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Topic Started: Jul 28 2012, 06:07 AM (258 Views)
Eetion
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So, while iv been sat on trains to work this week (I'm on 9hours of rail travel, 2 more trips to go) I've been musing at why I'm not particularly keen on painting my warband.

I should enjoy iy, but I don't, I love Chaos, My warband fluff and the themed army I have created for them.

But I was thinking they wernt my first love. That belongs to my alter ego:
Eetion the Unknown of Alpha Legion Cell 8

Would returning to the Alpha Legion rekindle my interest with brush and paint?

I love both backgrounds and fluff, of course as always I'm Tzeentch alligned but more along the manipulation side of the AL rather than melt your face with psychic awsomeness.

Any thoughts? Should I throw my hat in with the Hydra or stick with my warband?
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As you have all read the Cabals background. Here is my old background for Cell 8 to balance things.

+++INITIATING INTERFACE+++
+++ENTER PASSWORD+++

+++WELCOME INQUISITOR TOBIAN+++
+++ENTER COMMAND

+++COMMENCING RETRIEVAL-CRUSADE ERA ASTARTES RECORDS+++
+++ERROR! SOME RECORDS ARE OVER 8000 YEARS OLD!+++
+++RECORDS INCOMPLETE+++
+++RECORDS DECAYING+++
+++RECORDS UNRELIABLE+++
+++DO YOU WISH TO CONTINUE?+++

+++ACCESSING RECORDS+++

+++ENTER SEARCH PARAMETERS+++

+++SEARCHING RE:EETION THE UNKNOWN+++
+++NO FILE FOUND+++

+++SEARCHING RE: ALPHA LEGION CELL 8+++
+++NO FILE FOUND+++

+++SEARCHING RE: SCOUT CAPTAINS OF THE ALPHA LEGION+++
+++FOUND 48 MATCHES+++
+++LISTING CAPTAINS A-F+++
+++ADENIS+++
+++CARLITH+++
+++DIAMEDES+++
+++EETION+++
+++FLAVIO+++

+++ACCESSING RECORDS: EETION+++

+++CAPTAIN EETION IS BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT OF ALPHA LEGION FORCES DURING THE GREAT CRUSADE, SCOUT CAPTAIN OF THE ALPHA LEGION, SPECIALISING IN LONG RANGE RECCONAISSANCE, ALSO BELIEVED TO BE A MEMBER OF ALPHARIUS INNER CIRCLE THIS IS UNUSUAL FOR A RELATIVELY LOW RANKING CAPTAIN TO HAVE SUCH HIGH COMMAND INFLUENCE. DETAILS DURING THE HERESY ARE SKETCHY AND IT'S KNOWN EETION MAY HAVE BEEN USED AS A LURE OR PREMARKING ADVANTAGEOUS TERRAIN PRIOR TO BATTLE. HE IS RUMOURED TO HAVE SCOUTED THE LANDING SITES OF THE ISTVAAN DROPSITES PRIOR TO THE MASSACRE, BELIEVED TO HAVE ASSISTED IN PLANNING THE ASSAULT.
FOLLOWING THE HERESY EETION SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN LOST FROM RECORDS. ALTHOUGH WHAT IS KNOWN, INDICATES THAT EETION HEADED TO THE GALACTIC SOUTH RATHER THAN THE EYE OF TERROR WITH THE REST OF THE CHAOS FORCES. UNUSUALLY EETION REAPPEARS ONLY RECENTLY DURING THE RECENT CONFLICTS ON MEDUSA V, AND RORIAN SUBSECTOR WHERE HE IS SUSPECTED OF CREATING ALPHA LEGION BASES. SYSTEMS REPORT LARGE NUMBER OF MILITARY AND MANUFACTURING ACCIDENTS. EETION HAS AN UNKNOWN METHOD OF LONGEVITY GIVEN DISTANCE FROM EYE OF TERROR, SUSPECTED STASIS POD USE. IT IS CURRENTLY BELIEVED THAT EETION COMMANDS ALPHA LEGION CELL 8, SMALL COVERT RECCONAISANCE AND SPECIAL FORCES TEAM AS REPORTED BY INQUISITOR TOBIAS STARK. CELL HAS CURRENTLY GONE INTO HIDING. CURRENT WHEREABOUT UNKNOWN, CURRENT NUMBERS UNKNOWN. NO FURTHER INFORMATION+++

+++SEE FURTHER DETAILS ON+++
+++EETION THE UNKNOWN+++
+++ALPHA LEGION CELL 8+++
+++INQUISITOR TOBIAS STARKS REPORT+++

+++ACCESSING FILES+++
+++ERROR: FILES MISSING+++

+++REQUESTING SEARCH FILE+++
+++PROCESSING+++
+++FILES LIKELY DECAYED+++

+++REQUESTING INQUISITIONAL FILE RESTORATION+++
+++PROCESSING+++
+++FILES NOT PRESENT+++
+++FILES LIKELY DELETED+++

+++REQUESTING IDENTITY DELETION ORDER+++
+++NO RECORD OF FILE DELETION+++

+++PROCESSING REQUEST+++
+++ALL REMAINING FILES RELATED TO EETION THE UNKNOWN HAVE NOW BEEN DELETED+++

+++LOADING FILE HYDRAS TOOTH+++

+++SYSTEM SHUTTING DOWN.. VIRUS DETEC…………………..+++
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+++ REBOOTING+++

+++ VIRUS PURGE COMPLETE+++
+++ SCANNING+++

+++ VIRUS DETECTED+++
+++ ISOLATING SCRAP CODE+++

+++ ISOLATION COMPLETE+++
+++ VIRUS ISOLATED IN NON CRITICAL SYSTEMS++++


+++ ADVISE COMPLETE SYSTEM PURGE+++

+++ PURGING +++
+++ PURGE COMPLETE+++

+++VIRUS ELIMINATED+++

+++ ENTER IDENTIFICATION+++

+++ LOGGING ON+++
+++ WELCOME INQUISITOR TOBIAN+++

+++ REQUESTING RESTORATION+++
+++ALPHA LEGION CELL 8+++
+++INQUISITOR TOBIAS STARKS REPORT+++
+++EETION THE UNKNOWN+++

+++ UNABLE TO COMPLY+++
+++ DATA FRAGMENTARY+++
+++ DATA CORRUPTED+++
+++ FILES DELETED+++

+++ SEARCHING+++
+++ BACK UP FILES AVAILABLE+++

+++DO YOU WISH TO UP LOAD BACK UP FILES+++
+++ UPLOADING+++


+++ EETION THE UNKNOWN+++
+++ALPHA LEGION CELL 8+++
+++INQUISTOR STARKS REPORT+++

+++ LEARNED INQUISITORS. AS REQUESTED BY THE ORDO HERETICUS AND ORDO MALLEUS I HAVE COMPLETED MY ANALYSIS AND INVESTIGATIONINTO ALPHA LEGION CELL 8 AND ITS MYSTERIOUS COMMANDER. MY FINDINGS HAVE BEEN TRULY SHOCKING.

THE REASON FOR EETION THE UNKNOWNS LONGEVITY AND VARYING DECRIPTION IN CAPABILITIES HAS LED ME TO BELIEVE THAT EETION IS AN HONORIFIC TITLE. I HAVE MANAGED TO DISTINGUISH NO LESS THAN 12 INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE CARRIED THE TITLE OVER THE LAST 10000 YEARS. THIS WOULD EXPLAIN THE VARYING DEGREES OF PSCHIC CAPABILITY.

THE CURRENT INCANATION EETION, FURTHER TO BE REFERED TO AS SUBJECT 12 SEEMS TO BE A SORCEROR OF FRIGHTENING POWER. IT IS BELIEVED THIS INDIVIDUAL HAS CORRUPTED OR HAS BEEN ORRUPTED BY THE CELL TO THE THRALL OF TZEENTCH, CHANGER OF WAYS.

SINCE THIS DAY CELL 8 HAS OPERATED WITH A RENEWED VIGOUR. IT HAS OPERATED ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE WITH GREATER FREQUENCY WITH SKILLS TO BE EXPECTED OF THE ALPHA LEGION, BUT ALSO TACTICS AND RESPONSES THAT BORDER ON PRECOGNITION.

I HAVE MANAGED TO EXTRAPOLATE LIKELY POINTS OF INTEREST FOR THE CELL AND HAVE COMMENCED THE SEARCH IN THE HOPES OF ERADICATING CELL 8. I HAVE ASSEMBLED EXPEDITION 23 FOR THE TASK.
FURTHER REPORTS WILL BE FORTH COMING

INQUISITOR TOBIAS STARK+++

+++ ADDENDUM+++

NO FURTHER REPORTS FILED BY THE INQUISITOR STARKS EXPEDITION. CONTACT MADE WITH ENEMY FORCES. NO FURTHER INFORMATION+++

+++ REQUESTING DATA+++
+++ ASTROPATHIC RELAYS FROM EXPEDITION BETA 23+++

+++RETRIEV +++
+++ ERROR+++

+++BACK UP FILES CONTAINED MALICIOUS CODE+++
+++FILE HYDRAS TOOTH RESTORED+++
+++ NON ESSENTIAL SYSTEMS INFECTED+++

+++PURGE SYSTEM+++

+++SYSTEM PURGED+++

+++ VIRUS DETECTED+++

+++PURGE INEFFECTIVE+++

+++ SECURITY LOCK DOWN IMPLEMENTED+++
+++DOORS SEALED+++
+++VENTILATION SEALED+++
+++COMMUNICATIONS DOWN+++

+++RELEASE SECURITY LOCKDOWN+++
+++ACCESS DENIED+++

+++ INQUISITORIAL OVERIDE+++
+++ENTER PASS CODE+++

+++PROCESSING+++

+++UNABLE TO COMPLY+++
+++ACCESS DENIED++

+++TRANSMITTING PASS CODE+++

+++BLOCKING PASS CODE+++
+++BLOCK FAILURE+++
+++ PASS CODE TRANSMITTED+++

+++ OPENING MESSAGE FILE+++

+++THANK YOU INQUISITOR. YOU WILL NOW BE LOGGED OFF+++


+++ WARNING+++
+++ BIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION OF TERMINUS ROOM+++
+++ FLOODING ROOM WITH TAERACIENE GAS+++

+++ABORT PURGE+++
+++ACCESS DENIED+++
+++INQUISITORIAL OVERIDE+++
+++
+++
+++ GOODBYE INQUISITOR+++


+++BIOLOGICAL CONTAMINANTS ELIMINATED+++

+++ENTER COMMAND+++

+++ENTER COMMAND+++

+++ENTER COMMAND+++

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I say go for it! Heed the call of the serpent, welcome back to the legion! (but we both know you never really left ;) )

My own little cell #379 is going to become corrupted when the next codex hits. I just haven't decided if they are leaning towards Khorne or Tzeentch yet...
Edited by Excessus, Jul 28 2012, 07:18 AM.
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FLEA BITTEN CHAOS MOGGY!!!

"Deception is the point. Any fool can calculate strength. That one has been doing it from the moment he saw us. Now, he has to calculate what he can't see."

"And fear what he doesn't know."
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TZEEEENTCH!

Suppose it depends on if you want to lean towards deception of aggression.
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Yeah, I'll decide when I have the new codex in my hands...
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FLEA BITTEN CHAOS MOGGY!!!

"Deception is the point. Any fool can calculate strength. That one has been doing it from the moment he saw us. Now, he has to calculate what he can't see."

"And fear what he doesn't know."
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I second both go for Alpha Legion and go for Tzeentch ;)
I tend to remember things off the top of my head as opposed to checking, so please excuse and correct any official fluff mistakes I make. A lot of it also personal interpretation and theory, so feel free to disagree as well, I won't mind

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Alpha Legion, all the way.
+++No Gods, No Masters+++
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Another option is Black Legion, because I have never seen them on the tabletop. Also I'd feel less guilty about taking cult troops.
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Then you should check out Basetheruin's thread over at warseer. He does an awesome 2nd ed inspired black legion army.
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FLEA BITTEN CHAOS MOGGY!!!

"Deception is the point. Any fool can calculate strength. That one has been doing it from the moment he saw us. Now, he has to calculate what he can't see."

"And fear what he doesn't know."
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