Waste Walkers
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| Battle Cry | None. Waste Walkers enter battle silently. | |
| Founding | Second Founding | |
| Successors of | Silver Cataphracts | |
| Chapter Master | Elijah Shifrin | |
| Primarch | Alexandri | |
| Homeworld | Fleet-based | |
| Strength | 200 | |
| Specialty | Strategic planning | |
| Allegiance | Loyalist | |
| Colours | Dark Green, Dark Red, Red | |
The absolute beliefs instilled by Alexandri and his Rosskan ways left little hope during the traumatic events of the Hektor Heresy. Driven into abject grief at the conclusion of the Scouring, the Waste Walkers were formed by those too lost in mourning to be of use. Though unusually depressed by Astartes standards, the Waste Walkers have never shown weakness in the execution of their duty to protect the Imperium from invaders. They are the defenders of widows, the fathers of orphans, and the guardians of the lost.
Chapter History[edit | edit source]
There were some among the Silver Cataphracts for whom the loss of Rosskar and Alexandri was almost too much to bear. With their homeworld ravaged, their founder dead, and the Emperor's dream in ruins, these lost souls were little use to Sergei. The Waste Walkers were a dumping ground for the Legion's worst-affected Marines, numbering little more than a hundred souls. They were cast out into the void with little expectation that they would persevere. But the Waste Walkers have endured through the centuries, joylessly fulfilling the demands put upon them. They recruit solely from the orphans of war, catching up those young boys who are just as broken and lost as they are.
Although their instincts are dulled by melancholy, the Chapter is adept at forward thinking and planning. It is this trait, along with the low value they put on their own lives, that makes the Waste Walkers among the most popular Chapters to the Imperial Guard during a Crusade.
The ordinary soldier knows that these morose Astartes will not throw a life away for honour or passion, but only for the sake of grim necessity.
Members of the Waste Walkers are not so much recruited, as they are more adopted. As each recruit is an orphan, a neophyte is assigned to a squad which serves as his family in all sense of the word. They raise him, teach him, and shelter him. Sometimes they even forsake their born names to take on new ones given to them by the squad.
The current Chapter Master Elijah Shifrin is from a long line of commanders groomed by the last Chapter Master specifically for command. His mind is precise, clockwork, possessing no emotion to keep him distracted. He aims to bring the Waste Walkers to where they are needed most, to aid the Imperium in the most meaningful way. His mission is doomed for failure however, as he has set the Chapter to help Imperial Guard forces on the Eastern Fringe against the encroaching Tyranid menace. It will not be long until constant battle dwindles down this under strength Chapter into nothingness.
Notable Campaigns[edit | edit source]
M41.876:The War Over Tehess Iliot. The campaign over the planet of Tehess Iliot was the defining battle in which Chapter Master Elijah Shirfrin demonstrated himself as the true leader of the Chapter. The Waste Walkers arrived at Tehess to find the planet had been overtaken by a Slaaneshi warband known as the Silver Spears. Analyzing weaknesses in the makeup of the enemy force, he was able to pinpoint where the Chapter needed to deploy to ensure victory.