Spores of Madness

Spores of Madness
Black skull on a white field over three black goblets(Yet to be drawn)
Battle Cry	Plauge and Plunder me Hearties!
Number	Unknown
Founding	40th Millennium Founding
Successors of	White Scars
Successor Chapters	None
Primarch	Jaghatai Khan
Homeworld	Fleet based
Strength	About a Companies worth of marines(100?)
Specialty	Drop pod Assaults/Boarding action
Allegiance	Chaos: Nurgle
Colours	Skull white, Scab red and Snot green detail

Another example of fa/tg/uys messing with creation tables, the Spores of Madness are a Chaos Warband that enjoys Space sea shanties, plauge grog, and spreading the gifts of Papa Nurgle.

Fluff

The Spores of Madness are an interesting bunch of loonies to say the least. By now, their original chapter name has been forgotten or simply removed from the Administratum records, and if you asked one of them to tell you they'd probably spit and tell you it's Bad luck mate, before probably disemboweling and/or infecting you with some awful combination of Warp Scurvy and Space AIDS.

Created in the 40th millennium from the gene seed of the White Scars, the Spores of Madness loyalist streak didn't last long. But a scant few decades after their founding, a horrible flaw (yet unspecified) was discovered in their gene seed, a mutation so vile that the Inquisition was immediately dispatched to purge the unclean chapter. The force did its job... well, most of it, at least. They managed to destroy 90% of the chapter (including their Chapter Master). By the end of it, only the first company was left, holed up in their fortress monastery. When the Inquisitors came a'calling, the Spores answered. Rather than remaining in their fortress, the first company boarded their ships, and took the fight to their new enemies. Opening with quite a few daring boarding actions, not only did they escape, but stole several of the attacking ships while they were at it.

It is unknown how or when this first company came under the influence of good old Nurgle or how they came to their current hunting grounds in the Ghoul stars, all that is known is that these fanatics care about looting and thieving nearly as much as Papa Nurgle.

Notable characters

Ol'Ironsides

Imagine if you took Bjorn the Fell-handed, made him stop pretending to be senile (as in actually senile), turned the crazy up to 11, and stuck him in a boat with a bunch of rotting space pirates. Welcome to Ol'Ironsides. This mad bastard consistently forgets things, blasts sea shanties through speakers that would make the Noise Marines weep, and does something he likes to call a "rot keg," in which he screams at the lesser hands on the ship to fill his sarcophagus with plague grog.

Tektus The Dense

Fucking demon space pirates. It's like everything, but better.