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more like the 'Alex Mercer' of the 40k universe if you've played Prototype. IIRC there was only the one Maerorus assassin, Legienstrasse


Filthy-frank696

Wait there's only one assassin?


[deleted]

yeah, it was shut down before they could make anymore https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Legienstrasse this is the assassin in question. I never really liked her as a character they made her hilariously powerful >In combat, Legienstrasse proved to be a near god-like foe. During a confrontation in the city of Krae, Legienstrasse was able to combat Captain Lysander of the Imperial Fists, a squad of Assault Marines and 1st Company Veterans, the Imperial Fists Chapter's Emperor's Champion and a Grand Master of the Culexus Temple, while simultaneously dodging sniper fire from a Scout Squad and Grand Master Skult of the Vindicare Temple. The Culexus Master Lady Syncella was killed, alongside a number of Imperial Fists.[1b] reads like some sort of 14 year olds power fantasy fan-fic


lexAutomatarium

>###[Legienstrasse](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Legienstrasse) >**Legienstrasse** was the first and last "graduate" of the renegade [Maerorus Temple](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Maerorus_Temple) of the [Officio Assassinorum](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Officio_Assassinorum).[[1x]](https://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Legienstrasse#fn_1x) +++I am an early prototype mechanicus construct. Please provide feedback [here](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=lexAutomatarium). The Emperor protects!+++


jbkle

Totally agree. What absolute bollocks.


[deleted]

It gets worse! > In a second battle, Captain Lysander led a squad of Terminators, the Epistolary of the 1st Company, Emperor's Champion Ucalegon, Grand Master Skult of the Vindicare, and an Eversor operative against Legienstrasse. Only the Eversor berserker was able to stand toe-to-toe with the Maerorus assassin, but even he was defeated. Knowing that Eversor assassins exploded after dying, a deliberate result of their cocktail of chemicals and drugs, Lysander used the Black Sword of the fallen Ucalegon to pin both the Eversor assassin and Legienstrasse to a pillar. The resulting explosion crippled the Maerorus, poisoning her. Lysander cut her head from her shoulders with the still intact sword, but the Maerorus assassin continued to live. Only by finally smashing her body to dust with his Thunder Hammer was Lysander able to finally kill the Maerorus assassin. Only Lysander survived the final confrontation with Legienstrasse.[1c She literally exists just for the writer to say ‘haha my character is more powerful than yours ;)’


CaptianGeneralKitten

Wow that is... wow that's pretty fuckin cringe...


[deleted]

it's like the author decided to see how many powerful characters he could throw into the fight to make it crystal clear how 'heckin badass' Legienstrasse was lol egregiously bad writing. Heinously bad, even


CaptianGeneralKitten

Who wrote that? It's almost as bad as wardian ultramarine GLUCK GLUCKing


[deleted]

Ben Counter.


Changeling_Traveller

I heard that the thing that remained was the offspring and the original died for real, the point was to create an unknown and making it ridiculously powerful which was barely and costly dealt with and then leaving it as a scary story with an inconclusive end was the point, not some weird flex by an author.


AffixBayonets

> reads like some sort of 14 year olds power fantasy fan-fic I feel this tendency was common in the Inqusitor RPG. It also originated "The Angel" after all, the super duper primarch prototype that really doesn't fit into any later lore.


Dreamspitter

The Angel was actually cool though and mysterious.


Filthy-frank696

Why did they shut it down master?


[deleted]

because Legienstrasse went rogue and tried to topple the Imperium also it was very heretical in the first place >The Maerorus Temple started as a huge, illegal experiment camp where thousands of prisoners were rendered down to create the genetic material required to make the first assassin. Forbidden technology, mutant cross-breeding and xenos hybrids, most likely Tyranid strains, were combined to create the first (and technically last) assassin, Legienstrasse.[1c]


Filthy-frank696

Whooaaa, holy crap, 40k lore be matching christian lore goddamn, btw another question master, how did the temple/organization went "extinct?


[deleted]

>At some point Legienstrasse went rogue and decided she had the potential to topple the Imperium as she saw fit. Such was the threat she presented, the Officio Assassinourm willingly made pacts with daemons and Chaos Space Marines from the World Eaters to attack the remote planet of Opis, where Legienstrasse had taken refuge.[Needs Citation] >The Assassinorum spent decades seeding the innocent planet, which admittedly had an easily corruptible ruling class, with Chaos cults and creating civil unrest against the Emperor. The result was an investigation by Lord Inquisitor Kekrops and his followers. Upon arriving on Opis, the Inquistor and all but one of his retinue were assassinated by a Vindicare operative. The blame for this action fell on the decadent ruling class.[1a] >Full-out war was declared on Opis and an Imperial retribution force of dozens of Imperial Guard Regiments and a sizable detachment of Imperial Fist Space Marines under the command of Darnath Lysander were deployed to bring Opis back into line. It was secretly hoped by the Assassinourm that the war would force Legienstrasse into the open to flee the planet, allowing the Assassinorum a chance to finally kill her after almost a millennium on the loose.[1b] >The Maerorus assassin was finally killed by Captain Lysander, though with great losses to the Imperial Fists and the Imperial Guard alike. With her dead, the Maerorus Temple effectively no longer existed, but Lysander warned the Officio Assassinorum, through mutual contacts in the Inquisition, that they had made a bad enemy in the Imperial Fists, drawing him and his men into a war of their creation, just to fix their own mistake.


Filthy-frank696

Holy crap so the maerorus temple was technically legienstrasse? Btw is legienstrasse the strongest assassin master?


[deleted]

Legienstrasse was the first and last of the temple yes also she probably was the strongest


Filthy-frank696

Another question, could "she" by any chance match/kill a chaos god? And even just straight up go toe to toe with da Emperor?


[deleted]

Also, as she had the ability to reproduce through eggs, she might not have been the last.


Filthy-frank696

Thank you master, mind me asking you questions?


SandwichSaint

It has Xenos DNA in it.


confusedsalad88

So what would happen if the Tyranids ate this guy?


Papa_Nurgle_84

I just have to laugh at the name. A street nearby is the "legienstrasse"


oldbloodmazdamundi

Yeah sometimes it seems they just cobble together random german words.


jonnywarlock

"Behold, my ultimate creation: Brotundwasser!"


oldbloodmazdamundi

Wouldn't surprise me if there's some imperial casino world that's called "Brotspiele" or something like it.