Space Sharks
| Space Sharks/Carcharadon Astra | ||
|---|---|---|
| Battle Cry | I'm a shark, I'm a shark, suck my dick, I'm a shark! | |
| Founding | Either 2nd (according to a GW article) or 6th (according to FFG) | |
| Successors of | Most likely Raven Guard | |
| Successor Chapters | None | |
| Chapter Master | Tyberos the Red Wake | |
| Primarch | Probably Corax | |
| Homeworld | Fleet Based | |
| Strength | 1000 | |
| Specialty | Operating out of the Imperium's Borders. Brutal close combat | |
| Allegiance | Imperium | |
| Colours | Grey, with black pauldrons and white helmet faces | |
This is what happened when someone from GamesWorkshop watched Jaws and thought "there oughta be some spess mehrens like that." These guys call themselves Carcharadons (Carcharadon is the scientific name for the Great White Shark), or Carcharadon Astra if they are being extra formal, but everyone calls them by their low gothic name, the Space Sharks, because that is a fucking awesome name. They have light-grey skin and black eyes like sharks, and according to FFG they increase the resemblance by filing their teeth to be shark teeth. Their chapter logo is a white shark on its side and their colours are grey with black/dark grey shoulders. Once upon a time, they were light grey with a red stripe down the middle of their helmets and their logo was a stupid looking cartoon of a black shark with red eyes. Luckily, IA10 broomed that silliness under a rug and gave us what we have right now.
They're as mad as hell, even the Angry Marines might wanna think twice before cutting in front of them in line. They're described as sneaking into place before going batshit insane with killer rage. But, their rage is always controlled and stuff. So they're like Khorne Berzerkers mixed with the SAS. They also like to cover their armour with Polynesian looking tattoos. Also they try to stay quiet in combat, because they think it makes them cool. Their specialty seems to be committing indiscriminate genocides. They also like to wear Heresy-era armour to give people more incentive to buy from Forge World.
The Carcharodons come up in the Badab War, where it's kinda hinted that they're Raven Guard mutants. Anywho, they're deployed to Afghanistan in space to fight the space Taliban and they solve the problem that the Fire Angels had been having by killling everybody to root out teh terrorists. Grimdark. Then they go over to Badab and blow the place up, ending the Badab War. Then they go back to the ashes of space Afghanistan and make a bunch of boys kill each other to become the next generation of Carcharodons before heading back out to smash someone else's planet. Also, according to rumor, they helped to trash Failbaddon's 7th Black Crusade.
Their leader is Tyberos the Red Wake, a terminator who couldn't decide if he liked lightning claws or chainfists better, so he made Lightning Chainclaws...IN SPAAAAAACE! He can rape just about anything in the game in close combat, and make his army swap combat tactics for furious charge and rage. Also, allows you to take assault terminators as troops and swap any boltgun in your army for a chainsword. And he can get preferred enemy too. Why aren't you taking him again?
Not as cool as the Saharduin, who are actually sharks from space. They do, however, share the same battle cry.