Editing Rainbow Warriors

{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Rainbow Warriors
|Heraldry = [[File:Rainbow_Warriors_Livery.png|140px]]
|Battle Cry =
|Number =
|Founding = Originally a part of ''[[Rogue Trader]]'''s <s>11</s>''<font size="-3">uh,</font>'' 12 [[First Founding]] chapters, later [[retcon|retconned]].
|Successors of = Ultramarines. Maybe. Depends on who you ask.
|Successor Chapters = None
|Chapter Master =
|Primarch =
|Homeworld = Prism?
|Specialty = Eternally forgotten by their [[GW|parents]], dressing up as space Aztecs, being cryptically referenced again, being [[Gay]], maybe doing a lot of [[spook]] and protesting against [[Forge World#Planet|pollution and shit]].
|Strength = Unknown
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]]
|Colours = All the colors of the Rainbow (No durr...), but mainly Blue
}}
[[File:RainbowWarriorsRT.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Rainbow Helmets, man. Rainbow [[Beakie]] Helmets, no less.]]
Back when [[Warhammer 40,000]] was still called [[Rogue Trader]], all of the [[First Founding]] [[Space Marine]] Chapters were known, and the '''Rainbow Warriors''' were one of them. Nothing else was known of them, except for the fact that the [[Sisters of Battle]] curb-stomped them at one point.

So apparently [[Games Workshop]] didn't think too highly of these guys, and in a Third Edition [[White Dwarf]] article, they were declared to be of a "later founding." They also hold the title of silliest space marine chapter name of all time, resembling that of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Family a deranged LSD-dealing hippie cult] that prowls the parking lots of [[Noise Marines|Grateful Dead]] [[Slaanesh|concerts]] with mangy dogs and backpacks full of [[spook]], [[Drug#Warp_Infused_Drugs|warp dust]] and [[Spook#See_Also|flects]]. These degenerates existed at the time that GW came out with ''Rogue Trader'' (and still do, in parking lots wherever hippie music is played) but it is highly unlikely that they were any influence as they and similar organizations don't really have any reach in the UK (or anywhere outside the US, for that matter.)

They are ''also'' (and more probably) directly named after a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior radical environmentalist ship] that got sunk by the <s>[[Slann|frogs]]</s> French for nosing around their [[Exterminatus|weapons of mass destruction]], which was in the news and highly controversial around the time when ''Rogue Trader'' was published. So take your pick, this chapter's theme is apparently either drug dealing or eco-terrorism. [[Edgy|Edgier]] than they sound.

In the 5th Edition Space Marines [[Codex]], the planet "Prism" is designated as the homeworld of "''<<record deleted>>''," a chapter which bears the Rainbow Warriors' insignia. Prism has been found! Get the [[6th edition]] and look in the Northwestern border of the Vidar Sector located in the Imperius Dominatus. So apparently one of the [[First Founding#Two Unknown Legions|lost Chapters]] might have been ''exterminus extremis'' due to being filthy hippies. Good to know.

Sadly, this fun fan theory is dead on arrival due to the retcon in which ye olde Rainbow Warriors were relegated to an unspecified "later founding," nonetheless, one imagines that the [[Emperor]]'s reaction, not to mention that of the [[Inquisition]] or [[Black Templars]], to either species of [[Wood Elves (Warhammer_Fantasy)|hippie]], drug-dealing or boat-sinking, and that it certainly wouldn't be too friendly. More canonically, though, it's noted that the image for Sisters of Battle in the Rogue Trader rulebook has a Sister shoot down what appears to be a Rainbow Warrior. Such a square harshing the guy's mellow. This combined with the ''<<record deleted>>'' statement above suggest they were filthy <s>hippies</s> heretics who got purged.

Also, to add to the eclectic weirdness and confused aesthetic of the whole chapter, somewhere along the way, people thought it would be cool to envision the Rainbow Warriors as Aztec Marines. There's also a basically-the-Rainbow-Warriors chapter called the [[Death Strike]], which, simply as a name, is hilariously edgy for the opposite reasons that the Rainbow Warriors themselves are edgy. Apparently, they have a huge hate-on for the Ultramarines (not unlike [[/tg/|some folks we know]]) for helping to excommunicate their brother chapter. HMM.

They're still even kicking around in the grim darkness of the 41st Millennium if the 6th Edition Codex is anything to go by. They, the Relictors and the Fire Lords fought a bloody powerful Demonic incursion, but ended up losing a fair chunk of their chapter, including their Chapter Master. Whether they'll eventually get [[Tyranid|NOM'd]] by the 'nids like [[Squats|other very 985.M2-era material]] that hasn't aged too well remains to be seen, as does whether or not anyone really cares. General fanon holds they are Lost Legion Loyalists brainwashed into believing they are Ultramarines, supported by mentions that Ultramarines got a large number and supply boost when the lost were, well, lost.

According to the short Story "War in the Museum", the Rainbow Warriors are confirmed to be an exhibit in our favorite curator's collection, [[Trazyn the Infinite]].
==Gallery==
<gallery widths="250" position="center" spacing="small">
Image:Rainbow_Dinosaurs.jpg|Space Marines taking the role of Lizardmen, IN SPEHS!
File:A_is_for_Aztecs_in_Atomic_Armour_Attacking_Anomalous_Amphibians.jpg|Like an Eagle Warrior, but probably preferred the Imperial Aquila.
File:Rainbow_Warriors_A.jpg|What they would look like if GW decided to get off their asses and update them.
File:Rainow Warrior George Earl Abalayan.jpg|Another depiction of what the Rainbow Warriors could be, if GW bothered updating them.
</gallery>

==See Also==
* [[Blood Jaguars]]

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