The Red Scorpions are a fleet-based Chapter whose founding and gene-lineage have been lost to record, a mystery the Chapter itself makes no effort to solve. What defines them instead is their fanatical devotion to purity, of gene-seed, of doctrine and of the human form. Their progenoid glands are said to retain a purity far exceeding that of almost any other Chapter, a sanctity they guard with near-religious zeal.
With no home world to anchor them, the Red Scorpions wage a perpetual crusade from their fleet, striking wherever the Emperor's enemies are found. They adhere to the Codex Astartes with a precision that reportedly exceeds even that of the Ultramarines, and they hold abhumans, mutants and xenos in absolute contempt, refusing any alliance that might compromise their bloodline or their beliefs.
Under commanders such as Lord High Commander Carab Culln, the Chapter has fought across countless war zones, including the fratricidal bloodletting of the Badab War, where they stood firmly with the loyalist cause. Clad in pale grey and gold and bearing the sigil of the red scorpion, they are respected and feared in equal measure: austere, uncompromising warriors who trust in the sanctity of their own flesh above all else.
Order of battle
The Red Scorpions field the units of the Space Marines, a detachment from the roster:
Other Space Marines formations
Angels VermillionSecretive to the edge of paranoia, the Angels Vermillion are a Blood Angels successor who bear their bloodline's curse in bleak isolation, shunning their brother Chapters and guarding their darkest secrets with quiet menace.
Angels of AbsolutionThe Angels of Absolution are a Second Founding successor of the Dark Angels who wear their gene-sire's shame more lightly than any of their kin. Armoured in stark bone-white, they hold the singular conviction that their sins were washed clean in the fires of Caliban's fall, and so they have set aside the very name of the Unforgiven. Serene where other successors are haunted, they nonetheless ride to the secret war with undimmed resolve, hunting the Fallen not to purchase their own salvation but because justice demands the guilty answer for their crimes.
Angels of VengeanceThe Angels of Vengeance are among the grimmest of the Unforgiven, a Second Founding successor of the Dark Angels who wage the secret hunt for the Fallen with a cold, unrelenting fury. Clad in armour of funereal black, they are austere even by the standards of their tormented lineage, speaking little and forgiving nothing. Where their parent Chapter cloaks its shame in ritual, the Angels of Vengeance carry theirs like a drawn blade, and they will cross any gulf and shatter any oath of secrecy to see a single Fallen dragged before the Inner Circle.
Black TemplarsZealous crusaders without a true homeworld, the Black Templars roam the stars in vast fleets, purging heresy and xenos wherever they are found. Sworn to unending crusade in the name of the Emperor, they answer doubt with faith and the sword, the most relentless holy warriors of the Adeptus Astartes.
Blood AngelsNoble and haunted, the Blood Angels wage constant war against the twin genetic curses of thirst and rage inherited from their martyred primarch Sanguinius. From the blasted world of Baal they answer the Imperium's darkest calls, warriors of aching beauty forever poised on the edge of the abyss within.
Carcharodons AstraGrey ghosts of the void, the Carcharodons emerge from the darkness between the stars to slaughter the enemies of Mankind, then vanish once more. Few know their origins, and fewer still survive their coming.
Crimson FistsBattered but unbroken, the Crimson Fists rose from the ashes of near-extinction to become a byword for defiance. Sons of Dorn, they fight on when all hope is spent.
Dark AngelsThe secretive First Legion, the Dark Angels wage two wars at once: one for the Imperium, and a hidden one to hunt down the traitors of their own broken past. Knightly, disciplined, and consumed by ancient guilt, they pursue the Fallen across ten thousand years, guarding a shame no outsider must ever learn.
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