[hider=Osric]
[b]Character Name:[/b]
Osric Sabine

[b]Rank/Role:[/b]
The first successful test subject of Geneseed sample 8. 
Founding member of the 8th Legion.

[b]Appearance:[/b]
Originally a dark skinned, semi-successful underhive ganger from the Hives of Merica who stood at 6'3 feet tall and managed to get enough food to have some serious muscle to go with his height. Extensive surgery and gene therapy have resulted in him gaining a great deal more mass and height then he had before. At the time of being considered successful enough to leave the laboratory for some proper field tests Osric was shaved bald, through it remains to be seen if his black hair will grow back. 

His left eye is organic with a black iris while his right is a bionic implant of fairly good quality that was installed after he received the treatments and experiments successfully.      

[b]Biography:[/b]
In the long history of Terra during the horrors of Old Night, countless billions, if not trillions of humans lived short and brutal lives, attempting to fight for survival on a harsh and often cruel world. The number of those lives cut short in the inherently violent depths of the underhives of Merica are impossible for mortal men to know, as little in the way of record keeping is able to survive contact with such lawless places. 

Osric was originally doomed to be one of these countless, faceless people who lived and died unknown and unheralded. Born in the depths of the Hive city of Detroit, it was fully expected that he would live there until the day he died... which in a world where law and order was simply what the strong opted to impose upon the weak generally wasn't a very long time. Osric doesn't know how many siblings he actually has or when along the line he was actually born, but he was neither the first nor the last. He was however one of the four that would live long enough to actually be given a name at the age of six. 

He was young when he joined 'Technical Support', one of many violent gangs that had arisen locally in the name of survival. Unlike many such gangs through, Technical Support generally had a knack for operating and repairing the various pieces of tech and long abandoned systems of their underhive home which allowed them to crave out a rather sizeable and relatively stable chunk of territory for themselves. 

Osric proved himself to be a rather successful ganger who managed to gather a pretty solid crew around him over the years; While the idea of him being successful enough to literally move up into the upper hive like some of the truly high ranked members of the gang had done before was laughable, he and his crew always had enough to eat with access to fairly reliable medical services from a doc that was part of the crew. However, the relatively comfortable existence they had managed to crave out for themselves wasn't enough for Osric and his people, so when rumors of a piece of technology worth enough to earn a crew lives in the upper hive located somewhere down in the depths of the hive started to spread, they took it. 

The 'rumor', as it turned out, was planted by agents of the Emperor who wished to locate and capture some prime Merican test subjects for the Emperor's legion project. As is the nature of underhive gang politics and warfare, the hunt for this non-existent bounty of technology caused a great deal of carnage and bloodshed, with only the strongest, cunning and most brutal of gangs and crews not only making it down to the level that these agents had set themselves up to 'recruit' them, but actually survive down there for any length of time. 

Osric and his crew were not the only ones that were subdued and shipped back to be made use of by the Emperor in the creation of the next generation of genetically enhanced super solders, but they were the only ones who were selected to be implanted with the geneseed of the 8th Primarch.          

Of the original 11 people subjected to testing out the suitability of the 8th Primarch's geneseed, 6 of them survived; A highly promising result, considering the process was still in need of refinement and the fact that few of the groups connected to other primarchs had more then one or two survivors at best. Future test subjects would further prove that Merican's genetic pool tended to respond best with the 8th Primarch and despite not being under the banner of the Lord of Lightning just yet, were listed as a future recruiting pool for the 8th legion. 

Of the surviving 6, Osric proved the most promising in that his body and mind proved the most accepting of the changes it was undergoing. As such, not only has he undergone the experimental process the quickest, but recovered from it the fastest as well. As such, he is considered active enough to be able to undergo field testing, even as the rest of the first 'squad' are being worked on.
[/hider]