[hider=Force CS] [b]Force Name:[/b] The Scorned Machine [b]Force Type:[/b] Mechanicus Cult [b]History:[/b] Inquisitor Valden stared at Magos Kassandre, sweat dripped down his face, and the stormtroopers in his retinue seemed to be even more so, their fingers on the triggers of their lasguns while all around them enginseers stood weapons ready to fire, or cut into the Inquisitorial Retinue. “This is Heresy Kassandre… You defile yourself, and all that Mars stands for!” As Valden shouted spittle flew from his lips in small droplets, regardless the Magos just stood there swaying slightly on the mechandrites that billowed from where her legs had been fused together. She leaned forward hovering over the man and stared at him for a long moment. “Kassandre, you leave me no choice. I have to report this to Mars. I have to brand you all heretics. You will have to be destroyed.” He still received no reply as Kassandre moved back from Valden once more and settled into a throne. “You will do no such thing Valden. This is the future, what we do here will shape the Imperium for millennia to come. Only we are doing what is necessary for the fate of the Galaxy to be secure.” She raises a hand, the enginseers immediately preparing to slaughter the retinue, and the stormtroopers lasguns in return were powered up. “I will do what is necessary to keep this facility active!” The inquisitor began pacing backwards holding up his hands while the Stormtroopers placed themselves between the mechanicus and the Inquisitor. “Kill them all.” Valden began to run as quickly as possible, all the while his stormtroopers screams echoed down the corridors as they were brutally slaughtered by the Enginseers. The door though, Valden could see it. It was right there not too far now. It was not to be though as the haft of a long pole struck him across the chest and sent him to the ground. Standing over him was a Techpriest, his body scarred, heavy breath coming out in whines from a mask with tubes attached to his face. He narrowed his eyes a bit. “Sorry Inquisitor.. Time to die.” Inquisitor Valden grabbed his vox. “Exterminatus! Code Alpha, Five, Nine, Nine, Ten, Omega!” The staff fell through the air, energy crackling across the surface of the staff as it crashed into Valden’s head splitting open his skull, chunks of bone, and brain matter splattering across the corridor floor. Magos Kassandre moving on her mechandrites stops over the Inquisitors body, and stares down at the gore that used to be the Inquisitors features. “He ordered an exterminatus. Have all our cult come to the underground.” She began to slither away, but suddenly stopped. “Also have the Daughters of Dust and Sand come as well. We will need the Skitarii they will become. Hurry Davos.” The Techpriest nodded before turning away as well, the two going in opposite directions. ------ The ordinance from the ships in orbit over Khaleesi lasted for hours, billions died in the explosions, but the majority of the mechanicus cult escaped underground to their factory that existed beneath the surface. The land became glass, the buildings that had one been there melted, and crushed into the sand, by the end the world was lifeless, it’s atmosphere destroyed by the immense amount of nuclear fire and radiation. The former guardswomen of the planet told that they would have to submit to being turned into Skitarii lest they die from the fatal amount of radiation that would be seeping into the tunnels. It was not enough to kill anyone that had been augmented by the mechanicus, but any normal human would become sick and die. So it was that for months screams could be heard down the corridors of the underground Mechanicus city, and factory as the women of the Imperial Guard regiment were transformed into augmented soldiers to fight for the Mechanicus beneath the surface of Khaleesi. ---- Two Hundred years after the exterminatus of Khaleesi a series of vessels orbited over the planet, and more came planetside releasing astartes onto the surface. Magos Kassandre met them personally with a cohort of Skitarii, and Enginseers. She had planned to destroy them outright, but when she saw they did not threaten her cult with violence she decided to hear them out. So she came to know of the Graven Brothers and what they had planned, and she offered them her allegiance in exchange to be left to her own devices. She began to calculate plans to pull the Graven Brothers further into her fold, make them malleable, and more easily manipulated. [b]Headquarters:[/b] Khaleesi: Formerly a desert world, now it is craggy glass mountains, and fissures scarring the land. The atmosphere destroyed by nuclear fire, the Scorched Machine cult has moved into an underground labyrinth it exist miles miles beneath the surface where the radiation cannot seep, giant engines work pumps that recycle air through the miles of endless halls, and vaults. If one does not know the way they could easily be lost. Dotting the surface as well are multiple hangar doors that are cleverly hidden for when the cult needs to release it’s vehicles onto the surface or transport them into orbit. [b]Strength:[/b] 300 Techpriests 1 Magi 1 Logi 1 Genetor 1 Artisan 4 Rune Priests 80 Lexmechanics 40 Cybernetica Datasmiths 60 Transmechanics 112 Enginseers 9,000 Skitarii 9 Master of Skitarii 90 Tributes 180 Alphas 121 Praetorians 1000 Cataphracii 1000 Balisteria 800 Sagitarii 400 Protectors 1400 Rangers 500 Vanguard 2000 Hyspasists 100 Sicarrii Ruststalkers 400 Sicarii Infiltrators 1,000 Servitors 400 Combat Servitors 300 Gun Servitors 200 Guardian Configuration 100 Kataphron Battle Servitors 400 Vehicles 50 Ironstrider Ballisarius 50 Onager Dune Crawlers 10 Land Raiders 30 Krios 80 Chimera 30 Valdors 50 Minotaur 50 Hades Breaching Drills 50 Thudd Guns [b]Tactics:[/b] They utilize a multitude of tactics, everything from a up front assault, to annihilation by overwhelming firepower. In the defense of their planet they will often utilize more stealth operations by cutting power to the lighting system, and using a series of nightvision viewers to see when their enemies can’t. By knowing the paths of their labyrinthine halls, and how tight the corridors get at times they can effectively eliminate enemies, and force them to leave behind their vehicles. [b]Mortal enemy:[/b] The Imperium [/hider] [hider=Leader/Officers] [hider=Appearance Minor NSFW][img]http://wh40kart.im/_images/b155eeccbe2068f1e63a9292dabf584b.jpg[/img][/hider] [b]Name:[/b] Magos Kassandre [b]Gender:[/b] Female [b]Race:[/b] Mechanicus [b]Rank:[/b] Magos [b]Personality:[/b] Cold, calculated, it’s as if she has pushed away any of her former human self and embraced being a mechanicus entirely. She will do whatever is necessary to continue her work even going so far as to forsake the Imperium, and the cult of Mars to advance her technological undertakings. She will not let anyone stand in her way. [b]Bio:[/b] Typical for a Mechanicus upbringing she completely and utterly devoted herself to the work of mars, but over time things changed. She found that there was more to be had than just your typical works upon Mars, that they were only scratching the surface, and that anything beyond that was forbidden. She pushed herself day and night to move higher and higher up the chain till she was given the rank of Magos, upon attaining the rank she built a forge world upon Khaleesi and began to in secret build, and research subjects that were firmly against the standards of Mars. It was during this time that Inquisitor Valden came to Khaleesi to investigate Magos Kassandre’s activities, after several months of putting him on false trails and keeping him away from the secret factory vaults, he finally accidentally stumbled upon one of their works and call heresy upon her. She ordered the death of him and his retinue which ultimately lead to the destruction of the surface of her Forge World, though she retreated with her Mechanicus, and the local Imperial Guard force to continue her works. [b]Equipment/weapons:[/b] Multiple Mechandrites with array of tools and weapons, She can often be found wielding and Arc pistols. General Staff [img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/85/7c/99/857c99a6d39636d89b83c01ed3b44b07.jpg[/img] [b]Name:[/b] Davos [b]Rank:[/b] Enginseer [b]Equipment:[/b] Power Axe, Bolt Pistol, Two Mechandrite Tendrils with attached Plasma guns [b]Personality:[/b] Cruel, merciless, wimple words to describe Davos, but utterly perfect. He has spent so much time underground working on the forbidden tasks that his views have become warped, and he no longer carries what would be a proper view of others. Which is why he is often kept behind the scenes and away from those that Magos Kassandre interacts with. [img]http://wh40kart.im/_images/83c8d01b0b799d5943d818ee26474516.jpg[/img] [b]Name:[/b] Leshy [b]Rank:[/b] Enginseer [b]Equipment:[/b] Power axe, and around ten mechandrites complete with drills, hydraulic clamps, claws, blades, and a laspistol. [b]Personality:[/b] Loyal to a fault, she is Kassandre’s eyes and ears on the battlefield, acting as commander for the cohort’s of Skitarii that go into battle in the Scorched Machine’s forces. [img]https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/bb/85/e1/bb85e18a38e022b3db9808a8ac1949b5.jpg[/img] [b]Name:[/b] Vanassa [b]Rank:[/b] Master of Skitarii [b]Equipment:[/b] Radium Carbine, Radium Pistol. Krak Grenades, Frag Grenades. [b]Personality:[/b] Strategically minded, with sharp tactical expertise, she is experienced, and proud from all that she has accomplished. She doesn’t think twice when asked to go into battle finding that it is her sworn duty to the Mechanicus for saving her, and her guardswomen’s lives to obey every order to a T. [img]http://pre00.deviantart.net/75b9/th/pre/i/2010/273/e/1/mechanicus_medusa_by_shuggnuggath-d2zsio4.jpg[/img] [b]Name:[/b] Daelasin [b]Rank:[/b] Skitarii Prototype [b]Equipment:[/b] Hellgun powered by a build in charge pack that allows for fifty times the normal charge pack’s amount of shots, smaller mechandrite tendrils with small blades on the end coated in a fast acting neurotoxin. Her armor is made up of highly durable adamantium, and durasteel lightly plated in titanium laced plasti [b]Personality:[/b] Single minded, mostly focused on battle, she is controlled by Leshy personally, as she can easily berserk in combat. She is usually kept locked in a case when not in battle.[/hider]