Fun Fact: The first time I ever played 40k was using the Orks and Gretchin from the 2nd Edition boxed set. roughly early 1994. Flash forward 28 years later, and I've completed my first ever Space Marine.
I picked up a small pile of Space Marines at a flea market on the cheap (Maja got some Imperial Guard for free). After many moons of sitting in a bin, I finally grabbed one and put on a variant of Fauxhammer's personal chapter, with a variant storyline.
Short story, good ol' Ignate Perditius was a newb when his unit of Space Marines got sucked into a vortex of some sort and got deposited on Ruie, a backwater planet with some industrialization but no way off. To complicate things, numerous other military factions, some from what appeared to be completely different universes.
Ignate's unit managed to carve out a decent corner of the local, but heavy losses continued to shrink their gains, until it was only him a few remaining members of the cohort. From there, he disbanded the unit and struck out on his home.
It's unknown what chapter Ignate was originally with, and the few people who would have such knowledge either don't remember or don't care to remember. Other Space Marine of various chapters have appeared and moved on, sometimes joining forces in the interim. Almost all followed the same path when it came to equipment maintenance.
As equipment and armor wore out, the Space Marines used whatever materials and paint that they could scrounge. A stockpile of of primer gray and what was labelled "DOT Orange" were enough to give many fresh coats. Many wandering the world are entirely the two colors, while the others are simply painting over the worn out pieces of armor first, and updating further as time passed.
While, much of the armor has been scrounged up to make repairs, Ignate's chest plate is still original, so much so that the Imperial Aquila has largely been worn down. He doesn't really remember what that symbol stood for, just that it used to be important to him... in a past life.
For Ignate, years on planet have left him with with a bolt pistol and a civilian grade chainsword to deal with the foes, civilians, and bests he's encountered on planet.
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