[X] Plan: Reborn Crusaders.
-[X] Chapter Name: Reborn Crusaders.
-[X] Chapter Colours: Due to assembling Marines from other Chapters, Reborn Crusaders lack formal Chapters colours and great variety can be observed in the colouration and iconography of the Chapter's armaments. The most common however are:
--[X] Battle-Brothers: Blue Primary, White Secondary, with Bronze helmets and armour trim.
--[X] Chaplains: Mostly White, with Right Golden Gauntlet and Scarlet Left Gauntlet. The Right Gauntlet symbolizes Emperor's protection and guidance of Humanity, while the Left Gauntlet, represents Emperor's wrath and justice destined for Imperium's enemies.
--[X] Veterans: Do not paint their armour fully, instead they use unpainted ceramite as background, for Red, White and Blue symbols and lines, those symbols are artistic representations of the Veterans history and deeds in the Chapter. This tradition among the distinguished and experienced Reborn Crusaders was started by Marines who originally hailed from other Chapters.
-[X] Chapter Symbol: Blue and White Phoenix, rising from Red Lotus. Representing rebirth/absolution through duty and battle.
-[X] Chapter Creed: "In Duty Absolution."
--[X] Chapter Battle-Cry: "Let Battle Wash Away the Sins!"
-[X]2 Charges of Extra Trainers
-[X]1 Charge of More Terminators
-[X] Chaplains: The Chapter is blessed with more Chaplains than average among its numbers, and higher quality as well. Treachery and corruption will find it far harder to grow within their ranks.
-[X] Deepstrikes: More so than even other Space Marines, this Chapter has gained a mastery of the orbital strikes Adeptus Astartes are famous for.
-[X] Terminator Training: The Marines of this Chapter are supremely skilled in using the legendary Tactical Dreadnought Armour,more commonly known as Terminator Armor.
-[X] Extra Assault Packs: The Chapter has a great number of Assault Packs, letting them retain a greater number of Assault Marines in each Company.
Chapter Name: Reborn Crusaders.
Chapter Colours: Due to assembling Marines from other Chapters, Reborn Crusaders lack formal Chapter colours and great variety can be observed in the colouration and iconography of the Chapter's armaments. The most common however are:
-- Battle-Brothers: Blue Primary, White Secondary, with Bronze helmets and armour trim.
--Chaplains: Mostly White, with Right Golden Gauntlet and Scarlet Left Gauntlet. The Right Gauntlet symbolizes the Emperor's protection and guidance of Humanity, while the Left Gauntlet, represents His wrath and justice destined for the Imperium's enemies.
-- Veterans: Do not paint their armour fully, instead they use unpainted ceramite as background, for Red, White and Blue symbols and lines, artistic representations of the Veteran's history and deeds in the Chapter. This tradition among the most distinguished and experienced Reborn Crusaders was started by Marines who originally hailed from other Chapters.
-Chapter Symbol: Blue and White Phoenix, rising from Red Lotus. Represents rebirth/absolution through duty and battle.
-Chapter Creed: "In Duty, Absolution."
Current Traits
-Unusual Structure: This Chapter is structured in an
extremely unusual way, compared to the average Space Marine Chapter.
-Ax Mastery: The Space Marines of this Chapter are undisputed masters with the usage of chain, force, and power axes.
-Legendary Melee Prowess: The average Marine of this Chapter is
vastly superior to the standard in terms of their skill in close combat, with only the Veterans of other Chapters being able to reliably top them. And their own veterans... ah, a truly glorious sight.
-Ship Maintenance Masters: This Chapter knows how to keep its Void Ships in
excellent working order.
-Close Combat Specialists: The Marines of this Chapter excel in all areas of close combat.
-More Terminators: This Chapter has more Terminators than the average.
-Chaplains: The Chapter is blessed with more Chaplains than average among its numbers, and higher quality as well. Treachery and corruption will find it far harder to grow within their ranks.
-Deepstrikes: More so than even other Space Marines, this Chapter has gained a mastery of the orbital strikes Adeptus Astartes are famous for.
-Terminator Training: The Marines of this Chapter are supremely skilled in using the legendary Tactical Dreadnought Armour, more commonly known as Terminator Armor.
-Extra Assault Packs: The Chapter has a great number of Assault Packs, letting them retain a greater number of Assault Marines in each Company.
Culture of the Reborn Crusaders
Stations of Rebirth: The Reborn Crusaders maintain a series of powerful Space Stations throughout the Imperium. These stations serve as a means for drawing recruits for the Chapter itself, as they are usually near the Reborn Crusaders' many recruiting worlds. Due to the importance of this role, each station is among the more heavily fortified in the Imperium, and often serve as anchorages for the Reborn Crusader's fleet.
Warden Chaplains: Those Chaplains of the Reborn Crusaders entrusted with watching over the many Marines from outside of the Chapter proper are known as Warden Chaplains. Other than their unique wards, however, the role of a Warden Chaplain is much like any other.
The Gathering Cruisers: Specialized Strike Cruisers that serve as transports for the many Marines banished to the Reborn Crusaders by their brothers due to one flaw or another. They possess the capacity to act as prisons in time of need, but very rarely actually need to fulfill such a role - the Marines that join the Reborn Crusaders
are still loyalists after all, and so the most common usage of these Cruisers as prisons is to hold Blood Angels that have fallen or are at risk of falling to the Black Rage.
Organization: The Reborn Crusaders are organized into 13 companies, each of differing sizes and composition, including several 'specialist' companies that perform unique yet important roles within the Chapter as a whole.
-1st Company: The largest Company of the Reborn Crusaders, and the main body of the Chapter. Aside from its role of overseeing the rest of the Reborn Crusaders, as well as its unusually large amount of particularly skilled Terminators, the 1st Company taken on it's own could very well be mistaken for a standard Codex Space Marine Chapter, to the point that it even has similar divisions among it's 'sub-companies' as a regular Chapter. The 1st Company uses the Chapter symbol.
-2nd Company: The Marines of the 2nd Company are composed of those for whom their greatest sin was failure. Because of this, they make up the second largest group on average, and are the Company most likely to deploy in full force, but have a proportionally lower amount of Warden Chaplains - those whose only sin was failure do not usually need additional supervision. They are signified by an eyeball with a single tear dripping from it.
-3rd Company: Marines found guilty of disobedience, yet not sufficient to earn death, are often forwarded to the 3rd Company. Due to their perceived lack of reliability, the 3rd Company never deploys as a full force and is instead divided up into individual Squads - each accompanied by 2 Warden Chaplains - and seconded to other Reborn Crusader forces. They are symbolized by the image of a broken hand.
-4th Company: Marines who have suffered the loss of their entire Squad, Company, or even their entire Chapter often end up joining the 4th Company. These Marines are often insanely skilled even by the standards of Space Marines, but the loss of so many brothers tends to cause issues with teamwork. Due to this, they are often seconded out to other Reborn Crusader forces as individual specialists. Their symbol is a skull.
-5th Company: Marines who are accused of corruption, but exonerated upon further inquiry, often are dishonored even when their innocence is proven, and thus choose to abandon their distrustful brothers and join the 5th Company. Though exoneration has been given, the 5th Company is kept under conditions much like that of the 3rd regardless, in case of them
truly wavering in future. The symbol for the 5th Company is a chalice.
-6th Company: The 6th Company is made up of Marines that have some form of issue with their own Chapter, but not with the Imperium as a whole. While it does have some Warden Chaplains among its number, the 6th Company is mostly trusted to deploy as a true Space Marine company without suspicion. The symbol of the 6th Company is a talon.
-7th Company: The Marines of the 7th Company are actually Marines in good standing who, for one reason or another, have nevertheless been asked to leave their home Chapter. Because they are not actually in need of redemption, the 7th Company rarely has need of Warden Chaplains and on several occasions has even proven able to supply its own Chaplains 'in house', for lack of a better word. Its symbols is a sword.
-8th Company: A company reserved solely for Marines from Imperial Fists descended Chapters. Most do not know exactly
why the 8th Company is the way it is, nor why it's count of Warden Chaplains is the second lowest in the entire Chapter, but then again few feel the need to ask. It's symbol is, predictably, a fist.
-9th Company: {REDACTED BY ORDER OF THE INQUISITION}
-10th Company: Made up of Marines who are tarnished by association with a Squad, Company, or even entire Chapter turned traitor, the 10th Company has some of the highest counts of Warden Chaplains, at least among those companies within the Reborn Crusaders that are actually
allowed to deploy at Company strength. The symbol of the 10th Company is a snake.
-11th Company: Marines whose homeworlds have betrayed the Emperor. They are the second most watched Company, directly after the 10th. The symbol of the 11th company is a broken bone.
-12th Company: Marines that, for one reason or another, feel deeply personally ashamed even though they are not condemned by any wider authorities are enrolled into the 12th Company. Among the 'normal' Reborn Crusaders Companies, it is the 12th most imagine of when they think of the Chapter. The symbol of the 12th Company is a hammer.
-13th Company: The 13th company is made up of Marines that… There is no polite way to phrase this, are as vile as a Marine could
possibly become without officially stepping over any lines. They are those Marines that somehow, among the entirety of the Adeptus Astartes, manage to be exactly as unpleasant and morally bankrupt as it is physically possible to be without earning an official censure from either the wider Imperium, or their own Chapter. The sheer vitriol this company receives from all quarters has led to it being sent on multiple suicide missions, yet the 13th have managed to survive and even thrive after every attempt. It's symbol is a noose, which many wish was more literal.
-Death Company: The Reborn Crusaders Chapter has been given the solemn duty of maintaining a Death Company for those Blood Angels that fall to the Black Rage while in their care. It's symbol is a drop of blood.
-{REDACTED}: A Company formed after an Incident involving the Dark Angels. All other details are classified so thoroughly it is quite likely nobody knows any other details save the Chapter Master.
Major Events and Battles of the Reborn Crusaders
- A Reborn Crusaders strike force destroys several burgeoning WAAAAAAAGHs, suffering heavy casualties due to a completely disproportionate number of larger Orks within the combat area for the scale of the WAAAAGH. This greatly worried the Inquisition's Ordo Xenos, but no evidence of the cause has yet surfaced.
- The Reborn Crusaders discover, intercept and destroy a splinter of the 3rd Black Crusade, suffering major losses in the process. During the battle, the then-current Chapter Master of the Reborn Crusaders duels a Bloodthirster in close combat, and succesfully brings it True Death, though he himself died in the attempt. Legend has it that the Chapter Master was reborn as a Living Saint there and then, in honour of his heroism - something supported by the repeated manifestations of a Space Marine-like Living Saint around the turn of the 40th Millenium.
- A large Reborn Crusaders strike force is ambushed by unknown Space Marine forces, suspected to be sent by the Dark Angels and their affiliated successor Chapters. Due to this, the {REDACTED} Company is formed within the Reborn Crusaders, and the Chapter at large adopts a policy of refusing to deploy alongside the Dark Angels.
- Once again, the Reborn Crusaders end up fighting a large Ork force, this time managing to intercept a WAAAAAAGH that would have destroyed the Forge World of {REDACTED} as well as Shrine World {REDACTED}.
- A bloody battle against the Necrons becomes a five way brawl, drawing in multiple Keepers of Secrets, an Ork WAAAAAGH, and a large force of an unknown Xenos species that seemed obsessed with stealing the left arm of every combatant they could find…. Somehow even managing to do so successfully to the Necrons. Why exactly they were so singleminded in theft of the left arm remains a mystery.
- An Ork WAAAGH of immense scale is utterly destroyed at the battle of Darkmountain Pass.
- Following Darkmountain Pass, the Reborn Crusaders would go on to destroy the Ork Empire of Orklantus, sinking several of it's major 'cities' into the oceans of the many aquatic worlds of the region. So effective were the forces deployed to the battle, that the Reborn Crusaders became renowned the galaxy over as 'right and propa' enemies to fight.
- A battle between the Reborn Crusaders and the Dark Angels would lead to the latter having to postpone their hunt for the Fallen - an act that enraged the First Legion beyond words.
- The Reborn Crusaders would participate in the battle of {REDACTED}, defending an ancient Forge World from the ongoing attacks of Hive Fleet Hydra.
- Several entire Dark Angels successor Chapters would be wiped out in a battle between the Reborn Crusaders and the Unforgiven, eventually forcing the High Lords of Terra themselves to intervene and demand an end to the fighting and a truce between the two Astartes forces.
Diplomatic Relations
-Dark Angels: The Reborn Crusaders and the Dark Angels despise each other on a level that no two other Loyalist Chapters can ever comprehend, and will refuse to fight alongside one another at any opportunity. Not even a Black Crusade would be sufficient to force the Reborn and the Unforgiven to work together.
-Marines Malevolent: The Marines Malevolent have a preference for avoiding the Reborn Crusaders, after a chance encounter with the 13th Company - a group that even
they find to be unbearably unpleasant to remain around for extended periods of time.
-Blood Angel: The Blood Angels and Reborn Crusaders have fairly amicable, if unremarkable, relations.
-Imperial Fists: <REDACTED>.
-Inquisition: The Inquisition makes frequent usage of lesser companies of the Reborn Crusaders as a source of relatively expendable Space Marines, for cases when the Guard, Stormtroopers, or even Sisters of Battle cannot be expected to handle matters with a decent chance of success.
-Iron Hands: The Iron Hands have worked alongside the Reborn Crusaders on multiple occasions, and have developed a slightly positive opinion on the other Chapter's ability to accomplish its tasks. This is a significant achievement.
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