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FAQ about the
Kabal of the Ozone Scorpions
The
Kabal of the Ozone Scorpions was one of the Jungle’s first
Themed
Army Ideas, and over the years, I’ve received a few e-mails about
them. Here's everything you might want to know about the "Drowboys"….
Where
did the name "Ozone Scorpions" come from?
Is
there any "fluff" for the Ozone Scorpions?
Where
are the Ozone Scorpions based?
How
did the Ozone Scorpions get their unusual skin color?
What's
the Scorpions' symbol?
What's
the Archon's name and how is it pronounced?
Why
didn't the Tigers execute Lynatharr when they had the chance?
Why
would the other Dark Eldar rescue their captured leader?
Where
did the name “Ozone Scorpions” come from?
Like Jack
Nicholson said in Batman, “I just like the sound of it.”
I took ozone from the title of a Led Zeppelin song (“Ozone
Baby”) and scorpions from my astrological sign (yeah, I’m
a Scorpio. Could you tell?).
I devised a
silver and blue color scheme for the Scorpions; coincidentally, ozone (a
gas) is blue.
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Is
there any fluff for the Ozone Scorpions?
If you're looking for the Scorpions'
background story, check out the Allies
and Enemies page as well as their Themed
Army description. Briefly, the Kabal of the Ozone Scorpions were
exiled from Commorragh, enslaved the native people of Veda, and were defeated
by the Fighting Tigers in their first mission as a new Space Marine Chapter.
They’ve been on the run ever since.
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Where
are the Ozone Scorpions based?
When the Tigers
drove them from Veda, the Scorps fled into the Maelstrom, an area of space
similar to the infamous Eye of Terror. Their lair is beneath a cobalt/ammonium
desert on an otherwise unihabited planet. From time to time, they’ve emerged
to bedevil the Imperium.
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How
did the Ozone Scorpions get their unusual skin color?
 I
painted the Scorpions with Chaos Black skin (highlighted with Enchanted
Blue) and Skull White/Mithril Silver hair to match the description of the
Drow, the Dark Elves of AD&D. For fluff purposes, I explain that they
wandered deep into the Maelstrom and were mutated by exposure to radiation.
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What's
the Scorpions' symbol?
A corrupted version of the Eldar
Striking Scorpion rune. The Ozone Scorpions display their symbol (below
left) on their Raiders and jetbikes.
By the way, this is not the first
time I've collected an Ozone Scorpions army. Back during the "Rogue Trader"
days (the 1st Edition of Warhammer 40,000), I had a pirate army made up
of mostly Eldar. These original Ozone Scorpions had a banner (below
right), which I've since used to decorate one of my bunkers.
 
Left:Current
Ozone Scorpion rune
Right:"Rogue
Trader"-era banner with red "m" symbol,
derived
from the astrological sign for Scorpio.
The
red "m" was the original Ozone Scorpion emblem (circa 1988)
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What's
the Archon's name and how is it pronounced?
Syryx Lynatharr
was the name of a half-Drow villain from my (defunct, alas) AD&D campaign.
It’s pronounced SEAR (like "near") -icks (like
"sticks") LIN (like "thin") -a-thar (like "car").
Above: Syryx
Lynatharr.
He may have a funny name,
but I bet you won't tell him to his face
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Why
didn't the Tigers execute Lynatharr when they had the chance?
At one point,
the Fighting Tigers captured Syryx Lynatharr, but they did not kill him.
To the Tigers, death—even slow, painful death—is too merciful a punishment
for the worst of the Emperor’s foes. Instead, the Tigers incarcerated him
alive but conscious inside a stasis chamber, where he would be trapped
frozen in time.
Doesn’t sound
too bad, does it? And it probably wasn’t for the first few days. But while
his body was unable to move, his mind was free to wander—but unable to
know what was going on outside the stasis chamber. He was trapped with
his own thoughts and nothing else. Think of it as a more intense form of
solitary confinement—slow torture through unrelenting boredom.
Lynatharr was
confined like this for 800 years, not needing to “feed,” sleep, or breathe—but
not able to move or interact with anyone or anything. He was accidentally
freed during the attack on the Tigers by the
Warband Bloodcomet and was quickly recovered by his followers (who
had been secretly watching Veda).
The inspiration
for Lynatharr’s imprisonment, by the way, is from a Stephen King short
story called “The Jaunt.” You can find it in his book Skeleton
Crew.
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Why
would the other Dark Eldar rescue their captured leader?
Not because they're nice people,
but because without him they would have no hope of defeating the rival
Kabals and returning to Commorragh.
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Related Pages
Background
story of the Kabal of the Ozone Scorpions
Themed
Army Idea
From Idea to Reality:
How I built the Ozone Scorpion army
The Gray Tiger:
Ozone Scorpions return to Veda
(fiction)
Tooth and
Claw: Scorpions battle Space Wolves (campaign)
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