The Centurions

Legend says the Centurions were the original 100th chapter of the Adeptus Astartes, Imperial Space Marines. They were raised and quartered on the planet S’yagnid III, a hostile planet which was then on the outskirts of human influence.

For over 700 years the Centurions fought off invasions from the Tyranids, rogue Eldar and Ork menaces. Comminication to Terra was sketchy and resupply infrequent. The Centurions didn’t have access to new mechanized machines coming out of the Tech Worlds of the Adeptus Mechanicus and relied instead upon sheer numbers of aggressive tactical squads to defend the Emporer and humanity.

What little contact there was with Earth was lost when a huge warp storm cut off all connection between S’Yagnid and Terra. The Emporer knew that within the warp storm there was a massed fleet of apostate Chaos Heretic Marines.

Hope for the Centurions’ survival waned as the Warp Storm isolated S’Yagnid for three and a half centuries. When all hope vanished, the Centurions were taken off the list of chapters. Officially they were listed as lost and destoyed, though many thought and feared that the chapter had surely betrayed the Emporer after so long and were now numbered among the cursed of the reviled Chaos Marines.

326 years after the storm began, the Warp Storm over S’Yagnid disappated. A short weak message was received by a remote Terran Astropath claiming to be from Consul Xavius Quintus. The message read: “S’Yagnid has not fallen. Request reinforcements and sixteen lascannons.” No action was taken. The empire distrusted the message and feared that it was a trap by the betraying Centurions.

Thirty two years after that, a small fast scout ship was dispatched to S’Yagnid to survey the situation. The ruins that remained were unidentifiable. Freshly dead corpses lay atop century old skeletons five deep upon battlefields which stretched for hundreds of miles. The original chapter fortress was a crater six and half miles wide and two deep. The entire southern continent was on fire. On the side of a snow packed mountain, the scout saw the Purple and gold of the Centurion flag and the crude but imposing fortress of the Centurions.

Consul Xavius signalled the scout and asked if he had brought the lascannons.

The empire allowed the Centurions to return though to this day they are mistrusted. The chapter does not worry that humanity doubts them, calls them spies and traitors. The Centurions have faced much worse and survived victorious. Their devotion to the Emperor is unwavering, forged in lakes of Centurion blood on S’Yagnid

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