Purity wardens

Purity Wardens
Battle Cry	"In His Name!"
Founding	Middle M33
Successors of	Ultramarines
Successor Chapters	None
Chapter Master	Rex Dolor
Primarch	Roboute Guilliman
Homeworld	Mare Aeternam
Strength	Unknown (claimed to be 1000-1200)
Allegiance	Imperium
Colours	Ocean Grey-Blue, White helmets, Blued Steel

The Purity Wardens are another product of fat/tg/uys playing around with the Chapter Creation tables from Rites of Battle. It is an attempt to create a more realistic traitor-hunting chapter, warts and all.

Home World

Mare Aeternam is a small cold hive world almost fully covered with water. Inhabitants try to overcome the lack of ground under their feet and intolerable frost by hiding in tremendously high tower-cities and floating settlements. This paradoxical mixture of liquid water and extremely low temperatures (which rarely rises higher than 20 degree below zero) is explained by the abnormal saltiness of the local oceans. The amount of fossil fuels is too insignificant to discuss; in order to maintain life in the megalopolises, solar and wind power plants are used, which are unbelievably effective in planetary conditions of constant wind and a thin and almost nonexistent ozone layer. Hives even have quite specific mushroom-like shapes that provide the best placement for the power plants. The planet is uninhabited except for humans and Terran bacteria which were brought by the first colonists as the source of food and oxygen.

Such severe conditions force the inhabitants to be maximally cruel and pragmatic; constant lack of space and overcrowding lead to a merciless, Spartan system where sick and useless citizens are forcibly euthanized. Family institutions are replaced by a government system which monitors every step of a child's development and eliminates every unworthy in order to make the best, most loyal specialists ever. It's a brutal but effective solution for problems which usually plague hive worlds: the genetic health, productivity and viability of the nation improve every generation; there are no declassified groups and as a result no place for chaos/genestealer cults to get a foothold (we think); and the military system has very little stagnation as aging officers are regularly replaced.

Furthermore the level of crime in the cities is also extremely low due to constant surveillance both on the streets and in residences. Despite these grim conditions the residents are happy to live here; constant propaganda since birth means they tend not to consider other forms of governance.

Chapter Organisation

Recruitment

People from Mare Aeternam are great material for Space Marine transformation as they are toughened by the planetary environment and are totally confident in their own strength and abilities; they know that for every child who has made it to adulthood, about 10 were deselected by the government, ensuring that those who remain are the greatest sons of their ancestors. The best of the best get the right to take part into the Recruits' Tournament. Every generation in every city the apothecarium - the symbol of humanity's power – comes to declare the beginning of the tournament. The top hundred winners leave their planet and never came back. The Space Marines take the teenagers to the orbiting battle-command barge Conquer of Palace where the hellish trials of recruitment commence. Survivors-- less than 10% from all challengers-- become members of a final gladiatorial tournament; only those fortunate enough to survive have are allowed to undergo the transformation to a Space Marine.

Chapter divergence

During the millennia the chapter took part into fratricidal wars a bunch of times which leads to a serious loses. And by a 37M the chapter reckons only 2 hundred brothers. It was a dark time for the Wardens the full chapter was on the verge of extinction but the grandmaster has a solution. First he decided to reject rigid ultramarines dogmas and form an assault company which in future becomes an example for chapter organization and consisted from all remaining spacemarines. Furthermore he cancelled scout institution in order to maximize the number of highly protected soldiers that can carry heavy and special weapons which is extremely effective against traitor spacemarine. As it is a rare that full chapter is corrupted Purity Wardens often have numerical advantage against their enemies as well as advantage in special weaponry.

Thus this organization decision allows Wardens minimize their loses but still there was a question of recovery of the previous strength. In order to beat it Grandmaster made a dial with mechanicus. For the next millennium the full chapter was under the command of the lord-priest Bellum Patronum without any right to reject his orders in exchange he passed the technology which is always used to create a new chapters using it the chapter was able to create about 1000 zigots in a 50 years. Till nowadays this generous payment allows chapter to produce 50-100 new spacemarines with every new generation of the settlers of its home world. So in current timeline the chapter consists of 9 assault companies and its strength is actually unknown cause of high turnover and high disperse in the Ultima segment.

Battle brotherhoods

During the final steps of the competition the future warriors of the humanity form associations that will be the foundation for the battle brotherhoods – the smallest combat unit of the chapter. The purpose of this brotherhood is to become a single organism, something more than just a combination of composing its creatures. This eliminates the individuality and transforms alive into soulless gears of killing machine.

After such a procedure warriors of humanity completely lose their wick and pathetic feelings and individual desires in order to serve the main goal – extermination of the Emperors enemies without any emotions, mercy or compassion, they do it cold and pragmatic just like the winds of their home world.

Praetorium

During the countless battles spacemarines often lose their brothers what usually leads to a breakdown of the brotherhood. And it is often that the survivors are the most experienced and mighty warriors of their chapter. So they get an honor to become a part of Praetorium (some kind of analogue to a typical first company) and get an access to a wide verity of abilities for the further moving up such as becoming a part of a special issue unit and use the best equipment in the chapter or become a chaplain after some deadly danger ritual, which will fully block any psykers ability. The most glorious among all can even try to become the private security of company master.

Chapter aim

Proud sons of Gulimans gen-seed Purity Wardens are successors of the 7-th foundation and were created as inner arbiters of ultramarine successors chapters as even the most pure fall for the temptations of the dark side.