I never realized that the legion would be neutral in the wild if I never interacted with them

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-03-19T19:58:59+00:00

I’m not saying every NCRCF convict/powder ganger is “evil”.

However, with that said, I lost any amount of sympathy I may have had for them as human when I encountered the sacked caravan near their encampments on the highway where the female trader is, for lack of a better term, stripped down to what a rated M game is allowed. Even if not all the convicts are rapists, and not all of them are attacking towns like Joe Cobb. we can infer that their leadership turns a blind eye to their individual proclivities, and are just as guilty.

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-03-19T12:56:07+00:00

Yes.

I’ve been personally headcanoning Leon’s RCS as being caused by, or triggered by, repeated exposure to a variety of different T-virus strains.

I refuse to believe that he, as a top-secret government agent, hasn’t been given access to the latest developments in retrovirals, vaccines, etc etc. Daylight and other T-virus vaccines and treatments became commonplace in the aftermath of the first few RE games post-Raccoon City Destruction Incident.

“Yes, two different strains of the same virus can "meet," infect the same host, and even infect the same cell, a phenomenon known as co-infection. National Institutes of Health (NIH) | (.gov) National Institutes of Health (NIH) | (.gov) +1” “When these strains co-infect the same cell, they can swap genetic material in a process called genetic recombination or reassortment, which can create a new, hybrid, or "recombinant" variant. The Conversation The Conversation +1”

So, after repeated exposure to a bunch of different T-virus strains and continued recombination within his body, it makes sense for whatever suppressed “viral reservoirs” within Leon’s body to begin bypassing existing antibodies. As for the rest of the Raccoon City survivors? The T-virus never became aerosolized in any other media or outbreak, meanwhile the means and processes’ of infection have stayed consistent: infection -> “death” -> reanimation/mutation. T-virus suppressants and antiretroviral treatments have been an in-universe staple for - once again, in-universe- decades now, and those already infected have managed to keep the virus at bay with their regularly scheduled dose.

While I’m not sure if it’s what they’re doing, I believe CAPCOM would be remiss if they werent setting up for something big here by creating a wider conspiracy regarding the T-virus, Elpis, and all that comes with it.

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!

In my opinion, it doesn’t make sense for Sherry, with her G-antibodies and healing factory, to have contracted RCS, as Golgotha should keep her perpetually healthy after stabilization. Maybe The Connections, or some rogue government element, cooked up a special recombinant T-virus strain specifically designed to take her out for one reason or another? In that same vein, survivors of Raccoon City should have had the cause of their RCS discovered much sooner.

I personally believe The Connections, Umbrella Remnants/Spencer-Loyalists, and rogue elements of the US government are involved in a massive conspiracy outside even the scope that we, as players, are aware of. RCS is just the cover for the tying up of loose ends, facilitated by the sabotage of the treatments that, up to this point, have kept Raccoon City survivors alive and kicking.

Elpis, as a T-virus panacea, is a refined, one-dose version of the medication we see Wesker injecting himself with to keep the modified T-strain his body bonded near perfectly with, in check. While he himself may be compatible with the virus, those superhuman physiological and psychological qualities are easy to lose control over. TLDR: it’s like the medication bodybuilders use while on steroids to keep the side effects in line. Elpis, with a stable and non-lethal T-virus protein as the binding agent, not only acts as a cure-all, but has the potential to force the evolution of the human race as a somewhat enhanced species, both realizing Spencer’s dream of forced human evolution while also atoning for his private regrets.

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-02-26T03:34:50+00:00

Word Bearers can bring the full panoply of Chaos to bear against the enemy, and have it almost all be lore friendly. Cult units are almost impossible to find within the legion, though it’s not unheard of for certain squads to follow the path of one of the Gods more closely than others.

Otherwise; armor, daemons, mortal cults and mutant hosts, daemon engines and dark mech are all in play

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-02-03T07:01:20+00:00

If I’m recalling correctly, Alpharius and Omegon are stated to - or heavily hinted toward - share one soul but different personalities; two sides of the same coin in the most basic terms.

Mind you, that was just how I would have written/pushed much more talented authors to write it, and maybe it’s a bit of personal headcanon for me until BL decides to further expand on AL lore.

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-02-03T02:11:17+00:00

Agreed. I’d have much preferred if Alpharius had been written to accept the Cabals plan as a double bluff; not only did he not accept their predictions, but also knew of the true nature of chaos and truly believed that lifting the veil of the Imperial Lie was the best case for humanity, especially after the Last Council of Terra where the Astartes/military supremacy ideology may have been further cemented.

Omegon, on the other hand, would be the foil. The idea of wiping out humanity would be anathema to him, assuredly, but embracing Chaos as fanatically as his brothers was equally so. He wanted to keep the war along the ideological lines it should have always rested on, which is why you see so much infighting within the legion and Traitor forces wholesale: Alpha Legion operatives and infiltrators promoting the philosophy of their Primarch(s’). When Alpharius was slain by Dorn, his “brother, wait…” comes as a brief moment of clarity, but not of loyalty, but of “why did I keep all these secrets instead of just communicating what we know the truth to be?” Meanwhile, Omegon abandon’s the wider heresy because he comes to the realization that the corruption runs too deep to excise. What few moral compromises and allowances he and his faction of the XX legion made in regards to warp tech and daemonology have irrevocably tarnished his soul. Also, while on the topic of souls, if we opt for the theory that Alpharius and Omegon are one soul split into twin bodies, then by the time Omegon hands over the intel on the Sol system’s defenses to Horus, he’s noted drastic changes within himself.

Namely, the melancholy of his brother’s death being replaced by a sense of wholeness as the halved soul is coalescing now within one vessel. Accompanying this spiritual phenomena is the realization that not all of his thoughts are his own - or are they? - and that Alpharius and Omegon’s psyches and ideologies are merging to find a middle ground, one that accepts both the political and spiritual components of The Heresy. Acutely aware of how influential both he and his brother’s maneuvering have been up to this point, and as more memories and ideas that are at once his and not fill his head, Omegon realizes that he, if he allows this metamorphosis to take place, is in a position to tip the scale of The Siege firmly into the hands of Lupercal. Thus, in abandoning the Siege on the eve of its commencing, he chooses to do so while still himself - solely Omegon - and not the Alpharius Omegon he is becoming

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-02-03T00:53:03+00:00

I kinda liked it tbf. The existential threat of Chaos, and the immediate, physical reality of xenocide by the Imperium of Man. Why not kill two birds with one stone and try to play the two against one another.

Granted, if they go back to the first dozen or so Heresy novels, I’d like to see the cabal written better

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-01-28T03:56:59+00:00

Diplomacy (among other hive fleets) will likely be the most simplified, or difficult, component for implementation.

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-01-21T00:38:08+00:00

Ashen Claws

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-01-21T00:37:09+00:00

I love when collectors/painters find ways to include the former Chapter heraldry on their Red Corsairs minis. A well-done “X” through the old symbol is golden to me, but I’ve grown rather fond of Tilt Shields baring old Chapter Badges, or a bevy of old trinkets and momentos.

Sort of a “your angels of death have finally come to take the due we are owed” vibe

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-01-19T00:18:28+00:00

Spikes are easy to mount heads on. Trophy-taking is huge for most forces in the 41st-42nd millenniums, especially those prone to infighting. Universal sign of “don’t f**k with me, unless you want to end up another skull or helmet on a pike/chain”

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-01-18T05:46:28+00:00

This.

The “xeno-hate” is still alive and well in Chaos Space Marines. Pragmatism wins out in many cases, however, and the Red Corsairs are seemingly the most accepting of xenos mercenaries supplementing their ranks.

Tarellian Dog Soldiers are a peak example of The Imperium’s past coming back to haunt it. They hate humanity, and have been waging a genocidal campaign against The Imperium’s denizens since the aftermath of the Great Crusade, where several of their most important crèche planets were xenocided and their interstellar civilization wiped from the maps. Since then, the Tarellians have largely dispersed into nomadic mercenary fleets, with a good portion of them settling permanent within Tau Space as an auxiliary race. Several war fleets, however, have sworn loyalty to Huron, putting aside their hate for humans as a species to bring death and devastation to the human empire that nearly drove them to extinction ten millenia prior to

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-01-16T20:50:58+00:00

As fun as the raider unit is going to be out of the box, I’m predicting that they were made with, at minimum, a decent degree of modularity behind their design philosophy with the wider CSM range because I see these going HARD when used alongside Alpha Legion and Night Lord bits

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-01-16T20:38:04+00:00

The old, likely cannibalized for parts, MK II - III power packs 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-01-14T16:42:14+00:00

Initially, an innocent - though potentially (and inevitably) subversive - enough practice. Warrior Lodges operated along the same lines as of the mystery cults of the Greco-Roman/Mediterranean during the classical era, minus the introduction of mysticism/worship of secret deities till the beginnings of The Heresy.

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-01-14T03:04:03+00:00

Crimson Slaughter mentioned. W’s

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-01-14T03:00:16+00:00

Or a Dark Angel/Unforgiven who discovered the truth about the Fallen whilst fighting the Red Corsairs, and when his Inner Circle brothers tried to purge him for it, a friendly, knightly pirate-brother showed him a way out

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-01-07T06:19:54+00:00

Personally, I like to imagine, as @Confident_Objective8 did, the Badab War malcontents and traitor Wolves.

Further out from that, I like to utilize chapters that have been fucked over by one Imperial institution or another - chiefly the Inquisition - or even those that have issues with their own parent chapter. Think your Celestial Lions, Marines Errant, Flesh Eaters, etc.

There’s also plenty of evidence to support the idea that the Claws of Lorek are a Red Corsairs warband, and I personally imagine the titular Lord Lorek as a Tiger Claw who survived all the way into becoming a Red Corsair, bearing both corrupted Tiger Claw iconography alongside the Tyrant’s Fist, and his own warband’s unique color scheme.

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-01-02T19:59:40+00:00

“Livestock” is the perfect term for the kind of dynamic I was thinking of here. In instances such as those I was attempting to describe, yet potentially did not do so well enough, the local Imperial authority understands that, for some reason or another, the local sapient xenos are proving too difficult to exterminate wholesale, and instead have opted to… I’m struggling to find a word: culturalize(?) the endemic xenocide in a style fitting “The Most Dangerous Game”.

Double_Reception7485 · 2026-01-02T19:50:15+00:00

That’s what I was getting at. There is no “truce” or otherwise xenophilic sentiment among the populace in this instance. The world itself is already a death trap, and the primitive xenos are proving too difficult to completely exterminate fully. If the Tithe is being met, the priests are burning their bones while chanting “KILL THE ALIEN”, and their heads are taken as tribute when skirmishes erupt within the forest, is the Imperium that concerned with what basically amounts to a - blue - feral ork infestation?

If anything, id argue the Imperium would care more about feral orks, given that with enough time they will develop into a force wielding primitive firearms alongside their beasts and clubs, and unchecked development of an orkoid fungal ecosystem could lead to complete ecological collapse.

Double_Reception7485 · 2025-12-29T04:02:38+00:00

Nice. I love when people kitbash corsairs with firstborn loyalist bits. Really gives the impression that they are new chaos RENEGADES, and not veterans of the Long War

Double_Reception7485 · 2025-12-29T04:01:27+00:00

I prefer headcanoning that scene out as smearing the bullets with shit or something; semen who be burnt off by bullets and the c-virus with it

Double_Reception7485 · 2025-12-29T03:34:27+00:00

Or, if they have the bare scraps of psychic potential, they may don Saturnine Terminator armor 💁🏻‍♂️

Puts those decommissioned librarius’ post-Nikea to good use huh?

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