Space Marines Ultra swords back story

[orkblasta]

I started to collect a smerf army a few years ago untill I came upon the realization that smerfs were to generic and I wanted something more unique, so I created The Ultra Swords. Their story actually follows the destruction of the Ultra marines which was brought about by the combined forces of Hive Fleet Reaper, (My friends hive) and the influence of the an unknown Eldar farseer (Same Friends Eldar).

The story goes something like this:

The Ultra marines were in ruin, their defenses had failed, and tyranids were swarming countless planets under their protection, Marneus Calgar had been defeated. His Armies lay in ruin and his fame and legend forgotten. A surviving captain and his squad of loyal marines managed to escape the invasion on a commandeered thunderhawk gunship where they fled the system in search of the 2nd company in an outlying system who where un aware of the fall of Calgar and the Ultramarines. They connected with the 2nd company and after the small fleet consisting of 1 battle barge and a few smaller ships were taken control of by the new leader of the chapter chapter master Catastrophy he led the remaining ultra marines out of the darkness and through the warp where they began a new age and a new chapter, the Ultra swords. The name sake comes from the brave men that held their swords high to stand against the invading aliens. The chapter master with his new power altered the color scheme for the ultra swords from the original ultramarine gold. He took a blazing orange and painted the left shoulder pad of every soldier this color, all the gold was removed and replaced with black trim but the Ultra marines blue remained as a reminder of the origin of the chapter. The continuing mission of the chapter is to acquire knowledge and weapons for the recruits to come and gain back that which was lost to hive fleet Reaper, and to make things even more difficult a farseer, who's name has yet to be revealed has made it his personal mission to stop the rising of the new chapter for they play a great role in the destruction the already dieing Eldar.

So that's pretty much the story, too much? Or is it good?

[Psychichobo]

It's one SERIOUS fluff push. Ultramarines are the biggest Chapter, it's pretty hard to wipe them out. Might want to elaborate on that area.

[orkblasta]

Elaborate you say, your wish is my command, at the moment anyway.

So as stated, the ultra marines were wiped out by a hive fleet known as hive fleet Reaper, but it wasn't through mass assault and pure over powering numbers that the hive fleet achieved victory, it was the cunning and changing nature of the fleet. The hive analyzed past defeats and a pattern showed up though it wasn't present in all defeats it was present in most. The space marines would study their opponent, slow them down, then when the tyranid hive would reach a desired location the space marines would finally have all the tactical info to crush their opponent in single blow, so what Hive Fleet Reaper did was send splinter fleets across the sector but they were ordered to remain unknown to the space marines and to slowly gather biomass at un-inhabited planets. Then when the splinter fleets had achieved a sufficient strength the main body of the tyranids attacked on the first planet in the sector. The space marines became aware of the tyranids at that moment and through the guidance of Lord Calgar launched a counter attack to stop the invasion before it reached the next planet. But when the fleet engaged the tyranid fleet they found themselves surrounded when the small splinter fleets protruded from the warp all around them, destroying the space marine fleet. The main defense of the sector was destroyed but the tyranids new more chapters would respond to the threat and so the tyranids again sent out splinter fleets, this time to every planet in the sector where they again collected bio mass. Then when the Ultra marines were about to receive the aid from the Salamander, Blood Ravens, Raven Guard, and Imperial Fists, the tyranids attacked, they attacked every planet at the exact same moment, some fights were lost within a day others within a week but most battle were won as the space marines didn't know how to defend every planet at the same moment. So the tyranids strength tripled in 1 month. The new arrival of other space marines from other chapters helped in the defense of a few planets but it wasn't enough, the tyranids had gathered far to much bio mass and every time they lost a battle they created new bio morphs to conquer and reclaim the lost bio. The Ultra marines defended a single planet by the end of the next month, all ships had pulled back to the planet and all marine, imperial guard and any other defending forces had been pulled back to the single planet. The tyranids lay siege to the planet for 3 months before gaining a strong foot hold on the planets surface, and when that happened it was over the invasion was a success, the Ultra Marines were defeated.

If you ask I will go into more depth about the final stand of the Ultra Marines and Imperial Guard Defenders at the Fortress of Anubis.

If there are any holes in the story and back ground please point them out.

[htsmithium]

all i want to know is did the the ultra marines get there primarch off the planet before it was over run?
or does the hive fleet now have the DNA of one of humanitys greatest champions?

[orkblasta]

well actually the primarch is dead, if you are refering to the power of Roboute Guilliman that is. But even in his death the DNA is still accessible, and actually I was going to include that the last stand of the Ultramarines was held at the Temple of Roboute Guilliman, and when the ultramarines new there was know hope and all chance of victory was gone they destroyed the Gene archives including that of Roboute Guilliman.

[Loplod]

But don't the ultramarines have guns?

[Enigma]

Dude... raising their swords is a figurative term, and some of them have swords. Some of them have guns.

It's a kind of yin-yang thing, y'know? Swords and guns? Like, one is really awesome, and the other just blows (please do not swear) up, and one is for close fights, and the other is for coward fights, and how one cuts stuff up, and one just hurts it, y'know?