Editing Knights Repentant (section)

==The Chapter Organization==

The chapter is organised into five companies of two-hundred rank-and-file brothers-at-arms. This is seen as the optimal balance as it ensures that they have enough forces in one area to deal with whatever the uncaring nightmare of a future can throw at them without too many of them being in one place at any given time. All martial disciplines from Jump Pack Assault to Las-cannon Devastator can be found within the ranks of any company. In this way they can operate independently and with great efficiency.

Chaplains, of which the chapter has a wonderful abundance, travel between the companies as they see fit and are primarily responsible for maintaining the morale and spiritual well-being of the Knights. They are masters of all forms of the rhetoric and oratory skills and are capable of inspiring awe or dread with nothing but their voice. All of the Knights Repentant are deeply spiritual, but often lack the skills to express or pass on this bottomless depth of faith. This is not so for the Chaplains, who are the spearhead of the chapter's missionary work. Theirs is the task of recruitment, and on the sorrowful occasions when the Chapter Master is called to the God-Emperor it is a conclave of these most enlightened and wise beings who choose the successor from amongst the Captains.

Techmarines, of which there are relatively few, are at the head of a truly vast multitude of types of lesser tech-adepts, lay-technicians and servitors. Their odd, but not typically shunned, brotherhood is ultimately responsible for the continued functionality of all of the Omnissiah's many and welcome manifestations within the chapter from the mightiest of its ship to the lowest of hand held devices.

The chapter's motor-pool is inter-company and dipped into and maintained by all companies.

The Librarians are not as obsessed with old tomes as those of other chapters. They are psychic-warriors and as such do not have time to tend history books at the expense of training. The histories are tended to by the Remembrancers and the every-day paperwork is handed over to the scribes. The title of Librarian was merely adopted to avoid the suspicion the rank of Battle-Psyker would cause in more codex adherent chapters.

The Apothecarium, not unique amongst the departments of the chapter, is supplemented by a large number of holy sisters drawn from the Order of Serenity. It is almost certain that they are reporting to their superiors on behalf of the holy inquisition, yet the chapter knows this. They are indifferent to this scrutiny; they genuinely believe that they have nothing to hide.

Unlike other chapters, Knights Repentant scouts are not neophytes. They are those who, during their training, were found to be exceptional at reconnaissance and as such theirs is the honor of being the chapter's eyes and ears. They have a reputation for being willful, getting closer to enemy camps than others would deem wise, finding sabotage and the laying of traps humorous and occasionally playing pranks on their brothers.

The Imperial Army Auxiliary is the name given to the large number of soldiers that accompany the Knights. Their job is usually to mop up stragglers and stay behind fortifying targets deemed important. They are trained to Guard standards and many are failed aspirants. They are not part of any company nor do they take direct command from the chapter hierarchy. They merely take advice from them. They are descended, always spiritually and often biologically, from the original Imperial Army that accompanied the Knights during the Crusade though all the unaugmented humans of that era have long since passed on.