Imperial Purgators
| Imperial Purgators | ||
|---|---|---|
| Battle Cry | "Ignem Aeternum!" | |
| Founding | 26th Founding (M41) | |
| Successors of | Salamanders | |
| Successor Chapters | None | |
| Chapter Master | Veilund | |
| Primarch | Vulkan | |
| Homeworld | Triassos | |
| Strength | ~700 | |
| Specialty | Stealth | |
| Allegiance | Imperium of Man | |
| Colours | Green and orange, with black trim | |
The Imperator Purgators are a newly made chapter created from the Deathwatch Chapter creation table. The result was a Salamanders successor with a penchant for stealth second only to their love of fire.
Summary
Triassos
Triassos is an old world orbiting and old star; it is a damp, sweltering world, networked with small seas where the bulk of the land consists of vast expanses of undulating hills with slow, silt choked rivers wending lazily between them, and all overgrown with verdant decadent green canopy.
Upon the few mountains, higher, where the air is cooler, away from the endless decaying tentacles of vegetation the hive cities perch. The only mountain not surmounted by a hive city is the last great volcano thrown up by the planet's listless core, a great cone of basalt that who'se sides still smoke and ooze lava and upon which the chapter has established its fortress. The hives are where the people live, occasionally sending out drilling teams to extract the planet's deposits of promethium, sometimes drawing the attention of feral orks spawned from some long-passed WAAAAGH!; the larger tribes require the attention of the Purgators to be cleansed before the promethium extraction can resume.
The n'Tabi were found centuries after the planet's colonization. Where the hives were built up to avoid the jungle the monstrous xenos had gone down, living beneath the surface. As the hives grew up, they also grew down, acids and chemical wastes seeping into the hearts of the mountains, finally into the lairs of the n'Tabi. Their blind wormlike heads could sense the movements of air currents and catch the softest vibrations and so they struck at the sumps first climbing out of the depths and slaughtering gangers. When they reached the first arbiter wall the Telepathica sent for help, and the Chapter arrived. 250 years of fighting beneath the skin of the world. 250 years of flame filled tunnels, melted earthen bunkers and geneseed lost to cave ins both intentional and not.
The n'Tabi were not buried- they were cremated. And as a sign of gratitude, they were awarded the right to build their Fortress-Monastary there.
The Trees that Walk
Veilund, Chapter Master of the Purgators, was a master of the forge and of the fire, chosen to head the newly founded Chapter. They were a late addition to the ranks of the Space Marines, and one of those rare chapters who can trace their lineage to Vulkan and the long suffering, long enduring Salamanders.
For their first mission the Pugators were dispatched to a cluster of stars in Segmentum Tempestus. The Quercus cluster contained several Agri-worlds that had fallen silent and ceased paying the imperial tithe.
When they arrived at Salix, the closest of the agri-worlds, they found no fields or crops; only vast forests with humans living like savages amongst them. It was not long before Veilund and the Purgators encountered the cause of these worlds silence. A xenos race of tree like creatures, sentient, mobile, and vegetative had managed to enslave the Imperial colonies.
These tree-like xenos and their human servants, the druid priests, had taken command of the world reducing the human population to such a state of barbarism where they could not even kindle a fire to warm themselves.
The name of this species is unknown. It is not known whether the walking trees were natural, or the result of some unknown warp sorcery. Their language is unknown. How they enslaved the humans is unknown. The creed of their tame 'druids' is unknown. All that is known of them now is that they burned.
External Links
Origin Thread: https://archive.foolz.us/tg/thread/27924616