Purity wardens
| Purity Wardens | ||
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| 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 realistic traitors hunting chapter with all its fanaticism and other distressed features.
Home World
Mare Aeternam is a small cold hive world almost fully covered with the water. Surviving humanity tries 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 being explained by the abnormal saltiness of the local oceans. The amount of fossil fuels is too insignificant to talk about it. Actually there are two ways to produce energy in order to maintain life in the megalopolises: it is solar and wind power plants which both are unbelievably effective in conditions of unstoppable wind melted with thin and almost useless ozone layer. In fact hives even have quite specific mushroom-like shapes that provide the best abilities for the power plants placement. The planet is uninhabited except for humans and some kinds of bacteria which were brought by the first colonists as the source of food and oxygen.
Such a sever conditions made humanity to be maximally cruel and pragmatic: constant lack of space and overcrowding lead to a merciless Spartan like system where sick and useless citizens are forcibly euthanized. In addition the family institution was cancelled and replaced by the government system which monitors every step of their ward and eliminates every unworthy in order to make the best and the most loyal specialists ever. Thus there is a solution for a pack of problems which usually occurs hive worlds: genetic health of the nation, its productivity and viability rise with every generation, there is no declassified groups and as a result there is no place for chaos/genestiller cults, the aged can’t overstay disturbing the young and perspective specialists to move up the career.
Furthermore every room in city is under the vigilant control of the camcorder which is used by the large number of security centers, so the level of crime activity is also extremely low. Despite the firm conditions people are happy to live in such world as they are under the effect of propaganda machine since their birth and they just can’t imagine more effective and fair government.
Chapter Organisation
Recruitment
People from Mare Aeternam are great material for spacemarine transformation as they are used to the highest possible demands and are totally sure in their own strength and themselves as they know that for every adult there is almost 10 who was deselected by the government what means that the remaining are the greatest sons of their ancestors. The best from the best get the right to take part into the Recruit’s Tournament. Every generation in every city the apothecarium - the symbol of humanity power – comes to declare the beginning of tournament. Top hundred of local winners leave their planet and never came back. The spacemarine takes the teenagers to the orbit there locates the battle-command barge “Conquer of Palace”. On its board hell like trials start. Survivors, which are almost less than 10% from all challengers, become the members of the gladiatorial tournament, there only hundred should left. And only those lucky guys have an ability to pass through transformation to a spacemarines.
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.