Niðavellir Shipyard: Shaltari Ronins

Niðavellir Shipyard

The Nidavellir Shipyard is a large UCM Shipyard hidden far away from any planetary system.
After the scattering of humans after the first Scourge attack many ships used their ftl drives and made an random Foldspace jump just to get away. Many of this ships found themselves alone in the dark, to close to a star or a black hole and perished but some made it to an empty place in space. And that’s how the Nidavellir belt was discovered. A collection of large rocks, asteroids in different sizes and collection of dust and sand. Exactly how this place come to be, far from any sun, placed in between systems is not known. It is believed it was created after an extremely unlikely collision of two larger celestial body, with no stronger gravity pull in the vicinity this collection of minerals and rocks have held together by their own combined pull of each other. The scatter of large rocks and the natural background radioactivity have created a hiding place. After the survivors made contact with the now formed UCM the area have been put to good use.

Named after the Norse mythology Nidavellir, the world of the dwarves, for its rich mineral and metal resources. Perfectly for foundries and a large shipyard complex.

This is the place to produce ships...

Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Shaltari Ronins

Here we have my new Ronins.
A quick photoshoot that resulted in the far from perfect picture but you get the point, they are cool looking and follow my previous paint scheme. Just in time for my latest order arriving with the Phase 2 book and some new miniatures...

Ronin are the frontline assault troops of the Shaltari. Their primary role is to strike first and from unexpected places. Every one of these individuals lives for nothing but war, an obsession that is all-consuming and unyielding. In battle they favour heavy warsuits – towering constructs that emulate the joys of physical combat but on a much larger scale. Though far too large to enter buildings, these suits are nonetheless surprisingly agile for their size. Armed with a pair of Gauss Carbines, they dart and weave across the open battlefield, delighting in the destruction they bring to bear on the foe.

Niðavellir Shipyard