Brazili

Departmento Cartographicae pict-file of Brazili, Chapter homeworld of the Bullfrogs Chapter.

## Location

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**Brazili** is a notable verdant jungle world that is also classified as an inhospitable death world by the Imperium of Man. This planet is also the host world of the Bullfrogs Space Marine Chapter.

## Background

Following their inception, the Bullfrogs were sent to the Celestionic Sector to assume their assigned duties as this sector's designated protectors. When they finally arrived, the vessels of their Chapter fleet were in tatters. The Astartes' highly corrosive skin had caused the interior of their vessels to corrode and disintegrate with every touch. As such, they were forced to put down upon the closest planet - Brazili. This verdant world was completely covered by a dense rain-forest and home to all forms of deadly insects, flora and fauna, and was home to a small human population.

The humans from this planet were considered to be the toughest in the sector for being able to survive the horrid conditions they had endured for millennia. At once, when they saw the Astartes, they believed them to be the mythical saviors from the hell that was their world. They sought to help them as much as they could, giving them food, water and helping to modify their armour, weapons, vehicles, and ships to be resistant to their acidic touch. Soon after completing their much-needed repairs, the Chapter saw that the humans of this world were both resilient, technologically savvy and highly adaptable - very desirable traits for potential future Astartes. The Chapter's Chaplains, Apothecaries and Librarians tested the people of Brazili in soul-crushing trials - morally, medically, psychologically and spiritually. They found them to be strong of both body and mind, and dedicated servants of the Emperor of Mankind. Satisfied, the Chapter decided to claim domain of this world and to recruit the human youth for potential Neophytes. The first intake of potential Aspirants believed that the Astartes were taking them away to be free from their hellish existence. But, in fact, they were just condemning them to their own hell - one from which they would be forced to endure for the rest of their lives.

The Chapter was told tales of the mighty Giant Bullfrogs that roamed Brazili - carnivorous beasts, they spit their toxic acid to disable their prey. Touching them was fatal, as the acid coated their bodies, killing anything that touched it. The Chapter saw themselves in these deadly creatures, and so, they named themselves the 'Bullfrogs'. They took this as a sign from the Emperor, and took this totem animal for their Chapter iconography and painted their armour and equipment in the colors of the Giant Bullfrog, to commemorate their eternal link with Brazili.

#### Fortress-Monastery

As a fleet-based Chapter, the Bullfrogs have never established a formal fortress-monastery during its existence. Due to their genetic curse, the Bullfrogs lack the resources needed to maintain a traditional homeworld. Instead, the vessels of their Chapter fleet serves as their primary location for command operations and co-ordination. Their flagship, the Venenum Anura, serves as their primary mobile fortress-monastery, granting the Chapter a greater level of flexibility for those instances when it becomes necessary to assemble multiple companies prior to embarking upon a Crusade. Obviously, this presents some challenges in regards to the long-term viability of their Chapter's gene-seed, as they required a secure location for Chapters genetic legacy in order to survive. Even a vessel as mighty as a Battle Barge could be lost or destroyed during the course of a campaign or lost due to the vagaries of the warp travel.

Fortunately, early on in their history, the Chapter discovered the world of Brazili after their arrival in the Celestionic Sector. They found this verdant an ideal recruiting ground for potential, future Astartes as well as an excellent location to establish a gene-seed repository. With the assistance of the Omnissian Priesthood from the sector's nearby forge world, they Chapter was able to have a mighty citadel built inside the foreboding peaks of the world's tallest mountains. This facility bears massive void shields, capable of deflecting the most powerful of lance strikes or orbital bombardments, as well as an array of anti-air defence lasers and multiple missile batteries. The Chapter also maintains a small garrison of local planetary defence forces for defence. These forces are often augmented by one or two of the Chapter's companies. During those occasions when a company of the Bullfrogs must rebuild their strength due to an extended Crusade or substantial losses, it is usually added to the garrison on Brazili, so that it can add another layer to the world's defences. This world was also chosen as it was found be located in a relatively stable area from warp incursions.

### Chapter Recruitment

Like all Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes, the Bullfrogs utilise their own methods of recruiting young warriors to fill its ranks. They primarily recruit from the populace of Brazili, setting trials and tests for prospective candidates to weed out all but the strongest and the most faithful. In order to accomplish this objective, the Chapter prefers to utilise an exposure trial, designed to send Aspirants out into the deadly environment of Brazili and and survive for a set period of time. This verdant world is classified as a death world - a deadly world whose environment is inimical to all human life - as Brazili is host to all manner of hostile lifeforms, including deadly beasts, carnivorous plants and virulent microbes. As long-time natives of this deadly world, these Aspirants possess the knowledge needed in order to survive, yet they are shorn of all aid and divested of all but the most basic of survival equipment. This forces Aspirants to go out into 'The Green' (the jungle) alone, to face the terrors of the wild with only themselves to rely upon for the first time in their lives.

Shortly after receiving the first of many Astartes implants, including their Secondary Heart, Ossmodula and Biscopea implants, the Chapter's Aspirants have barely healed from the arduous surgery required to receive these implants. The Chapter's Chaplains then take the Aspirants aboard Thunderhawk Gunships and drop them several hundred kilometres from their base in order to test their resilience. The Aspirants are then charged to make their way back towards the planet's mountains where they began their journey into being transformed into a transhuman warrior. They must cross through countless hundreds of kilometres of deadly jungle, swim through predator-infested rivers and face hundreds of other potential threats. Unknown to the Aspirant, it does not matter whether or not they make it to their objective, as many who face this impossible task without faltering and manage to survive long past the point they should have perished are eventually recovered by the Chapter's Apothecaries, often having succumbed but not yet died, and revived, having been judged worthy of become an Astartes Neophyte. Those who are weak-willed, lacking in faith, or not physically strong enough to meet this challenge head on, eventually succumb to the deadly environment of Brazili and are reclaimed by the spirit of The Green, becoming food for the many deadly predators that roam the jungle.