Editing Salamanders (Chapter) (section)

==Chapter Composition==
The Salamanders are a [[Space Marine]] chapter based on the Death World Nocturne. Nocturne is a volcanic planet with some truly ridiculous ''shifting'' gravity. As such, its people developed a slow, methodical approach to life, coupled with a healthy [[Dwarf fortress|<s>fetish</s> respect for fire]]. Salamanders have somewhat slower reaction time compared to other Astartes (but still blindingly fast compared to humans). In the fluff, this is said to be a result of Salamanders being almost universally cautious and methodical in their thinking, rather than a geneseed malfunction. The planet's only other reason for continued settlement is its rich mineral deposits, making metalworking an important profession to the point of bordering on a priesthood as well as a hotly-contested supply world. These traits carried over to the Salamanders, who are known amongst other things for fielding tough, hard-to-break units and for giving every man and his servo-skull a flamer or melta gun.(Put a couple of C'tan with the Lord of Fire power in your Necron army for the lulz.) They are also well known for making almost all of their own equipment personally, with each man held responsible for making and maintaining his own wargear. They import the few things they cannot manufacture on their home world directly from the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]], who likes them more than the [[Space_Wolves#Daily_rituals_of_a_Space_Wolf|ungrateful dicks who keep using up all their ammunition on drills and "practice fights"]]. The rest of their wargear is made by the Chapter artificers and Techmarines and they produce some of the best armor and weapons of any marine chapter, because they're not busy repairing every scratch on the armor of the other 940 (1 Veteran Company, 6 Battle Companies, 1 Scout Company). The result is that each marine is equipped with practically master-crafted weapons and wears near-artificer level armor. For comparison, Artificer armor is basically equal to terminator armor in capabilities. Their entire chapter is like that.

Despite the relative stability and purity of their gene-seed the Salamanders have no confirmed Successors. Two Chapters - the Storm Giants and Black Dragons - are rumored to be descendants, but these are merely rumors, and the Salamanders themselves claim kinship with no other Chapter, probably because they wish to avoid payin' dat muhfuggen child supp-{{blam|'''*FWOOM*'''}} Ahem, this is probably because the Salamanders didn't take part in the Second Founding. They never were a very big legion, and were even less so after Istvaan and the Heresy. When old Rowboat decided to split the legions, the Salamanders were exempted from splitting into chapters (so, ''technically,'' the Salamanders are still a Legion, they didn't even change their organization much), and in subsequent foundings were either simply passed over in favor of chapters with more plentiful gene-seed to go around, ''or'' descendant chapters (like the Storm Giants and Black Dragons) ''were'' made later, just without the knowledge or involvement of the Salamanders themselves.

Or maybe the Salamanders and Vulkan are so trusted that they’ve been allowed to rebuild as a legion and operate as such with tens or hundreds of thousands of Space Marines but are so noble and beloved that even the High Lords of Terra can’t bring themselves to be bothered by it. Their exemption to splitting into Chapters never ended, after all. Heck, maybe they don’t even solely recruit from Nocturne as all legions are allowed to recruit from Terra but the Imperial Fists are the only Chapter that does so. Chapter, but the Salamanders are still a legion as they never separated and surely having a bunch of Terran Marines (who usually remained loyal even in the Traitor Legions) among them would ease the politicians’ concerns.

Unfortunately, because [[Nick Kyme]] won't let anyone else touch them, and hasn't done anything further with them himself, the 40k fluff of the Salamanders has effectively been stuck in limbo for several years now. Outside of the Salamanders books (which, judging from recent codices, may not even be fully canon anymore), we know next to ''nothing'' of what exactly the Salamanders have been up to in the 41st Millennium, and they haven't been involved with ''any'' recent fluff events or campaigns. The one chapter that we'd ''really'' like to see fighting the good fight and keeping hope alive during the 13 Black Crusade is the one that we hear ''nothing'' from while the galaxy goes to hell. [[rage|Fuck]].