I’ve been thinking of ways to expand my Black Templars army into a more generic force. Simply smiling politely and using a codex list with my BT models works fine, but I want to add some visual cues as well. To this end, I thought of combining models from the various successors to Dorn’s legion, namely the Black Templars, Imperial Fists, and possibly Crimson Fists if I can somehow tie in the extra color. I’m on self imposed (and girlfriend enforced) ban on purchasing new Space Marine models for awhile… so I’m going to take the time to build up some nice fluff for these guys.
At this point I have yet to fill out any details on the fluff and still probably need to work on the outline a bit. I wanted to post the outline that I have so far and see if anyone has any constructive criticisms or suggestions. Many things (such as Inquisitor Bob) are really just placeholder names. I’m probably taking some fairly large artistic license with some of the items in here. I’m perfectly okay with this, but feel free to let me know where the spots are.
The outline, grouped roughly by timeline:
- Inquisitor Bob is attempting to increase her personal sphere of influence.
- Inquisitor Bob finds a convenient xenos/psyker/heretic scapegoat.
- Inquisitor Bob requisitions the aid of the space marines in question.
- The newly formed crusade is sent on its mission.
- The crusade succeeds easily.
- Inquisitor Bob creates evidence suggesting that the successors to Dorn have been plotting to reunite and rebuild the original legion.
- Inquisitor Bob presents her evidence and succeeds in having the crusade excommunicated. The parent chapters are put under suspicion.
- The parent chapters are split internally, some wish to support their brothers and others wish to support the findings of the inquisition.
- Under stress, those who wish to support their brothers split from their chapters and join with those exiled. The Black Templars form the backbone of this new renegade chapter as they have the most experience functioning in a vagabond existence.
The two biggest issues I see with this are having the evidence believed and then having the renegade marines survive. As far as the inquisition is concerned, I intend on keeping it as simple human greed and ambition as much as possible. Regarding keeping the marines alive, the renegade marines may be receiving the protection of some Chaos god unknowingly. At present, they still behave as they have always. However, outside of the protection of the Emperor, they will slowly become corrupted. The Chaos solution is fairly likely, as I like the story that I can work with it. Inquisitor Bob drops out of things after the beginning... I'll probably fix that at some point, but that's something for after I get the marines worked out.
EDIT: I realized I missed a rather important bit in one of my sentences. It makes a fair deal more sense now.
At this point I have yet to fill out any details on the fluff and still probably need to work on the outline a bit. I wanted to post the outline that I have so far and see if anyone has any constructive criticisms or suggestions. Many things (such as Inquisitor Bob) are really just placeholder names. I’m probably taking some fairly large artistic license with some of the items in here. I’m perfectly okay with this, but feel free to let me know where the spots are.
The outline, grouped roughly by timeline:
- Inquisitor Bob is attempting to increase her personal sphere of influence.
- Inquisitor Bob finds a convenient xenos/psyker/heretic scapegoat.
- Inquisitor Bob requisitions the aid of the space marines in question.
- The newly formed crusade is sent on its mission.
- The crusade succeeds easily.
- Inquisitor Bob creates evidence suggesting that the successors to Dorn have been plotting to reunite and rebuild the original legion.
- Inquisitor Bob presents her evidence and succeeds in having the crusade excommunicated. The parent chapters are put under suspicion.
- The parent chapters are split internally, some wish to support their brothers and others wish to support the findings of the inquisition.
- Under stress, those who wish to support their brothers split from their chapters and join with those exiled. The Black Templars form the backbone of this new renegade chapter as they have the most experience functioning in a vagabond existence.
The two biggest issues I see with this are having the evidence believed and then having the renegade marines survive. As far as the inquisition is concerned, I intend on keeping it as simple human greed and ambition as much as possible. Regarding keeping the marines alive, the renegade marines may be receiving the protection of some Chaos god unknowingly. At present, they still behave as they have always. However, outside of the protection of the Emperor, they will slowly become corrupted. The Chaos solution is fairly likely, as I like the story that I can work with it. Inquisitor Bob drops out of things after the beginning... I'll probably fix that at some point, but that's something for after I get the marines worked out.
EDIT: I realized I missed a rather important bit in one of my sentences. It makes a fair deal more sense now.