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==Fire Warrior== [[Image:Raptors.png|frame|right|250px|Apparently, they were not always that reasonable, judging by their old color scheme]] In one of its only known large actions, its 3rd and 6th companies participated in the Taros Campaign along with a bunch of Tallarn, Cadian, and Elysian regiments, to kick the Tau out of Taros. Needless to say, after two regiments were annihilated, half of the fleet was destroyed, and the [[Avenging Sons]] Chapter lost basically its whole task force, the Imperial forces retreated. Through all of this, after the initial assault on the anti-space missile silo, fully mechanized forces of Raptors were mostly used in conjunction with Cadian armoured regiments as a quick response force, and as the Tau went to great lengths to avoid them (which they did successfully being much quicker themselves), they suffered the least amount of casualties amongst the Imperium's ground forces. Later, they were used in the operation Comet, once again with Cadians and some titans, and kicked major ass; while they managed to repel all Tau forces thrown at them, it did slow them down a bit and bought the xenos enough time to eradicate the [[Elysian Drop Troops]] and destroy the water processing plant (securing it was the main objective of the operation). Following this failure, and the clusterfuck that was the assassination of Aun'El, they retreated to the LZ, robbing the Tallarn Desert Raiders of what was left of their fuel and leaving them to die in the desert from thirst and angry gunzerking Tau. In the end, however, it was the Raptors who defended the LZ for long enough to let what was left of the Imperial forces to evacuate, although both sides suffered big casualties in this fight, mostly because the Tau were too mad-angry with vengeance and threw away any sense of tactics, going for a full frontal attack on a heavily fortified position. Ironically, in Fire Warrior they were portrayed as [[Red Scorpions|reckless assholes known for jumping into missions without any real planning]], which started the whole plot and caused the [[Ultramarines]] to show up to fix their mess and beat them over the head with the Codex; fun fact - these events take place before the [[Badab War]], meaning the Smurfs may have in fact turned the Raptors into Reasonable Marines. Or maybe because at the time they were a background chapter written by two different groups. Probably the second one, especially given that the Raptors in the game had olive drab armor, which is their base color scheme after they became Reasonable Marines... then again, their lore still states they used to be very different to what they are now and only changed their ways after a disaster; working for a Chaos Worshipper only for it to snowball into a whole planet turning to Chaos because you didn't bother to wonder why he needed an alien, then getting saved by the Ultramarines sounds like a pretty good turning point. However, there is already a canonical cause of their change. They became Reasonable Marines to survive when they got stranded on a planet. Of course, by "reasonable", we mean they think before they act. If you told them to parley with xenos they'd [[Commissar|fill you full of bolter rounds]]. Better still, the Raptors make a habit of taking command of Imperial Guard forces where they fight and distributing their marines amongst the Guard forces under their command. The result is the Guard kicking ass and taking minimal casualties while maximizing the enemies'. Who knows, maybe the Raptors will eventually take some Guard regiments under their wing and make them [[Awesome|mini-me]] Reasonable Marines? Technically, this practice is illegal, but the Marines were given command of the mortal military by the Emperor himself, so "illegal" is more like "inappropriate" in this case. Not that they care; somehow I doubt Imperial Guard generals are going to look a gift horse of superhuman intellect in the mouth.
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