Wild West Exodus: Neuheiten

Vladamir Ursul could have lived out the rest of his life in peace, tending his small plot of land and hunting in the forests that surround it. Destiny, however, had other plans for him. As a young man Vlad enlisted for the Commonwealth Army and found that his upbringing in the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains and experience as a trapper and huntsman served him well in his new role as a forward scout and picquet. Vlad left the raising of his son, Roman, to his wife while his path took him into the service of his brother-in-law, the Enlightened scientist Burson Carpathian. When Vlad was reunited with his son nearly two decades later, he fully intended to settle down and make up for lost time but Roman was a stranger to him and their lives were so radically different that Vlad struggled to find a way to fit in with the lad.

During his formative years Roman Ursul was given the best education possible. Following the work of Burson Carpathian and the Covenant of the Enlightened, Roman grew to be a brilliant young man. He dreamed of a chance to impress Carpathian, seeing him as both mentor and father-figure, even though they had barely corresponded. Despite these efforts, however, Carpathian was a difficult man to impress and following the death of his wife Veronica he became obsessed by some “great work” that Roman was mostly excluded from. This obsession made it even more difficult for Roman to receive the attention and recognition he craved but his own work on human / machine integration became all the more advanced as a result.

Roman’s psychopathy truly took hold at the age of 19. What began as inspiration in the form of a demon named Caym; an amalgam of man and bird, soon turned into an obsession of his own to mirror that of his uncle’s. Upon discovering Caym in his studies, Roman began to work towards creating a way for man to fly with wings of his own. His initial focus was on his own flight harness but while this gave some amount of gliding ability it was not the same as true flight. The desire to soar amid the clouds was a strong lure and Roman wanted to find a way of attaching mechanical wings to a human frame whilst still keeping the original personality of the subject. This last part was extremely difficult to achieve as most Creations, Menials and other experiments made by the Enlightened, especially Carpathian’s own work, retained very little of the person they once were. As Roman worked on this problem without respite, the alter-ego of Caym began to assert greater dominance. This process was completed just before he left London to follow Carpathian and his father to the Americas. In the process of trying to stop a serial killer’s murderous spree on the streets of Whitechapel, he began to see that only the strongest mind is capable of such depravity and in order to truly free his potential he must follow that path. Thus, in an East London backstreet, Caym was born and Roman Ursul was left behind.

In the New World, meeting with his uncle and reuniting with his father, Caym was emboldened to take more risks in his experiments and despite the mounting human cost, he produced breakthrough after breakthrough. Taking principles of his own flight suit and refining the methods of Kyle the Black and others in the Enlightened, Caym created Hellion, a blending of man and winged machine. Gifting a flock of such constructs to his uncle caused Carpathian to take notice of what Caym was achieving. Such recognition was bittersweet as Carpathian soon lost interest once he realised that the application of this new technology would not significantly further his own work as the Hellion lacked higher brain functions, much like the other augmented meniels and henchmen the Enlightened constructed. Undeterred by this Caym continued and when a young Warrior Nation woman sought him out he had his true success.

Whitewing was destined to be a Peyasa Spirit Walker, and belonged to the same tribe as Alcon and his daughters. Despite their assistance, each time she attempted the ritual she was rejected by the Great Spirit. Alcon claimed that she had a shadow following her and she would never walk the path of a Spirit Warrior. Fleeing her tribe in shame she heard rumour of Caym’s experiments and pleaded with him to succeed where Alcon had failed and let her fly. Caym recognised a dark side to her that mirrored the one that resided within himself, and knew that she had the conviction needed to pass through the process intact. He was right. The surgery and full integration with the RJ fuelled machinery was a success and Whitewing became his most trusted lieutenant and companion.

Now all Caym needed was the recognition he deserved. After murdering his uncle, Caym came to appreciate that death for those of value to the Covenant was not as permanent as it might have otherwise been. Carpathian was brought back from the brink of death by Kyle the Black and Augusta Byron, cursed thereafter with psychotic killing rampages as often as genius lucidity. Now Caym is on the run from his murderous uncle and trying to keep one step ahead of those who would turn him in. Not willing to lose his son and unable to calm the raging Carpathian, Vlad has gone into exile along with Caym, in an attempt to keep his only son alive where his skills as a frontiersman, hunter and trapper are invaluable.

Following his success with Whitewing and now free of any oversight by the Enlightened, Caym developed a new higher breed of Hellion – the Apex Hellion. While not as free thinking and perceptive as Whitewing, these winged marvels still retain much more of their will than other Constructs and their effectiveness as killers and ambush predators is without equal.

The Murder of Hellion Posse kit builds five multi-part resin miniatures;

• 1x Caym
• 1x Whitewing
• 1x Vladimir Ursul
• 2x Apex Hellions
• 5x Bases

Please note:

• Miniatures are supplied unpainted and some assembly will be required.
• Character Unit Cards are not included and can be found on the Wild West Exodus website.

The Vreib possessed a naturally evolved chameleonic ability that helped them avoid or manipulate the many predators of their home world. When it was time for the species to join the Watchers Hegemony, this talent was seen as uniquely valuable. The Watchers spend centuries observing, trying to understand the sentient species of the galaxy. Being able to infiltrate such societies and live among them, even to think like them, to have an agent “walk a mile in another man’s Moccasins“ was now possible thanks to the genetic talents of the Vreib. During the process of hyper evolving the species into the Cerulean Clade, this extraordinary natural mimicry was taken to an extreme, combining mental and physical processes to allow a Cerulean to become a near identical facsimile of a targeted individual. Creating the appearance of clothing, equipment and even vocal sounds and surface thought patterns, a Cerulean is only limited by a mass differential greater than 46% and an inability to remove any mimicked items such as taking off their jacket or putting down a mimicked gun (as it is in reality part of their own body).

This mimicry is not without risk to the Cerulean, chiefly of which is becoming lost in the mind of the individual they duplicate. To be someone else is liberating and can even be intoxicating. Sometimes it is too difficult to revert to their native form as in that instance everything that they mimicked, including thought patterns and emotional responses (what the humans would call a soul) is lost. All that remains are the experiences acquired while in that form. If the original target is beyond reach to reacquire the template, it is impossible for a Cerulean to return to that form again once they have cast it off. A Cerulean who refuses to revert back to their native form at the end of an assignment is a rare thing indeed, although not unheard of. What such prolonged mimicry does to a Ceruleans physical and mental state cannot be anticipated.

Uniquely on Earth, a new problem has presented itself for the Ceruleans. Starting with their centuries held in stasis, thanks to the accident triggered by Ponce deLeon, the Ceruleans became aware on a very subliminal level of another extra-terrestrial entity in the world. Known only as the Hex, this force began to inveigle its way into the sleeping thoughts of many Ceruleans. When they emerged from their stasis, a number of the Clade exhibited symptoms of severe mental trauma and physical manifestations. The affected Cerulean’s bodies mirrored the mental anguish it felt and their form constantly rippled, mutating rapidly into different shapes and sizes like something out of a nightmare. These Cerulean Nightmares are so unpredictable in the field that usually they remain in specially constructed confinement cells, only used in times of great need. Locked in this state of torment and in constant communication with each other, it is common that a Nightmare will not return to the Watchers after the mission, instead heading into the wilderness to answer the call of the Hex. This is quietly seen as a blessing to the Earth bound Watchers as it removes the responsibility for such troubled individuals and away from the support of their Clade, few Nightmares survive longer than a season in the wild – enjoying short but spectacularly violent and bizzare lives.

Ceruleans are a less hierarchical clade than many of the others. It is rare for them to have an Alpha, although they do exist. Instead operations are conducted by two or three Primes that act in coordination with the senior field operatives designated as Vixens to achieve the mission at hand. The majority of the Cerulean infiltration for mimicking rank and file groups is conducted by Infiltrator Myriads, smaller than the Vixens and Primes but no less intelligent or dedicated to the task at hand. On Earth in the Dystopian Age it is the Cerulean that are the most valuable to the Watchers in keeping their presence a secret from the wider world. Ceruleans infiltrate key areas of human society, authority and politics to misdirect attention and identify threats to the Watcher’s ultimate mission.

The Cerulean Clade Posse kit builds nine multi-part resin miniatures;

• 1x Cerulean Prime
• 1x Cerulean Nightmare
• 2x Cerulean Vixens
• 5x Cerulean Infiltrators
• 9x Base

Please note:

• Miniatures are supplied unpainted and some assembly will be required.
• Character Unit Cards are not included and can be found on the Wild West Exodus website.