Editing Space Sharks

[[File:B5oUxpr.jpg|200px|thumb|left|This is what [[furry|some]] believe the Space Sharks look like.]]
{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Space Sharks/Carcharadon Astra
|Heraldry = [[Image:Carcharodons Livery.jpg|center|140px]]
|Number = 
|Battle Cry = None (They are silent during battle, though if they weren't it should probably be "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 = Believed to be Tyberos the Red Wake
|Primarch = Probably Corax
|Homeworld = Fleet Based
|Specialty = Operating out of the Imperium's Borders. Brutal close combat. Scorched earth policy.
|Strength = 1000 (ish)
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = Grey, with black pauldrons and white helmet faces
}}
[[File:Sharks Bitch!.jpg|200px|thumb|left|This is what they [[Awesome|really look like]].]]This is what happened when someone from [[Games Workshop]] watched Street Sharks and thought "there oughta be some spess mehrens like that." These guys call themselves Carcharadons" (Carcharadon, pronounced "car-care-uh-dawn" is the scientific name for a family of big sharks), or Carcharadon Astra if they are being extra formal, <strike>but everyone calls them by their low gothic name, the Space Sharks, because that is a fucking awesome name </strike>. 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 (perhaps this anger stems from their recruitment practices, see below). 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 <strike>they think it makes them cool</strike> sharks can't talk. Their specialty seems to be committing indiscriminate genocide, sparing only children they can enslave into being Chapter serfs or turn into more Carcharadons (said children have to fight each other to the death). They also like to wear Heresy-era armour to give people more incentive to buy from Forge World. 

The Carcharadons 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 killing 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 Carcharadons 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. His Scent of Blood rule makes him and and any Carcharodon unit subject to Rage +1 strength for the rest of the game. He is reasonable enough to wear helmet and do not carry banner and shitton of flashy trinkets on his armour, unlike most other chapter masters, whose wargear just screams "Shoot me down, sniper!" Also, allows you to take a unit of lightning claw equipped assault terminators as troops; and he and any unit he joins have preferred enemy (infantry). Why aren't you taking him again? He's never explicitly said to be Chapter Master, but its a forgone conclusion since he's got the same stats as one.

Not as cool as the [[Saharduin]], who are actually sharks from space. They do, however, share the same [[Shark|battle cry]].

Their beakies look fucking amazing.

Alternatively, they're a Night Lords sucessor/loyalists. Bear with me here:

-Old as fuck and of no known founding

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<s>Speak only High Gothic, ie what The Emprah was speaking</s> <strike>Nightlords speak Nostroman dumbass!</strike> Only the Nostraman recruits. There were plenty from Terra before the Crusade even found Nostromo, other dumbass. 

-Incredibly reclusive

-Pale with black within black within black eyes

-<s>Use terror tactics (their new 6th Edition Chapter Tactics rule gives them Fear. The only Loyalist chapter tactics rule which does so)</s> they don't use terror tactics they're just that scary. -I'm pretty sure butchering civilians to force the Mantis Warriors to stand and fight counts as a terror tactic.

-Lots of heresy era goodies (Their flagship the Nicor is a Charybdis-class cruiser, which was used by the Imperium during - you guessed it - the Horus Heresy)

-Has a leader who uses named twin lightning-claws like Curze did

-Suddenly appear, rush the enemy, rip and tear, and disappear

-Their 'Curse of the Primarch' Section in Deathwatch reads like Konrad Curze's fall to the letter

Basically, they fight like a more 'evil' version of the Raven Guard.  The super formality and relic tech means they very well could have been in operation since the heresy and the fact that they patrol the edges of Imperial space means that there'd not be much of a chance for their cover to be blown.  The palor and dark eyes are also markers of Night Lords gene seed, equally, they're described as having remarkably pure gene seed, which the Raven Guard does not.

Think about what you'd do with a bunch of loyalist Night Lords left over after the heresy.  If you send them out to the edges, you don't have to deal with their creepy ass batmaness and if they turn on you due to crazy gene seed juju, they're not going to wreck your day.  Equally, since they've proven their loyalty, their brutal stealth tactics are perfect for disrupting potential enemies behind enemy lines and this is exactly what Charchadons Astra do.

In the newest HH book: Extermination, it is hinted that the Raven Guard used similar beserker tactics to the Carchies during the Isstvaan fuckup. Tyberos's helmet can also be seen in the book, and the survivors of the 7th Battalion wore dark grey suits of armor and were sent into the "outer darkness", just like the Carcharodons. It's pretty clear FW and Will Hayes intended HH3:Extermination to be a clear nod to the Carcharodons being the remains of the RG legion's 7th Bn.

UPDATE: Carchadons Chapter tactics gives all Space Marines models Fear, and allows Tactical marines to replace their bolters with a chainsword or keep it and buy an additional close combat weapon for 1pt each. In addition they gain Rage after destroying or forcing an infantry unit to fallback in close combat, however they they must consolidate towards the nearest unit they can hurt (after all the rape train has no breaks!). You can only ally with Imperial Forces and all of those are bumped down to Desperate Allies. All this means that with them, you play Horus Heresy World Eaters with Fear and all the shiny new toys of the 40k arsenal of Space Marines.

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