Slayers

The Slayers was a loyalist Space Marine Chapter founded during the 23th Founding, also known as the Sentinel Founding. They were granted the Hive World of Altora as their homeworld which was located in the northwest of Segmentum Obscurus. They created the Altori Realm which came under their direct control after the events of the Fel Plague Crisis in 866.M38-006.M39 that ravaged the sector. The Altori Realm later fell to the powers of the Warp when the Cicatrix Maledictum manifested and split the Galaxy in two. The Slayers fought valiantly to protect their realm and home but were eventually forced to abandon it to the inhabitants of the Warp. This forced them to become a Fleet-based Chapter which had crusaded accross the Imperium Nihilus
The Slayers were famous for their brutality on melee combat and horrific acts against their enemies. So brutal that they were often investigated by Inquisitors of the ordo Hereticus or Ordo Malleus for corruption. So far no Inquisitor has found any evidence to suggest that the chapter has fallen to the ruinous powers.
The Slayers are thought to be descendants of the Hunters chapter, who themselves are descendants of the Ultramarines. These speculation arise from the fact that their Gene-Seed seems to be particularly pure and suffers no defects or mutations otherwise know to the other first founding chapters. A few scholars point out that the Slayers could also be of Blood Angel decent but these speculations are far fetched at best. The lack of a Death Company and the two dreaded curses, the Black Rage and the Red Thirst, which haunts the Blood Angels and their successors, haven't been found in the Slayers' Gene-Seed
==History==
The Slayers were founded as part of the Sentinel Founding, which, according to records, were to bolster the power and reach of the Adeptus Astartes after several disastrous losses of Astartes in the previous millennium. The Slayers were one such chapter founded during this period. 
==Gene-Seed==
==Chapter Flaws==
==Homeworld==
Altora was the homeworld of the Slayers, granted to in the aftermath of the Altori Crusade. The world started out as a Civilized World but at the time of the Fel Plague Crisis in first quarter of 40M it had become a Hive World with a population of Several hundreds of billions, giving the Slayers a massive population to recruit from. The Planet was dominated by harsh wastelands and barren mountains. Nonetheless, the planet was home to huge quantities of rare minerals and so became a prosperous world thanks to its duel status as an Astartes homeworld.
Altora fell to the forces of Chaos at the onset of 42M when the Cicatrix Maledictum ripped the galaxy in two. The ALtori Realm was located close to the rift and so came under constant assault from Daemon and traitor incursions. Altora was eventually abandoned and exterminatus was declared, which shattered the planet into dust, denying the planet to Chaos to be transformed into a Daemon World.
The Slayers would from then on be a Fleet-based chapter, its fleet composed of the surviving naval and civilian vessels of the fallen Altori Realm. This fleet would take on the name as the Altori Migration Fleet. The Battle Barge Ashen Hand Became the Slayers new fortress-monastery.
==Fortress-Monastery==
===Alt Keep===
Alt Keep was the fortress-monastery of the Slayers on Altora before the planet's complete destruction. The Alt Keep was built into a mountain side deep within the mountain range known as the Great Bone Spine, named so for its bone white colored, dead mountains far away from any hive cities. The Alt Keep was decimated during the final Daemonic assault on the fortress. Sol'megoth ordered the Keep's plasma reactors to detonate as the Slayers evacuated Altora. The detonation of the plasma reactors shattered a great portion of the mountain range and the surrounding area around the fortress-monastery. 
===Ashen Hand===
The Ashen Hand was a massive warship developed and constructed by the corporation of the then Chief Librarian Autorian Castor, Rogue Trader Ulric Qunduloas and Magos Dominus Vandrae Guldmann. Castor had a horrible nightmare detailing the destruction of the Altori Realm by the Ruinous Powers nearly a millennia prior to its actual destruction. Being an Epistolary at the time of his horrible dream, Castor strived to prevent this vision from happening. Meditating for days on end and consulting the Emperor's Tarot to find a way to prevent it from become a reality. The cards told him that a mighty ark would carry and guide his chapter and the people of the Altori Realm to safety. Castor secretly contacted the Rogue Trader Dynasty of House Qunduloas and recruited the Ulric's father, Thorkild Qunduloas into helping him search for and acquire the means for the construction of such a mighty ship. Thorkild accepted the request in exchange for great knowledge and wealth that Castor could provide him. Thorkild planned for the construction of a shipyard capable of producing such a ship that Castor requested. Thorkild wouldn't survive to see his great work finished, dying of a failing mechanical heart at the age 366, and instead handed over his work to his oldest son and heir, Ulric Qunduloas.
Ulric saw that the plan a waste of profit and approached Castor, who had now managed to attain the title of Chief Librarian. Castor persuaded Ulric with greater bounties of wealth and also introduced Ulric to Vandrae Guldmann, a Magos Dominus of a local Forge world in the Altori Realm. Together, Ulric and Guldmann, explored the uncharted and dangerous regions of space outside Imperial Space next to the Altori Realm. What the two explorers found out, only Castor, Ulric and Guldmann knows for sure but whatever it was it finally allowed the plan to get well underway.
The Ashen Hand was not of traditional Imperial design and architecture. Some scholars speculates that it's either based on some ancient human design from the Dark Ages of Technology or, more direly, thought to be of xenos origin. Indeed, many a xenologist specializing in the Aeldari have compared the Ashen Hand to that of an Aeldari Craftworld though on a much smaller scale.
The Ashen Hand was so massive in size that it had plenty of room to house the entire Slayers Chapter with room to spare for an additional two chapters. It's crew compliment is said to range from the higher hundreds of thousands to well over a million. These numbers are calculated with the many automated systems commonly associated with Astartes voidships. 
==Chapter Organization==
===Companies===
==Chapter fleet==
==Chapter Recruitment==
==Combat Doctrine==
==Notable Campaigns==
*Liberation of Tritiark Prime (Unknown date.38M: The Liberation of Tritiark Prime was one of the first recorded battles where the Slayers participated. The entire chapter came to the recue of the inhabitants of Tritiark Prime who were under attack by a xenos race known as the Jaemaras. The Jaemaras were powerful psykers who ruled a vast slave empire outside of the borders of the Imperium. The Slayers committed their entire chapter to the battle and eventually managed to push the Jaemara and their slave armies off of the planet but at a great cost of Imperial lives and nearly a hundred Slayers. The Liberation of Tritiark became the prelude for the Altori Crusade, lauched nearly a century later.
*The Long Wait: While not an actual military campaign, the century long period known as the Long Wait, as described in the chapter's records, were a built up as well as patrolling the nearby sectors for the Jaemara incursions into Imperial territory. Countless skirmishes were fought between the Slayers and the Jaemara slave armies.
*Altori Crusade (Unknown date.38M): The time finally came when the Imperium were ready to commit to the utter destruction of the Jaemara Slave Empire. Leading the Altori Crusade was Warmaster Himalis Altori, an Imperial Guardman of untold battles and victories. The Slayers quickly dedicated the vast majority of their chapter to the Crusade, only leaving two reserve companies and nearly half of their scout company back in imperial space to act as reserve reinforcements or, in the worst would befall the battling companies, restore the chapter should everyone dedicated to crusade fall. It was during this crusade that Sol'megoth Tarzor, 1st captain at the time, would take on the mantle of becoming Chapter Master with the death of the previous chapter master. The Altori Crusade, while incredibly bloody, ended in Imperial victory and the Slayers claimed the Jaemara's capital and homeworld for themselves in the aftermath.
*Cleansing of the Altori Sector (Unknown date.38M): While the Jaemara Slave Empire had been soundly defeated and most of its worlds conquered by the Imperium, many by the hands of the ruthless Slayers, there were still minor Jaemara holdouts which needed to be purged. As such, Tarzor petitioned the High Lords of Terra to lead the operations to seek out and destroy these holdouts. Terra's response was that the Slayers were "Tasked to claim the Altori Sector in their name and the Imperium's." With the blessing of the High Lords of Terra, Tarzor declared himself Protector of the Altori Secotr and sent his chapter to every corner of the Altori Sector to purge and conquer the Jaemara holdouts. The holdouts were nearly defenseless against the onslaught of the Slayers and their allies. It was after the battle against the last holdout that Tarzor found a suit of armor and an energy sword of mostly human design dating back to the Dark Age of Technology. Tarzor claimed the suit of armor and sword for himself as a sign of his status as Protector of the Altori Sector . While Altora was indeed claimed by the Slayers and the sector named after the world, the planet didn't become the sector's capital. The captial was instead chosen to be Braska Secondus. A planet located in the Braska System not far from Altora.
*Fel Plague Crisis (210.40M): The Fel Plague Crisis was a series of terrible wars fought throughout the majority of the Altori Sector between the forces of the Imperium against the foul servants of Nurgle. A massive Plaguefleet sudden appeared in the outskirts of the Altori Sector's north western border. Planet after planet were struck by plagues and diseases which ravaged the populations. dead bodies and the walking dead littered the streets of many worlds once abundant with life. The Plaguefleet quickly made it way towards the heart of the sector, seeking to strike at the Sector's capital planet of Braska Secondus. The plaguefleet arrived at Braska Secondus and a furious battle ensured across the planet for several weeks. The Slayers, led by Sol'megoth Tarzor, came to the planet's defense, slaying the plague infested mutants and plague marines in great numbers. Sol'megoth personally battled the Chaos Lord of Nurgle in a deadly dual. While the Chaos Lord had the disgusting resilience of Nurgle's blessing, Sol'megoth had his ancient relics and his terrible rage and thirst to spill the chaos lord's foul blood. Sol'megoth eventually won the battle after having dualed to lord for nearly three whole days. Even with the death of the Plaguefleets leader, the battle, however, was looking grim and in the end the Inquisition involved themselves and declared Exterminatus on Braska Secondus. As many Imperial assets and civilians were evacuated before the planet's surface was wiped clean by the use of Cyclonic Torpedoes. With the Plaguefleet in disarray, the Slayers took the initiative and took command of the Imperial forces, hunting down the corrupted vessels as they fled the sector into the unknown space beyond the light of the Emperor. Sol'megoth declared Altora as the new capital of the Altori Sector, and reorganized the sector in the Altori Realm which would be directly under the Slayers' control ahd took on the title of Ruler of the Altori Realm 
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