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Salamanders

Battle Cry	"Into the fires of battle, unto the anvil of war!" and "For the Emperor and His people!"
Number	XVIII
Founding	First Founding
Successors of	N/A
Successor Chapters	Storm Giants and Black Dragons are suspected
Chapter Master	Tu'Shan
Primarch	Vulkan
Homeworld	Nocturne
Strength	940 (1 Veteran Company, 6 Battle Companies, 1 Scout Company)* confirmed in novel "Rebirth"
Specialty	Close quarters shooting
Allegiance	Imperium of Man
Colours	Green, black, gold

The Salamanders are one of the First Founding Space Marine Chapters in Warhammer 40,000. They are known for their love of flamer and melta weapons, preference for close-quarters combat, complete unwillingness to retreat or surrender and being fairly nice guys by space marine standards. They are also arguably the most shit-upon Chapter fluff-wise, besides the Lamenters, Raven Guard, and Iron Hands. The chapter is named after the mythological fire-lizard of the same name.

Salamanders in WH40K

The Salamanders is 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 respect/fetish 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 cautions 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. 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 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.

The Salamanders

The Salamanders themselves are perhaps the most bro-tier of all Space Marine chapters, the Space Wolves coming in a close second. They regularly act in thankless rearguard or civilian defense actions, as seen on Armageddon, and rather than spend their free time in their super-awesome orbital fortress monastery, they hang out on the planet's surface chilling with the locals, many actually living normal lives among the people as chieftains or wandering the planet as hermits when not on active combat duty.

In terms of tactics, the Salamanders are one of the simpler chapters; "Wait for it...", "Burn that shit", and "Never say die" are about the sum of their tactics. The number of heat-based weapons they can field is truly alarming, as is a certain special character of theirs who can make them all twin-linked. The fact that each man repairs and maintains his own armor ensures that their chapter Artificers can be free to make truly awesome stuff. They field almost exclusively treaded vehicles, as the gravitic antics of Nocturne's moon Prometheus (really more of a planet) tend to cause anti-grav plating to freak the fuck out.

Of course, if you ask a fa/tg/uy what comes to mind first when they hear the word "Salamanders," you're likely to be answered with a racial slur and/or a number of pictures showing fried chi- *BLAM!* DISCRIMINATION AND STEREOTYPING AGAINST THE EMPEROR'S DEFENDERS OF HUMANITY BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR IS HERESY!. This is because, due to genetic radiation protection, all Salamanders are black. We're not talking coal black or African-descent black, we're talking blackhole pitch black, hexadecimal code #000000, the missing word in the phrase "...as the void of space." That kind of black. With glowing red eyes.

And if that wasn't enough, the ally matrix in ForgeWorld's Horus Heresy spinoff demonstrates that the Salamanders were the most liked of all the legions. Seriously, the only factions rivaling them for good ties are the Imperial army and the Mechanicum (whom everyone kisses up to anyway). Hilariously, one of the 3 chapters they dislike (though not enough to put them on red terms with anyone) are the Ultramarines. They weren't fans of the Word Bearers either, even before the whole Heresy and ritual murder-torture thing.

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Sorry Sarge, but your Thunderhammer is Epic Fail.
If at first you don't succeed. Twin-linked goodness.
Kill it with FIRE! Always!
Even in death, I still Burn Shit Up!
In all honesty though, they're pretty nice guys...
They're even great with children!
Vulkan He'stan's artificer suit
The chapter's most closely guarded secret

Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes
First Founding (M29)	Blood Angels • Dark Angels • Imperial Fists • Iron Hands • Raven Guard • Salamanders • Space Wolves • Ultramarines • White Scars
Second Founding (021.M31)	Angels of Absolution • Angels Encarmine • Angels Porphyr • Angels of Redemption • Angels Sanguine • Angels of Vengeance • Angels Vermillion • Aurora Chapter • Black Consuls • Black Guard • Black Templars • Blood Drinkers • Brazen Claws • Crimson Fists • Destroyers • Doom Eagles • Eagle Warriors • Excoriators • Fists Exemplar • Flesh Tearers • Genesis Chapter • Inceptors • Iron Snakes • Libators • Lions Sable • Marauders • Mortifactors • Nemesis • Novamarines • Obsidian Glaives • Patriarchs of Ulixis • Purple Stars • Praetors of Orpheus • Rampagers • Raptors • Red Talons • Revilers • Silver Eagles • Silver Skulls • Soul Drinkers • Storm Lords • White Consuls • Wolf Brothers
Third to Twelfth Founding (M32-M35)	Astral Claws • Angels Penitent • Angels Revenant • Charnel Guard • Dark Paladins • Executioners • Flesh Eaters • Halo Brethren • Howling Griffons • Iron Knights • Mantis Warriors • Marines Malevolent • Night Swords • Sable Swords (initial) - Scythes of the Emperor • Space Sharks • Sons of Guilliman
Thirteenth Founding (M35)	Death Spectres • Exorcists
Fourteenth to Twentieth Founding	Angels of Fire • Avenging Sons • Celebrants
Twenty-First Founding (991.M35)	Black Dragons • Blood Gorgons • Fire Hawks • Flame Falcons • Lamenters • Minotaurs • Sons of Antaeus • Tiger Claws
Twenty-Second to Twenty-Sixth Founding (M35-M41)	Angels of Vigilance • Angels Excelsis • Celestial Lions • Dark Hunters • Disciples of Caliban • Emperor's Spears • Fire Angels • Golden Sons • Hospitallers • Imperial Harbingers • Iron Lords • Knights of the Raven • Marines Errant • Mentors • Fire Claws/Relictors • Star Phantoms • Subjugators
Ultima Founding (999.M41/000.M42 to 012.M42)	Angels of Defiance • Black Vipers • Blades of Vengeance • Castellans of the Rift • Covenant of Fire • Dark Krakens • Fulminators • Knights Cerulean • Knights of the Chalice • Knights of Thunder • Necropolis Hawks • Nemesors • Praetors of Ultramar • Prime Absolvers • Rift Stalkers • Silver Drakes • Silver Templars • Sons of the Phoenix • Storm Reapers • Umbral Knights • Unnumbered Sons • Valiant Blades • Void Tridents • Wolfspear
Unknown Founding	Absolvers • Accipiters • Adulators • Angel Guard • Angels Eradicant • Angels of Retribution • Astral Knights • Blood Ravens • Blood Swords • Brazen Drakes • Bringers of Judgement • Brothers Penitent • Carmine Blades • Cowled Wardens • Crimson Castellans • Crimson Consuls • Crimson Scythes • Dark Hands • Dark Sons • Death Eagles • Doom Warriors • Emperor's Shadows • Fire Lords • Guardians of the Covenant • Graven Spectres • Hammers of Dorn • Harbingers • Hawk Lords • Invaders • Iron Crusaders • Iron Talons • Jade Dragons • Knights of Blood • Knights Unyielding • Marines Exemplar • The Nameless • Night Watch • Rainbow Warriors • Reclaimers • Red Hunters • Red Scorpions • Red Seraphs • Red Templars • Retributors • Sable Swords (refounded) • Shadow Wolves • Solar Hawks • Sons of Orar • Star Dragons • Stormwatchers • Storm Giants • Storm Wardens • Valedictors • Viper Legion • Vorpal Swords • White Templars • Storm Wings
Unsanctioned Founding	Consecrators (founding unknown, but likely after 2nd Founding) • Sons of Medusa (separated from parent Chapters, ratified by edict) • Steel Confessors (de facto 22nd Founding, de jure ratified by edict) • Ashen Claws (separatist Raven Guard Legion exiles, nominal loyalists)
Others	Astartes Praeses • Deathwatch • Grey Knights • Judged • Legion of the Damned

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 And if that wasn't enough, the ally matrix in ForgeWorld's Horus Heresy spinoff demonstrates that the Salamanders were the most liked of all the legions. Seriously, the only factions rivaling them for good ties are the Imperial army and the Mechanicum (whom everyone kisses up to anyway). Hilariously, one of the 3 chapters they dislike (though not enough to put them on red terms with anyone) are the Ultramarines. They weren't fans of the Word Bearers either, even before the whole Heresy and ritual murder-torture thing.
-==Organization==
-Unlike many followers of the Codex Astartes, the Salamanders have actually adopted a different organization for their army:
-) First Founding Chapter:
-Like many Space Marines chapters, the Salamanders were broken down to several second and third founding chapters. Second and onward founding chapters refer to the Salamanders as the OGs.
-) Battle Companies:
-Each marine is distributed throughout these companies of 120 marines each, but these are called "home boys" instead of companies, save for the 1st company who took the title "Originalus Gangstium".
-) Battle Brothers:
-Battle Brothers within the chapter who pass a traditionally brutal period of marine training (locally called "hazing") are normally referred to as bruthas, homies, gangstas or "niggus", they stick together no matter how dire the situation is and are reprimanded with social alienation or other forms of punishment in the event they fail. They also follow a strict code of behavior extracted from the pages of the Book of Vulkan. "Broz before Hoez" and "Salamanders fo' life" are two of its tenets. Salamanders are marked with the ritual iconography of their chapter on a body part of the brother's choice, which is applied in a similar manner to how the early humans marked their skin in a ritual called "tattoo," with further branding performed upon the completion of great deeds of note.
-In addition, the Salamander's refer to their Apothecary's as "Docs" (Renown for their use of the ancient terran compound called "Robitussin" to cure any ailment and injury their fellow Battle-Brothers may acquire) and Chaplains by the terms "Soul Man" or "Soul Brotha", who holds their usual duties as the chapter's guardians of faith, but sing all their preachings, using the old Terran form of music called <del>"blues"</del> "gospel".
-) Battle Barges:
-The Salamanders often travel through Fleets that they normally refer to as Yachts, "big mama in the house" normally means "commence Exterminatus".
-) Land Raiders:
-The Salamander Land Raiders are fitted with unnecessary (albeit fashionable) accessories. The treads of the Land Raider are lined with a lustrous ceramite finish, the hull sporting a compartment for large speakers, and the suspension interchanged with hydraulic springs that are capable of lifting all sides of the tank to a maximum height of 24 inches. They are known to entirely rely upon the sponsons and are known to fit their transports with firing slits for their famed assault tactic called the "drive by" or "spray and pray" when fighting in urban areas.
-When not engaged in battle, they use their Land Raiders to pick up off-duty [[Sisters of Battle]] and Imperial Guardswomen.  Some of whom they later pay credits for their services. Despite protests by many [[Ultramarines|more conservative]] chapters, the women themselves are fond of the practice, frequently commenting upon the coital skill and impressive genitalia of the Salamanders, whose gene-seed has become infamous for its generosity in that regard. A large number even request to be permanently attached to the chapter, leading to the joke that "once one has tasted the dangling fruits of Nocturne, none other can ever satisfy." Colloquially, this is rendered: "Once you go Black, you never go back!"
-Their Rhino transports are also fitted with the same attachments, albeit on a smaller scale, for the same purpose stated above. Chaos Lords understandably call them "BOOM BOXES" due to their loud speakers, Noise Marines simply get jealous.
-) Bolt Weaponry:
-Because the majority of the Salamander's weaponry are flamers, Salamander marines often find it difficult to procure automatic bolt guns. The chapter's Techmarines are known to retrofit bolt pistols to fire at an automatic pace but this practice is forbidden by the Adeptus Mechanicus and these Techmarines could face imprisonment on Mars if they are caught performing this modification on these weapons.  Typically referred to by the Salamanders as "gats," "pieces," "steel," "strap," and the flame/melta weapons are typically referred to as "heaters" or "blasters".
-) Off Battle:
-The Salamanders are one of the few chapters allowed to have "Free Time" in their daily rituals, and extended for up to more than 5 hours than the standard 30 minutes, physical activities might be limited to an ancient Terran game of "Street Hoops". Salamanders normally spend their time relaxing, playing obnoxiously loud classical music known as "rap" over the vox, binge-drinking [[Space Wolf]]-grade alcoholic beverages, partaking in the inhalation of the smoke of an ancient Terran weed whose name is different depending on where in the Imperium you are wrapped in specially-made purity scrolls, picking up Sisters of Battle if available, and customizing their Rhinos and Land Raiders. Salamanders also get into more trouble with local Adeptus Arbites agents than the usual marine chapter, although many argue this is simply a result of the legends of the Arbites singling out the chapter as troublemakers. This usually leads to the battle brothas speaking out in protest. Shouting things such as, "Fuck da Arbites", and "NocturneLivesMatter."
-Also because Nocturne resides on the Segmentum Ultima in the Galactic East, their most common battle cries include "EAST FRINGE MUTHA FUCKAZ", "They see us rollin', they hatin'!", and "Reparations for the [[Drop Site Massacre]]!" It is a common misunderstanding that the Salamanders charge higher tithes upon the worlds that fall under their domain due to increases in expenses paid out as Juvenile Support. Nocturne Governor denied this, citing increase in Promethium prices as a result of an energy crisis in the Segmentum Ultima.
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