Reply To: Hobby Weekender 01/06/18 – Schools out

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@mage RJ1027 isn’t actually what it seems, more a by product of something else entirely…. Are you sitting comfortably? Good, then I shall begin 😀

The Hex is an Entity that floats through space, its only instinct is survival, it doesnt know why, it just knows it must. It is hunted by another Entity, called the Order, who seeks to eradicate it, and any being corrupted by its Influence. The Hex had previously hidden on 17 planets, before it came upon Earth, and each time it has been discovered by the Order and only just managed to escape leaving Its followers to their fate.

When it came upon the Earth, The Hex split itself into six huge Crystaline shards and hid itself in locations around the planet. In the Locales surrounding those shards that contained life, the Hex reached out, Its influence corrupting and seeking to place those it corrupted in positions of Power, so they were better poised to Protect it should the need arise.

One such Shard ended up in Europe and it reached out to the local poulation as usual, but it did not count on a certain Scientist, Burson Carpathian, maintaining his self control.

Carpathian discovered the Shard. and eventually found a way of converting it’s energy into a physical power source that he named RJ1027. Shunned by the wider Scientific community Carpathian fled Europe with a few like minded Individuals, collectively known as The Enlightened, and headed to a place where he could continue his work and experiments with the substance. By supplying both the Union and Confederacy with RJ1027 powered Weaponry and Vehicles, he managed to not only to carry on his work without interference, but ensure an abundant supply of Battlefield Wounded to use in his experiments.

Eventually, after the Civil War, the RJ1027 powered weapons fell into other hands, either by supply or criminal activity… and that is pretty much (very condensed) where we come in.

Some factions, the Warrior Nation, The Watchers and The Order dont use RJ1027, using their own individual power sources, but the rest of the factions do.

I don’t think it’s Inevitable that those that use RJ1027 will become tainted, but I think it is Inevitable that those that do become Tainted will eventually succumb. It depends on their exposure to it, either constant or level of power. Pretty much the whole Enlightened faction is Tainted and most of the other factions that use RJ1027 have a few Tainted in their ranks (Although most of these are Dual Faction Characters that work with both their own faction and either The Enlightened or The Hex).

Yeah i’m not one for listening to hobby stuff unless theres Pictures. To be honest mate, apart from the BoW Weekenders, I only tend to watch Battle reports or Unboxings.

Ahhh I know I give her a lot of stick, but in truth the wife is a Diamond, she’s put up with me for 30 years, happily married for 29 of them. I don’t think there’s anybody else on the Planet that could have put up with my uhhhm little idiosynccrasies for so long. I just wish that she would understand that if she asks me to do something I will do it… I don’t need reminding every six months 😀 (not my joke but certainly fits)

@dawfydd Don’t knock your painting abilities mate, we are always our own worst critic. Personally I dont just rate painters on quality of work alone, I rate it on consistancy throughout the army. We could all paint like Angel Giraldez, given the time, but producing a consistantly good result across such  a number of miniatures within a limited time, takes as much skill, if not more.