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|Name=Silver Skulls | |Name=Silver Skulls | ||
| − | |Symbol= | + | |Symbol=SilverSkullsShoulder.JPG |
| − | |Symbol Px= | + | |Symbol Px=125 |
| − | |Founding Chapter=[[Ultramarines]] | + | |Founding Chapter=[[Ultramarines]] {{Cite This}} |
| − | |Founding=[[Second Founding]] | + | |Founding=[[Second Founding]] {{Cite This}} |
| − | |Chapter Master=[[Argentius]] | + | |Chapter Master=[[Argentius]]{{Fn|12}} |
|Descendants=Unknown | |Descendants=Unknown | ||
| − | |Homeworld=[[Varsavia]] {{Fn|1}} | + | |Homeworld=[[Varsavia]] {{Fn|1}}{{Fn|7a}} |
|Fortress-Monastery=Unknown | |Fortress-Monastery=Unknown | ||
|Colours=Steel color armor, silver helmet, and black shoulder guards. Right shoulder markings are in red (may be company color). Symbol is a stylized silver skull. | |Colours=Steel color armor, silver helmet, and black shoulder guards. Right shoulder markings are in red (may be company color). Symbol is a stylized silver skull. | ||
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|Strength=Unknown | |Strength=Unknown | ||
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| + | '''''Victory does not always rest with the big guns: but, if we rest in front of them we shall be lost.'''''<br> | ||
| + | +++ '''Lord Commander Argentius, Chapter Master of the Silver Skulls''' +++''{{Fn|7c}}{{Fn|12}} | ||
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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
| − | [[Image:SilverSkullsRT.jpg|thumb|180px|right|A Silver Skulls Marine (Rogue Trader)]] | + | [[Image:SilverSkullsRT.jpg|thumb|180px|right|A Silver Skulls Marine (Rogue Trader Era)]] |
The '''Silver Skulls''' are a successor [[Chapter]] created during the [[Second Founding]] and are said to be among the most renowned and honoured chapters of the Second Founding's ranks.{{Fn|2}} They have earned a reputation for victory, no matter the odds.{{Fn|11}} They claim lineage from the line of the [[Ultramarines]] although records are hazy on the matter. Given the number of successor chapters who take their genestock from this great line, however, there is no dispute. {{Fn|13}}. | The '''Silver Skulls''' are a successor [[Chapter]] created during the [[Second Founding]] and are said to be among the most renowned and honoured chapters of the Second Founding's ranks.{{Fn|2}} They have earned a reputation for victory, no matter the odds.{{Fn|11}} They claim lineage from the line of the [[Ultramarines]] although records are hazy on the matter. Given the number of successor chapters who take their genestock from this great line, however, there is no dispute. {{Fn|13}}. | ||
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===Notable Campaigns=== | ===Notable Campaigns=== | ||
*In [[M35]] the Silver Skulls along with the [[Howling Griffons]] aided the [[Salamanders]] in an invasion of [[Commorragh]]. However this invasion ultimately assisted [[Asdrubael Vect]] as he orchestrated it in order to topple Commorragh's noble houses and leave the city open for his rise to power.{{Fn|5}} | *In [[M35]] the Silver Skulls along with the [[Howling Griffons]] aided the [[Salamanders]] in an invasion of [[Commorragh]]. However this invasion ultimately assisted [[Asdrubael Vect]] as he orchestrated it in order to topple Commorragh's noble houses and leave the city open for his rise to power.{{Fn|5}} | ||
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| − | + | *[[Corinth Crusade]] - 698.M41: - The Silver Skulls were part of a combined Space Marine force led by [[Marneus Calgar]], consisting of the [[Angels of Absolution]], [[Lamenters]], [[Marines Errant]], [[Scythes of the Emperor]], the [[Ultramarines]]and over fifty Imperial Guard Regiments. During a seven year crusade the force inflicted a series of major defeats on [[Waaagh!]] [[Skargor]]in the Corinth system within the [[Ork]] empire of [[Charadon]]. By the time the crusade finished, [[Waaagh! Skargor]] was destroyed and any Ork excursions from the Charadon sector were delayed for thirty years.{{Fn|15}} | |
| − | *[[Beta-Garmon IV Expeditionary Force]] | + | |
| − | + | *[[Beta-Garmon IV Expeditionary Force]]: The seventh company were deployed in support of the Expeditionary Force. {{Fn|8}} | |
| − | *The Lazar Blockade - | + | [[File:SilverSkullsDamocles.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A [[Damocles Command Rhino]] of the 7th Company which took part in the Beta-Garmon IV Expedition{{Fn|8}}]] |
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| + | *The '''Lazar Blockade''' - 857.M41: - The Silver Skulls blockade the [[Lazar]] system to purge the [[Necron]]s from its planets in vengeance for the damage suffered by their 4th Company. The Silver Skulls overwhelmed and obliterated the main [[Tomb World]]. However secondary bases throughout the system suddenly came to life. Rather than withdraw, the Silver Skulls dug in for a grueling campaign. In 859.M41 [[Anrakyr]] the Traveller arrived and immediately joined his forces with the Necron defence. The tide of battle was turned at the [[Battle of Dreadpeak]] when Anrakyr's [[Pyrrhian Eternals]] spearheaded an assault on the Silver Skulls' downed battle barge the [[Argent Hammer]]. Anrakyr seized control of its still-functioning weapons and turns their full fury on its previous owners. The Silver Skulls suffered greatly - their Chapter Master slain and their forces scatted into disarray. They were forced to withdraw their blockade of the system, taking great care to make sure word of their defeat would not spread.{{Fn|6}} | ||
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*Imminent attack by the [[Soulmaw]] - In 954.M41 Silver Skulls' Librarians suspected an imminent attack by the [[Daemonic]] warband the Soulmaw on their homeworld. Most of the chapter was absent from Varsavia due to answering a distress call from the Silver Skull vassal world of [[Aragave]] which was being ravaged by an unidentified warband of Daemons. The Daemons quickly vanished as soon as Silver Skulls forces arrived, succesfully luring them away from Varsavia. This could have be in retribution for Librarian [[Lucius Clave]] reportedly destroying the Soulmaw champion years before in 892.[[M40]] during the scouring of [[Ammas]].{{Fn|10}} | *Imminent attack by the [[Soulmaw]] - In 954.M41 Silver Skulls' Librarians suspected an imminent attack by the [[Daemonic]] warband the Soulmaw on their homeworld. Most of the chapter was absent from Varsavia due to answering a distress call from the Silver Skull vassal world of [[Aragave]] which was being ravaged by an unidentified warband of Daemons. The Daemons quickly vanished as soon as Silver Skulls forces arrived, succesfully luring them away from Varsavia. This could have be in retribution for Librarian [[Lucius Clave]] reportedly destroying the Soulmaw champion years before in 892.[[M40]] during the scouring of [[Ammas]].{{Fn|10}} | ||
| − | *[[The Gildar Rift]] (M41, exact date unknown) - after destroying a [[Red Corsairs]] battle force, the Silver Skulls pursue the renegade fugitives to a string of inhabited worlds across the Gildar Rift, wiping them out in a matter of weeks.{{Fn| | + | |
| + | *The [[Third War for Armageddon]] - 998.M41: - Records show them to have been deployed to [[Armageddon]] during the Third War. Here they deployed seven out of ten companies of Space Marines to fight the Orks.{{Fn|4}} | ||
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| + | *The [[Zeist Campaign]] - 999.M41: - The Silver Skulls heeded the call of [[Lord Macragge]], and provided tactical squads to fight for the liberation of [[Augura]] (a staging point for the [[Tau]] forces).{{Fn|7b}} | ||
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| + | *[[The Gildar Rift]] (M41, exact date unknown) - after destroying a [[Red Corsairs]] battle force, the Silver Skulls pursue the renegade fugitives to a string of inhabited worlds across the Gildar Rift, wiping them out in a matter of weeks.{{Fn|14}} | ||
===Notable Silver Skulls=== | ===Notable Silver Skulls=== | ||
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==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||
| − | *{{Endn|1}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook]] | + | *{{Endn|1}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook]]: Page 132 |
| − | *{{Endn|2}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook]] | + | *{{Endn|2}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook]]: {{Cite This}} |
| − | *{{Endn|3}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader]] | + | *{{Endn|3}}: [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader]]: {{Cite This}} |
| − | *{{Endn|4}}: [[Codex: Armageddon (3rd Edition)]] | + | *{{Endn|4}}: [[Codex: Armageddon (3rd Edition)]]: Page 37?? {{Cite This}} |
| − | *{{Endn|5}}: [[Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition)]] | + | *{{Endn|5}}: [[Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition)]]: Page 14 |
| − | *{{Endn|6}}: [[Codex: Necrons (5th Edition)]] | + | *{{Endn|6}}: [[Codex: Necrons (5th Edition)]]: Page 26 |
| − | *{{Endn|7}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]] | + | *{{Endn|7}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]] |
| − | **{{Endn|7a}}: | + | **{{Endn|7a}}: Page 30 |
| − | **{{Endn|7b}}: | + | **{{Endn|7b}}: Page 48 |
| − | *{{Endn|8}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition]] | + | **{{Endn|7c}}: Page 79 |
| − | *{{Endn|9}}: [[Index Astartes I]] | + | *{{Endn|8}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition]]: Page 80 |
| − | *{{Endn|10}}: [[White Dwarf 368 (UK)]] | + | *{{Endn|9}}: [[Index Astartes I]]: Page 2 |
| + | *{{Endn|10}}: [[White Dwarf 368 (UK)]]: Page 25 | ||
*{{Endn|11}}: [http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?community=&catId=cat180005&categoryId=400028&pIndex=6&aId=9600097&start=7 GW Website -- Index Astartes: Other Chapters] ''(site accessed 2009.01.09)'' | *{{Endn|11}}: [http://www.games-workshop.com/gws/content/article.jsp?community=&catId=cat180005&categoryId=400028&pIndex=6&aId=9600097&start=7 GW Website -- Index Astartes: Other Chapters] ''(site accessed 2009.01.09)'' | ||
*{{Endn|12}}: ''[[Primary Instinct (Short Story)]]'' by [[Sarah Cawkwell]] | *{{Endn|12}}: ''[[Primary Instinct (Short Story)]]'' by [[Sarah Cawkwell]] | ||
*{{Endn|13}}: ''[[Cause and Effect (Short Story)]]'' by '''Sarah Cawkwell''' | *{{Endn|13}}: ''[[Cause and Effect (Short Story)]]'' by '''Sarah Cawkwell''' | ||
| − | *{{Endn|14}}: [[The Gildar Rift (Novel)]] by '''Sarah Cawkwell''': {{Cite This}}, | + | *{{Endn|14}}: [[The Gildar Rift (Novel)]] by '''Sarah Cawkwell''': {{Cite This}}, Page 108 |
| − | + | *{{Endn|15}}: [[Imperial Armour Volume Nine - The Badab War - Part One]]: Page 76 | |
[[Category:Later Foundings]] | [[Category:Later Foundings]] | ||
[[de:Silver Skulls]] | [[de:Silver Skulls]] | ||
[[fr:Silver Skulls]] | [[fr:Silver Skulls]] | ||
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The Silver Skulls are a Space Marine Chapter of Ultramarines descent.
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Victory does not always rest with the big guns: but, if we rest in front of them we shall be lost. |
Background
The Silver Skulls are a successor Chapter created during the Second Founding and are said to be among the most renowned and honoured chapters of the Second Founding's ranks.[2] They have earned a reputation for victory, no matter the odds.[11] They claim lineage from the line of the Ultramarines although records are hazy on the matter. Given the number of successor chapters who take their genestock from this great line, however, there is no dispute. [13].
The chapter takes its name from its tradition of claiming the heads of their opponents, coating them in silver and then displaying them as trophies of battle in their ships and vaults.[12]
The entire chapter is deeply superstitious and will never deploy itself into battle without consulting the augury of a chapter Prognosticator (Librarian) to read the fates, which they consider as the projected will of the Emperor. The Silver Skulls have even been known to refuse to go into battle if the auguries come out poor. Prognosticators are highly revered within the chapter and also function as spiritual guides similar to Chaplains. [12]
The Silver Skulls tattoo the skin of their entire bodies in honour markings. The face is the last area to be marked and the right to do so must be earned in battle.[12]
Notable Campaigns
- In M35 the Silver Skulls along with the Howling Griffons aided the Salamanders in an invasion of Commorragh. However this invasion ultimately assisted Asdrubael Vect as he orchestrated it in order to topple Commorragh's noble houses and leave the city open for his rise to power.[5]
- Corinth Crusade - 698.M41: - The Silver Skulls were part of a combined Space Marine force led by Marneus Calgar, consisting of the Angels of Absolution, Lamenters, Marines Errant, Scythes of the Emperor, the Ultramarinesand over fifty Imperial Guard Regiments. During a seven year crusade the force inflicted a series of major defeats on Waaagh! Skargorin the Corinth system within the Ork empire of Charadon. By the time the crusade finished, Waaagh! Skargor was destroyed and any Ork excursions from the Charadon sector were delayed for thirty years.[15]
- Beta-Garmon IV Expeditionary Force: The seventh company were deployed in support of the Expeditionary Force. [8]
- The Lazar Blockade - 857.M41: - The Silver Skulls blockade the Lazar system to purge the Necrons from its planets in vengeance for the damage suffered by their 4th Company. The Silver Skulls overwhelmed and obliterated the main Tomb World. However secondary bases throughout the system suddenly came to life. Rather than withdraw, the Silver Skulls dug in for a grueling campaign. In 859.M41 Anrakyr the Traveller arrived and immediately joined his forces with the Necron defence. The tide of battle was turned at the Battle of Dreadpeak when Anrakyr's Pyrrhian Eternals spearheaded an assault on the Silver Skulls' downed battle barge the Argent Hammer. Anrakyr seized control of its still-functioning weapons and turns their full fury on its previous owners. The Silver Skulls suffered greatly - their Chapter Master slain and their forces scatted into disarray. They were forced to withdraw their blockade of the system, taking great care to make sure word of their defeat would not spread.[6]
- Imminent attack by the Soulmaw - In 954.M41 Silver Skulls' Librarians suspected an imminent attack by the Daemonic warband the Soulmaw on their homeworld. Most of the chapter was absent from Varsavia due to answering a distress call from the Silver Skull vassal world of Aragave which was being ravaged by an unidentified warband of Daemons. The Daemons quickly vanished as soon as Silver Skulls forces arrived, succesfully luring them away from Varsavia. This could have be in retribution for Librarian Lucius Clave reportedly destroying the Soulmaw champion years before in 892.M40 during the scouring of Ammas.[10]
- The Third War for Armageddon - 998.M41: - Records show them to have been deployed to Armageddon during the Third War. Here they deployed seven out of ten companies of Space Marines to fight the Orks.[4]
- The Zeist Campaign - 999.M41: - The Silver Skulls heeded the call of Lord Macragge, and provided tactical squads to fight for the liberation of Augura (a staging point for the Tau forces).[7b]
- The Gildar Rift (M41, exact date unknown) - after destroying a Red Corsairs battle force, the Silver Skulls pursue the renegade fugitives to a string of inhabited worlds across the Gildar Rift, wiping them out in a matter of weeks.[14]
Notable Silver Skulls
- Lord Commander Argentius - Silver Skulls' Chapter Master [12]
- Vashiro - Chief Prognosticator [12]
- Apothecary Malus - guided Inquisitor Thraxx around the Silver Skulls' Apothecarion during his visit to inspect the Silver Skulls' gene-seed[9]
Related Articles
Sources
- 1: Warhammer 40,000 5th Edition Rulebook: Page 132
- 2: Warhammer 40,000 3rd Edition Rulebook: [Needs Citation]
- 3: Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader: [Needs Citation]
- 4: Codex: Armageddon (3rd Edition): Page 37?? [Needs Citation]
- 5: Codex: Dark Eldar (5th Edition): Page 14
- 6: Codex: Necrons (5th Edition): Page 26
- 7: Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)
- 8: Imperial Armour Volume Two - Space Marines and Forces of the Inquisition: Page 80
- 9: Index Astartes I: Page 2
- 10: White Dwarf 368 (UK): Page 25
- 11: GW Website -- Index Astartes: Other Chapters (site accessed 2009.01.09)
- 12: Primary Instinct (Short Story) by Sarah Cawkwell
- 13: Cause and Effect (Short Story) by Sarah Cawkwell
- 14: The Gildar Rift (Novel) by Sarah Cawkwell: [Needs Citation], Page 108
- 15: Imperial Armour Volume Nine - The Badab War - Part One: Page 76
