Johannes Gause

2018-04-12T10:52:06Z

Tom: /* Biography */

Johannes Gause

2018-04-12T10:48:48Z

Tom: /* Names */

Johannes Gause

2018-04-11T15:42:55Z

Tom: Created page with "{{Legion Tag |Numeration=VI |Legion Name=Harbingers |Article=Insert Name of your main legion article on the wiki eg. "Legion VI:Harbingers" }} Johannes Gause is the VIth of t..."

Phobetor

2018-04-11T15:20:51Z

Tom:

== Phobetor ==

{{Picture Box Left
|Image=Toydaria.png ‎
|Text= Phobetor
}}

Phobetor is an unpleasant planet, situated in the far East of the Galaxy, in what are commonly referred to as the Ghouls Stars. A world of dark infested forests and misty valleys, permanently locked into twilight due to its position between a binary star and the heavy pollution in the atmosphere caused by its ancient industry.

During the dark age of technology, the planet was both a garden world and an industrial powerhouse, great factories spewed out equipment used that was used across the breadth of the region, but with the fall of wider galactic society, the industry could not be maintained and slowly but surely collapsed into ruin.

Unfortunately for the population of Phobetor, this released all kind of toxins and pollutants into the biosphere, leading first to the drastic decline of the inhabitants, and then the slow mutation of the flora and fauna making it the death world that it is today.

Not finished with the planet, there was one final disaster to befall the world. During the chaos of the time, a deadly phage was accidentally released. Known as the Creeping Rot, the first symptoms were not noticed for many years. The virus began to breakdown the cell walls in the host, slowly causing the victim to literally decay from the inside out. This would eventually leave the victim little more than a walking husk, inevitability cast out of its abode, mindlessly wandering the wasteland between settlements, claiming sustenance from wherever, or whoever, it could.

Unable to find a cure for this fatal curse, a religion sprang up. It preached that your time on this plain is nothing more than a trial, only through great feats could an individual go on to the promised afterlife, and the longer that they tarried in the world, the more their spirit would be corrupted, both spiritually and physically. On these teachings, individuals would via to be the best at whatever they pursued, be it art, science or martial prowess. However, unless taken by some misfortune earlier in life, all would eventually develop the Creeping Rot, and venture out into the wilds to met a heroic death against the horrors of the wilds, rather than face a slow and honourless demise safe in their homes.

After a few centuries, the number of human settlements started to dwindle, as more and more of the remaining farmable land was lost to the growing hordes of phaged. One by one first cities and then towns began to be abandoned and became infested with new shambling inhabitants, until only a few hundred bastions survived, the greatest of which was the home of the Harbingers, a religious order dedicated to self sacrifice so that they might attain a better afterlife. It was into this fortress that Johannes was to fall.

== Coming of the Imperium ==

Since the arrival of the VI Legionnes Astartes, the planet has been largely left to its own devices and is used mostly as a recruiting ground for the Harbingers Legion. The remaining fortress monasteries still serve as bastions for the human population, but a number of settlements have been refounded, using "Phaged" labour for the manual work.

The Harbingers have based their Fortress monastery on the orbiting Moon, this allows visitors to interact with the Legion without fear of contracting the Phage for themselves. The Mechanicum also have a large presence in the monastery, and use it as a base for Archeotech foraging expeditions to the surface.

2018-02-08T12:09:29Z

Tom:

{{Infobox Legion
|Image=Tom_Marine.jpg
|Numeration= VI
|Primogenitor= Johannes Gause The Mortach
|Cognomen= Night Foxes
|Observed Strategic Tendencies= Cybernetic enhancement Heavy use of robots Night operation experts
|Noteworthy Domains = Phobetor
|Allegiance= Fedelitas Constantus
|Colours= Dark Green with black accents
|Quote= “Even in Death we serve" -Eckehard Schoenberg Steward of the Dead
}}

Summary of Legion goes here ESSENTIAL

=History=

== Arrival On Phobetor ==

Phobetor is an unpleasant planet, situated in the far East of the Galaxy, in what are commonly referred to as the Ghouls Stars. A world of dark infested forests and misty valleys, permanently locked into twilight due to its position between a binary star and the heavy pollution in the atmosphere caused by its ancient industry.

During the dark age of technology, the planet was both a garden world and an industrial powerhouse, great factories spewed out equipment used that was used across the breadth of the region, but with the fall of wider galactic society, the industry could not be maintained and slowly but surely collapsed into ruin.

Unfortunately for the population of Phobetor, this released all kind of toxins and pollutants into the biosphere, leading first to the drastic decline of the inhabitants, and then the slow mutation of the flora and fauna making it the death world that it is today.

Not finished with the planet, there was one final disaster to befall the world. During the chaos of the time, a deadly phage was accidentally released. Known as the Creeping Rot, the first symptoms were not noticed for many years. The virus began to breakdown the cell walls in the host, slowly causing the victim to literally decay from the inside out. This would eventually leave the victim little more than a walking husk, inevitability cast out of its abode, mindlessly wandering the wasteland between settlements, claiming sustenance from wherever, or whoever, it could.

Unable to find a cure for this fatal curse, a religion sprang up. It preached that your time on this plain is nothing more than a trial, only through great feats could an individual go on to the promised afterlife, and the longer that they tarried in the world, the more their spirit would be corrupted, both spiritually and physically. On these teachings, individuals would via to be the best at whatever they pursued, be it art, science or martial prowess. However, unless taken by some misfortune earlier in life, all would eventually develop the Creeping Rot, and venture out into the wilds to met a heroic death against the horrors of the wilds, rather than face a slow and honourless demise safe in their homes.

After a few centuries, the number of human settlements started to dwindle, as more and more of the remaining farmable land was lost to the growing hordes of phaged. One by one first cities and then towns began to be abandoned and became infested with new shambling inhabitants, until only a few hundred bastions survived, the greatest of which was the home of the Harbingers, a religious order dedicated to self sacrifice so that they might attain a better afterlife. It was into this fortress that Johannes was to fall.

His arrival was heralded by a flaming comet that crashed to the ground in a great eruption of fire and earth not far from the Harbingers monastery. They ventured out and rescued the child they found within and brought him back to raise him as one of their own, naming him Johannes Gause.

Like all Primarchs Johannes grew both physically and intellectually at a prodigious rate. Quickly absorbing the teaching of the order, he was able to reorganize the defenses and tactics of the Harbingers, and helped them to push back the wilds for the first time in generations. As time passed not only did his stature grew through the deeds he preformed, but also he was held in awe by the populace due to the fact as he aged he remained unaffected by the phage, first through one generation then two then three. Adoration became veneration, and eventually his fame spread to all corners of the planet, and he began to known by the title Mortarch, which means The Undying in the local tongue. From time to time Johannes would venture out alone, and it was on once such sojourns he was to discover something which would change the planet's fate.

Whilst delving into the ruins of one of the abandoned factories, he came across a device which allowed him to commune directly with the phaged, and guide their actions as he directed. Instantly realizing the boon this piece of ancient technology would be to his beleaguered brethren, he returned to his monastery and attempted to recreate the device. For many months he was sequestered alone, wrestling with the archeotech, until eventually he had created something based off the original. He next traveled the planet, finding and training those who could use the items as he had. These individuals were few and far between, and none as powerful or successful as Johannes, however within a matter of a few years the threat of the phaged to humanity had been ended.

Shortly after the great pilgrimage, as it would become known, great lights were seen in the sky and Phobetor was reunited with the Imperium of Man.

== The Great Crusade ==

It was to be the 426th Expeditionary fleet that was to rediscover Phobetor in the 83rd year of the Great Crusade. As the mighty ships descended, Johannes marched to meet them with a contingent of his finest warriors of the Harbingers. Upon landing, a great warrior in gleaming golden armour strode out and straight up to Johannes. No words appeared to pass between the two, but after only a few moments the Mortarch bent his knee and motioned his followers to do the same. Thus was the Primarch of the VIth Legion reunited with his father.

Up until this point the VIth Legion had been dispersed amongst the other crusading fleets. Although they has just about enough Asartes to form an Expeditionary fleet of their own, due to their preference for night operation and sabotage missions, they had been sent to other Expeditions in a support role. Johannes quickly set about reorganizing the "Night Foxes" as they had informally become known, and attempted to instill in them the virtues of Honour and self-sacrifice that his own warrior monks so demonstrated.

A big concern for the Imperial Administratum was that the population of Phobetor would make useless recruits as Space Marines due to the Infection rampant on the planet. Further investigation however revealed the creeping rot to be a toxin present in the atmosphere, rather than a virus as feared. Furthermore, once aspirants had been implanted with their sire's Gene-seed, this appeared to prevent the phage from taking root in the first place. Having refit, reorganized and retrained, the newly christened Harbingers Legion launched into the Great Crusade alongside the other Space Marine Legions.

True to their beliefs, the Legion quickly become known for bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. Often fighting on when retreat would be a more tactical option, which has on occasion lead to higher losses than perhaps were necessary. Also of note is the high proportion of robots and bionic implants found within the legion. Early on in his Crusade deployment, Johannes rescued an uncontacted Forge World from certain destruction by an Orc Wargh! This is assume to be the source of the automata and technical equipment.

= Legion Organisation =
The Harbingers are organized into roughly 20 Orders of about 10,000 marines. The Orders are further divided into Chapters and then companies. Each order is semi-autonomous and more than capable of campaigning on its own, maintaining a broad range of equipment and tactical biases.

The main anomaly is the large number of Cybernetica. These are technically outside of the legion structure, organized as part of the Stewards of the Dead Support Company, but in practice largely replace the role of Dreadnoughts in a normal Legion.

{{Picture Box Left
|Image=Harbingers_Symbol.jpeg
|Text=Harbingers Legion Symbol
}}

==Unique Formations==
===Stewards of the Dead===
The stewards of the Dead seem to combine Chaplins, Techmarines and Libraians into one role. The Stewards are at once responsible for tending to the sanctity of the spirit and physical form. As well as this every robot maniple in the Legion is lead by a Speaker of the dead, who appears to be responsible for the upkeep as well as their deployment. Their quasi religious background has been questioned by iterators of the Imperial Creed, but Johannes has assured them that whatever the faith they where originally based on, it has been quashed.

==Combat Doctrine==

The Harbingers are a legion that tends towards large scale infantry assaults backed up by Armour and close air support. Due to a quirk in their Gene-Seed they are particularly effective at fighting in pitch black environments. More than once the Legion has attacked during unnatural darkness which has created an air of dread in the foe, beyond that which would normally be associated with night fighting.

=Legion Homeworld=

''Main Article [[Phobetor]]'' 

Phobetor is an unpleasant planet, situated in the far East of the Galaxy, in what are commonly referred to as the Ghouls Stars. A world of dark infested forests and misty valleys, permanently locked into twilight due to its position between a binary star and the heavy pollution in the atmosphere caused by its ancient industry.

During the dark age of technology, the planet was both a garden world and an industrial powerhouse, great factories spewed out equipment used that was used across the breadth of the region, but with the fall of wider galactic society, the industry could not be maintained and slowly but surely collapsed into ruin.

Unfortunately for the population of Phobetor, this released all kind of toxins and pollutants into the biosphere, leading first to the drastic decline of the inhabitants, and then the slow mutation of the flora and fauna making it the death world that it is today.

=Primarch=

''Main Article: [[Johannes Gause]]'' 

{{Picture Box Left
|Image=Mortarch.jpg
|Text=Johannes Gause
}}

Summary of Primarch in relation to Legion ESSENTIAL

=Culture and Beliefs=

The Harbingers still believe that the more courageous and heroic the deeds performed in this life, the greater the reward in the next. As such it is not unusual to see the Stewards walking among them during battle, exhorting them to greater glory in the name of the Emperor. On a few occasions this has lead to units being lost when falling back might have saved them. This virtue will often also lead them to attempt to minimize civilian casualties as far as possible, believing it to be immoral to bring to harm those unable to protect themselves.

A certain veneration of the Johannes also lingers in those marines who have joined the Legion from Phobetor, and by extension the Emperor. Although Johannes strongly denies it, it is still common to hear to him referred to as the Mortarch amongst those who hail from the Legion homeworld.

=Geneseed=

The Harbingers Geneseed is very stable with no mutations to speak off. The only noticeable side effect is to greatly enhanced a Marines abilities in low-light or darkness, beyond even that of a normal Astartes

Provisional

*'''Tactics=''' Competent/Average
*'''Espionage=''' Competent/Average
*'''Aggression=''' Competent/Average
*'''Mitigation=''' Specialized/Good
*'''Diplomacy=''' Competent/Average
*'''Geneseed=''' Specialized/Good

=Homeworld Attributes=

Provisonal
*'''Population=''' Competent/Average
*'''Fabrication=''' Competent/Average
*'''Fortification=''' Competent/Average

=Exemplary Battles=
==Battle One==

''Main Article: [[Battle Name]]'' 

Story of Battle

==Battle Two==

''Main Article: [[Battle Name]]'' 

Story of Battle

=Notable Members=
'''Primarch''' 
[[Primarch Name]]Shiniest of Shiney, The Shiney Lord 
'''High Command''' 
[[Person Name]] Title 
[[Person2 Name]] Title 
'''Others''' 
[[Spod Name here]] Title 

[[Category:Legion]]

File:Mortarch.jpg

2018-02-08T12:05:25Z

Tom:

Legion VI: Harbingers

2018-02-08T11:44:28Z

Tom:

Legion VI: Harbingers

2018-02-08T11:43:20Z

Tom:

{{Infobox Legion
|Image=Tom_Marine.jpg
|Numeration= VI
|Primogenitor= Johannes Gause - The Mortach
|Cognomen= Night Foxes
|Observed Strategic Tendencies= Cybernetic enhancement Heavy use of robots Night operation experts
|Noteworthy Domains = Phobetor
|Allegiance= Fedelitas Constantus
|Colours= Dark Green with black accents
|Quote= “Even in Death we serve" -Eckehard Schoenberg Steward of the Dead
}}

Summary of Legion goes here ESSENTIAL

=History=

== Arrival On Phobetor ==

Phobetor is an unpleasant planet, situated in the far East of the Galaxy, in what are commonly referred to as the Ghouls Stars. A world of dark infested forests and misty valleys, permanently locked into twilight due to its position between a binary star and the heavy pollution in the atmosphere caused by its ancient industry.

During the dark age of technology, the planet was both a garden world and an industrial powerhouse, great factories spewed out equipment used that was used across the breadth of the region, but with the fall of wider galactic society, the industry could not be maintained and slowly but surely collapsed into ruin.

Unfortunately for the population of Phobetor, this released all kind of toxins and pollutants into the biosphere, leading first to the drastic decline of the inhabitants, and then the slow mutation of the flora and fauna making it the death world that it is today.

Not finished with the planet, there was one final disaster to befall the world. During the chaos of the time, a deadly phage was accidentally released. Known as the Creeping Rot, the first symptoms were not noticed for many years. The virus began to breakdown the cell walls in the host, slowly causing the victim to literally decay from the inside out. This would eventually leave the victim little more than a walking husk, inevitability cast out of its abode, mindlessly wandering the wasteland between settlements, claiming sustenance from wherever, or whoever, it could.

Unable to find a cure for this fatal curse, a religion sprang up. It preached that your time on this plain is nothing more than a trial, only through great feats could an individual go on to the promised afterlife, and the longer that they tarried in the world, the more their spirit would be corrupted, both spiritually and physically. On these teachings, individuals would via to be the best at whatever they pursued, be it art, science or martial prowess. However, unless taken by some misfortune earlier in life, all would eventually develop the Creeping Rot, and venture out into the wilds to met a heroic death against the horrors of the wilds, rather than face a slow and honourless demise safe in their homes.

After a few centuries, the number of human settlements started to dwindle, as more and more of the remaining farmable land was lost to the growing hordes of phaged. One by one first cities and then towns began to be abandoned and became infested with new shambling inhabitants, until only a few hundred bastions survived, the greatest of which was the home of the Harbingers, a religious order dedicated to self sacrifice so that they might attain a better afterlife. It was into this fortress that Johannes was to fall.

His arrival was heralded by a flaming comet that crashed to the ground in a great eruption of fire and earth not far from the Harbingers monastery. They ventured out and rescued the child they found within and brought him back to raise him as one of their own, naming him Johannes Gause.

Like all Primarchs Johannes grew both physically and intellectually at a prodigious rate. Quickly absorbing the teaching of the order, he was able to reorganize the defenses and tactics of the Harbingers, and helped them to push back the wilds for the first time in generations. As time passed not only did his stature grew through the deeds he preformed, but also he was held in awe by the populace due to the fact as he aged he remained unaffected by the phage, first through one generation then two then three. Adoration became veneration, and eventually his fame spread to all corners of the planet, and he began to known by the title Mortarch, which means The Undying in the local tongue. From time to time Johannes would venture out alone, and it was on once such sojourns he was to discover something which would change the planet's fate.

Whilst delving into the ruins of one of the abandoned factories, he came across a device which allowed him to commune directly with the phaged, and guide their actions as he directed. Instantly realizing the boon this piece of ancient technology would be to his beleaguered brethren, he returned to his monastery and attempted to recreate the device. For many months he was sequestered alone, wrestling with the archeotech, until eventually he had created something based off the original. He next traveled the planet, finding and training those who could use the items as he had. These individuals were few and far between, and none as powerful or successful as Johannes, however within a matter of a few years the threat of the phaged to humanity had been ended.

Shortly after the great pilgrimage, as it would become known, great lights were seen in the sky and Phobetor was reunited with the Imperium of Man.

== The Great Crusade ==

It was to be the 426th Expeditionary fleet that was to rediscover Phobetor in the 83rd year of the Great Crusade. As the mighty ships descended, Johannes marched to meet them with a contingent of his finest warriors of the Harbingers. Upon landing, a great warrior in gleaming golden armour strode out and straight up to Johannes. No words appeared to pass between the two, but after only a few moments the Mortarch bent his knee and motioned his followers to do the same. Thus was the Primarch of the VIth Legion reunited with his father.

Up until this point the VIth Legion had been dispersed amongst the other crusading fleets. Although they has just about enough Asartes to form an Expeditionary fleet of their own, due to their preference for night operation and sabotage missions, they had been sent to other Expeditions in a support role. Johannes quickly set about reorganizing the "Night Foxes" as they had informally become known, and attempted to instill in them the virtues of Honour and self-sacrifice that his own warrior monks so demonstrated.

A big concern for the Imperial Administratum was that the population of Phobetor would make useless recruits as Space Marines due to the Infection rampant on the planet. Further investigation however revealed the creeping rot to be a toxin present in the atmosphere, rather than a virus as feared. Furthermore, once aspirants had been implanted with their sire's Gene-seed, this appeared to prevent the phage from taking root in the first place. Having refit, reorganized and retrained, the newly christened Harbingers Legion launched into the Great Crusade alongside the other Space Marine Legions.

True to their beliefs, the Legion quickly become known for bravery in the face of overwhelming odds. Often fighting on when retreat would be a more tactical option, which has on occasion lead to higher losses than perhaps were necessary. Also of note is the high proportion of robots and bionic implants found within the legion. Early on in his Crusade deployment, Johannes rescued an uncontacted Forge World from certain destruction by an Orc Wargh! This is assume to be the source of the automata and technical equipment.

= Legion Organisation =
The Harbingers are organized into roughly 20 Orders of about 10,000 marines. The Orders are further divided into Chapters and then companies. Each order is semi-autonomous and more than capable of campaigning on its own, maintaining a broad range of equipment and tactical biases.

The main anomaly is the large number of Cybernetica. These are technically outside of the legion structure, organized as part of the Stewards of the Dead Support Company, but in practice largely replace the role of Dreadnoughts in a normal Legion.

{{Picture Box Left
|Image=Harbingers_Symbol.jpeg
|Text=Harbingers Legion Symbol
}}

==Unique Formations==
===Stewards of the Dead===
The stewards of the Dead seem to combine Chaplins, Techmarines and Libraians into one role. The Stewards are at once responsible for tending to the sanctity of the spirit and physical form. As well as this every robot maniple in the Legion is lead by a Speaker of the dead, who appears to be responsible for the upkeep as well as their deployment. Their quasi religious background has been questioned by iterators of the Imperial Creed, but Johannes has assured them that whatever the faith they where originally based on, it has been quashed.

==Combat Doctrine==

The Harbingers are a legion that tends towards large scale infantry assaults backed up by Armour and close air support. Due to a quirk in their Gene-Seed they are particularly effective at fighting in pitch black environments. More than once the Legion has attacked during unnatural darkness which has created an air of dread in the foe, beyond that which would normally be associated with night fighting.

=Legion Homeworld=

''Main Article [[Phobetor]]'' 

Phobetor is an unpleasant planet, situated in the far East of the Galaxy, in what are commonly referred to as the Ghouls Stars. A world of dark infested forests and misty valleys, permanently locked into twilight due to its position between a binary star and the heavy pollution in the atmosphere caused by its ancient industry.

During the dark age of technology, the planet was both a garden world and an industrial powerhouse, great factories spewed out equipment used that was used across the breadth of the region, but with the fall of wider galactic society, the industry could not be maintained and slowly but surely collapsed into ruin.

Unfortunately for the population of Phobetor, this released all kind of toxins and pollutants into the biosphere, leading first to the drastic decline of the inhabitants, and then the slow mutation of the flora and fauna making it the death world that it is today.

=Primarch=

''Main Article: [[Primarch Name]]'' 

Summary of Primarch in relation to Legion ESSENTIAL

=Culture and Beliefs=

The Harbingers still believe that the more courageous and heroic the deeds performed in this life, the greater the reward in the next. As such it is not unusual to see the Stewards walking among them during battle, exhorting them to greater glory in the name of the Emperor. On a few occasions this has lead to units being lost when falling back might have saved them. This virtue will often also lead them to attempt to minimize civilian casualties as far as possible, believing it to be immoral to bring to harm those unable to protect themselves.

A certain veneration of the Johannes also lingers in those marines who have joined the Legion from Phobetor, and by extension the Emperor. Although Johannes strongly denies it, it is still common to hear to him referred to as the Mortarch amongst those who hail from the Legion homeworld.

=Geneseed=

The Harbingers Geneseed is very stable with no mutations to speak off. The only noticeable side effect is to greatly enhanced a Marines abilities in low-light or darkness, beyond even that of a normal Astartes

Provisional

*'''Tactics=''' Competent/Average
*'''Espionage=''' Competent/Average
*'''Aggression=''' Competent/Average
*'''Mitigation=''' Specialized/Good
*'''Diplomacy=''' Competent/Average
*'''Geneseed=''' Specialized/Good

=Homeworld Attributes=

Provisonal
*'''Population=''' Competent/Average
*'''Fabrication=''' Competent/Average
*'''Fortification=''' Competent/Average

=Exemplary Battles=
==Battle One==

''Main Article: [[Battle Name]]'' 

Story of Battle

==Battle Two==

''Main Article: [[Battle Name]]'' 

Story of Battle

=Notable Members=
'''Primarch''' 
[[Primarch Name]]Shiniest of Shiney, The Shiney Lord 
'''High Command''' 
[[Person Name]] Title 
[[Person2 Name]] Title 
'''Others''' 
[[Spod Name here]] Title 

[[Category:Legion]]

2018-02-07T16:16:24Z

Tom: /* Part 2 Name */

Legion VI: Harbingers

2018-02-07T14:36:44Z

Tom:

Legion VI: Harbingers

2018-02-01T18:14:30Z

Tom: /* Arrival On Phobetor */

Legion VI: Harbingers

2018-02-01T17:28:29Z

Tom: /* Part 1 Name */