Oh, look. A
new post. It’s been a while.
Three and a half years.
I had all
these great plans for this page. Working
through my different Relictors companies and models, explaining the how and why
of them. But then my career kinda took
off (which ends up being oddly time-consuming) and...
To be
honest, I grew
a bit frustrated with 40K. And with Games Workshop in general. But that’s a story I’ve told in
a few other places. The important thing is
that Dark Imperium has really revived my interest in the game and the universe.
When we last left the
Relictors, they’d been all-but-destroyed.
Declared heretics by members of the Inquisition and
more than half their number wiped out by the Grey Knights, the survivors had... well,
vanished. Nobody knows where to. Possibly the Eye of Terror. Maybe still
somewhere within the Imperium...
Which
brings me to the Primaris Space Marines.
At first I figured it’d be impossible to justify/rationalize adding
Primaris to my army. Sure, Roboute Guilliman offered the next-generation
Marines (and/or the tech to make them) to whatever Chapter could use them.
Would that include a Chapter that had been named traitors, though? A Chapter whose very location was unknown?
So... bear
with me.
Gulliman
definitely has a different view of the Imperium than anyone alive today. He sees the overcomplicated, superstitious
machine it’s become, as opposed to the thing of purity and strength it was
supposed to be. He’s also viewing it
through the eyes of a primarch. He’s
legendary for seeing the big picture, playing the long game. When he’s playing chess, he’s seeing fifteen
moves ahead in the game he’s going to play against her once he’s done
playing this game with you.
With all that in mind... maybe
he would send a squad or two of Primaris to join the Relictors. Perhaps he doesn’t feel being censured by the
Inquisition is the end-all, be-all that most “modern” people do. Could be he sees something further down the
road, an outcome no one else does, and the Relictors are part of it. Heck, maybe he’d send them the better part of
a whole company to help bolster their depleted ranks.
But how
would the Primaris themselves deal with this?
Would they be horrified to find out their new Chapter is using these
cursed weapons of Chaos? Would they
return to Gulliman in horror? Try to
take down the Conclave from within?
Maybe not.
It’s been stated a few times
now from GW that while they’re all modern beings, the Primaris have a very 31st
Millennium mindset, much like Gulliman himself.
They don’t believe in a lot of the... well, mythology that’s sprung up
around the Emperor. And around his enemies.
It’s likely that the idea of treating Chaos as a tool, an energy source—of
fighting fire with fire—could appeal to an even slightly open-minded Primaris.
Which is why the
Primaris Marines in
the Dark Imperium set have become the new Second Company of
my Relictors.
But I’ll get to that in a bit.
Next time... a few quick
conversions.
