Their Story -

A word from their Creator -

The Daughter of Saturnine’s ancient and daggered prow ripped through the rolling tides and cloying madness of the immaterium, leaving multicoloured warp lightning cracking across its crenellated battlements and wispy trails of phosphorus light clinging to the yawning maws of its weapons batteries. Engines screaming, Gellar fields wailing, the vast and mighty Charybdis class grand cruiser violently tore its way back into real-space, the golden yellow of its hull rendered as muted bronze from the blue light of the systems distant star. She and her crew had come in response to an unexpected summons, a violent psychic Mortis-cry that had echoed out like a tidal wave, reaching even the most distant parts of the Imperium. There at the ragged edge, the crusaders who sailed aboard her fought bitterly to reclaim what was lost in the name of the Saint and the Emperor, so it was the Imperial Fists did come to the forgotten and blighted star system of Beta Chi.They acted as is their nature, decisively and without hesitation. Void shields alight and plasma drives ablaze, the vast Saturnine pierced through the void surrounding the Beta Chi system like a golden arrow loosed from its hellish quiver. At the bridges Auspex station, dozens of unique vessel contacts were reported in quick succession; Imperial, Xenos, Archenemy, as well as ships of configurations never before seen by any aboard the Saturnine; All of them converging on the planet of Beta Chi 138 and the source of the Mortis-cry. Already landing vessels of varying types were detected descending down upon the world, their parent vessels weaponry making a shield blistering firestorm of the planets orbit. Vox hails from the Saturnine to other Imperial vessels went seemingly unheard or ignored, even with the captain of the Saturnine invoking the name and sworn oaths of fealty of their own honoured chapter and the authority of Terra they bore, did nothing to stop the unfolding madness that had descended on the combatants.However, the clear and present danger of the Mortis-cry could not be ignored. With weapons fire roaring across the Saturnine’s void shields like oil over water, a plan was swiftly formed, taken from the pages and tenets of the Codex Astartes. The Saturnine would perform a single low orbital pass of the planet and in doing so deploy a heavily armed and mobile Rapid Strike Force. This strike force, drawn from the 4th company who called the Saturnine home, would be formed of two demi-squads and several support vehicles. The first was a Demi-Squad of company veterans, led by Sergeant Ryker and roaring to battle aboard a true relic of the chapter and a past golden age, The Grav Rhino Godsbane. The second was a demi-squad of scout Neophytes, split into two fireteams, one traveling at speed on bikes, the other acting as sniper support. Finally, the Rapid Strike Force would be led by a hero of the Chapter, Vallo-Diaz 4th Company Champion, Slayer of the Beast of Hydraphur & Hero of the Alien Wars.Deployed aboard their Thunderhawk Transporter, Rapid Strike Force ‘Alabaster Blade’ would punch deep into the heart of the pit at speed and purge its source. Lest the psychically tainted source of the pit fall into the treacherous hands of the Archenemy or the perfidious xenos assailing it.It’s always been my dream to build and heavily convert a thematic force for 40k and the Sons of Dorn have always held a special place for me, ever since I saw them back in a now very old 3rd Edition White Dwarf Battle report alongside the Legion of the Damned! So Purge the Pit is the perfect excuse for me to finally stop theory crafting and actually do it. Heavily converted, characterful, super fluffy, true-scale, 90’s lovin’, Imperial fists space marines, here I come! Don’t forget the Kitchen sink too I guess!