Editing Marines Errant (section)

==History==
[[File:MarineErrant.jpg|600xpx|thumb|right|Marines Errant colour scheme.]]
Decreed at their founding to [[Grimdark|‘forever quest and give battle, knowing no home but the grace of the Emperor’s mercy’]], the Marines Errant are a fleet based Chapter whose skills in boarding actions and rapid deployment from orbiting void craft are justly celebrated. Their close links to the [[Rogue Trader]] family of '''Ecale''' have only bolstered their expertise in the field of void warfare, and have no doubt helped to keep the vast fleet maintained by the Chapter space-worthy and the terror of the Emperor’s foes. After a secret agreement between the Chapter and the Rogue Trader House in '''M38''', Battle-Brothers can be found operating on all of House Ecale's vessels, no doubt an [[Rogue Trader (RPG)|arrangement that benefits the Rogue Trader]] immensely, though what the Chapter gets out of it is yet unknown, perhaps a debt remains to be paid? Or perhaps this arrangement just means that the marines get to see a lot of action, in a lot of different starships, across a wide section of space.

From the very beginning, the intent of the Marines Errant was that they would engage in [[Black Templars|endless crusades]], cleansing the cosmos of the filth that might offend the [[Emperor]]'s nose. Because of this, the Chapter designed its organisational scheme around [[Raven Guard|independent companies]]. During its existence, the Marines Errant Chapter has never established a formal fortress monastery nor has it designated a specific homeworld. Though it did settle the world of '''Vilamus''' to leave themselves a storage facility for precious gene-seed, rather than carrying it with them on the fleets where it could be [[FAIL|destroyed or lost]].

As with other chapters from the '''Sentinel Founding''', the Marines Errant are crusading chapter beyond the territories of the [[Imperium]] and thus rarely returns to Imperial space to raise recruits, the Chapter collects it's initiates in the field from remote worlds that have had little to no contact with the Imperium at all, and the fledgling Neophyte will have to learn just as much about the Imperium as they have to absorb the training and battle rites.

===The Badab War & Huron Blackheart ===
In 904.M41 the Marines Errant was summoned to the [[Badab]] sector to support the [[Fire Hawks]] as part of a policing action against the upstart [[Astral Claws]] chapter. Despite committing five companies to the action, the hot-headed nature of the Fire Hawks draws the Marines Errant deeper into the conflict, causing the chapter to steadily take severe damage before the [[Badab War]] ignites fully.

Over the course of the war, much of the Marines Errant fleet was damaged or destroyed and their senior officers were slain by the [[Mantis Warriors]], eventually forcing the chapter to retire in 906.M41. In the aftermath of the war, the highest ranking officer remaining was [[Imperial Navy|Lieutenant-Commander]] '''Anton Narvaez''' who then had to take the position of [[Chapter Master]].

Much later, as they were recovering from their losses in the Badab War, [[Huron Blackheart]] and his [[Red Corsairs]] struck a deal with the [[Night Lords]] to raid the gene-seed repository on Vilamus. Despite the Night Lords taking the opportunity to betray Huron and steal one of this starships during the battle, this scenario obviously did not go well for the Marines Errant, who were already hurting from their losses in the previous war and with the loss of their gene-seed has caused them to enter the slow decline towards extinction.

It should be noted however, that due to the main method of chapter creation (namely the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] implanting and then taking the gene-seed from a test-slave until you have enough to found a chapter) it is possible they could come back from this. Of course, they could also just visit Terra, which is said to have a fuckload of gene-seed locked away (where did you think the Mechanicus was taking it from?)

Given that Roboute Guilliman went around handing out Primaris reinforcements to weakened Chapters, it is likely the Marines Errant have been rebuilt and are mostly Primaris.