Shadow Angels

Category:Space Marine Legion
== History ==
=== Origins ===
Originally composed of recruits from the liberated Ydonenesic Bloc, the 3rd Legiones astartes were bitterly opposed to the mistreatment of humanity after suffering through the early years of their lives under the horrific eugenics programs of the genocidal tyrant, Cardinal Tang. Within a decade of the commencement of their formation, the 3rd legion was considered battle ready, with 1500 well drilled but untested warriors within their ranks. They were put into combat alongside the other 4 legions that made up the first wave of the Legiones Astartes and saw the most combat of the space marine legions, for they were amongst the first.
While seeing much combat in the war to retake Terra, the 3rd grew close to their brother legions, notably the 1st, their doctrines complementing one another and their opinions on the value of human life vaguely similar. During the conquest of Sa’Afrik, the 3rd legion were invaluable as their mobility aided them immeasurably across the scorching dunes of the techno barbarian state. The 3rd legion was deployed as a frontline force alongside the Honoured First Legion but it quickly became apparent the 3rd were capable of deploying and engaging at a much faster rate than the brothers of the 1st. Quick to capitalise on this, their 1st Captain Ishamel, with the permission of the Emperor, had his legion carry out preemptive attacks with the aid of early jetbikes and other rapid attack craft. These assaults proved heavily effective on the dunes of the east that paved the way to the pan-pacific Empire, earning them the name of Dune Chargers and the stratagem they shared with the 1st legion of assaulting the enemy head on while their cousins assaulted from the flanks or rear.
Sadly, the legion’s success would catch up with them by the conclusion of the Unification wars. With the Legio Cataegis granted a warrior's death by being given the Honour of landing the first strike on the State of Urartu. It was the 3rd legion who were amongst the next to follow the Thunder warriors in and suffered heavily to drive a wedge into enemy territory for the other legions. The Number of Dune Chargers dead was never formally recorded but historitors estimate that over a half of the legion was felled in the campaign, with a further two thirds of the remaining warriors seriously wounded and requiring extensive augmetic surgery or full sarcophagus interment. It was following this campaign, when unity was finally achieved across Terra, that the legion began inducting new recruits into the legion from settlements and regions both in and around the former Ydonesic Bloc, amongst these recruits was a young aspirant by the name of Gideon.
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Category:Loyalist
Category:3rd Legion
Category:Loyalist Legion