Editing Red Scorpions (section)

==About the Red Scorpions==
[[Image:Brother Gez Tact Marine.jpg‎|200px|thumb|left|Their pure color scheme]]There are [[Codex]] compliant chapters, then there are the [[Ultramarines]], and then several orders of magnitude more ''compliant'' than even some of the most obsessive son of [[Roboute Guilliman|Grandfather Smurf]] (*cough* Leandros *cough*) we have the Red Scorpions. These guys consider the Codex Astartes to be a religious scripture of divine importance and will follow its teachings to the letter whenever the situation permits it. Their internal command structure is also highly authoritarian, where discipline is absolute and orders are to be obeyed without question.

In addition to being '''even more Codex compliant''' than the Ultramarines it appears that the Chapter is also unique in that its [[gene-seed]] is even purer than that of the Smurfs and their successor chapters. In fact, they attach [[Apothecary|Apothecaries]] to many of their [[Tactical Squad]]s, so they can be extra sure that their fallen brothers' gene-seed gets collected before anything happens to it. Then there’s the fact that they're fundies on par with the [[Black Templars]]: not only are they one of the [[Fire Angels|few Astartes chapters]] that actually subscribes to the [[Imperial Cult]], but they also have many beliefs that take intolerance above and beyond what is normal for even Space Marines. Their intense hatred of deviations from the pure Human form (such as [[mutant]]s and [[Abhuman]]s) stand out in particular, and under no circumstance or dire need will they ever ally with [[Xenos]] of any kind. The only exception this rule are things like [[Navigator]]s and fellow Astartes, which the Scorpions reckon were gene-crafted by the Emperor himself, but even then there are limits to whom they are willing to [[Wulfen|put up with]].

Anyway, this Chapter would be of little note were it not for [[Forge World]] having a [[Slaanesh|colossal hard-on]] for them, so if you live in the UK and don't mind selling a kidney to bankroll it then you too can be the proud owner of an army of Space [[Nazi]]s (they have dark grey-black uniforms, are obsessed with genetic purity, '''really''' hate mutants, are a crusading [i.e. warlike] chapter hiding a dark secret -- come on, somebody had to make the comparison).

Since Forge World loves them so much, the Deimos pattern predator and Land Raider Armored Proteus listed on their webstore (under the Horus Heresy section) are both painted with Red Scorpion paintjobs and have the Roman numeral for two on them. Since they are nestled in there with other Heresy-era vehicles with legion colour schemes that have their legion number in numerals on their hull somewhere, it kinda looks like the Red Scorpions ''are the lost second legion''... Or that the vehicles are attached to the second company.

Also because of Forge World, they have access to lots of vintage wargear and they have a fetish for [[Power Armour#Maximus Armour|Mk IV Power Armour]] (which only FW sold decent, non-monopose models of for a long time), being one of the only two known chapters to still have the full [[STC|schematics]] needed to produce it (The other one being the [[Iron Hands]]). Also quite possibly the best special characters of any chapter; interestingly, they have eight ''(though four are the same dude)'', edging out ahead of everyone but the Ultrasmurfs, Space Wolves, and the Blood Angels.
*Space Wolves: 11+1 (Bran Redmaw has no datasheet of his own any more).
*Blood Angels: 7+1 (Tycho has two datasheets) ''(10 counting the other characters who can use their codex)''
*Ultramarines: 8 (Calgar has three datasheets while Tigurius has two) ''(10 if you count other characters who can use Ultramarine chapter tactics)''
*'''Red Scorpions: 8'''
*Dark Angels: 5
*Salamanders: 5 (coincidentally, three of those are forge world exclusive).
*Astral Claws: 4
*Minotaurs: 4