Primarch: Kanakys
Homeworld: Yanith Lei
Color: Green and Dark Blue
Symbol: Half-infinity
Doctrine: Ambush and Assault
Special:
Lost Legion
Extensive use of MkI Terminator Armor
Close ties with Adeptus Biologis
May be idea source of Obliterator Virus
Notes:
Yanith Lei was turbulent world from above, but flourishing in the currents below.
Extensive magma vents supported underwater megacities, like Great Hives turned
upside-down. It has been theorized that rather than a natural settlement, the
planet's population grew around crashlanded Dark Age of Technology ships.
The people had adapted to life with little natural sunlight, but lighting up the
undersea with bright biochemical lamps. They used mechanical gills to convert
seawater into usable air, but their own skins could filter oxygen straight from
seawater to some extent. 'Drowning' for a Yanith was a slow but not specially painful
process- their nerves go numb, their bodies shut down, and air is purged from the
lungs and pressure equalized with the sea outside. Unless eaten by the many
predators, they might be revived for up to two weeks later with little permanent
injury.
Kanakys was found inside the belly of a Yanithian Black Shark, and was first thought
to be dead. He surprised them however by the efficiency of his breathing skin, and
apparently shark teeth had broken off against his skin. There were old legends
about the Deep Son, who would 'bring back the starlight'. He grew up quickly, and
learned well. His parents were miners for a neaby Shoal-keep, and once he seemed
old enough they had sent him to learn among their Minders. It was named Gond, a
massive sprawl of habitats formed of technocoral, and Kanakys absorbed the skills
and knowledge of its monastic orders.
Weird counterparts to Powered Armor were used to operate and fight for mining
resources or sifters from the sea floor. They were tough, made to endure crushing
pressures, but also surprisingly manueverable. War in Yanith Lei was happened in
three dimension, and due to the sloth that fighting in deep waters naturally enforce;
also something entered into with great deliberation. Submarine carriers deployed
'gun-ships' and 'waterplanes', and warriors usually in vast quantities. Lasers were
effective weapons, though at less than normal expected efficiency (compensated for
by simply more massive power plants) and various forms of torpedos were main
weapons. Surprisingly, Power Weapons were also effective, and as such close
combat remained the primary way of dealing with heavy armor. Inside the sealed
habitats, Armored warriors clashed directly, much faster and more precise- naturally
cramped conditions forced the evolution of the Power Glove into something both
shield and blade-- elongated(rather than then the normal squarish) bracers ending
in fist daggers (Power Claws being deemed too likely to catch or cut at inconvenient
times).
Kanakys learned of the Deeper Well, the center of all Yanith Lei's political and
military power. Not until he faced their warriors that he met someone who could
actually give him a challenge. The Deeper Armor, used by everyone for combat,
originated from there. It was also the first time he encountered the Knights Hydrus,
chosen of the Great Mother. Their bodies laced with technocoral and nanoforms,
they were capable of drawing weapons out from their own skin. The biochemical
lasers were a surprise, actually capable of damaging Kanaky's own skin; which until
then had proved resistant even to ship lasers.
Like all other Primarchs, Kanakys willingly or accidentally, begun to dominate his
foster world. However, compared to others his was a slow progress. This was due to
his odd obsession with learning everything that his enemy could use, duplicating it,
and using their weapons and tactics against them in turn. How fast he and the Great
Mother could adapt to each other was apparently a source of wonder and excitement
to both sides.
Were they not enemies, it might even be said that they had grown to love each
other; as if by their lethal gifts showing affection. Unfortunately, Kanakys had
learned quite early on that the Great Mother was some form of AI, probably of the
original human ship. The growth of technocoral was making her existence
unsustainable, having encouraged humanity's growth through thousands of years
(with controlled conflicts or atrocities if necessary) she was losing original functions,
growing inefficient... senile... she was old and wanted to die. The Hydrus Knights,
children sacrificed by the swellers of the Deeper Well, had telepathic implants
binding them to her will. For the past few hundred years, they had been slowly
provoking the surrounding Nation-Shoals into aggression; unfortunately it only
intimidated them even more into not resisting the the power of the Deeper Well.
When Kanakys arrived, and began confounding her strategems, old error-correction
routines were reawakened, bringing fresh life to ancient circuits. Independent
thought finally came to the Hydrus Knights, and they too began to entertertain
possibilities of rebellion.
When Kanakys finally broke through to bring the flag of Gond into the Deeper Well,
the Hydrus were in the middle of an intercine war. The survivors joined him to finally
put a merciful end to the Great Mother.
However, even destroying the computer core could not end her. In the long millenia,
she had become more than just any other machine intelligence, more than just the
controlling mind over an entire civilization, more than an entity being eaten away by
technocoral. SHE -WAS- THE TECHNOCORAL. To finally silence her, Kanakys had to
supplant her presence inside the shared consciousness of the Hydratus with his own;
to become undisputed voice and master of the Deeper Well. And so it was done.
Like most other Primarchs, Kanakys also challenged the Emperor on his arrival.
This, however, was in the form of a simple question "How long can you hold your
breath?" When the Emperor replied "Ten thousand years, by your reckoning."
willingly did the Primarch lend his forces to the Great Crusade, and the prototype
forms of what would shape the Mark One Terminator/Tactical Dreadnought Armor.
These, like the Legion, would be left to disuse for reasons that remain unknown.
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Now here's the challenge. There are two Lost Legions. Either make up your own Primarch and Legion, or take the above and shove it into another time or galaxy.
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As a pre-Heresy Legion, much of its technology would be an anachronistic mix of the advanced and primitive. They wouldn't be so dogmatic, Marines free to develop distinct personalities, but at the same time may still be affected by common human flaws and failings.