White Consuls

White Consuls
Founding	Second Founding
Successors of	Ultramarines
Chapter Master	Cymar Xydias & Titus Valens
Homeworld	Formerly Sabatine (now a Nurgle-corrupted daemon world)
Strength	Severely Undermanned
Allegiance	Imperium of Man
Colours	White & Blue

The White Consuls are a Second Founding chapter and also one of the Astartes Praeses, based on the world of Sabatine close to the Eye of Terror. Due to the extreme distance, it is a rare thing for the Chapter’s representative to appear in the Senate of Primogenitors led by Marneus Calgar, and when it does occur it is a cause for great celebration. The White Consuls, alongside the other Astartes Praeses, are bound to protect the Imperium from the depredations of the whatever spews forth from the Eye of Terror, therefore are routinely on the front lines during Black Crusades. Apparently they're also adherents of the Imperial Creed for some reason, which is rare for astartes, let alone a Second Founding chapter.

Organisation

As part of their duties in fortifying the Eye of Terror, the White Consuls have instigated an unusual deviation from the Codex Astartes. The Chapter is ruled not by a single Chapter Master, but by two. One of these remains upon their homeworld to oversee the defences and commands a standing force made up of the chapter reserves and scouts to respond to Chaos incursions through the Cadian Gate, while the second chapter master oversees the operations of the Chapter’s forces in war zones elsewhere in the Imperium.

It is completely obvious that this separation of command is not sanctioned by any entry in the Codex Astartes, therefore the White Consuls are Awesome for taking the initiative to create a unique situation that works well for themselves rather than dogmatically following the Codex Astartes. (It is also a very fluffy excuse to field TWO Chapter Masters on the tabletop, except not really, because the whole point of having two is that they're not in the same place or even doing the same thing). It is most likely due to the Chapter’s great distance from Ultramar and their forefathers that they have not been challenged on the matter.

Like their progenitors however, the White Consuls do maintain sovereignty over nearby system and its officers must spend a portion of their duties administrating those worlds if they intend to increase in rank. While in this position they are referred to as Proconsuls, which is where the Chapter name comes from. This position also requires those officers to oversee the local PDF forces as well as what squads of Space Marines are assigned to them. This means that the White Consuls have a unique perspective when fighting alongside mortal forces.

History

They feature in Anthony Reynolds Word Bearers series. Like other Successor Chapters from the XIII Legion, the White Consuls have a strong hatred of the Word Bearers, further magnified by the death of their brother Chapter, the Black Consuls. However, before the launch of the 13th Black Crusade, the Word Bearers launched a campaign on one of the White Consuls protectorates.

Half the Chapter was deployed, with offers of assistance coming from the rest of the Astartes Praeses and the Grey Knights, but the Word Bearers used a Necron relic to cut off warp travel, stranding the White Consuls with only their PDF. The meatgrinder that followed took a heavy toll on the White Consuls, but was nothing compared to the slaughter that occurred when the Necrons showed up wanting the relic back. The combined Word Bearer and Necron campaigns wiped out half the Chapter, including one Chapter Master Valens and most of the First Company, with only three White Consuls surviving. Additionally their protectorate was all but destroyed, with most of the PDF (and civilians, but who cares for them) slaughtered by the World Bearers and Necrons, and land tainted by Chaos. All in all, a bad day.

They were more or less crippled by a Death Guard warband shortly after the fall of Cadia--with the bulk of their forces off fighting Abaddon, one of their chapter masters was killed, their geneseed stocks wiped out, and their whole planet turned into one giant satanic petri dish after it got swallowed by the Great Rift. At least some became part of the Terran Crusade, and the last surviving captain was even commander of Guilliman's personal security until the early stages of the Indomnitus Crusade. Since then, they have managed to recover well with the influx of Primaris marines, as they were able to send out 5 companies by the time of War of Beasts.

Pretty much the only notable White Consul is Vitrian Messinius who is a Captain and Master of Recruits who commands the Indomitus Crusade Fleet Tertius' Battlegroup Saint Aster as a Lord-Lieutenant as well as being in charge of Roboute Guilliman's security (probably due to him getting shanked ) and is part of his personal retinue, the Victrix-Guard sounds Roman enough right Games Workshop?

Daily rituals

7:00 am morning rising - the white Consuls rise from their mechanicus designed primaris sized beds to begin the day

8:00 am breakfast - the white consuls will sit for a codex approved breakfast of toast, eggs and orange juice in line with the breakfast chapter in the codex astartes

9:00 am - first chaplain edification - the first of the daily rituals on why Lorgar is such a dick and why we hate the Word bearers so much

10:00 am - Morning close combat Manoeuvres - the white consuls will descend to the training cages to practice close combat so they don't all die again like on Boros Prime, however there is a shortage of combat servitors because a certain ProCounsul, not gonna name any names

spent all his time fighting the servitors, instead of doing his job, as a result, theirs no combat servitors for the rest of the chapter to spar with, nice going, jackass!

11:00 am - second chaplain edification - the second of the chaplains sermons on why the word bearers are dicks this one being specifically dedicated to how much of a dick Erebus is and why we hate him

12:00 pm - Coadjutor, procounsul training, and implementation - those wishing to rise through the ranks of the white consuls will have to apply to the rank of Coadjutor, what this means, is organising and liaising with the imperial guard and other representatives of protectorate worlds, such as Boros Prime, or it did, before all the Necrons showed up, other tasks include meeting with Gaurd generals, getting astartes thumb prints to authorise new regiments etc those who don't wish to be more than a power armoured ground pounder can stay in the practice cages and play with the servitors like Cassius Ostorius did .Those of us who want to lead and do more than swing a sword, get on the Thunderhawk

13:00 pm - contacting the Blood Ravens - once a day, one of the two chapter masters, will contact the blood ravens to ask about returning a chapter relic, called the gauntlet of Sabatine, they'll plead and ask for it back as their chapters morale is through the floor and could really use the

relic, Gabriel Angelos will say you have the wrong Astropath number and promptly hang up.

14:00 pm - Mandatory ranged training - every battle brother is expected to fire on live word bearers or suspicious red and silver carboard cut-outs, with points if your shot misses and takes the head off a Deathgaurd trooper aswell, those who hit a word bearer will be rewarded, those who miss....will be given more ammunition and a bigger gun!,

15:00 pm - third chaplain edification - this session is an hour of the chaplain verbally castigating his flock for the idiocy of his predecessors and the hopes that Primaris marines wont be as dumb as their firstborn predecessors. these topics include "dont let your chapter master get killed by the word bearer equivalent of Starscream" "how to not let an imperator titan that was around since the siege of terra die" "idiot plans using librarians" and "getting half our chapter killed and then losing the other half to Nurgle, a primer"

16:00 pm - lunch - the White Consuls break for lunch, a codex approved meal of fish meat or cheese is issued, orders for chapter masters often get mixed up aswell as theirs 2 of them and the serfs get it wrong a lot

17:00 pm - Contacting the Inquisition - the white consuls try to ring up the inquisition again to ask about their 3 missing battle brothers from Boros prime or their lost brothers on Sabatine looking for any word including 5th company captain Gaius Aquilius, they once rang the Ordo Malleus

and the response was "who gave you this astropath number?, don't ever call here again!"

18:00 pm - Heavy weaponry training - the chapters devastator company is required on orders of chapter master to engage in ranged training against captured chaos cultists with heavy weaponry, plasma weaponry, heavy bolters, grav weaponry and cawl pattern bolt guns, the use of flamers is strictly prohibited, more typically this resembles the ancient Terran carnival shooting games where targets move from left to right, except their tied up word bearer cultists

19:00 pm - Cadian gate deployments - the white consul will deploy in the Cadian sector to sweep over worlds around Cadia, hive citys jungles etc and burn out and kill any chaos cultists they find in the ruins of the various kasrs, the use of flamers is encouraged any cultists of Nurgle are to be given no quarter, however throwing bars of soap at them is allowed.

20:00 pm - Fourth chaplain edification - why Kor Pharon is a dick - this resembling more of a history lesson on why the white consuls, despise Kor Pharon and his many failures, specifically Calth, his idiot son and his stupid face! chaplains will go into great detail on why Primarch Roboute Guiliman punching out his heart is hilarious. much laughter is heard insulting a man who nearly killed a primarch but has to get up 5 times a night to use the bathroom, or a man who has command of an entire legion but isnt even a proper space marine! chaplains discuss if throwing the astartes equivalent of a geriatric down a flight of stairs is a case of elder abuse or the absolute funniest thing anyone's ever seen!

21:00 pm dinner time - battle brothers will sit down for the evening meal eating a codex approved selection of meats fish vegetarian dishes and 4 kinds of rice, once more orders for dinner will be mixed up by which chapter master ordered what to the shame of the chapter serfs

22:00 pm - indomitus crusade - the White Counsuls will be eager to get payback on the death gaurd at the forefront of Roboute Guiliman's fight for Konor and Ultramar any battle brother who kills a deathgaurd gets a bonus, any battle brother who gets stabbed by a traitor and gets a rash will be quarantined and purged with fire!

22:00 pm - shower time - those who aren't quarantined will take an extra long shower to cleanse the taint of nurgle, those who are, please report to the chapters plasma incinerator

23:00 pm - free time - the white consuls will retire for the evening, some training in the practice cages, some studying for procounsul exams and some watching the ancient Terran holovideo "terminator" to understand why humanity could lose to killer robots

00:00 pm - bed time- the white consuls will retire to their beds to get a good nights rest and dream of throwing lorgar out the window

Relics & Wargear

It can be assumed that the White Consuls are very well equipped, as the Astartes Praeses must be to maintain constant battle status on the edge of the Eye of Terror.

They do have one unique relic that is known, though it is actually not in their possession: The Gauntlet of Sabatine is a sanctified, master-crafted power-fist that is the bane of mutants and will do additional damage to them. However, the gauntlet was lost on the planet of Polyphemnos when its bearer was overrun by a horde of cannibal Ogryns. It has since somehow fallen into the hands of those bloody magpies.

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