From pas4189@dogbertTue Apr 1 15:57:18 1997 Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 20:02:38 -0600 (CST) From: Peter A Siekierski To: "Muehlberger, Robert" Cc: sanguinius@tamu.edu Subject: Re: your mail On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Muehlberger, Robert wrote: > Pete, > Your web page looks great, although I am still disappointed to see a > lack of anime. I used to have some anime stuff up there, but there are space limits on this kinda thing, y'know. You might want to check out the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.anime. That's where I get most of my stuff. > Your pictures from Indonesia were really cool. Thanks. I need to update it already, though. After thumbing through my copy of "Borobodur: Golden Tales of the Buddhas," I noticed some glaring inconsistencies between what our guide had told us and what western archaeologists believe. > Afrosquad is hilarious. Aren't they? > When I have more time I will download that movie. "Death of a Watermelon?" I didn't think it was all that... > Why sanguinius? In the Warhammer 40000 universe, as you can find explained on my page, the Emperor lead the conquest of the universe along with his mighty Space Marine Legions. His original plan was to disperse his force under the leadership of 20 superhuman beings, the Primarchs. Before these genetically engineered super-soldiers were fully developed, however, they were kidnapped by entities from the Warp. Unable to harm them because of the powerful wards placed on their growth acceleration capsules, the daemons decided to spread them out across space and time. Of these 20, one ended up on a radioactive desert planet called Baal. When he emerged from his capsule, the poor villagers that had found him nearly put him to death, for he bore tiny vestigal wings on his back - surely a sign of mutation. The boy grew up quickly, with strength and will many times that a of normal man. He organized the loose tribes of his planet into a single nation, and helped them rebuild their civilization, primitive though it was. When the Emperor and his marines finally arrived on Baal, the young man immediately recognized the Emperor and swore his undying loyalty. That young man was Sanguinius. The Emperor chose from amongst Baal's strongest warriors, and impregnated them with special artificial organs that he engineered from Sanguinius's DNA. Those warriors became the first Blood Angel Space Marines, and Sanguinius became the leader of their chapter. The story continues much later. When the Emperor had returned to Earth, trouble was brewing. His most trusted general, and the strongest of the twenty Primarchs, Horus, also returned to Earth - possessed by daemons and leading an army of crazed traitors! The loyalists fought valiantly - two entire chapters of Space Marines (the Blood Angels and the Imperial Fists), as well as numerous Adeptus Custodes (the Emperor's personal elite), Imperial Guard, and Titan Legions fought valiantly, but they were badly outnumbered and forced to retreat inside the Inner Sanctum of the Emperor's palace. Sanguinius himself held off the entire rebel army at the gate, closing it despite grievous wounds. As victory looked certain for the traitors, a slim hope emerged. The Space Wolves and Dark Angels chapters were en route to Earth, bringing their entire fleets. The daemons who advised Horus told him that now was the time to finish it, for surely the loyal reinforcements would arrive soon. Horus dropped the force fields on his command cruiser, orbitting high above the Earth. The Emperor gathered up the strongest of his remaining troops, including Blood Angels, Imperial Fists, Imperial Assassins, and the Primarchs of both loyal chapters: Sanguinius and Rogal Dorn. Together, using the mighty psychic powers at the Emperor's command, they teleported up to the Warmaster's cruiser. The daemons protecting Horus's ship split up the arriving parties. While the Emperor and his men searched in vain for the Warmaster, Sanguinius had appeared right before him! Clearly outmatched in his wounded state, Sanguinius nevertheless fought with all his might. Horus's clumsy blows, strong as they were, could not touch the winged Primarch. Sanguinius saw his chance, and drove his sword deep into a chink in the Warmaster's armour. Unfortunately, the Warmaster was not as mortal as he once was. He merely grabbed Sanguinius, and crushed the life out of him. It was at that point that the Emperor and what was left of his boarding party arrived. A raging duel erupted - the Emperor and his unstoppable psychic might versus the daemonically enhanced physical prowess of Horus the Warmaster. As the battle raged on, Horus inflected terrible wounds on the Empror's physical body. Knowing his body could not hold out forever, the Emperor unleashed the sum of his psychic strength on Horus, shattering his mind and body... As the Emperor lay dying in Rogal Dorn's arms, he instructed Dorn to build a "Golden Throne" that would sustain his body so that his psychic awareness could continue to serve mankind. The Blood Angels, however, appeared to be finished. The gene-banks, which had once stored enough genetic material to make legions of marines, now lay in ruin, and Sanguinius had been slain. The apothecarion developed a daring plan: to create a new chapter of Blood Angels by using the DNA of their deceased Primarch. While this appeared to be successful at first, after 10000 years, small imperfections began to appear in the Blood Angels' behaviour. Despite purging and recombination, a spark of Sanguinius lives on in all his children. Sometimes, on the eve of battle, the marine will snap! Images of Sanguinius's final battle with the evil Warmaster fill cloud his judgement, and he will rapidly descend into madness. These men are lead away by the chapters chaplains. On the morrow of the battle, they are become the Death Company, a crazed unit of Marines who will stop at nothing to see themselves avenged on the Emperor's foes, preferring to die in battle than live a life of insanity. Lovely, huh? > E-mail me at rmuehlberger@ccu.edu. I'll talk to you again > when I have something more interesting to say. Later... I'm sure I'll find a way to keep this interesting. Pete