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Second Founding

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The [[Horus Heresy]] proved that, despite the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor's]] efforts, the [[Primarch]]s were not perfect; they could easily be led astray and fall to [[Chaos]].

In order to prevent one man from gaining as much power as [[Horus]] had, the branches of the Imperial armed forces were separated, the [[Inquisition]] was founded, and the loyal [[First Founding|Space Marine Legions]] were divided into [[Space Marine Chapter|Chapters]] of roughly one thousand Marines, in accordance with the [[Codex Astartes]].

The Second Founding was not universally accepted; the [[Space Wolves]] and [[Imperial Fists]], in particular, objected to dividing their Legions, and the [[Imperium of Man|Imperium]] was nearly torn apart by another civil war. For better or for worse, [[Leman Russ]] was given an exemption to the Codex's requirements and [[Rogal Dorn]] finally relented, although the [[Black Templars]] have since grown their numbers to many more times the usual size - which is perfectly legal, since the Codex and the law allow "crusading chapters" to ignore the limitations due to the expectation of constant fatalities needing replacement. One must wonder how much less grimdark Warhammer 40K would be if the chapters ''all'' realized that they are all technically crusading, and even if they weren't, the Great Crusade never officially ended, therefore...yeah. Although that would very quickly turn every little Astartes secession party, like the Badab War, into another Horus Heresy.

==List of Second Founding Chapters==

===[[Dark Angels]]===
*[[Angels of Absolution]]
*[[Angels of Redemption]]
*[[Angels of Vengeance]]
*[[Lions Sable]] (They were destroyed trying to apprehend several Fallen in what was later revealed to be a massive trap set by [[Cypher]] shortly before [[The Beheading]] and all records of their existence were erased to hide the involvement of the Fallen in their collapse.)
*[[Star Phantoms]] - ''([[A Game of Pretend|maybe]], though this chapter definitely did exist in M31)''
*[[Angels of Vigilance]] - ''(Again, maybe, though this one is more likely)''

According to ''The Unforgiven'' by Gav Thorpe, the Angels didn't get started with their Inner Circle and Fallen Hunting until some decades after the Second Founding so it may be possible that some of the Dark Angels Second Founding chapters are exempted from this practice and hierarchy. Though since all twelve chapters were present at Cypher's revelation and that the majority of officers would have been veterans of the Horus Heresy and the Scouring, it's more likely that Unforgiven would been of one mind and joined willingly and any [[Blam|dissenting voices silenced]] or sworn to absolute secrecy. While much of the truth is lost to apocrypha and LIES, it does explain the [[Star Phantoms]] at least.

===[[White Scars]]===
*[[Destroyers]]
*[[Marauders]]
*[[Rampagers]]
*[[Storm Lords]]

===[[Space Wolves]]===
*[[Sons of Russ]]
*[[Wolf Brothers]]

===[[Imperial Fists]]===
*[[Black Templars]]
*[[Crimson Fists]]
*[[Soul Drinkers]] (sort of, it's a long story)
*[[Excoriators]]
*[[Fists Exemplar]] (Mostly destroyed by [[The Beast]]. The survivors were absorbed into the Imperial Fists, or defected to the [[Iron Warriors]])
*[[Iron Knights]]

===[[Blood Angels]]===
*[[Angels Encarmine]]
*[[Angels Sanguine]]
*[[Angels Vermillion]]
*[[Blood Drinkers]]
*[[Flesh Tearers]]

===[[Iron Hands]]===
*[[Brazen Claws]]
*[[Red Talons]]

===[[Ultramarines]]===
The Apocrypha of Skaros indicates that the Ultramarines sired 23 chapters, but doesn't name them all. The listed second founding chapters are given below:

*[[Aurora Chapter]]
*[[Black Consuls]]
*[[Desert Lions]]
*[[Doom Eagles]]
*[[Eagle Warriors]]
*[[Genesis Chapter]]
*[[Inceptors]]
*[[Iron Snakes]]
*[[Libators]]
*[[Mortifactors]]
*[[Nemesis]]
*[[Novamarines]]
*[[Patriarchs of Ulixis]]
*[[Praetors of Orpheus]]
*[[Silver Eagles]]
*[[Silver Skulls]]
*[[White Consuls]]
*[[Yellow Jackets]]

The rest of the second founding Ultramarines have been added piecemeal as time goes by.
*[[Obsidian Glaives]]

Also note that the Ultramarines "adopted" some of the loyalist forces from otherwise traitorous legions and permitted them to call themselves Ultramarine Second Founding chapters.

The [[Scythes of the Emperor]] were the Ultramarines 199th Company on Sotha, who became the Ultramarines [[Heresy|eleventh]] company as part of the second founding. But were eventually rolled into their own chapter during the Third Founding.

===[[Salamanders]]===
''None, as there weren't enough Salamanders left after the [[Horus Heresy]] to fill one Chapter, let alone two.

===[[Raven Guard]]===
*[[Black Guard]]
*[[Raptors (Chapter)|Raptors]]
*[[Revilers]]

===[[Grey Knights]]===
''The Grey Knights were not created from any of the Space Marine Legions, as their [[gene-seed]] was specially created by the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] himself and their founding members were hand-picked by [[Malcador the Sigillite]]; many of them were loyalists who had formerly been a part of a [[Chaos Space Marines|Traitor Legion]] (e.g. [[Nathaniel Garro]], [[Garviel Loken]], and [[Iacton Qruze]]). They were founded to supply the newly-formed [[Inquisition]] with a strike force against future [[Chaos]] threats.''

===Unknown===
Some chapters have histories which stretch back to the Second Founding, but who have deliberately obfuscated their parent legion for one reason or another.
*[[Red Hunters]]

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Space Marine Chapter

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The '''Space Marine Chapter''' is the largest commonly-used organizational unit of [[Space Marines]], nominally consisting of a thousand Marines, give or take. As of the 41st Millennium, there are approximately one thousand Space Marine Chapters operating in the [[Imperium of Man]].

== Origin ==

Each Chapter is descended, in one way or another, from the twenty original Space Marine Legions founded to wage the [[Great Crusade]] -- in fact, the term "Chapter" began as one of several names for a roughly thousand-strong division of Marines, as a thousand Marines was few enough to be logistically manageable while numerous enough to handle almost any situation, especially with the assistance of their [[Imperial Guard|Imperial Army]] regiments. However, some Legions preferred to operate at full strength all the time, especially the Sons of Horus (judging from the books, the ''Vengeful Spirit'' housed the Legion's whole first ten companies) and the Death Guard (operating most of the time as a single force of ~90k+ marines). It says something about the sheer manpower of these armies that large portions of the Legion were often benched during a campaign.

The [[Horus Heresy]] proved that having a quarter of a million Marines and millions of Guardsmen under the command of one corruptible individual was too dangerous, so [[Roboute Guilliman]] (''who also originally had a quarter of a million of Marines and millions of Guardsmen under his command''), with the grudging assistance of the surviving loyalist [[Primarch]]s, instituted the [[Codex Astartes]] reforms, where the remaining loyalist Legions were divided into Chapters of no more than a thousand Marines. This event was known as the [[Second Founding]], with the creation of the twenty original Legions being retroactively designated the [[First Founding]].

== Founding ==

The First and Second Foundings were unusual compared to the rest; in both cases, there were plenty of [[Space Marines]] to be had, so the founding of new Legions or Chapters was basically a re-organization. By the time of the 41st Millennium, Space Marines are made in much fewer numbers, so founding a new Chapter is not done lightly -- in fact, only twenty-five Foundings have been held since the Second.

First, there has to be sufficient [[gene-seed]]. If there isn't enough in storage, more will be made by implanting some into slaves, extracting the progenoids, using them to make two sets of gene-seed, and so on. In a century, one set of gene-seed can be cloned into over a thousand, which is more than enough for a new chapter. Once there is enough gene-seed, a suitable set of Aspirants will go through training to become the first battle-brothers, while a few Veterans from a chapter that already exist will become the first [[Chapter Master|Master]] and [[Brother-Captain|Captains]] of the Chapter. This is a great honor for those Veterans chosen, and for their Chapter as well.

== Organization ==

A single Marine is extremely powerful; a full Chapter is overkill for almost any situation save the most dire (though these situations are naturally the ones we hear about). To ensure that enough Marines are committed to a given battle (but no more, since they are too expensive to risk where they aren't needed), all Chapters have some organization scheme for dividing into smaller detachments. The majority of Chapters use the organization laid out in the [[Codex Astartes]] to some extent: a company of ten [[Veteran Squad]]s, four Battle Companies with six [[Tactical Squad]]s, two [[Assault Squad]]s, and two [[Devastator Squad]]s, four Reserve Companies (two with ten Tactical Squads, one with ten Assault Squads, and one with ten Devastator Squads), and a [[Scout]] Company.

== Tabletop ==

In-game, one's choice of Chapter generally has no effect on gameplay -- of course different Chapters have different color schemes, and an army's lore may suggest taking certain units in greater or lesser quantities, but they all basically draw from the same army list. That said, some [[Chapter Master]]s and [[Brother-Captain|Captains]], if chosen, can grant certain special rules to the army they lead, and some Chapters ([[Space Wolves]], [[Black Templars]] and successors [prior to [[Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition|6th edition]]], [[Blood Angels]] and successors, [[Dark Angels]] and successors, and [[Grey Knights]]) get their own [[Codex|Codices]].

This changed with 6th Edition; now, your choice of chapter does affect what "Chapter Tactics" they get. For example, the Red Talons, an [[Iron Hands]] successor, has the Iron Hands' version of the Chapter Tactics rule, while Howling Griffons use the Ultramarines'. Some of the special snowflake chapters, like the [[Red Scorpions]] or [[Black Templars]], get their own, but for the most part, it's based on whichever [[First Founding]] chapter they come from.

== See Also ==

* [[Chapter Master (game)]], a former game-in-progress in which you get to run your very own Space Marine Chapter (and probably get declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the [[Inquisition]]). Currently on hold indefinitely due to cease-and-desist orders.
* [[Space Marine Chapter Creation Tables]], roll-tables from the [[Deathwatch (RPG)|Deathwatch]] Rites of Battle supplement that let you randomly generate your very own Space Marine Chapter.

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Space Marine Chapter

2018-09-02T22:10:35Z

2600:1003:B024:3391:BF69:71FE:5899:834E: /* See Also */

The '''Space Marine Chapter''' is the largest commonly-used organizational unit of [[Space Marines]], nominally consisting of a thousand Marines, give or take. As of the 41st Millennium, there are approximately one thousand Space Marine Chapters operating in the [[Imperium of Man]].

== Origin ==

Each Chapter is descended, in one way or another, from the twenty original Space Marine Legions founded to wage the [[Great Crusade]] -- in fact, the term "Chapter" began as one of several names for a roughly thousand-strong division of Marines, as a thousand Marines was few enough to be logistically manageable while numerous enough to handle almost any situation, especially with the assistance of their [[Imperial Guard|Imperial Army]] regiments. However, some Legions preferred to operate at full strength all the time, especially the Sons of Horus (judging from the books, the ''Vengeful Spirit'' housed the Legion's whole first ten companies) and the Death Guard (operating most of the time as a single force of ~90k+ marines). It says something about the sheer manpower of these armies that large portions of the Legion were often benched during a campaign.

The [[Horus Heresy]] proved that having a quarter of a million Marines and millions of Guardsmen under the command of one corruptible individual was too dangerous, so [[Roboute Guilliman]] (''who also originally had a quarter of a million of Marines and millions of Guardsmen under his command''), with the grudging assistance of the surviving loyalist [[Primarch]]s, instituted the [[Codex Astartes]] reforms, where the remaining loyalist Legions were divided into Chapters of no more than a thousand Marines. This event was known as the [[Second Founding]], with the creation of the twenty original Legions being retroactively designated the [[First Founding]].

== Founding ==

The First and Second Foundings were unusual compared to the rest; in both cases, there were plenty of [[Space Marines]] to be had, so the founding of new Legions or Chapters was basically a re-organization. By the time of the 41st Millennium, Space Marines are made in much fewer numbers, so founding a new Chapter is not done lightly -- in fact, only twenty-five Foundings have been held since the Second.

First, there has to be sufficient [[gene-seed]]. If there isn't enough in storage, more will be made by implanting some into slaves, extracting the progenoids, using them to make two sets of gene-seed, and so on. In a century, one set of gene-seed can be cloned into over a thousand, which is more than enough for a new chapter. Once there is enough gene-seed, a suitable set of Aspirants will go through training to become the first battle-brothers, while a few Veterans from a chapter that already exist will become the first [[Chapter Master|Master]] and [[Brother-Captain|Captains]] of the Chapter. This is a great honor for those Veterans chosen, and for their Chapter as well.

== Organization ==

A single Marine is extremely powerful; a full Chapter is overkill for almost any situation save the most dire (though these situations are naturally the ones we hear about). To ensure that enough Marines are committed to a given battle (but no more, since they are too expensive to risk where they aren't needed), all Chapters have some organization scheme for dividing into smaller detachments. The majority of Chapters use the organization laid out in the [[Codex Astartes]] to some extent: a company of ten [[Veteran Squad]]s, four Battle Companies with six [[Tactical Squad]]s, two [[Assault Squad]]s, and two [[Devastator Squad]]s, four Reserve Companies (two with ten Tactical Squads, one with ten Assault Squads, and one with ten Devastator Squads), and a [[Scout]] Company.

== Tabletop ==

In-game, one's choice of Chapter generally has no effect on gameplay -- of course different Chapters have different color schemes, and an army's lore may suggest taking certain units in greater or lesser quantities, but they all basically draw from the same army list. That said, some [[Chapter Master]]s and [[Brother-Captain|Captains]], if chosen, can grant certain special rules to the army they lead, and some Chapters ([[Space Wolves]], [[Black Templars]] and successors [prior to [[Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition|6th edition]]], [[Blood Angels]] and successors, [[Dark Angels]] and successors, and [[Grey Knights]]) get their own [[Codex|Codices]].

This changed with 6th Edition; now, your choice of chapter does affect what "Chapter Tactics" they get. For example, the Red Talons, an [[Iron Hands]] successor, has the Iron Hands' version of the Chapter Tactics rule, while Howling Griffons use the Ultramarines'. Some of the special snowflake chapters, like the [[Red Scorpions]] or [[Black Templars]], get their own, but for the most part, it's based on whichever [[First Founding]] chapter they come from.

== See Also ==

* [[Chapter Master (game)]], a former game-in-progress in which you get to run your very own Space Marine Chapter (and probably get declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the [[Inquisition]]).
* [[Space Marine Chapter Creation Tables]], roll-tables from the [[Deathwatch (RPG)|Deathwatch]] Rites of Battle supplement that let you randomly generate your very own Space Marine Chapter.

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