Homebrew Legion: The Scions of Space King/ The Scions of Moloch
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The Scions of Space King were a founding legion, and one that performed legendari feats during the Realm of Mankind’s crusade to reunite all human worlds under Space King. Proud, rigidly disciplined, fanatically devoted to improving themselves for Space King, and very poorly socialized, the Scions of Space Kings were standoffish asshole gifted kids who flaunted their high Accelerated Slaughterer points. As one of the legions with the largest egos, dominated by their unique psychosis of legion betterment for Space King, The Scions of Space King would only accept the most entitled and arrogant little boys who possessed an inner psyche pressuring them to overperform in order to receive validation from authority. This, in turn, imbibed the legion with a deeply ingrained sense of elitism, and a desire to cultivate uniqueness as a marker of their greater sophistication and status among psychowarrior legions. Thus, the internal culture of the legion became one of constant cram studying, physical training, and experimentation. All in service of being better for Space King.
At a certain point during the galactic human unification wars, the Scions of Space King reconquered a planet that the existing human population had named Moloch. By the time the Scions of Space King had found the planet, almost all of the humans they encountered were elderly, their society seeming to have undergone a horrific fertility rate collapse despite signs that Moloch had been densely populated and exceptionally technologically and culturally advanced. A large part of the Scions of Space King Legion were consequently given responsibility for the Moloch sector, and tasked with rebuilding and defending the aged Moloch system while artificial industrial repopulation could begin. Moloch became the home world for a large amount of the Scions of Space King, who made the almost abandoned planet mega city Sur-Sidun into their fortress monastery.
But even as Moloch was rapidly repopulated, outsiders began to notice weird behavior across the planet. Mega cities were bizarrely quiet and orderly, and a lingering tension filled the air for any off world visitors as bustling crowds would suddenly vanish into the city depths, and then reappear at set times. After several centuries of routine warfare, the psychowarriors within the walls of Sur-Sidun fortress-monastery had a collective vision, which culminated in them seeing a new sign. Above an archaic symbol, a great eye had opened, peering into the souls of the psychowarriors. To the collective relief of the Legion, the war priest interpreted their shared vision as a message from Space King, the rune in the vision represented a psychowarrior, and the eye was Space King, looking down at them and waiting for his Scions to finally prove their worth. The Scions accepted this interpretation, and made a commitment to become the best legion, no matter the cost.
Moloch became sacred to the Scions of Space King that were stationed in this sector almost overnight. For the legion, it was the place where their bonds with space king were renewed. Over the next millennia, the Scions gradually warped themselves around the culture of Moloch. Space King now demanded ever more extreme performances to demonstrate the worthiness of their legion. No one in the sector who failed to meet his standard could be left alive. Those that failed had failed as humans and had failed Space King.
Initiation into the newly renamed Scions of Moloch also changed. If getting into the Scions resembled admissions into Boston Latin or Eaton before, new, darker rumors began to be heard around Sur-Sidun. Rejected applicants no longer returned from their examination process. Reports have said that Scion boy snatchers have been spotted across the galaxy targeting individual boys as recruits.
The Scions of Moloch communications with other legions also became extremely infrequent. When other legion squads would have chance encounters with Scions, reports would always indicate that Scion arrogance had grown exponentially.