Ice Bears

The Ice Bears are a loyalist chapter of the 9th Founding. The Ice Bears are stationed on the bleak Mining World of Ursidia, the only moon of the Hive World of Kreghstat. The Chapter was specifically created to operate on cold climate worlds, especially those covered by eternal darkness, in many ways they serve as a more powerful parallel of the Kreghstat Guard regiment of the Atra Militarum. However, unlike the Kreghstat Guard, the Ice Bears fight on worlds whose circumstances are too harsh for normal humans to survive upon.
==Chapter History==
The Ice Bears are a chapter of the 9th Founding created on the barren, frozen mining world of Ursidia. This chapter was created specifically to be able to survive the harshest conditions possible, the polluted Ursidia served as the perfect training ground for this new chapter. The Ice Bears were created using the gene-seed of the White Scars Chapter, their Chapter Master Ivan Tiberius, was in actuality a member of the highborn Tiberius Family, the planetary governors of the hive world Kreghstat, the planet which Ursidia orbited. Due to the distance of Ursidia from the Ragnar System's star, it is blanketed in eternal night and perpetual cold, plus, the heavily industrialized world is continuously covered in a thick smog from all of the technology used to keep the dying miners from freezing to death as they smash through the dead permafrost in search of rare minerals and metals.