Last Crusaders

Last Crusaders
Battle Cry	"For the glory of Man!"
Original Name	Eternal Cinders
Primarch	Vulkan
Champion	Unnamed venerable dreadnought; Kaius Tychon, former Chapter Master
Strength	~1000, overextended
Specialty	Mechanised warfare, archaeotech armament
Allegiance	Emperor, but definitely not Imperium

One of /tg/'s many, many homebrew Space Marine chapters, though they were created with the Chaos Space Marine Warband Creation Tables. The results gave a renegade Salamanders successor which led a well-intentioned rebellion against the Imperium, loathed the Ruinous Powers, and possess a wealth of Archaeotech weaponry and with it respect for the glory days of the Imperium. In short, they'd be really, really bad at being Chaos Space Marines. So instead, they're loyalists... to the Great Crusade-era Imperium, of which they view the present-day Imperium (especially the Inquisition and Ecclesiarchy) as a twisted and hateful imitation.

Originally a loyalist chapter known as the Eternal Cinders, their discovery of a truly ancient venerable dreadnought unaware of the present state of the Imperium lead their Chapter Master, Kaius Tychon, to doubt the Imperium and soon renounce the Ecclesiarchy and Imperial Creed.

They're accompanied by a good chunk of Hereteks, entranced by the potential of several large Archaeotech caches used to arm and supply the legion, and have a working relationship with any loyalist chapters willing to make under-the-table deals or when faced with a common foe. On the flipside, they're not very popular with the Inquisition, with at least one Inquisitor dedicated to their destruction.

Sources

• First thread: http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/46903744/