Eyes of the Emperor

Eyes of the Emperor
Number	XIX
Founding	First Founding
Successors of	N/A
Successor Chapters	Eyes of the Void
Primarch	Octullus Tyrannis
Specialty	Ranged specialists
Allegiance	It's complicated
Colours	Red and gold

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Summary of Legion XIX

Ranged specialists, craftsmen, Not!SouthEastAsians Paranoid, wary, and skittish by nature. The Eyes of the Emperor were once one of the mighty Legiones Astartes. All but eliminated from history, their traditions have been passed on through their association with the Void Angels.

Legion Tactics

The Eyes of the Emperor favored engaging their enemies at range, mostly focusing on heavy artillery, mechanical warfare and sharpshooting. As a result, they developed very close ties to the Adeptus Mechanicus. When presented with a foe, they strove to maneuver the battlefield to capitalise on their advantages in ranged combat. They were ridiculed by some close combat oriented legions and little trusted by any of their Astartes brethren. Many Imperial Army commanders bore deep grudges against the Eyes, as they often seemed to treat human auxilliares as a "meat shield".

They were renowned for their use of Scouts, Devastators and Whirlwind Missile Launchers, along with a impressive parking lot of Rhinos. The ideal Eyes of the Emperor attack worked in a three layer format. Scouts would infiltrate through the enemy lines to attack high value targets in their rear, such as commanders and supply dumps. Next, fast-moving Tactical squads would isolate enemy strongpoints and eliminate weaker forces. Finally, the Devastators would reduce the strongpoints. Artillery was deployed lavishly to assist the forward elements. This formation was known as the Tītana starita dīvāra, or the Layered walls of the Titan.

Legion Equipment

Legion Doctrine

The Eyes did not follow the Codex Astartes career path from Scout to Devastator to Assault to Tactical Marine. Instead, they had a strict caste system, with their geneseed indicating their rank and role in the chapter.

• The Satria, the lowest caste, had three orders. The lowest were equipped like Tactical Marines. The middle order went into battle bearing the light armour and stealth equipment of Scout Marines. Devastators were the most highly-regarded of the three Satria orders.
• The Wesias, the middle caste, were made up of Vehicle Operators and Terminators.
• At the peak of the Eyes of the Emperor were the Acharya. One part of this caste trained on Mars as priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus, the other held the leadership and officer roles within the Legion. Octullus Tyrannis himself was formally part of the Acharya caste, contributing to its prestige.

Neophytes are paired up with a regular battle brother of the appropriate caste. For each such neophyte trained, they implanted a veteran bolt in their forehead. (The Eyes of the Void Successor Chapter uses Purity Seals instead.) They are seven vows of purity that each neophyte must take to become a full fledged space marine. Each one coincides with a organ except the last, the bonding of the suit, neophyte and optic eye.

• Brothers are encouraged to consult every other marine under and above their command for advice on upcoming campaigns and other actions. Every decision is meditated upon, every deployment carefully considered to ensure maximum success.

• When fighting a opponent, they will usually plan days, weeks and months ahead to the very last second, and will base their plans on specifically how the enemy reacts. They are so well timed, there is cases of them firing with such timing, aim and precision, that they were able to kill entire flanks of enemy. They are famous for their saturation attacks as well, leading enemies into death traps of heavy weaponry

• Most marines spend their time in the Firing Range during their free time or working on their equipment, although a few do spend their time practicing in the fighting cages. Those are mostly assault marines, but rarely, you might see a terminator or Scout there as well. But all spend time in the Meditation chambers, where marines spend time to relax, meditate and recover from injuries of war.

• They are very ranged focus, due to their hyper sensitive Occulobes that focuses on distant sights and faulty catalepsean nodes that make them sleep much less. Due to their resistance to brain washing, the anti fear programming generally doesn't take root too well. They rely on ranged combat and mechanized warfare, but have a few select assault squads to allow units to redeploy.

Specialist Ranks

• Assault marines were gathered on a volunteer basis. Upon joining an Assault Squad, a Battle Brother was considered dead until they finished their period of service. They must take up a vow of silence, and either take a regular bolter or wield twin chain hooks. Chaplains are drawn from those who find their calling among the Assault Squads. These warrior-ascetics meditate in isolation for hours upon hours trying to commune with the Emperor. In a Legion not known for personal bravery, Chaplains are a rare exception.

• Due to the large amount of Bionics in the Eyes of the Emperor, the legion's medicae were members of the Acharya caste. Their special sect in their ranks known as the Steel Eyed, with the Master of The Scalpel at their head.

• Dreadnoughts are more akin to walking altars that rarely enter combat. The interred have their former visage carved onto the front of the dreadnought so that all may look upon the machine and see the glory of those who are said to have found their jivanmukti, or perfected state. It is more often that a Dreadnought is awoken to remind the chapter of their legendary exploits or to pass on wisdom. If the situation is pressing enough that the Eyes need to call their ancients to war, they are armed with missile launchers to prevent them from being damaged.

Octullus Tyran, Primarch of The Eyes of the Emperor

Appearance

Considerably thinner than most Primarchs and taller than all but great onyx. Had large green owl like eyes, and a wild mess of black hair he keeps tied back. He switched between shaven, fu Manchu, and goatee facial hair during the heresy. His armor was mostly composed of standard marine fare, although with a few adjustments for his size and status and some other personnel tokens. He also wore a helmet most of the time, unlike his brothers, that displayed the grim visage of the Adeptus Mechanus. He was equipped with a personal shield generator after the rescue of a High Level Magos and Forge world from the Ork Waaagh of Geneeral Warbozz Kark Splatta. He was also equipped with twin Plasma pistols, known as the Radiant Cannons, but his most prized possession, that which is still equipped to the Contemptor Dreadnought Occhio, is the Conversion Beamer known as the Emperor's Gaze, capable of destroying enemies within seconds. He was gifted this Relic during the Battle of Ascraeus Casmata, Home of the Legio Tempestus, where it was originally used to as a Dreadnought Weapon.

Youth

Raised on a gas giant with limited visibility , lived under tutelage of the bounty hunting monks of Lièrén that used the warp to locate their targets. He was trained for most of his life under their guidance, and eventually became the head hunter of the sect, where upon he discovered the callous secrets held by his family, which detailed that many of the criminals and people he had killed, were innocent. Disguted, he set about killing each of the bounty placers, and reworking the Lièrén so that they became a force of good that eventually deposed the Corrupt government and

The Coming of The Emperor

When the emperor came, Ocutllus challenged him to riflery contest across the city to find and hit targets set up by his sect. The Emperor picks up gun, shoots once, blows through all targets at in a single bullet. Octullus is stunned, but refuses to give in to the Emperors superiority, continually challenging the Emperor to all sorts of tests, to which Octullus loses all. Eventually, he became frustrated with the newcomer ridiculing him, and attempted to read his mind. When doing so, he was hit back with the full, majestic force of the emperor, his eyes unable to break contact with the emperors as he fell to the ground in near worship. He pledged allegiance and took command of the Radiant Warriors, to which he renamed the Emperors Eye's.

The Great Crusade

Lead Eyes in defense operations and reclaimed many forge worlds. They also took a liking to bionics, and became friends of Ad mech. They also grew a distance from their brothers due to their different tactics.

The Heresy

Originally forced into helping the Traitors in return for not being destroyed, Tyrannis regrettably participated in the drop site massacre. The Eyes of the Emperor were part of the Warmaster's Second Wave and slew many of their Battle Brothers from hidden positions before stealing away from the battlefield.

Once his Legion had regrouped, Octullus Tyrannis considered his options. Neither the Loyalist nor the Traitor Primarchs were likely to discuss the situation and come to a compromise. Rather desperately, the Eyes moved towards the Segmentum Pacificus, searching for the Void Angels in the hope that the Fifth Legion would give them a fair hearing.

Gaspard Lumey was not a man known for his mercy and his ruling was harsh. The Eyes of the Emperor were no more, but the Astartes who had taken part in the betrayal at Isstvan V would have an opportunity to redeem themselves. Tyrannis, under the identity "Fallen Angel" would serve Lumey as a subordinate with direct control over a chapter-strength formation designated "Wraith Corps" containing many of the Legion's senior officers. Wraith Corps would be thrown into the heaviest fighting in the last days of the Heresy and the bitter struggles of the Scouring. The rest of the Eyes of the Emperor were dispersed through the Void Angels Legion, forming infiltration units that came to be known as Commando Squadrons.

Post-Heresy

At the end of the Scouring, Tyrannis took led a substantial body of volunteers from Wraith Corps into the Eye of Terror, vowing that he would return to the Imperium once he had washed away his sins in the blood of traitors. The remainder of the Eyes would remain within the Void Angels until the Third Founding, when a handful of veterans were picked to revive their traditions within the Eyes of the Void Chapter. True to their pact with Gaspard Lumey, the elders of the Eyes of the Void taught that Fallen Angel was a twin to the Void Angels' founder.

The most notable leader of the Eyes of the Void was the Venerable Dreadnought Occhio, formerly a terminator, who distinguished himself by leading the Assault on a Relic Imperator Traitor Titan via teleporting to the gun turrets on the back of the vile War machine. There, he led his squad deep into the machine itself, fighting wave after wave of cultists and traitor brethren. Eventually, he made it into the control command throne room, and fought the Arch Heretic in a brutal duel. Occhio overwhelmed the traitor and smashed his Assault Cannon's barrel into the Traitors face and delivered him unto the wrath of the Emperor. But this did not end the threat, as the rogue Machine spirit of the titan lashed out at Occhio, casting the terminator out of the main view ports. He was recovered, badly wounded but alive, and placed into a Contemptor Pattern Dreadnought.