Iron Cyclops Warband

Medrengard. A daemon world located deep in the Eye of Terror, home of the Iron Warriors Chaos Marine Legion. It's described as massive slave world of white sky and black sun. Many warbands scour it's surface, preparing for war or just culling it's population for sport.

One of the warbands, however, takes no part in slave hunting or assaults on Imperial worlds, for their mission is beyond that. They are the warband of Iron Cyclops, masters of obtaining powerful artifacts.

Iron Cyclops are largely unknown to the Imperial servants or any other faction, due to secretive nature of their operations. Their history can be traced to time before Horus Heresy. Perturabo, Primarch of Iron Warriors, had during that time ordered a group of Space Marines to go into unknown reaches of space, to seek out long lost artifacts of humanity and xeno races.

During visit on one planet, this group had found a masterfully crafted bionic eye, which was able to see far beyond human spectrum. Marines, anxious to put it to use, had only partly managed to reverse-engineer it as a more bulky version. Having two of this on helmet proved to be a trouble, so they end up installing only one, never the less taking lot of time.

By the day they reached their Legion, Horus Heresy was crushed and Traitor Legions were routing into the Eye of Terror. After interrogated about their absence, Peturabo went into rage, calling them cowards who failed to aid their brethren.

As punishment, Peturabo removed eye of each men, saying their "new bionics eye toys" shall forever be worn as a sing of shame, never letting them to fight by their brothers side.

Rejected and alone, small group of men vowed they'll win their Primarch's favor back. Even as Loyalist's forces were hunting Chaos Legions with greatest fury, Iron Cyclops struck at many Imperial planets. For next fifty years, they gathered great amount of relics, treasure and powerful weaponry, as a gift for pardon.

When they presented it to the Peturabo, Primarch looked long at entire cargo bay filled to the brim with loot, some of it he did recognized as "no one could stole this". While this did nothing to soften him, it did made him realized that these men have talent for obtaining the unobtainable. Even though he stayed true to his word and Iron Cyclops never fought next to their brothers, their other "services" were welcomed back to the legion.

To this day, Iron Cyclops had plundered some of best guarded and hidden objects in the galaxy. Either trough direct assault with no witnesses left behind, or trough cunning schemes, they leave no mark of their warband. They keep their armor with few marks of chaos, enabling them to masks themselves fast and even pass for loyalist's marines on some worlds.

In their cave hideout, apart from vast amount of loot, often used for negotiation with other legions, is a great forge. Masters of reverse-engineering, Iron Cyclops had bended Imperial, Eldar, Tau and even Necron technology to their will. Tales of chaos spawns being combined with Tyranids circle around in the warp, but none dares to found if it's true.

It is 41st millennium, and there is still lot of things to steal.






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