Editing Crimson Fists (section)

==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.