Editing Conservators (section)

==Aid from the stars==
Roughly a century after the founding of the Conservators, did help from outside finally arrive, in a most unexpected fashion. Captain Brendan Mackyntire was a [[Rogue Trader]] from one of the more modest houses, at least as far as such a thing can apply to a rogue trader. He had caught wind of the sudden new market for cheap foodstuffs in the March and set out to exploit it, offering somewhat better rates than the more local imperial shipping groups and quickly earning the loyalty of the March's burgeoning tradesmen. He also discovered the situation of the Conservators. He made a quick profit selling them some bolters, mostly Naval surplus Ceres or used Locke pattern weapons, as well as a stock of ammo for them.

Happy to get their hands on some real bolters, even if they were the somewhat inferior 'civilian' versions of their traditional weapons, the Conservators were happy enough to leave it at that. However they were in for a true shock several years later when Mackyntire returned with news of great importance, and great risk. He had in his travels discovered an ancient, Heresy era supply ship carrying arms and armor for one of the space marine legions. It had been crippled in a warp storm, engines destroyed, but the cargo section was intact. However it had since been infested with dangerous xenos, and Mackyntire himself was unable to claim the ship.

"As I see it." Said the captain. "Those supplies are already yours by right, they were bound for the Astartes when the ship was wrecked, and their delivery has merely been delayed a few millennia. I will aid you in reclaiming what is rightly yours, if you agree to allow me to claim salvage from the rest of the ship. To you the weapons and armor that is your right as Astartes, and to me the material that is my trade as a voidsman."

The deal was a dangerous one, the old guard, survivors of the Waaagh would be needed to clear the ship, using their old arms and armor, the powerful Corvus suits irreplaceable treasures of the chapter. But they also knew that if they did not get proper armor for their marines they would be unable to act as true space marines, so it was with some trepidation that the fighting force was dispatched to clear the ship and reclaim the supplies. While there were some losses, in the end the ship was cleansed through the bravery of the Astartes and of Mackyntire's voidsmen, who fought alongside the marines in armored pressure suits, with lasguns.

In the end it was a mutually profitable endeavor, with the trader salvaging a number of ancient systems from the ship to be reused, and the Conservators claiming a vast stockpile of weapons. Aboard the ship were hundreds of suits of Mk V 'Heresy' armors, as well as a large armory of Umbra pattern and Phobos pattern bolters. These ancient weapons had been perfectly preserved in the vacuum of space for countless centuries. Though the ammunition stored aboard the ship was long since defunct, the weapons and armor were quickly refurbished and equipped, hundreds of marines shedding their old plate armor for the ancient suits of powered armor, and trading in their bows for millennia old bolters. At long last the Conservators were starting to look like a proper chapter.