![]() Mission and was received in Sargon with a great triumph. The plan failed, as the mighty primarch survived the suicide Their first plan was to send him on a Uriah’s After a while, Apis became a thorn I the eye of both theīa’al and the priests. Thus he adopted the name, much to the irritation of the He was an idol to the people of the city, spoke of as aĭemi-god, and a descendant of Apis, the Sargonite god of strength andįertility. Over his fellow Sargonites, and he made a name for himself in the wars Unknown soldier from the city-state of Sargon, and he was taught in the Would get used to army life, and the soldiers would fight to the death Travelling beside them while on campaign. They were a closed warrior caste, with their own families Here lived the professional soldiers of the ba’al, the lord Were designed by highly educated masons and built by peasants during theīuildings in a city-state was the barracks, called the Bazakhatum in Nobility rode their chariots in wide, paved boulevards. Huge, stepped pyramids rose to the sky, and the In fact, the cities of the fertile river-belts were That is not to say that the Sargonites were not cultured orīad artisans. Name of the empire that Apis had carved himself, and even that was just aĬity-states were wealthy, their technological level was based upon the The fertile lands were controlledīy quarrelling city-states, who were in constant war against nomadicĭesert tribes and ambitious neighbours. ![]() Relatively close to the system’s sun, so its surface was arid, exceptįor fertile river valleys and deltas. Wasteland, a dark, nightmarish hell or a toxic inferno. His brothers from their fathers embrace, he landed on the isolated world When the powers of corruption scattered him and Meaning “Apis is the lord of his people” in Sargonite, was one of the Locked in furious hand-to-hand, which deprived them of tacticalįlexibility and inflicted terrible casualties. The spear was not enough to break the enemy moral, then the Taurii were ![]() With brutal close combat, now known as the flight of the arrow andĮfficient against arrogant and foolhardy enemies, but if the thrust of They refined the tactic of long skirmishes, combined The command of Ashur Tiglatus, the legion grew and became an efficient This time I focus on the story of their primarch, Apis. ![]() This is the second post about the story of the second legion. "King Hammurabi goes to war, his chariot drawn ![]()
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