Talons of Corvus

Talons of Corvus
Battle Cry	FOR KANE! AND EMPEROR!!!
Number	Unknown
Founding	Unknown, founded in M34
Successors of	Raven Guard (via Raptors)
Successor Chapters	none
Chapter Master	Chapter Master Kane
Primarch	Corvus Corax
Homeworld	Sarrajev
Strength	1000 Marines + a multitude of other operatives cooperating with/being part of their forces
Specialty	Guerilla and Cyber Warfare, Planetary Uprisings, Counter-Propaganda (and thus mercilessly fighting Tau), Assassinations, Use of specialized/experimental wargear and vehicles, Cybernetics
Allegiance	Imperium (but more towards the Emperor himself)
Colours	white, black and red

Successors of the Raptors Space Marines (and therefore by that extend of the Raven Guard), the Talons of Corvus are a secretive yet very active Chapter that most of the time has a large portion of their marines spread through many critical zones in the galaxy.

Essentially these guys are a much more heroic version of The Brotherhood of Nod.

The Chapter Itself

Origins

(Will include in time)

Tactics and Arsenal

The Armory

A very religious (for a successor of the sons of Corvus Corax) Chapter that utilizes the same tactics as its two progenitors, the Talons of Corvus take the Raven Guard and Raptors ways of war to the next level by applying cyber warfare and unique technologies that come from the underground Adeptus Mechanicus Factoria on their desert homeworld of Sarrajev. Specialized Bolters for assassinations, missile launchers with a wild variety of ammunition, excessive use of flamers in close quarters combat, and surprisingly for a space marine chapter, the use of specialized las-weapons of their own production.

The most interesting element of this Chapter is the experiments that revolve around their cloaking fields and light-bending materials. Created back when the Chapter was still just a group of Raptors cut off from the rest of their brethrens while trying to retake the separatist world that Sarrajev was once, the cloaking technology allowed them to create unique versions of certain vehicles. One of their originals, the Phantom Tank, is a vehicle that utilizes said cloaking technology along with the same loadout as the Whirlwind. Unlike the latter, the Phantom can have its loadout swapped for a regular missile rack. The tank can move and shoot at the same time. Combined with their emphasis on fast attacks and use of the above weapons, attacks of the Talons' forces prove to be incredibly devastating.

However, there are times when speed, deception and pragmatism cannot defeat, then they resolve to unleashing something that has absolutely no subtlety at all...

Designed with Knight STC as its basis, and combined with a gamut of other STC along with the tech they developed along with the Sarrajev Adeptus Mechanicus, The Purifier is the ultimate assault/siege engine a Chapter can afford. Inspired by the giant scorpions of their homeworld, this mechanical monstrosity towers over even the likes of some of Chaos's most potent daemon engines while not having anything heretical in it. Armed with a pair of War Claws with built in Flamestorm Cannons, a back mounted missile battery, and long tail with a built in giant Power Glaive and Long Lascannon, this monstrosity moves and annihilates everything in its path with surprising speed and grace due to its pilot being wired to the machine spirit when driving it. Due to that, the gargantuan walker moves incredibly natural for something its size and mass.

These are not however the only specialties in the arsenal of these sinister looking sons of Corax. Thanks to their joint research on efficient cybernetics (and minerals of their homeworld) with the Tech-Priests of Sarrajev, they managed to create their first cyber assassins/living tactical weapons, the greatly feared Moritat Cybernetica. Named after the Legiones Astartes of old that were known for their extreme actions, and complete disregard for personal safety due to their suicidal tendencies, these cyborg kill-marines utilize unique Shadow-Orb fields that makes them melt with their surrounding. Before an enemy can realize that he is in the same space with this equivalent of a Eversor (albeit replacing psychotic drive with cold fury and precision shots when on a mission), it is already over. It is said that the systems for both the Moritat Cybernetica and the Purifier were derived from two successful prototype Moritats that were since the Chapter's creation, CABAL and LEGION, who now reside inside heavily modified Contemptor Dreadnoughts.

The Tactics

Apart of the potent tech at their disposal, they are capable of inciting planetary wide uprisings on Imperial Worlds that were conquered/annexed by heretics or xenos and returning said worlds back into Imperial fold (as well doing the same tactics on Imperial Worlds that seceded from the Imperium). Combined with their use of cyber warfare that is only matched by the Vanus Temple Assassins, and their skills at counter-propaganda, the Talons of Corvus became a natural enemy of the Tau Empire as the blue-skinned space communists simply cannot deal with someone who can hack into their systems no matter how well defended they are.

The Chapter's skills for inciting rebellions on planets taken over by traitors, heretics and xenos are what makes them stand out among other Chapters. The Talons will send in a group of their Scouts (with Veteran Sergeants), their Deceptors (Librarians), Confessor Chaplains, Cyber-Theurgist (Techmarines) and lastly Skitarii/Serf/Guardsman Infiltrators to a planet they want to incite the uprising. They also bring with them hardware to manufacture weapons, ammo and quick to construct vehicles.

There the infiltrators recruit people to their cause and train them in secrecy. Before that, the Deceptors probe the recruits if they are not sleeper agents or turncoats (those who happen to be are killed on the spot). After a murderous training (and instilling fanatical loyalty by the Confessor Chaplains), these people become guerilla fighters who in turn blend with the usual people and recruit more volunteers that, depending on the situation, act as more guerilla fighters, or as either saboteurs. During that time, the forces utilize sabotage pretty much on every military/public or propaganda facilities that are vital to the occupants. These places are either blown up or, in the case of the latter, hacked by the Cyber-Theurgists via long range remote hacking Servo Skulls. After this they send messages to the local populace to incite the sparks of rebellion and keep repeating it, along with increasing the sabotage operations and raids on military facilities. After they finally build up unrest in the populace to the level where it cannot be contained anymore, the agents they trained and recruited turn into regular soldiers and march alongside the angry mobs that are at this point outraged to such heights that even the most horrid things the galaxy has to offer will have barely any effect on them.

It is this moment when the uprising begins, the Battle Company of the Talons of Corvus make planetfall in order to aid the insurrectionists and to take the planet back. Shooting down enemy transports via ambushes, assassinating key leaders, eliminating threats that could jeopardize the uprising, and finally outright fighting the enemy in the open during final stages of the insurrection.

Threads

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/43944461/ - the first thread

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/43962808/ - the 2nd one