Editing Crimson Fists

{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Crimson Fists aka The Marines Hispanic
|Heraldry = [[Image:Crimsonfistslogo.JPG|250px]]
|Battle Cry = "There is only the Emperor."<br>"He is our shield and protector."
|Number =
|Founding = [[Second Founding]]
|Successors of = [[Imperial Fists]]
|Successor Chapters =
|Chapter Master = [[Pedro Kantor]]
|Primarch = [[Rogal Dorn]]
|Homeworld = Rynn's World
|Specialty = Tactical flexibility, Heroic last stands, Sheetrock hanging, and spanking Orks
|Strength = Somewhere around full strength after [[Ultima Founding]]
|Allegiance = [[Imperium of Man]]
|Colours = Blue and crimson red
}}

{{Topquote|My choice is made, it was made centuries ago, when I became an initiate in the Great Hall of the Arx Tyrannus. I chose to serve the Chapter Master unto my dying breath, and through him the Emperor of Mankind. I will not throw away my life for the sake of pride. I will honour instead the commands of Chapter Master Kantor. I will fight the enemy with every weapon at my disposal, every warrior at my disposal, even if I have to create those warriors for myself. While I live, the Chapter lives. I am the shield hand of Dorn, and I. Will. Not. Yield.|Veteran Sergeant Sandor Galleas}}
{{Topquote|War of Armageddon? Just a regular Monday.|A Crimson fist}}
{{Topquote|Whoever will come to us with a sword, from a sword will perish.|Alexandr Nevsky}}

The '''Crimsons Fists''' are a second founding chapter of the [[Imperial Fists]], formed by the younger and more level-headed members, led by uberbadass [[Alexis Polux]]. Noted for their crimson gauntlets, which were inspired by <strike> the blood of their enemies after a good fisting </strike> a ritual with [[Rogal Dorn]] and an Imperial Fist successor Chapter Master having a manly handshake with cut palms, signifying blood brotherhood between them. The name sounds more like a [[/d/|particularly painful sex act]] of [[Slaanesh]] that ends in internal bleeding, but whatever, they're still cool. Also in damn near every artwork they are in, it's a last stand. Like seriously, they might as well be the knight of dying heroically, as seen even in the OG [[Warhammer_40,000:_Rogue_Trader|Rogue Trader]]. Still, who ''doesn't'' love a good <s>fisting</s> final, defiant stand?
==Overview==
They got fucked over during an Ork invasion on Rynn's World, their home planet, when a stray missile fired from their orbital defense grid struck their own fortress. The damn thing somehow missed its original target, bypassed ALL of the fortress' void shields (we'll get to this freak accident later), and hit the armory directly, not exploding until it was hundreds of meters underground. The chances of this happening are about as likely as rolling 100 d20s and only getting 1s on all of them. (If you're curious, the probability of that happening is one in 1.267651x10<sup>130</sup>. Seriously.)

But it's okay, because the Crimson Fists still managed to beat the Orks with only <s>two-hundred and twenty-eight marines, 100 of which were killed</s> the actual number of marines that survived their fortress monastery being destroyed isn't stated (Rynn's World mentions 16 including [[Pedro Kantor]] and [[Alessio Cortez]]). Kantor had sent a significant force to New Rynn City to defend it (because, you know, Crimson Fists aren't complete arseholes and will make time to defend the civilians). All that's known is that after the Imperial fleet came to Rynn's World to screw up the Orks there were only a couple of companies left. A [[Land Raider]] appropriately named ''Rynn's Might'' somehow [[awesome|managed to skillfully ''pilot itself'' using only its machine spirit and take out a good chunk of the invading Ork horde, including a warboss, with hellishly accurate weapon fire. When it ran out of ammo, it then tried to run over the Orks and when its treads were clogged with bodies and its doors smashed open, it was entered by Lootas seeking to take it, after which it vented the reactor and killed them all with hot plasma.]] The Crimson Fists were able to recover the [[Machine Spirit]] of ''Rynn's Might'', and are now trying to find a new vehicle to house the Machine Spirit. They probably need a [[Titan]] chassis to contain that much awesome (and a literal mile of parchment for its purity seals).

Let's also not forget that there's a part from the Rynn's World novel where Captain Cortez saves a mother and her kids, one of which is only a baby, from being murdered by Orks. Kantor is ''quite displeased'' at this, knowing that there are very few Crimson Fists left and they could not afford to take refugees along for the ride. However, he mentions they can tag along if they can keep up with the Astartes. Eventually the mother fatigues and falters, falling to her knees. The column of marines halt as their Chapter Master moves to the back, where the reader is led to believe that he is about to kill her given his wrist-mounted Storm Bolter is very, very close to her head. She pleads that her children were so heavy and she tried, and what does Kantor do? Let me stress that he did not want her in the first place. What does he do? He replies with, "You did well to bring them this far. It is time someone else carried you now." [[Awesome|And then he picks her up in his arms, along with 2 of her kids, and rejoins his Battle-Brothers]]. Upon carrying half the family to the relative safety of a nearby forest, Kantor has a couple of his marines find food for the family. Later on, the marines save a group of about 60 pilgrims from a large group of Orks, then lead the entire group to the safety of New Rynn City. Do you see the Ultrasmurfs doing such a doubly heartwarming and doubly awesome act of kindness? <s>Of course not *cough*FallofDamnos*cough*</s> Yes, repeatedly. They help save civilians from the tyranids in "Shadow of The Leviathan", and Graham McNeill shows that they care about the lives of people in his Ultramarines novel series. Then again, the whole point of the book was the Fists learning to care about Rynn's World, and its people, as before that point they just saw it as their base (they didn't even recruit from the place). This was due to the fact they were a fleet-based chapter for most of their history and only received Rynn's World a thousand years before the Orks invaded it. Meaning what Kantor did wasn't just being a cool guy, it was character development, showing the Fists weren't just merely defending a world, they were defending their home.

The Crimson Fists 1st Company is known as the Crusade Company and consists of 128 marines after the Crimson Fists decided to get shit done during the Crusade of Righteous Retribution. During the crusade, the Fists were unable to procure new recruits, and slowly suffered attrition until they ended up with only 128 marines left. Sounds kind of pathetic until you realise that the crusade lasted for over 300 years, meaning that the Fists lost fewer than 3 marines a year. It's now considered a bad omen if they don't have a full strength Crusade Company.

It's also worth noticing that only 9 years after the Battle for Rynn's World, the Crimson Fists were already sending forces to fight in the Zeist Campaign. Crimson Fists obviously do not fuck around.

They've recently been boosted back up to around full strength with the Ultima Founding which probably means the Primaris Marines outnumber the regular marines.

Crimson Fists are so awesome they were the cover art for the 3rd Edition Space Marine codex and [[Warhammer_40,000:_Rogue_Trader|Rogue Trader]]. Yes, they were the cover of the very first edition of Warhammer 40K ever. Suck it [[Spiritual Liege|Ultrasmurfs]]!

The Fists also have a bit of an unpleasant history with other Chapters; thanks to their exceptional zeal and loyalty, they've been [[Minotaurs (Chapter)|repeatedly tasked with exterminating Chapters deemed heretics]], such as the [[Soul Drinkers]], [[Extinct_chapters#Marines_Vigilant|Marines Vigilant]] (though in fairness they felt guilty about that afterwards), and the [[Extinct_chapters#Sons_of_Gideon|Sons of Gideon]]. Thanks to this reputation as [[Kharn|team-killing fucktards]] working for [[Inquisition|megalomaniacal psychopaths in silly hats]], they don't get along too well with the likes of the [[Space Wolves]], [[White Scars]], and probably most other chapters with a rep for defying the Emperor's pet psychos.

==How the fuck did that missile incident happen?==

Well the first option is just "these things happen." As the case of HMS ''Hood'' proves, sometimes you just roll a nat 1 critical miss and die a stupid death. But that's not really narratively satisfying, so various writers have tied themselves into knots to make it sound plausible. First it was implied it was a standard missile fired from an orbiting defensive platform, meaning it normally should have done NOTHING to such a mighty stronghold beyond a small crater. They claimed the missile bypassed the void shields entirely, hit a piece of mountainside that was really super-duper weak (and somehow the Crimson Fists didn't know about it) and went deep down into the mountain. The missile detonated the Crimson Fists' weapon stockpile, causing their chapter a lot of hurt.

This was fixed by Steve Parker; the missile was actually fired from one of the fortress's anti-ship weapons bastions, and the void shields had to be dropped to fire them. It was also the type of antiship missile that formed a melta field over the warhead to bore through ship armor before detonation, to make "tunneled through two hundred meters of solid rock" less stupid. Which is why silos like that should be, and usually are, kept in an orbiting installation rather than near the fortress, so you don't have to drop your shields to fire. While this would expose the silos, you can have one missile each and hide dozens of them far away from one another.

<span style='color:green>Nah, the Kaptin in charge of the ship told everyone that he would do this and it happened. Ork don't gotta explain.</span>

A new theory has emerged from the madness of the warp. See the Crimson Fists had a habit of pissing off certain people. Not the Inquisition, but something more complicated. During their history, the Crimson Fists clashed with the Ultramarines and Mortificators to the point of almost full blown civil war. The only reason this did not happened is because of the fact the [[Black Templars]] would step in on the side of the Crimson Fists and probably anyone who hates the Ultramarines ([[Space Wolves|That]] [[Inquisition|is a]] [[Dark Angels|long list]] [[Imperial Fists|of organizations and chapters]]). However a sabotage attempt makes a fair amount of sense and given how the Crimson Fists were not enemies of the High Lords or the Inquisition (They did their dirty work for them) the Ultramarines and their successors are a potential suspect.

==Notable Members==
*[[Alexis Polux]]: Founding chapter master of the Crimson Fists; they got their name from him. He died 800 years after the chapter was founded when some sneaky xenos dicks shot him in the head with a poison dart, but got the last laugh when he told his successor how to defeat the sneaky dicks with his dying breaths.
*[[Pedro Kantor]]: Current chapter master of the Crimson Fists. Has a major hate-on for Orks, like all the other Crimson Fists who lived through Rynn's World, and proved he has a heart when he carried an exhausted mother and her children to safety.
*[[Alessio Cortez]]: Fuckawesome captain who is probably insane. Has broken nearly every bone in his body and is currently about ninety percent scar tissue and sheer manliness. He got an arm torn off by an Ork warboss during the invasion of Rynn's World, but pointed out that technically he hadn't lost it because it was right over there. Disappeared while fighting Eldar, but he might still be out there.

==Daily Rituals==
06:00- Wake up Call: The Crimson Fists awaken from their beds made of Ork bone. Generally, a captured loudboy will be used as a substitute for an ancient Bird called a "Rooster". His usefulness spent, they proceed to beat the Ork to death with their bare fists.

06:05- morning revelry: the crimson fists begin the day with ancient terran classical music by the minstrels "metalica" they will play "all nightmare long" at 140 decibles in the entire chapter keep to rouse the chapter get them started for the day

07:00- Morning Prayer: The Crimson Fists will pray to the Emperor. They will also force Orks to pray, just so they can pray louder than the Orks. One of the most common prayers is a prayer for patience when dealing with the inevitable arguments over what a tortilla is.

07:06: psychological warfare morning manoeuvres: to begin the campaign of terror against the orks, they will begin playing what could be called "propaganda" against orks studying the orks letters, they recruit dyslexic citzens and 5 year olds to write crude letters, easily understood by the ork mind, these will be dropped by baloon servitor or by thunderhawk depending on the size of the ork settlement, typically scouts will be assigned to cut the head of a warbosses favourite squig and put it in his bed, which they will do gladly, when this is done, they will begin playing "all nightmare long" infuriating and terrorising orks

08:00- Morning Firing Rites: Targets are set up in a field to be shot. A large portion of them are either captured Orks or painted to look like Orks.

09:00- Morning Battle Practice: The Ork cage is opened, and the Crimson Fists fight against their angry pets. Beating an Ork to death with one's fists is encouraged.

10:00- Breakfast: The Crimson Fists gather to eat before their arduous afternoon. Sauce for their churros is provided by dead Orks.

10:30- enhanced interrogation tactics: just to mess with the orks, the crimson fists will very often capture orks and subject them to a plethora of ancient and in some cases terrible music, these include the ancient terran songs "why cant we be friends" by war, "im a little teapot, justin bieber, and anything else that is peaceful non violent, war what is it good for? they once subjected an ork weirdboy to this for 8 hours by the end of the session his head exploded!

11:00- Tactical indoctrination: The Crimson Fists gather to make fun of Orks. Making fun of Ghazkull Uruk'Thraka is encouraged. Whoever throws the best insult gets to hold the chapter standard.

12:00- midday psychological warfare: just to mess with the orks some more, scouts to contaminate and pour all manner of nasty chemicals from the chapters latrines into the orks grogg supply before dissapearing and laughing, orks when realising they've been chugging space marine wee wee are enraged but nobody around to hit with a choppa, makes them furious.

13:00- Afternoon Battle Practice: The Crimson Fists let the Orks out again so they can curbstomp them again. Typically, the afternoon battle practice takes longer due to the Orks being mad over the previous fight.

14:00- afternoon propaganda: around this time various misfortunes will occur, orknaughts will explode, wheels fall off wagons, squiggoth pens open and get loose, inextricably, the wings fall off fighta bombas, which, normally wouldn't be a problem but happening so frequently, piles of guns going up in flames and a strange rise in ork nobz challenging the warboss and other warbosses, why? "because you called him a git, the marine boys said you did, so it must be true" this usually results in higher level orks killing each other much to the chagrin of the warboss, he probobly did call him a git but he didn't expect an entire mob of rocket armed shoota boys and tankbusters to show up outside his house and look for a fight while he was hungover on fungus beer!, once more, hunt you down without mercy is played, enraging the boss

16:00- Evening Firing Rites: The Crimson Fists gather the most noteworthy Orks from the previous practice, and practice shooting them. Battle Brothers will be punished if they kill the Ork in the first shot.

18:00- Evening Meal: The Crimson Fists feast upon the Orks they killed. Their favorite dish is Ork paella.

19:00- night time maneovers: the chapters assault marines and rievers and scouts will dispense with the comedy and get serious, they will begin hunting down orks designated as "nobz" and "kommandos" to teach the orks, not even your elite boys are safe, they will make sure the orks know it was them. naturally infuriating the boss, and, once more, start playing metalica around them, again!

20:00- Evening Battle Practice: The chapter practices full scale war on the orks, going into every hive, shanty town or mek shop every battle brother is given a flamer, and told "the more they burn the more i like you" by the end of the hour, entire ork settlements will light up like christmas trees

21:00- Aerial and Mechanized maneuvers : the crimson fists will begin spreading Orkoid fungus, aerially, ensuring they have a plentiful supply of Orks for tomorrow. following this, typical mechanised manoeuvres involve, manoeuvring land raiders "over" orks like a slapstick tianimate square and laughing as they go squish or drawing lots on land speeders so they can run down orks at 200 miles an hour! hilarity ensues as it begins to resemble spongebob doing his driving test or the penguin when he takes over the batmobile, either way, a good time is had by all...except the orks who are now a green smear on the pavement.

22:00- snack break: following the act of comedy that was aerial manoeuvres the crimson fists, will break for a snack, still laughing about the look of terror on that one ork nobs face as he was launched 50 feet in the air, these include Empanadas, and  Buñuelos which are a type of ancient Terran fritter, battle brothers have a difficult time keeping their food down, as they often laugh about the time they got land speeder privileges and began ramming and crippling orks like Mr burns in his bumper car! this makes chewing a difficult process and often choking ensues, still worth it in the eyes of battle brothers. 

22:00- Free Time: The chapter takes recreational time. Activities include games like Pin the Tail on the Ork, Kick the Ork, and Ork wrangling. Any Orks that die are immediately sent to resupply the snack bar.

24:00- Bedtime: The chapter retires for the evening. Before they go to sleep, they choose a loud boy to be the alarm Ork for the next day.

==Naming Scheme==

The Crimson Fists are (in)famous on /tg/ for being the Spanish Marines, primarily due to to how their Chapter Master Pedro Kantor and his best bud [[Alessio Cortez]] were named. This has bled into all media where the Fists are featured -- novels, games, even RPG supplements like [[Deathwatch]]. Even the Fall of Cadia features Captain Ruis Tracinto as part of the reinforcements that managed to make it to the planet.

This is not to say that ''every'' member of the Fists sport Hispanic-Iberian names -- Captain Ashor Drakken of the Badlanding incident comes to mind -- but an overwhelming number of them do.

In-universe, most of the Spanish-named marines (like Kantor and Cortez) come from the feral world of '''Blackwater''', which is one of the major sources of recruits for the Chapter. They're considered... odd, by non-Blackwater born Marines.

==Gallery==
<Gallery>
File:Power Fists TV Tropes.png|It really says a lot about their love for Power Fists when they provide the TV Tropes Image...
File:Eternal_War_CF_vs._Orks_luches.jpg|Just Pedro Kantor being awesome nothing unusual really...
File:Watch-Captain_Estaban_De_Dominova.jpg|"What do you mean by we have to hunt xenos other than orks?"
File:CF Primaris Marine.png 
File:Crimson Fists Last Stand.jpg|Last Stand of the Crimson Fists. Maybe their most popular representation.
File:Rogue_trader_cover_no_text.JPG|The Crimson Fists being the first look of many for the Spess Mehreens.
File:Last_Stand_of_the_Crimson_Fists_2_Primaris_Boogaloo.jpg|<strike>Seriously, someone has to tell them that "Last stand" is not a viable strategy.</strike> Pfft, please, it's worked for them so far and it looks awesome.
</Gallery>

==Vidyas==
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dyO9SWiY7k A Crimson Fists Chaplain in its natural habitat. Also, the police are all Guardsmen.]


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