Chapter of the Forlorn Hope

Maverick Marines
Battle Cry	BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH!!!
Number	Unknown
Founding	Unknown
Successors of	Unknown
Successor Chapters	None
Chapter Master	The True Maverick (a.k.a. "Daddy")
Primarch	Unknown
Homeworld	None
Strength	1000+
Specialty	Close combat and siege (officially)
Allegiance	Imperium
Colours	Varies throughout the Chapter

The Maverick Marines are an odd chapter with an unknown founding. It is believed that they were from the cursed founding as a flaw within their gene-seed has been detected that causes the battle brothers of the chapter to degrade mentally over the years into little more than savages. The older marines are often compared to the mentality of the Orks. The chapter believes that everything that can be duel wielded can and should be from chain weapons to bolters to shields. They are an entirely void based chapter roaming between stars and systems carrying out the duties set before them by the Clan Maverick, the leading clan within the Chapter. Though these duties very greatly, the primary and most common of these is to seek out xenos technology where it is brought back to be reengineered and adapted into the Chapter’s armory. This is deemed widely and as blatant heresy if not for their close and nearly symbiotic relationship with the Rogue Trader Lord Bellend of the Bellend House. Do to the uniqueness of the sector and the eccentricity of the Bellend Household, many recruits are received from their worlds along with several regiments of Imperial Guard. This sector of space is a haven for those that seek to better themselves in science and the pursuit of knowledge to better the human race, provided that it is not too over the top even for the eccentric inhabitants.

As a practice, the Imperial forces supplied to the Chapter by the Bellend House, commissars and officers are chosen by the Space Marines to ensure the most loyal and trustworthy ones are chosen from among their ranks. This comes in part to their doctrine of disallowing the use of bolt pistol within their chapter. They are seen as the weapons of cowards and assholes being the favored weapon of many battlefield commissars used to inflict bloody public execution to “improve moral”. Coupled with this feeling, the Chapter holds belief that every citizen of the Imperium of Man is their own person and has value to their life – except commissars. However, it is not uncommon that commissars appointed by the Maverick Marines are seen upon the field. Specially chosen for truly restoring moral and inspiring their charges to greater feats of glory.

The Chapter

Chapter Structure

To the outside observer the Maverick Marines Chapter is broken down into standard companies as seen within the other Codex Astarties compliant Chapters. However, upon closer review and inspection the companies appear to diverge from the standard norm and break down further into Cults, Gangs, or Clans. What is even more troubling to the truly observant is that there is, in reality, little to no semblance of known order. The Chapter, with the exception of the higher ranking members, appear to be little more than a hoard or mob of techno crazed individuals looting, tinkering, reengineering, or constructing all manner of strange devices and weaponry. This gives the Maverick Marines the unique ability to field a host of weaponry never before seen by the Imperium of Man.

Clan Maverick

Within the Chapter, Clan Maverick are the leaders and heads of office within the Chapter's structure. The heads of office being the techmarines known as Chief Mavericks Librarians known as Weirds, Chaplains known as the Screaming Bitches, and Apothecaries called Suicidals or Suicide Docs. This clan also encompasses the 1st company known as the Aspirants; those that aspire to one day become Chief Mavericks or eventually one day the True Maverick. Each of the Aspirants dress in muscle etched armor and dark ashen-grey robes sporting pauldrons decorated in wings and other symbols of the Imperium but never of their Chapter. Odder still is their color scheme. When looked upon by the casual observer, they many times unable to come to terms with what they see; the armor shifting in color from greens to blues to silver dependent upon light and position from which they are viewed. What everyone can agree upon is the base color is a shining silver.

Doctrines and Specialties

Melee close combat and siege (officially)