Steel Confessors

Steel Confessors
Battle Cry	"Destroy the Weak!"
Founding	Twenty-Second Founding
Successors of	Iron Hands
Chapter Master	Protonus
Primarch	Ferrus Manus
Homeworld	Kracsis IV (Destroyed), Kalevala
Strength	Unknown, presumed half-strength
Allegiance	Imperium of Man, Adeptus Mechanicus
Colours	Steel-grey, bone

The Steel Confessors are a painfully-ignored loyalist Space Marine Chapter that have a pretty awesome background. Though they were featured in the 2005 Games Day Golden Daemon event, there is surprisingly little lore on them, even though the little bit we have is pure awesome. Created in secret by the Adeptus Mechanicus, the Steel Confessors are the successors of the Iron Hands (another badass chapter everyone seems to forget) but were created with the intent to be loyal to the Mechanicum over the Imperium. Long story short, the Inquisition found out and was not happy, the Tech Priests lost their RoboCop Army and now the Steel Confessors serve as a regular Space Marine chapter, but with very close ties to the Admech. Fluff wise, GW ignoring these guys kinda makes sense becuase they were made by the Tech Priests to have a singular fighting force to protect forge worlds, but now GW kinda made those with the Skitarii/Admech armies, so... Yeah. However, none of that shit stops them from existing, and even fits in pretty well, since even with their own personal army of Tin Technophiles the Mechanicum would want the technology to make (not to mention the emotionless, near unkillable soldiers) and train Space Marines. There's a pretty cool Index Astartes thing on them [1], but other than that not too much out there. But on second thought, that might interest Tech-Priestfag players, so maybe we should just forget about it...