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From: jbledsoe@pcsedu.com (Jake Bledsoe)
Newsgroups: rec.games.miniatures.warhammer
Subject: Legion of The Damned History
Date: 18 Nov 1995 23:52:07 GMT

A-HA!  I finally found it!

I was searching through one of my closets and I found the WD with the 
Legion of the
Damned in it.  WD 99 pages 39 - 42.  All this stuff is Copyright Games 
Workshop and the
quotes are from the article written by the Overlord of WH40K Rick 
Priestly himself.  

Their history is as follows:

	"In the year 963 of the current millennium, Space Marine chapter 
'Fire Hawks' was
ordered to the Crows World sub-sector...
	  The entire chapter-fleet, including the chapter's mobile space 
fortress, made a
successful warp jump from the Piraeus system a mere 120 light years from 
Crows
World....
	...They never arrived."

	the history continues detailing the destruction of a ork 
settlements by an unknown
force, and the discovery of a Fire Hawk's banner left behind with the 
inscription "In
dedicato imperatum ultra articulo mortis (For the Emperor beyond the 
point of death)."

	From a data recorder left behind "the administratum was able to 
determine exactly
what happened to the lost chapter. Following their warp-jump the entire 
fleet had been
caught within  a warp-storm of terrific intensity.  Stunned by the power 
of the warp, the
chapter was forced to endure the attacks of powerful warp entities.  Ship 
after ship was
destroyed and absorbed into the fabric of the warp.  Soon only one craft 
remained.  By a
daring warp-exit maneuver the craft burst out of warp-space, emerging far 
in the galactic
east, thousands of light years off-course and beyond even the psychic 
light of the emperor.
	The original survivors numbered two hundred brethren.  All 
gene-seed had been
lost, all initiates killed, and most of the chapter's masters were gone. 
 None of the ordinary
human staff have survived at all.  To make matters worse the brethren had 
changed.  This
change became more obvious over the next few months.  Skins began to 
blacken and
blister, flesh began to fester and putrify..."
	During the many years it took to return to the imperium most of 
the Legion
members died, and the remaining marines went insane.  "Doomed to 
agonizing deaths,
they gradually became obsessed with their fate.  Now they only wanted to 
die.  But they
were still marines, still loyal to the Emperor and humanity.  They would 
not die without
purpose."

	The Legion abolished all their rank structure and painted their 
armor to symbolize
their doomed fate.  They make all decisions based on the Imperial Tarot.

	There are rules listed as well, but I'm tired of typing so I'll 
post them later.  I hope
this helps clear up the debate.
						-Jake