That’s all horrifying in and of itself. What makes it especially difficult to bear, however, is the fact that the mother and father are sister and brother. When pressed, some of these Space Marines have said they hailed from a Chapter known as the Carcharodons. This is a direct result of sustaining too many casualties at a rate that cannot be replaced, due to the Carcharodons' never-ending War in the Deeps. And they cannot increase their rate of recruitment without compromising the induction process or dedicating extra companies to the Tithes. E' la gente dura che rende duri i tempi. Ho visto tanta cattiveria fra gli uomini che non so perchè Dio non ha ancora spento il sole e se n'è andato. Hard people makes hard times. I've seen the meanness of humans til I don't know why God ain't put out the sun and gone away."

It is the duty of a Carcharodons' Reaper Prime, beyond the duties of the captaincy of their company, to ensure that the Chapter is constantly supplied with fresh aspirants. This was normally achieved during the so-called "Red Tithes," when the Chapter's Edicts of Exile permitted it to descend on an Imperial world and harvest the population. Yiggorum (though stated to be from the Dark Dimension) was also mentioned as being from the Outer Darkness. [7] However, beyond these rare encounters recorded in the dusty data-vaults of Watch Fortress Erioch, the only information forthcoming on the Carcharodons are the stories of their fell deeds throughout the Imperium. Sembra andare meglio a sua sorella Rinthy: ma anche per lei il mondo offre poco più della sopravvivenza. He rose and went on until he reached the gap in the ridge and before long he could see the first of them coming along the road below him and then suddenly the entire valley was filled with hogs, a weltering sea of them that came smoking over the dusty plain and flowed undiminished into the narrows of the cut, fanning on the slopes in ragged shoals like the harried outer guard of schooled fish and here and there upright and cursing among them and laboring with poles the drovers gaunt and fever-eyed with incredible rag costumes and wild hair.Forgotten One - The "Forgotten One" is the name given by the Carcharodons to the leader who sent them into exile in the outer dark, most likely their unknown primarch. Fin dall’incipit, accanto alla storia dei due giovani (che, per l’appunto, poi si sdoppia) si profila la misteriosa e inquietante comparsa di tre uomini spietati che vengono colti in gesti di estrema violenza fino ad un finale macabro che riproduce le atmosfere di una tregenda. I wasn't sure about this book. I read "All the Pretty Horses" many years ago and didn't care for it. I tried "Suttree" and put it down after a couple of chapters. I liked "The Orchard Keeper", but it wasn't his typical dark, dark themes.

The Carcharodons' fleet, though extensive, is inconsistent in makeup. The vessels of the Carcharodons are a mismatch of old and heavily modified classes and capabilities. Within its line of battle are numerous examples of either very ancient, salvaged or extensively repaired vessels. Through ancient pacts with the Tech-priests of Mars, the Carcharodons trade this lost technology for weapons, power armour, equipment and even vehicles.The Carcharodons have been observed to make use of Chaplains and Librarians, with little deviation from their roles in other Chapters. However, Apothecaries and Techmarines seldom appear outside the Carcharodons' nomad fleet. It's very likely that the Carcharodons recognise the vital role these Space Marines play in preserving and maintaining their Chapter's very existence, and keep them on hand whenever possible. Once given command of his Legion, Corax began to impose the style of war he had perfected upon Lycaeus over that which had defined the XIX th Legion of old, particularly by purging the more cold-blooded ways of the Terran Xeric tribes which had once defined the Legion culture after its Founding on the Throneworld. Ma-tahe (Strike Cruiser) - The Ma-tahe was under the command of Company Master Mannfor, who allied himself with Battlegroup Betaris of Fleet Secundus of the Indomitus Crusade. The complement of Carcharodons Astartes under Mannfor's command were known to emerge from the void to aid the forces of the crusade when and where Mannfor chose. The Astartes of the Ma-tahe were instrumental in retaking the Castellus Sanctic on Budor V from a warband of Word Bearers Chaos Space Marines and their Daemonic allies. Allegedly, Set and Ibis fought in the Outer Darkness for a "thousand centuries", [6] at least since and throughout the Pre-Cataclysmic Age, and into the Hyborian Age. This is the author's second novel (1968), and the atmosphere of the old West lingers in this book... I also took notice of the language used, and some surprising Biblical things ones might find here. At first this book didn't feel like much, but then it got going, and more intense.

A Nomad-Predation fleet may contain as many support vessels as true warships, or it may contain voidships capable of both combat and maintenance repairs. This second possibility may be more likely in the case of the Carcharodons; given the bellicose Chapter's propensity for combat, it seems unlikely they would tolerate vessels in their fleet's ranks that could not hold their own on the battle line. Tonga (KIA) - 3 rd Company, 4 th Tactical Squad. Killed in action in assault on Centrum Dominus on Zartak.Rinthy Holme owes much of her characterization to William Faulkner’s Lena Grove in Light in August. Like Lena, Rinthy is, despite her obvious sexual experience, an innocent in the alien world. She has true love for her child, who causes her neither shame nor regret. When Culla tells her that the child is dead, she wants to see the grave, to lay her baby in the earth. When Culla confesses that the child is still alive, she simply sets out after it. Her breasts continue to make milk months after she begins her search; to her the milk is a sign that the child still lives. As she tells the skeptical doctor who examines her, “I don’t live nowheres no more. . . . I never did much. I just go around huntin my chap. That’s about all I do any more.” Careful to avoid her brother, Rinthy sets out to look for the child. After travelling a while, during the night she stumbles upon a house. Here she finds a family who take her in, feed her and offer her a place to sleep. The oldest boy of the family expresses interest in her, which she rejects. Travelling to the town with them, she is unable to find the child and sets out again to try and find him.