Crematorians
(This entire article was taken from the pastebin that some guy made. I and hopefully other people will add on to this and/or change things that are ridiculous.)
Prologue:
Okay, the Idea started when faggots threw around the Idea of the Mechanicus sending a force into commoragh to retrieve the Panacea and heal Emps and Girlyman. Then people called out the bullshit of how that would fail miserably and some glorious faggot proposed a space marine chapter be built near a webway gate and prepare to storm commoragh, and maybe even find Jaghatai Khan in the webway.
While that is a neat discussion and a writefag con totally get on it but we decided to make a /tg/ canon chapter that looks for Jaghatai Khan and has burned down a couple Kabals here and there, it should also be noted that it's still a work in progress and we are still adding shit, so copy pasted from multiple threads here you go.
Much of the information about the chapter is kept secret and revealed mostly to those in the Mechanicus and Inquisition. Various White Scars and their successor chapters probed the webway to look for their lost primarch Jaghatai Khan. One of the attempts saw the razing of a fairly powerful dark Eldar Kabal where every xeno inside was gutted out and eradication so complete that the walls still burn with Strange fires to this day.
The raid was meant only for the captured Archon who resided there, the forces the city had shown no signs of flight, yet half way into the first assaults a bout of warp fire blew through into the tunnel, propelling the city like a bullet. The Stormseers there barely held it back failing one by one as the rest of the force retreated. However after this point something happened where the chapter reversed the retreat but they do not wish to speak of it.
The ones present at the vent founded with inquisitorial and Mechanicus assistance the Crematorians chapter. The surviving Stormsers were interred in Dreadnoughts. The Dreadnoughts rarely take part in battle and primarily guard the many entrances to the Fortress Monastery Tsokhilt.
The Chapter is well trained in assault bikes as many White Scars successor chapters are. Everywhere they fight in the odd realm of the webway has very scarce places to hide, and the Crematorians capitalize on it. Hand Flamers are Widely used but ranged weapons are still necessary and Scouts mostly still use ranged weapons but with little place to hide the Scouts often use their Rifles while riding their Bikes with such large and flat spaces. Every Tactical marine squad takes a compulsory rocket launcher, and devastator squads prefer graviton weapons and heavy flamers.
The Mechanicus and Inquisition are very common at this beach head with probing the walls that they may and uncover some small secrets, interrogating Dark Eldar and Ranger Aspect warriors that come to close, and attempting expeditions to find unknown entrances and more. Their presence is not welcome by the "local" craftworlds, Commoragh is on the clear other "side" of the labyrinth, and the Harlequins are actively defending them. Sightings of Harlequins are becoming ore common over the past few decades, but only two kills have been attained thus far.
The Mechanicus' reasons for being there is uncertain, they claim to be there to aid the Crematorians and to try and discover any STC or Great Crusade relics from the webway and local realspace area.They do however take Skitarii on long trips into the webway and often attempt to hide things to which they refuse to discuss. It should be noted when an Inquisitor was on an inspection of the local Forge world he found the Artificer armors having a strange metal that resembled wraith bone being installed between the adamatium and the steel but the Mechanicus' official report is that it is an attempt to replicate a rare alloy used during the Dark age of technology. The Astartes seem to know what the Mechanicus is doing and often company them into the webway to search for whatever it is they're searching for.
The Crematorians get all of their recruits and chapter serfs from the rescued Dark Eldar slaves and the rites of initiation into the chapter is complete when an Initiate has finished training and is able to break an Iron chain with their own strength (sometimes the same chains that bound them on the dark eldar ships), sometimes though very rarely a fellow Astartes is rescued from the slave ships. The Tenth company is made up from the Captured space marines, usually planned on being sent to the pits the Dark Eldar keep the power armor on the ships for that purpose. The rescued Space Marines are usually interrogated by the Inquisition heavily and sometimes confirmation with their original chapter if possible because after an incident where Alfa Legion marines infiltrated the Tenth company. After 'repaying' the Crematorians after a couple of decades the members of the Tenth company have the option of returning to their home Chapter, the 'repaying' is usually not just in terms of combat but also in helping to train recruits and rub off unique strategies and techniques of their original chapter.
This brought them into poor relationship with the Imperial fists as they saw Crematorians who were not sons of Dorn using something similar to their style of fortification around the webway portal, however when a Salamander had taught the Techmarines and Mechanicus tips in constructing armor the Salamanders Chapter had thought it a noble cause and when they can help the Crematorians rescue innocents from the Dark Eldar.
The Crematrians relationship with the natives on their homeworld are neutral at best, at first the world Drevisina is where they drew new recruits but with the recapture of human slaves they found individuals with more potential and combat experience. The Crematorians demands for rations, titanium and other products they need, they also dislike the large amounts of the chapter serfs that have grown to such a large number that they have their own communities which get into disputes over resources. The Drevisians used to fill the ranks of PDF on the planet but the positions of planetary defense force has been replaced with Chapter Serfs, many of whom were selected to be Marines but due to genetics being incompatible with gene seed had to be turned down. The PDF of Drevisina Beta is also used as a supplement to guard the webway portal that the Crematorians defend.
Another occupation the chapter serfs sometimes engage is joining the Adeptus Mechanicus on the local forgeworld, the Inquisition who has a large presence considered opening a Schola Progenium in the system or nearby. The Inquisitors at the webway site have an unusual amount of Radicals among them and have called for some.. unorthodox and unconventional things which have been censored. Though it should be an Inquisitor had proposed the idea of covering the webway gate in promethium and setting it on fie every time harlequins attempted to get through, they also suggested having a Blank or Blanks near the webway to give an advantage over Eldar. There was once an Inquisitor who was inspecting the site and had a blank with him to protect him from witchcraft and while he was inspecting a force of Ranger Aspect warriors were sent in but were heavily disabled due to the presence of a blank. They were captured and sent to the local Inquisitors of the Ordo Xenos for perhaps interrogation or experimentation but the real reason is classified. Ever since there are three blanks at the sight of the webway portal.
Notable chapter members:
Chapter master Aetius Vaxillius: He was kidnapped from a feral world when he was a child, after being rescued he excelled in his training and was extremely clever regarding tactics and was able to get promoted to Captain very early already having many achievements to his name.
He was promoted to Chapter master after the Major campaign against Orks leading a small waagh attempting to take the Crematorian Homeworld and the nearby Forgeworld. They did better than expected against the Orks but they relied on Bikes and hit and run tactics and suffered losses. The current Chapter Master at the Time had lost his life against the Orks, it was then Aetius Vaxillius became Chaptermaster. It was then later discovered the Orks were lead there by Craftworld Eldar from Biel-tan looking to weaken their defenses on the webway gate. The Battle ended as the new Chapter Master Aetius Vaxillius threatened the Eldar that all soul stones they had collected would be crushed should they continue fighting. This seemingly worked but exact records of what happened after these events are somewhat unknown (probably on purpose).
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Local ForgeWorld:
Drevinsina Omega
A warm climate, covered in a mutated land Coral and fungi that grows on it, with the coral breaking in on themselves die and eventually after millennia form stalactites and other cave formations from the corpses leaving large cave passages all over the planet where Dark Eldar used these hidden passageways to hide and stage raids. When Explorators arrived at the small planet the skitarii had launched attacks on the Dark Eldar by collapsing many of the caves and eventually the Dark Eldar were defeated. Many of the tunnels were inhabited by humans even before the arrival of Dark Eldar or some Magos speculate that the Humans are descended from Dark Eldar slaves that escaped. The Humans there are small in number and survive on edible Fungi and animals that also ate said fungi, all Humans had some knowledge of Machinery because the Chiefs had Bionic eyes that allowed them to see in the dark, with the arrival of the Adeptus Mechanicus to setup a forge world they had easily been able to incorporate many of the people into the Machine Cult.
The Arrival of the Adeptus Mechanicus has more to it then the eye sees, in the old caverns many Adepts have secret workshops away from the prying eyes of the Inquisition where they do things that they would rather not let others know, what it is no one but them knows. The Planet was for a long time classified as a Feral World but then with the arrival of the Adeptus Mechanicus as a forge world. It's main exports are much of the Equipment and Supplies necessary for Astartes including their Gravity and flamer weapons , some edible fungi is shipped out but most find the taste foul and triggers vomiting.
Chapter Homeworld: Drevinsina Beta A Tiaga mountainous world covered in snow. it is an agriworld that specializes in hardwoods, resins, and titanium. The hardwood, comparable to Nalwood, is often made into the wood stocks for the more regal Guard regiments. Along the equator is a ring of broad valleys, seemingly carved from some ancient apocalyptic weapon. It seems the portal was built afterword, as it lies on a granite mesa uncovered by the old scouring. The people there live rustically but often get into fights with many rescued refugee settlements and the Crematorians as well.
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Chapter Mutations:
They do not coagulate wounds like other Astartes do, this is in actuality an advantage against the Dark Eldar who use poison that would stay inside the body if not bled out.
One of their progonoids takes twice as long to be harvested, this makes it hard for them to expand quickly after losing a large number.