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Valedictors

2023-05-27T14:59:44Z

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Valedictors
|Heraldry = [[File:Valedictors Shoulder Pad.jpg|150px]]
|Battle Cry = SO LONG! FAREWELL! AUF WIEDERSEHEN! GOODNIGHT!
|Number =
|Founding = [[First Founding]] (later [[retcon|retconned]])
|Successors of = None/Unknown
|Successor Chapters = None
|Chapter Master = Ritter von Trapp
|Primarch = One of the lost/Unknown
|Homeworld = Zara
|Specialty = Sonic warfare
|Strength = Unknown
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
}}
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The '''Valedictors''' are a [[Space Marine]] Chapter from the [[Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader|early days]] of [[Warhammer 40,000]]. They were first introduced as a [[First Founding]] Chapter, who fought [[Orks]], [[Eldar]], and [[Chaos Space Marines]] (the latter during the [[Horus Heresy]]).

When the Second Edition's major [[fluff]] revisions were made, the list of First Founding Chapters no longer included them, and they were later mentioned to have come from one of the "Later Foundings." General fanon holds they were Lost Legion Loyalists brainwashed into believing they are from another legion after the lost were purged.

Their name means "those who say goodbye" or "givers of farewell addresses." Presumably, this means they're masters of the action hero one-liner.
Perhaps their demotion caused them to get really angry...

Alternately, if you prefer [[Awesome|Badass]] to [[Fun]], you could take it as a poetical way of saying executioners, since "the last goodbye" is a common euphemism for death, particularly in an old-timey honorable context. Once you meet the Valedictors you aren't going to see anyone else ever again.

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[[Category:Warhammer 40,000]][[Category:Imperial]][[Category:Space Marines]]

Storm Wardens

2023-05-27T14:58:51Z

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Storm Wardens
|Heraldry = [[Image:Storm-wardens-logo-flat.png|center|140px]]
|Battle Cry = "We are Storm! We are Fury!"
|Founding = Unknown (Was an established chapter in M36, though)
|Successors of = Unknown (Probably [[Iron Hands]] or [[Ultramarines]]... or [[World Eaters|War Hounds]])
|Chapter Master = [[Mat Ward|Ward]]-Master Lorgath Maclir
|Primarch = Unknown (Probably [[Ferrus Manus]] or just [[Roboute Guilliman]]... or [[Angron]])
|Homeworld = [[Sacris]]
|Specialty = Armoured assault, being the William Wallace
|Strength = Normally 1000 Marines, but they may be under strength, due to an [[Jericho Reach|ongoing crusade]]
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = Blue and silver
}}
[[File:Stormwarden1.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Is this how I use sword?]]
The '''Storm Wardens''' are similar to the [[Blood Ravens]], in that they were made by a company (in this case, [[Fantasy Flight Games]]) to be their personal chapter to <strike>screw over however they see fit</strike> give lots of tough love to in their product (in this case, [[Deathwatch (RPG)|Deathwatch RPG]]). They also have a secret past with an unknown Primarch and Founding. However, unlike [[Dawn of War|Relic]], Fantasy Flight Games has actually told us what caused this.
The Storm Wardens fit into the 40K RPG canon by having their homeworld, Sacris, placed in the Calixis Sector, where [[Dark Heresy]] takes place. They also help, and sometimes spearhead, crusades in the northern Halo Stars. However, they never got as popular as everyone's favorite [[Blood Ravens|bloody thieves]] <strike>because those Magpies stole their popularity</strike>. So they've been forgotten by most of the fandom, and now that Fantasy Flight Games' contract with Games Workshop has expired, they're probably just going to [[Squats|fade from GW's memory too]].

They are actually surprisingly [[fluff|fleshed out]] and have a few smaller stories and details given; something that we don't usually hear about from chapters that aren't [[First Founding|one of the big ones]]. Many [[/tg/|fa/tg/uys]] also like to believe that the Storm Wardens are the 40k <strike>ripoff</strike> version of BRAVEHEARTS and attribute them with <strike>awful</strike> '''SCOTTISH''' accents (despite the fact their first chapter master was named after a <strike>Welsh</strike> Celtic hero, they do use claymores and the Scots and Welsh had quite a lot of back and forth culturally, Wallace is a name that suggests his family were Welsh in origin. The current Chapter Master is Maclir, which is pretty Gaelic, Irish, Manx or Scottish). They're also known as the Deathwatch chapter, because they came with the core rulebook (and they actually have a decent relationship with the [[Deathwatch]] in the fluff).

They share a name with a [[Warhammer Fantasy]] army of [[Dwarfs (Warhammer Fantasy)|Dwarfs]] located in [[Dwarfs_(Warhammer_Fantasy)#Settlements|Barak Varr]] but are otherwise unrelated.

==History and Notable Battles==
A lot of their chapter history has been sealed away. An event, known as the Nemesis Incident (see below), caused the Storm Wardens to purge a lot of their history (and like every time this happens in 40k, somehow the [[Space Marines]], who are supposed to be better at remembering and memorizing than an average human and live much much longer too, [[Derp|just forget it]])(The space marines have used mind wipe techniques for ages, maybe FFG was just too lazy to explicitly state it was used by the Storm Wardens).

In M41 they have fought a considerable number of threats in and around the Calixis sector (which is where their home planet is). When something is too big for them to fight on their own, they usually team up with the [[Alienhunters|Ordos Xenos]] or rally other chapters to their cause [[This Guy|(sending their own battle brothers instead of a messenger, to show honor and respect)]].

There's two notable battles (or at least notable enough for FFG to put extra emphasis on them) during [[Advancing the Storyline|this focused on millennia]]. One involves a battle against the Orks, which shows just how the Storm Wardens' Chapter Master managed to go from captain to chapter master in such a short period of time. The other involves an attack against the [[Slaugth]], which scarred the Chapter ([[PROMOTIONS|and got a lot of its veterans promoted to the]] [[Honour Guard|honour guard]]).

After the [[FAIL|13th Black Crusade]] the the Ork Warboss Kraazgrug showed a bit of cunning (for an Ork anyway) and took his Waaagh! to the Storm Warden's neighboring sector, hoping to take advantage of <strike>the chaos</strike> everyone focusing their attention elsewhere. The Ork Waaagh! had made it to the last planet in the sector, when the Storm Wardens managed to find out about the invasion. The Storm Wardens then assembled an armoured spearhead to assault the Orks, and headed out, with Lorgath Maclir, who was only a captain at the time, leading the way. [[Transformers|Probably saying something about rolling out.]]

This clever Warboss (or cowardly by Ork standards) managed to flank the space marines. So, instead of [[Rip and tear|assaulting the Orks head on]], Maclir decided to [[Just As Planned|trick the Orks]]. The space marines sent some fast attack vehicles to assault and then retreat from the Orks, to lure them into a box canyon. There, the Orks were assaulted by a mass of heavy weapon fire and [[Exterminatus|were all killed without a single survivor.]]

While that was a major success, they didn't have so much success against the Slaugth on the planet Vigil. They were forced to fight in [[Space Hulk|tight and narrow spaces]] that wouldn't even allow the use of heavy armor and [[Rocks fall, everyone dies|lost a lot of marines]] despite their [[Raven Guard|adapting methodical tactics.]] Those who survived the battle wished that they had [[Ultramarines|held more closely to the codex]] [[Steel Rain|and followed its tactical advice.]] Since the now chapter master, Maclir, also liked the codex (but not in the thumping Ultrasmurf way), he promoted many of the surviving veteran members to his honour guard. This battle was so gruesome, that when making a Storm Warden character in [[Deathwatch (RPG)|Deathwatch]], having memories of the battle is one of the past experience options.

Currently, the Storm Wardens are also involved in the [[Jericho Reach|Achilus Crusade]], which according to the Storm Warden's Chapter Master, [[Octarius War| has no viewable end.]] They committed 7 full Companies (with possibly 50 more on guard duty) to the crusade (and convinced several dozen other chapters to send available aid). These forces were then lead by Maclir in the opening battles, and smashed opposing Tau forces. While they were hoping that the Imperium would be given a warm welcome by human forces, [[Gue'vesa|they were instead given the middle finger.]] This set back strained the Imperium's communication, who had hoped that they could use the worlds as a staging area, but the space marines [[meme|kept calm and carried on]], and managed to smash through Tau forces anyways. Maclir thought he could taste victory and finish the campaign in months (when he planned for it to take decades) and ordered all the space marine forces together, so that they could destroy the last of resistance and assault the capital of the region. Things hit the fan though when it turned out the populace of Jericho Reach didn't want to deal with the Imperium, because they had already turned to chaos. They attacked the, very thinned and strained, space marine forces and prevented their final chance at victory. Maclir has since become bitter about the crusade, and how it is now a war of attrition. Even though he could pull his Chapter out at any time. Besides, the Imperium should pull out, let Chaos mulch the Tau (and probably infect the Tau “human helpers”) then come back and kill everyone left.

Some of the more minor battles by the Storm Wardens include:

*Boarding a [[Battlefleet Gothic|Chaos fleet's flagship]], resulting in the destruction of said flagship and crippling of three of its escorts. For reference, boarding Chaos ships is usually forbidden as complete suicide.
*Fighting the [[Tyranid|Tyranids]] with the [[Space Wolves]].
*Sending three companies to help a [[Rogue Trader]] in the Halo Stars, but [[That Guy|when the Rogue Trader started burning too many worlds]] they left him to fight a war only they wanted.
*Capturing a pirate king, before he could have a chance to strike first, and holding him captive, so the Storm Wardens could make repairs to their ship in peace. Then launching him into space when they were finished.
*Rescuing a [[Navigator]] from a [[Feral World]], only to [[Not as planned|end up getting launched through time and space.]]

==Nemesis Incident==
[[File:Marinestormwarden.png|left|thumb|[[If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device|YOU INSPIRE YOUR MEN TO STUDY SUCH FOUL SMUT, COMMISSAR?! YOU HERETIC!]]]]
===As They Know It===
As far as anyone in-universe is concerned, something called the Nemesis Incident happened some time during the end of the [[Age of Apostasy]]. The incident caused the Storm Wardens to seal their history (including information such as: who was their [[Primarch]] and when were they founded) and put both their first company and Chapter Master in stasis pods, somewhere deep in their fortress monastery. The [[what|crippled Chief Librarian]] during this incident, Brin Maxenat, wrote a tome discussing some of the things the chapter was doing during the Age of Apostasy, and read his works to his disciples. Upon his death, others in the Librarium read what he wrote and found out that there were different versions of the texts. Some of the differences were so big, that some thought they had been altered at some point, and schisms in the chapter nearly ensued. Several librarians decided to get together and figure out what was true, until one text was decided on. These texts were also named after those who compiled them, so if you're sensing some real world parallelisms, you're probably not too far off. Only senior officers are allowed access to the text though, and so [[Dark Angels|only a select few in the chapter know of their happenings during this time.]]
Some of the Dreadnoughts, who were also around at the time of the incident, actually know where the Veterans and Chapter Master are (somebody had to read those Space Marines their bed time story, tuck them in and plug in the nightlight). However, just like British royal guards, they just stand around silently. So, nobody is really sure which super secret sealed off part of the fortress they are in. Since the incident, the chapter has been rebuilt and a new Chapter Master has taken over. [[Roboute Guilliman|The chapter also has a legend of its old master one day returning from his stasis slumber to take back the chapter and bring it to new heights.]]

===As We Know It===
[[Old Ones|Like a lot of things in the 40k-verse]] we actually know a lot more than the characters; and thus, what really happened. The Nemesis Incident happened in 945.M36 and started when the Storm Wardens, along with help from the Ordos Xenos, attacked planets infested with Enslavers. [[Exterminatus|Instead of just blowing the planets to kingdom come]] the chapter master, Owin Glendwyr, decided to send his men to fight the Enslavers head on. [[This Guy|Probably so the planets could have some use for the Imperium]], [[Salamanders|and citizens of the planets wouldn't be sacrificed.]] This came at a great cost though, as many Storm Wardens died, [[That Guy|and the Inquisitor ended up Exterminatusing seven planets in the area anyways.]] However, the true cost of the battle wasn't realized until the Storm Wardens returned to their home planet, where they discovered that they had a lingering psychic [[Luke|ickiness]] that wouldn't go away, no matter how many times they took a bath. Instead of just doing what the Inquisition wanted and kill them all, Glendwyr made a deal. He and his infected first company would go into stasis, until a cure could be found, then their home planet would be declared a forbidden world and knowledge of the Nemesis Incident and the Storm Warden's chapter history would be purged from the records, just to be absolutely sure that the Enslaver taint couldn't spread somehow.

Since then, the Storm Wardens have rebuilt their first company and have chosen a new Chapter Master. These <strike>noobs</strike> second best <strike>(which is the first loser)</strike> marines have called themselves the Inheritors, and only see themselves as the temps who are filling in.

==Chapter Organization==
The Storm Wardens are a mostly Codex-adhering chapter, but because they tend to focus a lot on vehicle use, they have extra [[Techmarine]]s and closer ties to the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]].

The also have a special force within their [[Veteran Squad]]s, called Tempest Blades. These guys wield insanely big two-handed claymores (or other equally huge weapons) that are as tall as they are (and space marines are already big) and go to town on the biggest and toughest enemies they can find and sometimes [[Dougie McIsaac| caber tossing the heaviest ones]]. They also have a stricter code and must nominate someone from within the Chapter to carry on their legacy [[Dreadnought|at any cost]].

==Combat Doctrine==
The Storm Wardens are pragmatic fighters who [[Reasonable Marines|like to adhere to tactics and strategy, and will adapt as needed.]] However, they also like shooting things with their [[Dakka|big guns]] and have a go to strategy, they like to use, when it's appropriate.
First, they bombard the enemy with their ships from orbit. Then, while the enemy's still in shock, they shell them with [[Predator]]s and [[Land Raider]]s, which keep the [[Rhino]]s and Razorbacks alive long enough to let them unload their troops (where they then presumably slash as many things as they can with their huge claymores).
Being the SPEHSS BRAVEHEARTS, their preferred method of combat is one-on-one honourable swordfighting. This sort of martial honour has raised a few questions over their lineage in relation to [[Angron|a certain seriously pissed-off motherfucker]], but they've proven to be rather passable enough to not get any undue attention. Their preferred weaponry is a [[Power Weapon]] of some sort and a Storm Shield.

==Who's Their [[Primarch|Daddy?]]==
So just like their [[Blood Ravens|vidya gaem cousin]], there's been some speculation about who their Primarch might be. Some have pointed to [[Ultramarines|the smurfs]], due to their love of the codex (and Ultramarines' successors make up fifty to sixty five percent of all successor chapters). Others have thought they might be [[World Eaters]], because of similar colors and combat. However, the creator of the Storm Wardens at Fantasy Flight Games, Ross Watson, told us the biggest inspiration he had for making the chapter was a [[Warhammer 40,000 Fanon Wiki|fanon]] chapter, along with some inspiration from Sons of Dorn (a novel about the [[Imperial Fists]] recruitment), Brothers of the Snake (a novel about the [[Iron Snakes]]) and [[Horus Heresy]] novels thrown in their for good measure]. This fanon chapter, called Warriors Eternal, was a successor of the [[Storm Lords]], a [[White Scars]] [[Second Founding]] chapter. So, if Watson just thought of a carbon-copy of the Warriors Eternal, then the Storm Wardens' Primarch might also be [[Jaghatai Khan]]. However, Astartes usually take on physical characteristics similar to their primogenitor's features after they are implanted with their geneseed. That's how Salamanders and their successors turn literally black, or how Raven Guard and their successors lose their skin pigmentation, and how White Scars successors take on mongoloid/asian phenotypes as a result. By no accounts do these power-armored highlanders look asian like the White Scars and their successors do.
Also, since the other "scottish chapter" has usually been the Iron Hands ("scottish" mostly due to the Iron Hands' independant clan structure and their original recruitment from Albia), you could also be of the opinion that the Storm Wardens share more similarities with the sons of [[Ferrus Manus]]. Of course, now that [[Games Workshop]] is in full control, they'll probably just go for their [[Matt Ward|favorite boys in blue]], assuming of course that they even remember that this Chapter exists. So, let's just never ask them.

[https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2010/4/30/chapters-of-the-deathwatch-part-6/ Ross Watson talking about the origins of the chapter]

For the [[Skub|lore-contrarians]] and/or [[World Eaters]] fans among you; upon close examination of the [[Forge World|lore]] ([[Writefag|and with a little "speculation" to fill in the gaps]]), there may be some credence behind the Storm Wardens being the descendants of Angron's Loyalist sons.

Firstly, the World Eaters recruited from Feudal and Feral Worlds throughout the Imperium during the Great Crusade due to [[Perturabo|extraordinarily high attrition rates]]. Sacris, the Storm Warden's current homeworld, is a [[Feral World]] with a notably fierce tribal-warrior culture that's practically tailor-made for Astartes recruitment (i.e. [[Awesome|Celts in Space]]). And since at least one company of War Hounds was operating in that corner of Segmentum Obscurus (specifically the 88th Company deployed to the nearby Halo Stars), the chances of a passing XIIth Legion fleet taking one look at Sacris' human population and NOT calling dibs on the entire planet would be fairly low. Secondly, the Storm Wardens' preferred and specialized battle doctrine, using [[Dakka|heavy firepower]] and [[METAL BOXES|armored assaults]] to deliver [[Black Templars|sword-swinging]] Space Marines directly into the thickest fighting, reads almost identically to how the World Eaters and War Hounds fought with combined-arms tactics and copious amounts of [[Rip and tear]]. And thirdly, the Chapter culture (martial discipline, general fixation with honorable melee combat and weaponry, settling arguments with one-on-one duels, etc.) and color scheme (blue armor with white pauldrons) of the 41st Millennium's Storm Wardens are, again, more than a little reminiscent of the Crusade-era War Hounds. Admittedly, any of these individual points could describe several Space Marine Chapters following the Heresy and Scouring. But when put together, the characteristics that define the Storm Wardens begin to look a lot like the XIIth Legion of old.

There is also that passage in the Deathwatch books where the Storm Wardens have had visions of [[Angron|a traitor Primarch]] who questioned them on their lineage.

The biggest leap in this theory is, of course, how the bloody hell a bunch of World Eaters ended up becoming the remarkably calm and honorable Storm Wardens we know today. The answer, [[Matt Ward|as it always seems to be with Games Workshop]], may in fact be [[Roboute Guilliman]] and the [[Ultramarines]]. The Thirteenth did take in [[Traitor Legion Loyalists]] during the [[Horus Heresy]], with many theorized to have formed their own Successor Chapters during the [[Second Founding]]. [[Mary Sue|Convinced that some of Angron's sons can actually be trusted]], Guilliman would allow some of these loyal World Eaters to found their own chapter based on the noble ideals of the original War Hounds. Preferably somewhere [[Lorgar|far]], [[Angron|FAR]] away from [[Ultramar]]. Sacris, literally on the opposite side of the galaxy and maybe even the Marines' original homeworld, would be chosen as their chapter homeworld. The newly christened "Storm '''Wardens'''" (named for their adopted Primarch's title of Lord-Warden during [[Imperium Secundus|that one incident we do not speak of]]) would then go home to set up shop and keep watch over the [[Eye of Terror]] (and totally not [[Dark Angels|Caliban]] or [[Iron Hands|Medusa]] as Guilliman's guard/attack dogs).

Short version: War Hounds/World Eaters + [[Roboute Guilliman|Halfway decent fatherly influences]] + [[Codex Astartes|Seeing what a Space Marine Legion can do in the wrong hands]] + [[Honor|Sacris' isolated warrior culture]] + 10,000 years = Storm Wardens.

(This also goes a long way to explain why they [[Dark Angels|buried their Chapter's history]] after the Nemesis Incident. A company of [[Enslavers|Enslaver]]-tainted Space Marines is [[Night Lords|scary]] enough. A company of Enslaver-tainted Space Marines in command of an entire chapter of ''World Eaters'' is something almost insanely more [[Tyranids|frightening]].)

==Famous Wardens==
*Lorgath Maclir - The current Chapter Master (and apparently the chapter's favorite since the Nemesis Incident). He manages to love the Codex Astartes in a no homo kind of way.
*Owin Glendwyr - The old Chapter Master, who is currently taking a deep sleep, until the [[Slaanesh|psychic STDs he and his 1st company caught]] can be cured.
*Brin Maxen - The crippled Chief Librarian during the Nemesis Incident, who couldn't do anything but [[Writefag|write for the Chapter]]. He ended up making the only known source of information involving the Nemesis Incident that the Storm Wardens have.
*(No first name given) Varrus - the Third Company Captain during the [[Jericho Reach|Achilus Crusade]]
*[[Dougie McIsaac]] - Known for caber tossing a [[Chaos Lord|Chaos Terminator Lord]] to his doom.
*[[Old Man Henderson]] - Is believed to be hunting the gods of chaos to find [[Squats]]. "MUCKLE DAMRED CULTISTS 'AIR EH NAMBLIES BE KEEPIN' ME WEE MEN!?!?"
*[[Guts]] - Seriously, have you seen his sword and height? He doesn't even need his power armour.

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Star Dragons

2023-05-27T14:57:01Z

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Star Dragons
|Heraldry = [[File:StarDragonsSP.jpg|200px]]
|Battle Cry = "Fire and Fury!"
|Founding = Unknown
|Successors of = Unknown
|Successor Chapters = Unknown
|Chapter Master = Unknown
|Primarch = Ferrus Manus (speculated)
|Specialty = Air superiority
|Strength = Full
|Homeworld = Draconith
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = Dark Blue with White backpack and White aquila with company color trim
}}

==Official Fluff==
The Star Dragons are believed to descend from the line of [[Ferrus Manus]], although if this is truly the case they display none of the relentless logic that the [[Iron Hands]] are famous for. Instead they are guided by their passions and are known for unleashing their wrath on the Emperor's enemies.

In terms of practices, they perform [[White Scars|ritual scarring]] and inlay their cuts with electoo circuitry. This causes their bodies to glow like stars when not wearing their power armour and makes for a very cool image.

They are BFF's with the [[Blood Swords]]. This is due to their homeworlds being close to each other and to both chapters sharing similar traditions. Even though the Blood Swords are from Blood Angel stock, the Star Dragons's Primogenitor is officially only suspected.

Their most recent deployement has been an attempt to lift the siege on of [[Darkhold]], home planet of the [[Dark Sons]] chapter.

==Fan Fluff==

The Dragons are too cool to be left without any details, so here is a '''very''' unofficial [[Index Astartes]]. (Note: This was written before the electoo scarification stuff was established and doesn't make much sense in conjunction with that. Still cool though.)

===Origins===

Where new chapters of space marines are founded varies wildly from founding to founding, but one aspect is constant: there is always need for more chapters surrounding the Eye of Terror. In the 13th (or "Dark") Founding, one such was the Star Dragons, placed to the galactic northwest of the Eye on the world of Draconith. Their provisional name at the time of founding was "Night Sentinels", but within a century they adopted the culture of their homeworld and took the name Star Dragons to reflect it.

Like [[Death Spectres|other]] [[Crimson Slaughter|chapters]] of the 13th Founding, geneseed records are not available for the Star Dragons, so their progenitor is unknown. The Dragons themselves believe they descend from the [[Raven Guard]]. However, they lack the cosmetic mutations normal to the sons of [[Corvus Corax|Corax]] and they do not have the inclination toward stealth normal to their supposed brethren, so this is doubtful.

What is definitely known is that, early in their history, they developed a bond with the Blood Swords, a chapter of [[Blood Angels]] descendants whose homeworld of Jaggafall is very close to Draconith. This largely only extended to frequent collaboration and common oaths of brotherhood between individuals, until the Balanor Clearance. A mysterious space hulk known as the "Accursed Entity" emerged in the Balanor System, and the emperor's tarot indicated that this was both highly dangerous and of great significance. Accordingly, the Swords and Dragons, as the two nearest chapters not already engaged elsewhere, were deployed in numbers to the area. Both deployed full veteran companies in Terminator armor, and when the hulk began to belch out swarms of daemonic beasts and mutant Orks, the remainder of the two chapters engaged them in the void around it. The shared struggle and harsh losses the two chapters suffered made them consider each other honor-bound brothers, and since that point new chapter masters of either make a point of becoming blood brothers with their opposite number. (Chapter Master [[Daggan]] was, naturally, exempted from this tradition in his posthumous tenure.)

At the beginning of M42, while the bulk of the Blood Swords were [[Devastation of Baal|defending Baal]] with the other Sons of Sanguinius, a warband from the Eye the Swords had defeated emerged by a secret path and took revenge on Jaggafall, slaughtering the populace and destroying the fortress-monastery of the Swords. To atone for this shame, the Swords embarked on a Penitent Crusade, pausing only to let their new chapter master reestablish the traditional bond with the Star Dragons. However, the Star Dragons would not hear of it; they insisted that they accompany the Swords on their crusade, making the penitent crusade a joint fleet known as Containment Fleet Kappa, patrolling the most dangerous inner cordons around the Eye of Terror. The Dragons remain entirely devoted to this crusade, though unlike their blood-brothers they do pause to recruit.

===Homeworld===

The Dragons are based on Draconith, a [[Feral World]] with a hot, humid climate and a great variety of native reptilian species, none sapient but many highly intelligent. The most notable of these are the Dracnis, six-legged lizards a meter tall and five meters long who spit toxic, flammable goo and can jump five meters vertically and twenty or more horizontally. The tribesmen of Draconith revere them as divine beasts, and when they make their warcamps, places where a Dracnis has recently departed are considered very propitious.
Carrying on this tradition, the Dragons adopted the Dracnis as their name and heraldic symbol, and the centerpiece of their chapter culture. These "dragons" inspire much of the chapter's spiritual beliefs and ideals of how war should be waged.

===Beliefs===

The Star Dragons have a more religious chapter cult than most, though it's not a religion the Ecclesiarchy approves of. They practice a quasi-pantheist polytheism, with the Emperor and the primarch in the most prominent roles but several other figures given worship as well. The Emperor is worshipped as the Crowned Sun, Eagle of the Night, who lights the way between stars and planets and reigns over the emptiness of space. Corvus Corax is recognizable in the Feathered Dragon, Master of Secrets, who governs deception and storms and safeguards the common citizens. The most important others in their pantheon are the Mirrored Dragon, who governs (psykers) and the realms of the dead, and the Reborn Serpent, who continually eats himself ourobouros-fashion, who governs seasons, growth, and technology.
In line with these animistic beliefs, the Star Dragons identify the [[Machine Spirit]] of a vehicle or large machine as that machine's 'dragon', and are more likely to refer to a bolter's "metal serpent" than its "machine spirit", though this makes little difference in how they care for their machines, or in how they regard the Techpriests of the Mechanicum; their name for the Reborn Serpent is different, but they understand the Serpent's ways well, so their guidance is taken to heart.

===Combat Doctrine===

The Star Dragons follow the Codex in most respects, but place more emphasis in two areas. First, close air support. The Dragons field an unusually high number of [[Stormtalon]]s and [[Stormhawk]]s, as well as other in-air flying craft. Most of their ranged specialists are aerial; the Star Dragons firmly believe that if you're going to attack from a distance, you should be attacking from above.
Second, shock assaults, deploying rapidly into close combat. Like the Dracnis they emulate, the Star Dragons prefer to deploy by charging at speed with overwhelming force, moving fast enough that the enemy does not have time to respond. This lends itself most naturally to surprise attacks against unaware foes, and indeed the Codex Astartes suggests it in such situations, but they use it in other theaters as well whenever possible. When in pitched battle, one of their favored maneuvers is the "Dragon's Leap". In this, a third of the force deploys in thin, wide ranks, as if preparing for a standard open-field fight. The remainder deploys in transports and aircraft well behind the lines. These vehicles then charge at maximum speed, through the Dragons's lines and into the enemy's, at which point the transports unload their passengers into close combat and the aircraft rain fire and shells down onto the foe.

===Organization===

The Dragons are organized along Codex lines, with some minor structural deviations. Each battle company is deployed under nominal strength; only eight squads take the field instead of the standard ten. The remaining 20 marines are deployed in Stormtalons and Stormhawks as dedicated air support; absent special circumstances, these will be one squad of tactical marines and one of the two devastator squads. When the tactical reserve companies take the field, only one squad will be deployed in small aerial craft; there may be a second "air squad", but if so they will be piloting transport craft ([[Stormraven]]s or [[Storm Eagle]]s), carrying their brothers to battle and then using the aircraft's weaponry as close air support for the remainder. Less commonly, the reserve will deploy entirely via [[Thunderhawk]], in which case the air squad will pilot the three 'hawks, again using them as mobile artillery for the remainder of the battle. The 9th company, which is ten devastator squads in standard organization, usually fields only five squads; the other fifty astartes pilot various air support, some in the beloved Stormtalons and Stormhawks and others in [[Xiphon]]s or [[Fire Raptor]]s. The 8th company of assault specialists rarely has an air squad, though jump packs see heavy use and they will frequently deploy on [[Caestus assault ram]]s.

The chapter also maintains a smaller-than-standard complement of tanks and ground-based transports, but they see fairly little use and so "replacements" they receive from the [[Mechanicus]] are usually bartered to other chapters for more aircraft.

As in many other chapters, the names used for various specialties differ as well; while the Dragons use the standard terminology, especially when dealing with outsiders, they also have mythological names for each, used in parallel. The [[Librarius]] are "Mirror Brothers", after the god who governs psychic powers, and the Chief Librarian is "Master of the Black Mirror". [[Apothecaries]] are Feathered Brothers, and their Chief is "Feathered Master of Winds". [[Techmarines]] are Serpent Brothers and their Master is "Master of Metal Dragons". The [[Chapter Master]] is addressed by the title "Star Eagle"; the Captains have no special title, though as usual the additional duties and titles of the captains are varied and only partially equivalent to those in strict codex chapters. The [[Chaplaincy]] is the one set of ranks where the Star Dragons use their chapter's nomenclature exclusively; their spiritual support is provided by the Sun Brothers, the relics presided over by the "Sun Serpent", and all of these answerable to "Father Sun".

===Gene-seed===

The chapter's gene-seed is in good condition, with a malfunctioning Betcher's Gland and a high rate of partial color-blindness but other organs intact. Notably, this includes a functioning mucranoid, which the Raven Guard lacked by the time of the Second Founding; this adds another reason to doubt their assertion that Corax is their progenitor.

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Sons of Orar

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Sons of Orar
|Heraldry = [[File:Sons of Orar Heraldry.jpg|150px]]
|Battle Cry = Unknown
|Founding = Unknown
|Successors of = [[Ultramarines]]
|Successor Chapters = Unknown
|Chapter Master = Alavaan
|Primarch = [[Roboute Guilliman]]
|Homeworld = Armato
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Specialty = Liking Their Stepdad More
|Colours = Red with white pauldrons and silver aquila
}}
No one knows anything about this [[Space Marine]] chapter, literally. There is no modern information about them besides their name origin. They basically worship an ancient Ultramarines [[Brother-Captain|Captain]] back from the days of [[Horus Heresy]] (the one whose left [[pauldron]] is the armor of [[Cato Sicarius]]). Good for them choosing to blindly worship [[Roboute Guilliman|one ancient commander]] for another. Besides this, they have a lot of Corvus Armor. They also killed a bunch of Alaitoc Eldar and showed up to fight against the 13th Black Crusade and Plague Wars.

==Relics & Armor==
Valiant Legacy: An Astartes Storm Shield that was made with fragments of Orar's original shield. Those who use it say Orar himself watch over them, <s>but it's probably fanatical bullshit</s> {{BLAM|HERESY!}}{{BLAM}}{{BLAM|Orar is truely with all that use the Valiant Legacy, for he was the greatest Capt- *BLAM*}}

Sceptre of Galaxian: Once wielded by Orar himself, this sceptre was buried with him. And that's where it should have ended, but the Eldar of Biel-Tan wanted it so badly they sent an Avatar after it. [[Marneus Calgar]] and the Ultrasmurfs fought back against the Eldar and, acheiving victory, moved the sceptre to Macragge.

==Gallery==
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File:Sons of Orar Miniature.jpg|The boys like their [[Beakie|Beakies]]
File:Sons of Orar Beakie.jpg|[[Hawk Lords|The Ultramarines been getting a lot of bird boys]]
File:Sons of Orar Primaris.jpg|[[Raven Guard|They wish they got the Primaris Beakies]]
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Solar Hawks

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Solar Hawks
|Heraldry = [[File:Solar Hawks Symbol.jpg|150px]]
|Battle Cry = Unknown
|Number =
|Founding = Unknown
|Successors of = [[White Scars]]
|Successor Chapters =
|Chapter Master = Unknown
|Primarch = [[Jaghatai Khan]]
|Homeworld = Unknown
|Specialty = Use of aircraft
|Strength = Unknown
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = Yellow with white left [[pauldron]]
}}
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The Solar Hawks are a successor of the White Scars. Their founding is unknown, though it is thought that the chapter has existed since the 35th millennium at least.

==Chapter Tactics==
These fellas like planes, preferring to fly around, rather than ride around like their brethren the White Scars. They frequently field large amounts of [[Stormtalon]] and [[Stormraven]]. It was also noted by the [[Deathwatch]] codex that like the [[Blood Angels]] and [[Blood Ravens]], the Solar Hawks possess an abnormally high number of [[Librarian]]s.

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Retributors

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{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name =Retributors
|Heraldry = [[File:Retributor-Pauldron.png|140px]]
|Battle Cry =
|Founding = Unknown
|Successors of =[[Imperial Fists]]
|Chapter Master = Augustus Vanator
|Primarch = [[Rogal Dorn]]
|Homeworld = Fleet-based
|Specialty = Rapid squad level assaults, high-risk targets and objectives, being maximum operator on the battlefield, being tacticool
|Strength = 800 Marines
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = Burnished, Olive Drab, with Burnished, Olive Drab Trim
}}

[[File:Retributor Marine.jpg|thumb|left|300px|What do you get when you mix SAS tactics, the [[/k/|Spetnaz]] mentality and an Astartes? An actually competent Space Marine Chapter.]]
The Retributors are a <s>homebrew</s> [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2021/03/10/introducing-the-next-wave-of-warhammer-animations/ official] [[Space Marine]] Chapter. They are most notable for appearing in the [[Astartes - a fan made animation|Astartes <s>fan</s> film]] which they were made for. They are also currently the only example of a fanmade Chapter being picked up by Geedubs themselves.

Their speciality is operations in which they will be operating operationally like the operational operators that they are, that is, they're all about improvisational tactics. Unlike most marines, they are capable of developing battleplans on the fly and working in small fireteams rather than larger squads and companies. In fact, they prefer to work in small independent teams and hit critical/valuable targets to help friendly forces, especially their Impulsor squads, who basically spearhead this strategy. And they all do this with an absolute minimum of dialogue.

They mostly flew under the radar through out Imperial history as [[Reasonable Marines|they tend to not care for glory, meaning when the job was done they would pack up their stuff and leave while other chapters would break out the champagne]]. Because of this it's likely they have fought and operated in multiple conflicts and war zones, without their deeds being told to the wider Imperium. They did gain some recognition for their actions during Argosa uprising (which you can go watch on <s>the Astartes youtube channel</s> [https://www.warhammer-community.com/warhammer-animation-astartes/?utm_source=WarhammerCommunity&utm_medium=Post&utm_campaign=WarhammerAnimations10032021&utm_content=WarhammerAnimations10032021 Warhammer Community], though the Geedubs-edited version is [[Rage|nowhere near as good as the original due to some 'creative decisions']]) as during the clean up operations one squad, as well as apparently [[What|the entire goddamn Chapter]], disappeared without a trace.

After a while the High Lords declared the chapter lost and when [[Guilliman]] returned, a new chapter of [[Primaris Space Marines]] were sent to their [[Fortress-Monastery]] to replace them. However when the marines arrived the new chapter master and the 1st company found evidence that the original chapter had survived, and was still [[Alpha Legion|carrying out operations with out the Imperium knowing]]. As a result of this evidence the new Chapter master sent the other 9 companies to join a different Imperial fists successor chapter and turned the 1st company into 11th company which he became Captain of. The Retributors 11th Company now holds vigil over the Fortress Monastery and are very secretive about its findings.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7hgjuFfn3A&t=2s The Original Version Preserved in all of its glory]

= Gallery =
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File:Retributor Fan Chapter.jpg
File:Screen Shot 2019-09-20 at 15.59.23.png
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File:Getting shit done.PNG|Retributor Marines prove they don't mess around. Also a [[meme]].
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