Spartans

Spartans, known informally as the Emperor's Children, are bio-engineered soldiers who were designed by the Mother of Mothers to do battle for Her name and Mankind. Their abilities are near-fantastical as they wield the paracausal powers of the aether.

The Age of Strife
The Spartans. Their legacy is the stuff of legends. Since ancient times, their name has been revered by the various kingdoms of mankind, who saw them as the epitome of a true soldier. Their ancient leader, Leonidas, once battled against an empire ten times the size of his own kingdom with the strength of his mighty three hundred. Though they fell to the Achaemanids, their deed inspired the broken cities of Greekia to unite against their true adversary.

Mankind was once a part of a massive, interstellar coalition consisting of hundreds of thousands of alien species, united under the common ideals of democracy. Their golden age gave birth to countless technologies that were ultimately lost to the sands of time. They came and they conquered, but their golden will not last, for a storm is brewing in the immaterium. The Great Collapse devastated mankind as many of its colonies were disconnected from another, with no possible means of communication. Terra, the cradle of humanity, became a desolate wasteland, dominated by techno-barbarians who do battle in the name of their dark gods. However, where there is darkness, there is also light.

In the bowels of the Himalayas, Genetrix—the Mother of Mother—bided her time. She spent much of her time in the Himalayan caverns creating a special device that would allow her to rekindle the light of souls who had long faded into the Immaterium. When the techno-barbarian warlord Khan threatens to overwhelm all of Terra with his mighty Thunder Warriors, the Holy Mother left her village to unite the various barbarian nations that dot the Terran landscape. Aided by her mighty Custodians, she killed Khan in combat and united the planet under a single banner in .M9 A.D. The Thunder Warriors swear their allegiance to Genetrix. Her grand crusade begins the very moment she drove her blazing sword into the ground and proclaimed the founding of the Imperium of Andarra throughout all of space and time.