when one gives up or they come to a compromise. Once one of these results happen they are brought out of the pit and are allowed to rejoin their brothers. However there are rarely any fights between marines worshipping nurgle as they are a rather friendly but deadly bunch.
 * Plaguefather - This is the title given to the leader of the Nurgle section of the Warband as they are often the most blessed by Grandfather Nurgle and are the most cheerful of the warband. There has been five Plague Fathers in the warbands existence but each one happily shared the gifts of Nurgle with their foes. The current Plaguefather is Kha'tzor as he uses a power scythe possessed by a great unclean demon making the scythe inflict mortal wounds upon almost any foe as the target becomes quickly afflicted by many diseases of Nurgle and their armor rust and corrodes away at an alarming rate. They are responsible for holding key locations or assaulting vital positions of their foes.
 * Plague Priest - These are the spiritual leaders that give themselves to Nurgle as they share the many plagues and diseases of Nurgle along side other followers of Nurgle. They can inspire even the newest worshipper of nurgle to commit daring acts in the name of Nurgle. These acts usually result in a marine giving his life so a demon of Nurgle can be summoned upon the battlefield.
 * Disease Ridden - This is the alternative title of the chosen marines that follow Nurgle. They will deploy in teams of three as they are often equipped with heavy weaponry and used to suppress enemy advancements or destroy enemy tanks. These marines are however the slowest of the warband and are used in defensive operations only in most cases unless they are absolutely needed.
 * Pox Gifted - These are the standard marines that follow Nurgle as they have little body corruption and are eager to be blessed by his many joyous gifts to then share with the galaxy. They often deploy in teams of seven and deployed in critical locations as they can take more punishment due to Nurgles Gifts.
 * The Blessed Children of Nurgle - These are Chaos Sorcerers that use the warp to share the gifts of Nurgle with their foe often killing them quickly. They also specialize in summoning demons of nurgle and do it often when they are in danger of losing a key location. However many of them offer themselves as vessels for a demon to step forth if there are no cultist.

Slannesh's Pleasure and Pain
The Slaanesh part of the warband are a rather exotic part due to their pleasure of using drugs and other forms of achieving forbidden pleasure. Whenever there is a conflict between two or more members of worshippers of Slaanesh they are put into a ring. In this ring there are two stages with springs where the astartes stand and between the stages are spikes. The two compete in a way that would be a sound battle blasting each other with weakened sonic weaponry until one drops to their knees. Once this happens the loser is launched into the pile of spikes and impaled. The winner gets to walk away and continue enjoying the forbidden pleasures of slaanesh. Being dragged off by one of these warriors is considered to be worse than death as victims will be used to test out new drugs, breeding stock if lucky, food, flayed alive, or worse of all being used as a demonets "toy" when celebrating victory.
 * Pain Lord - This is the title given to the representative of the Slaanesh cult in the Warband. The current holder of this title is Svolax the Blessed. The Pain Lord is tasked with keeping the moral up of the warband and being a reserve force.
 * Symphony of Pleasure - This is the name of the chosen that choose the Chaos god Slaanesh as their patron god. They use sonic weaponry alongside bolters and autocannons. They are deployed to either hold key locations or support where the fire of battle is the thickest.
 * Enchanter of untold Pleasures - These are the Chaos Scorcerers that follow Slaanesh and praise the chaos god with all their devotion. They primarly support the warbands warriors in granting them strength, speed, or durability so that they can cut down the strongest of foes or take the deadliest of blows.
 * Herald of Pain - These are the spiritual leaders and distributor of drugs, tools, and slaves to the followers of Slaanesh so they can worship the chaos deity when they aren't corrupting or spilling blood in the pleasure prince's name
 * Scions of Slaanesh - These are the more basic marines and the core of the Slaanesh Pleasure and Pain. Eager to explore Slaanesh pleasure and pain that has to offer.
 * Slaanesh Pleasure Guard - The Slaanesh Pleasure Guard are a group of highly skilled swordsmen as they use a two-handed power sword, wear purple, black, and pink armor, black capes, and their helmets use a small sonic weapon in their face grill that's powerful enough to distort their foes.

Tzeentch's Whisper
This section of the warband is considered the most fortunate due to one simple thing. They, and they alone boast unique warriors from the original traitor legion, the Thousand Sons. In their care is five Scarab Occult Terminators and nineteen Rubric Marines with a sorcerer leading them. These marines are only deployed when the warband is losing the fight. These ancient warriors have time and time again stolen victory from their foes grasp. If there is any quarrel in this section of the warband the marines involved are put into a small room and must fight until one is either knocked out or killed. The loser must silence himself about the matter and admit that he was wrong in front of the entire section of the warband that worship Tzeentch.
 * Changer of Fate - This is the title given to the head sorcerer of tzeentch. The bearer of the title are most powerful of all psykers in this warband and are the most cunning. The current holder of this title is none other than Talaz the Untouchable, the mind reaper that lead the siege force to damnation. The changer of fate is also responsible for coming up with battle formations and where to strike most effectively.
 * Disciples of Tzeentch - These are the basic marines of the warband that worship Tzeentch and are often blessed with inferno bolts by the sorcerers of tzeentch.
 * Fate Guard - These are the terminator cladded elite of the Tzeentch's Whisper and are tasked with protecting the changer of fate with their lives. It is considered to be their unholy task and ultimate honor in the warband to use terminator armor and be the handpicked guard of a leader.
 * The Blessed Mutation - These are marines affected by too many mutations to be considered saine and are rather dangerous to their brothers. They are given to the Tzeentch's Whisper part of the warband and are held in reinforced rooms until they are needed. They will often deploy in drop pods and be allowed to roam freely due to their broken mind. Their various mutations are considered a gift and damnation as they can be the most brutal and durable of the warband, but also turn on their former brothers if their blood lust is not sated.

The Undivided
The Undivided of the war band have no real clear system of dealing with one another as they spend most of their time praying to the dark gods. As stated by an unknown Axe Reaper "DO YOU F&^#ING WEAKLINGS EVER STOP CHANTING AND USE THIS TIME TO PRACTICE WITH BOLTER OR BLADE?!?" when talking to a Butcher team. Besides praying, looting, killing, and other heretical acts the Undivided tend to be the most stagnant unless helping the Slaanesh cast with improving moral.
 * Champion of the Gods - This is the title given to the leader of the undivided in the warband. It is his sole responsibility to lead the undivided marines into battle to claim glory for all four unholy gods of chaos. There has only been five warriors able to hold this title, and five times each of them met their end by a loyalist lapdog or spawn hood. The current holder of this title Rhalaz the Undivided. He was put in charge of this section of the warband by Enbar as he was "Tired of seeing these worthless runts hold a title not fitting of them..". Being one of the first to turn to chaos and influence the siege force to damnation he happily took this unholy title and has since lead the Undivided.
 * Chosen of the Four - These are the chosen marines that have no patron god and worship each one equally. These marines will typically deploy with either five meltas or power swords accompanying a damned plasma pistol. They are the only ones to deploy in this section to deploy in squads of six.
 * Aspirants of the Gods - This is the name for the dark apostles that has joined the warband either willingly or beaten into submission. These former word bearer warriors are responsible for corrupting the citizens of the imperium and to select potential slaves to become damned astarties. Usually there will be thousands of children forced to fight each other until only a mere hundreds remained. Even then after all the augmentation only handfuls survive.
 * Butcher Team - These are the basic marine of the Undivided. They will either use bolters or charge their foe with a chainsword and bolt pistol. At times they will often forgo the bolt pistol for either a shield, chain axe, or another chainsword to cleave their foe.
 * Crimson Talons - These are marines that use jump packs to reach their foes or leap into the sky to tear pilots out of their cockpit and force the plane to crash. They rather enjoy hearing the screams of guardsmen as their transport rapidly and uncontrollably crash into the ground followed by an explosion and a final scream. They will deploy in teams of five with one using a melta incase they come across any tanks and the squad leader is busy dealing with another foe.
 * Shadow Strikers - These marines are the havocs of the warband that have no chosen god. The favored weaponry of these warriors are heavy bolters and missile launchers. They are expert tank hunters and suppression teams as they will usually lay in wait before striking their foes. Their favorite part of taking an imperial world is lying in wait as a PDF convoy passes by. Once in the perfect position they will use their rockets to destroy the first and last transport to trap the others in place as heavy bolters tear into the guardsmen disembarking their transports. The PDF forces don't last long and the only remains are torn bodies and wrecked machines.
 * Guardians of the Four - This is the name given to the undivided chaos terminators as they will be used as minor commanders and elite soldiers in battle. They rarely act as a body gaurd unless joined by a commander but this is rarely the case as they are tasked with the most difficult of assignments.

Warband Combat Doctrine
The warband has a few way of fighting and ever adapt to the situation but most notably they will either face their foes head on, in the airless void ship to ship, or in a bloodied siege. The Scorpions of the Damned perfer to engage in either void or siege warfair as they were trained for this when they were loyalist since their accesion. The origonal steps of their siege tatics has been lost as they favor vindicators, maulerfiends, Forgefiends, and defilers to destroy the walls and create gaps for the marines to charge in and slay either the loyalist or xenos. When it comes to void battles they perfer to bombard their foes with their macro cannons as their fighters and bombers swarm out of their hangers to enage their foe. The warband also makes extensive use of bording torpedos and using the warp to teleport their terminator cladded warriors abord ships to slaughter the command crew.

Notable Warband Members

 * Enbar The Crimson - Enbar the Crimson was once the loyalist commander of the 5th Siege Force of the Crimson Scorpions Chapter. Time and time again he led his brethren to victory under the name 'Enbar the Unbreakable', as he was unmatched in brutal melee combat. However since his fall to Chaos, he has become more and more vicious and brutal in his combat style, utilizing his chain-axe with a Greater Daemon of Khorne bound inside of it. Enbar uses the unholy relic Axe of the Butcher. Under his honor guard is 16 traitor Astartes of Khorne's Embodiment.
 * Talaz The Untouchable - Talaz is the corrupted Mind Reaper and head Chaos Sorcerer of the warband as he helped set the warband on the path of their eternal damnation. He is the most powerful psyker that the Scorpions of the Damned possess in their ranks as he leads the Tzeentch's Whisper. He has fifteen Fate Guard that serve as his personal honor guard. Talaz also wields the Broken Scorpion relic as his primary weapon alongside a combi-melta.
 * Kha'tzor The Pox Ridden - Kha'tzor is the current leader of the Nurgle section of the warband and uses the unholy relic Nurgle's Plague Reaper. Not much of this warrior's past isn't well known as the disease-ridden marine doesn't talk about it much. However, one notable thing about him is how effective he is with his scythe as he cuts down almost any foe in one fell sweep of his deadly blade.
 * Svolax The Blessed - Svolax is named 'The Blessed' because he has no physical mutations of Chaos as he has somehow managed to keep his fair pale skin and silver hair untouched the Ruinous Powers' corrupting influence. Svolax was the warband leader of a small portion of the Emperor's Children but was beaten into submission by Enbar the Crimson. He wields the unholy relics, the Sword of Pleasure and The Broken Chains.
 * Rhalaz The Undivided - Rhalaz is the Spirit Walker that helped lead the 5th Siege Force into eternal damnation as he tainted the warlord Enbar. Rhalaz uses the unholy relic, the Axe of the Unbroken. He has repeatedly lead those traitor Astartes of Chaos Undivided of the warband to unholy glory time and time again, slaughtering xenos and loyalists alike. He is also the best friend of Enbar the Crimson.
 * Remos The Twisted - Remos was originally a part of the Black Legion before breaking off in pursuit of his own goals. Eventually he found himself in the company of the Scorpions of the Damned. Remos is a squad leader dubbed 'Twisted Heart' as he uses the unholy flamer Hell Spitter.
 * Cuvarn The Black Hearted - Cuvarn is a Axe Reaper Champion who leads a squad of his berserker brothers into battle cleaving their way through their foes. He is most noted due to his combat prowess and the ability to breath fire due to the dark blessing of his patron chaos god. He uses two chain-axes and leaves his helmet behind in order to use his unholy blessing.
 * Rhazil the Twice-Betrayed - Rhazil is considered the second-in-command of the Tzeentch caste of the warband as he jumps around the battlefield using his daemonic angel wings and unholy relic, the Claws of Change. Rhazil was formerly with the Black Legion and Word Bearers at some earlier point in history, but each time he was left to die. He owes his current existence to Enbar, as he was found by him, taken in and welcomed as a brother.
 * The Black and Silver Fisted - The Black and Silver Fisted is a Furioso Dreadnought who was once an original member of the 5th Siege Force. His dreadnought claws are coloured both black and silver in a stripped pattern, hence his name, as he has been called upon countless times to slaughter the foe. The original name of this notorious dreadnought has been lost as the venerable killing machine only cares about crushing something in it's claws.

Warband Fleet

 * Damnation of the Loyal - The Damnation of the Loyal is a Battle barge and serves as the heart of the fleet. Once loyal to the emperor of mankind, now serving the dark gods as it houses an elite boarding team and highly skilled terminators. Ruins of once glorious warships have been left in its wake with anything valuable taken and bodys scattered across the ship.
 * The Warp Blessed - This is a strike cruiser that is under direct command of Talaz the Untouchable. The strike cruiser has the ability to make short ranged warp jumps allowing it to appear behind enemy battle lines. Due to the large amount of tzeentch worshipers aboard it is able to make multiple short ranged warp jumps. This has proven to be a favored trait as it can appear behind enemy battle lines and decimate them from behind and jump away before they can be seriously engaged.
 * Cage of the Traitor - This is a strike cruiser that serves under Rhalaz the Undivided. The strike cruiser is unique in its design as it forfeits most of its hanger space for more lance cannons. Cage of the Traitor will often hang back in battle lines and damage its pray from the far often being the main reason for a ships total destruction.
 * Broken Will of Iron - This is a battle barge used to be a direct insult to the Crimson Scorpion chapter of space marines. The Broken Will of Iron houses hell drakes and bombers as its flyers and is primarily used as a bomber transport. The Broken Will of Iron will also be used primarily for planetary bombings or used as a resupply station for chaos bombers and flyers.
 * Scythe of Vengeance - Scythe of Vengeance is a strike cruiser that also is used to be a insult to the Crimson Scorpions and Hearkens back to their damnation. The Scythe of Vengeance has reinforced armor and uses armor piercing rounds. Scythe of Vengeance is used in the front lines of the battle formation along other ships designed like itself and the Capital ship Damnation of the Loyal.
 * Crimson Rams - These ships is named for its rather simple design and purpose. The Crimson Rams has a large battering ram in the front of the ship as it house cultist boarding crews. The ship itself is a crimson red with metal stripes and uses a bigger warp engine to propel itself at faster speeds. The crimson rams will often ram themselves into hostile ships once the first battle line has been engaged. The crimson rams rely on this as they cant take much punishment due to their small size and weaker armor. Most of the Crimson Rams are destroyed before reaching their target leaving destroyed parts of ships and lifeless bodies of cultist in the void and has been mistaken as a calling card.

Warband Colours
There are six notable armour colours utiised by this damned group of Astartes. Each caste of the warband has their own colour scheme to reflect their patron Chaos God as well as each leader. The shoulder pauldrons of the Traitors show the warband's symbol and their patron god. The colours of this warband are as follows:


 * 5th Siege Force of the Crimson Scorpions - The original and most venerated in this warband they paint their armor primarily blood red with their soft armor being a bright red, their trim being a deep black as their arms, shoulder pads, and backpack is a light gray.
 * Khorne Disciples - The worshippers of Khorne in this warband and use a primarily Red color scheme with only their shoulders being white.
 * Nurgle's Pox - The worshipers of Grandfather Nurgle have a primary gunmetal gray as their armor color as crimson red being their highlights as their eyes are white.
 * Slannesh's Pleasure and Pain - The worshipers of the Prince of Pleasure and Pain has a dark red and dark gray as their color scheme. The gray is used for their trim as their eyes are a bright red. Rest of their armor is a dark red.
 * Tzeench's Whisper - The worshipers of the Changer of Ways have their shoulders, backpack, and horns are a light blue as rest of their Armour has a striped pattern of Blood red and gunmetal gray.
 * Undivided - The undivided of the war band use black shoulder pads as their only notable feature as the rest of their armor follows the same as the 5th Siege Force.

War band Badge
The warband's badge is the same as the Crimson Scorpions, but the scorpion and cog are cracked in various places to show their betrayal. Often, the eight-pointed octed (or Chaos Star) is centered behind this central symbol to reflect their allegiance to the Ruinous Powers.

Warband Relics

 * Axe of the Butcher - This is the ax used by Embar the Crimson. The ax itself is a two handed chain ax and has the bound spirit of a blood thirstier. The ax is rather different to say the least as it seems to have the ability to tear through any armor of its foe long as it can drink the blood of its kill.
 * Nurgle's Plague Reaper - This power scythe harkens back to the days of the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. The scythe drips with diseases as a greater demon of nurgle is bound to it. The power scythe is able to go through any foe as the scythe decays and rust the armor of its foe at an alarming rate as the body is ravaged by the many diseases of lord nurgle.
 * The Broken Scorpion - This is the force staff used by Talaz the untouchable. The staff itself changes shapes in the eyes of those who look at it except for those who know its true form. To most it looks like a basic chaos force staff but in reality the top of the staff is a small statue of an Unrakk emitting with lighting.
 * Claws of Change - These are a pair of lighting claws said to be blessed by Tzeentch himself. The claws themselves glow with a green and pink fire and will often tear through armor as if it wasn't there. These claws oragin has been lost to all records but find themselves being used by the Unholy champion of chaos Rhazil the Twice-Betrayed.
 * The Sword of Pleasure - This is the sword used by Svolax the Blessed as it has wrapped itself around the left hand of its wielder. The sword seems to grow in strength the more pleasure Svolax receives feasting on the pleasures and pain experienced. This has allowed the Svolax to gain the upper hand in combat due to the Swords unique ability.
 * The Hell Spitter - The hell spitter is a more unique flamer compared to most as it shoots a purple flame. Why it shoots this color of flame is unknown but what is known is that it will often leave the victims blind and panicked as they burn to death. Even those merely grazed by the damned flames find their minds being viciously and brutally attacked. Nothing short of the strongest psykers or strong willed veterans of Space Marines can hold back the psychic assault.
 * The Broken Chain - This is a whip made from a broken chain-sword. it is often coiled around the right arm of Svolax before being used to slash open his foes. The whip is primarily used to trip an foe, ensnare a weapon, or make sure an unlucky foe doesn't escape Slannesh's twisted ideas of pain and pleasure.
 * The Original Records of the Crimson Scorpions - These records contain the true deeds and actions of the Crimson Scorpions when the Scorpions of the damned were still loyalist. These records are kept on the flag ship and are placed in a stasis tube to preserve it. The records themselves haven't been touched since M37.
 * Axe of the Unbroken - Rhalaz the Undivided uses this two handed power ax. The blade its-self is ebony in color as the handle is crimson red. The ax was taken from a fallen khorne champion and has been in the possession of Rhalaz ever since. Rhalaz has used this unholy ax to claim the skulls and lives of champions of the Imperium and xenos.

Allies
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Enemies
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Word Bearers - The word bearers legion is more at less at war with the Scorpions of the Damned due to them praying on smaller warbands of this legion taking their members into their ranks or just slaughtering them for no real reason.

Iron Warriors - Much like the word bearers legion the Scorpions of the Damned pray on small wrabands of iron warriors and beat them into submission or use them as target practice.

Imperium of Man - Just like any other heretic, they are foes of the imperium and wish to see the worlds of the corpse emperor burn in the name of the dark gods.

By:
"Our loyalist counter part thinks us the traitor? I'd laugh at this but it isn't worth the breath. They are the true traitors. We followed their damned orders, their process of reclaiming war gear, their way of slaughtering any who stood in our way...and we are the traitor. US THE TRAITOR?!?! AFTER COUNTLESS CENTRIES OF SLAUGHTER, BURNING, AND BROTHERS DYING AS I FOLLOWED THE ORDERS OF THE CHAPTER MASTER WE ARE THE TRAITORS?!?! MARK MY WORDS BROTHERS WE WILL EITHER SEE THEM TURN TO CHAOS OR CLAIM THEIR SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!!! NOW BROTHERS WE GO TO INSURE THEIR DAMNATION!!! BURN!! MAIM!! KILL!! SLAUGHTER!!! BRING THEIR SKULLS TO THE SKULL THRONE AND SPILL BLOOD FOR KHORNE!!!!!!"

- Enbar the Crimson explaining their hatred towards the Crimson Scorpions with new members of the warband. "Now we go to damn the Royal Scorpions, Crimson Scorpions, and their precious worlds. Due to this warp storm splitting the imperium and surrounding them they have no choice but to fight and become tainted by chaos. And we...we will see Enbar ascended to demon hood and the once proud loyalist turned traitor by our side once more."

- Talaz the untouchable commenting on the opportunity the dark imperium represents

About:
""Scorpions of the Damned? What kind of name is that for a warband of chaos? The nightlords are more creative in their names for warbands...yet they challange a son of Logar...They will face their damnation and I will take their fleet for my own. Their warriors for my own. Their skulls and blood however...that is for Khorne."

- -Unknown word bearer warband leader before a battle against the Scorpions of the Damned and being torn apart by Enbar the Crimson's pet mauler fiend.