Vampire Counts in 40k

So a fellow Fa/tg/uy and I were recently dicussing the concept of Vampire Counts and how the could be implemented into Veeky Forums, and here's what we've come up with so far

Once upon a time there was an Imperial Sector full up with Nobles of all sorts who had existed within a strictly regimented eugenically based state before the IOM came and nommed them up.

Over time their incestuous ways [Insert webbed toe joke] and general dicking around with warpy drugs resulted in the whole nobility of the system falling under a simple very, very fucked up bloodline.

Along with most of the physical deformities and embarassment that comes with inbreeding to shit, the chaps had also somehow picked up an inherited birth defect that effectively acted as Sickle Cell on steroids: they could no longer produce any blood cells of their own and autosanguine was violently rejected by their body.

Fearing the extinction of their precious bloodline, the clan's members quickly set upon a solution: use the vast numbers of serfs accumulated on their planet sized feudal estates as a massive blood bank.

As things grew even more desperate, they skipped the blood bag entirely and went straight to the source, adopting cybernetic fangs that drew blood from their victims directly into their veins.

Of course, this rampant mutanting and mysterious dissapearance of large swathes of their peasants didn't go unnoticed, and the Imperium quickly dropped the hammer on the chumps.

Said chumps, however, due to the Counts unification under a certain Von Carstein and the mutation's secondary effects of spawning fucktons of really powerful Psykers with the ability to, albiet inneficiently, navigate the Warp (Some Navis Nobilite blood must have slipped in there somehow) and the Imperium's more pressing matters on other fronts, the bastards managed to hold off and survive.

Now, isolated and growing ever more twisted, the Transylv'an sector of the Vampyre Counts descends into a black mirror of the IOM

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Moar details incoming on

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-Infantry
-Culture

I'd think that if they're going to have chaos-y ties, they should generally be Slaaneshi. Khorne is oversaturated, Nurgle is pretty well represented in the playerbase, and Tzeentch has been getting all kinds of new toys in the latest updates.

Shedding blood only to sustain those weakened by sickness and for their own perverse pleasure would be suitably abhorrent to Khorne to be a good jab in the nuts from She who Thirsts. Besides, it's right there in the name.

Aight so ships first I suppose, as getting around is pretty important.

Even before they degenerated into disgusting mutants, the Counts had dwelled largely within massive austere sattelite-manors that orbited their planetary estates (preferring isolation to interacting with the scum on the surface) and they have continued to serve them well in their current form.

Their gloomy halls and windowless chambers provide protection for their delicate skin, and, as each Manor is equipped with orbital and ship-to-ship weaponry, a means of supressing revolts below and Imperial incursions from the outside.

In their years of isolation, the Counts have experimented out of neccessity with technology, applying their latent psychic talents to assembling great weapons of war.

This can be seen most prevelantly by the means in which they power their craft: not through fuel of any conventional means, but through raw psychic power.

Of course, powering an entire ship on ones own would invariably result in overexertion and subsequent death, so the Counts employ the assistance of thousands upon thousands of brainwashed Thralls who are literally burned out like cheap bateries as living fuel.

In mathematical terms, a Count wishing to take his Satellite-Manor to coordinates X, Y would need to expend X amounts of Thralls in order to do so.

Similarly, they would need to use X number of Thralls to fire a shot of X power level at an incoming ship.

As to FTL travel, this is supplied by the Counts themselves, who act in the role of Navigator (possessing, as I said, several degrees of Navigator blood in their complex pedigrees)

While the counts are perfectly capable of facilitating Warp Travel, this comes at great risk and expenditure to themselves, and most prefer to keep their manors fairly sedentary, using traditional STL travel methods and gravitational forces for travel when needed and large numbers of low ranking Vampires to supplement their strength when warp travel is needed

No, I actually had something non-Chaos related in mind instead.

Though their ways have quite divulged from Imperial Orthodoxy, the Counts still see themselves as being subjects of the God Emperor.

More so, in fact, than the filth of the Imperium proper, as many see their genetic uniqueness as proof of their direct relation to the Emperor himself (More reasonable Counts theorizing that they may be a distant outcome of one of the Emperor's many lost projects to uplift the human race)

Regardless of the case, the Vampires universally loathe ordainary humans, especially of the Imperium, as inferior examples of men and their rightful slaves.

Fuck it, it's late and the rest of this can wait until tomorrow.

Shouldn't start posts at this time.

Cool idea, are you going to make a homebrew army or just spit balling?

Will there be a Space Bretonnia?

Yes user, we can have Space Bretonnia

Well lesse, I suck at math and I'm shit at balance, but we'll see about it.

For now, I'm happy to propose a possibility

Now if you'll excuse me, I think I will sleep now like I said I would

You mean like other than Blood Angels, who are genetically engineered space vampires in power armor?