Alpha Red Guardians

Livery shield with Chapter iconography.

A Battle-Brother of the Alpha Red Guardians.

### **Specialty**

Armoured & High-Intensity Warfare, Guerrilla Actions, Urban Assault, Planetary & Suppression Campaigns

### Successor Chapter(s)

None

The **Alpha Red Guardians** are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes of the Imperium. Formed in the latter years of the Indomitus Crusade as a recent addition to the Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes, the Alpha Red Guardians has yet to establish itself as a respectable chapter. This is mostly due to the chapter they were formed from. Unlike most chapters, the Alpha Red Guardians are comprised entirely of Primaris Space Marines who have a disliking by the older generation of Astartes.

## Chapter History

Formed from the remnants of the Iron Wyverns chapter, the Alpha Red Guardians have taken much from the previous chapter such as relics, homeworld and equipment. Since then, they have been quick to take up battle against xenos and the forces of the Warp. Before the Chapter was formed the Iron Wyvers refused to let the Primaris fight with their colours. This was by order of the Chapter Master who saw the Primaris as little more than heresy by a rogue tech-priest.

One day however the Iron Wyvers were destroyed forcing the higher ups of the Primaris to meet to decide what to do with the chapter. Within an hour they decided to form a new chapter which soon became the Alpha Red Guardians.

### Iron Wyverns

The Iron Wyverns were a successor chapter of the Imperial firsts, but this is heavily disputed due to the gene seed. It's possible that the geneseed in question is chimeric in origin but this had yet to be confirmed. The Chapter is suspected to be 2nd or 3rd founding due to their first Chapter master, Lord Cardinal Raum, being a former Blacksheild pirate.

The reasons for this change of heart is unknown, but with the stories told of Raum it's suspected that his Blacksheild band, also named the Iron Wyverns, were Imperial loyalists. This is what allowed the chapter to be created despite their previous actions against the Imperium.

Raum was also a believer in the God Emperor before the practice became common. Because of this, he also imposed religious practices within his Chapter creating a devout militarised Chapter of warrior monks. This made them quite the fearsome foe on the battlefield.

Despite their many battle honours and history, by the turn of the 42nd Millennium the Chapter was destroyed.

The cause is unknown, but what is known is that the Chapter master refused to use the Primaris reinforcements the Chapter received seeing them as little more than techno heresy. This may have been the cause of their downfall, but this is up for debate. Either way the Chapter has been replaced by the Alpha Red Guardians.

### Techmarine Uprising.

An incident that happened shortly after the Chapters founding. When the Iron Wyvers were destroyed and all of the Chapters homeworld, relics and equipment transferred to the Alpha Red ownership, the only Iron Wyverns left were the Chapter's Techmarines and recruits. While the recruits were easy to accept this new change, but most of the Techmarines didn't. Few wanted to say with the new 'upstart' Chapter as they saw it as an insult to the Wyverns and Imperium.

As a result of the treatment from the rest of the Iron Wyverns, the Alpha Red didn't want any more discourse in their Chapter so were more than happy to send the Techmarines off in a ship with a number of surfs, slaves and equipment to get by. These marines weren't gone for long as 20 standard years later, they returned with a fleet of ships to reclaim the Chapters former relics. The Techmarines had taken over the forge world of Sikarius 9 and set to work at building a force to take on the Alpha Red for their existence.

The Techmarine forces were made up of pirates and criminals that were heavily augmented. They also had repurposes Astra Militarum equipment such as Chimera's and Leman Russ'. The planned invasion of Folka didn't go anywhere, as 3 Companies of the Chapter were around the homeworld for resupply. While the Alpha Red lost a few ships, the Techmarine's forces lost more forcing them to retreat. Alpha Red quickly made chase and found the world that they occupied which wasn't far from the Chapter homeworld.

An invasion of the world was quickly set up and planned. But during this time was an unexpected development. A ship transporting a group of slaves was intercepted by the Alpha Red. This group of slaves turned out to be former house nobles who were dispossessed of their lands on Sikarius. One of them was found tinkering with an odd device that he managed to smuggle aboard. Iomra Kol was one of the few taken out of the slave ship and his skills assessed. It was discovered that he had a knack for technology that was unparalleled even when it came to the Chapters own Techmarines.

He was also able to provide intelligence about the forge world. But the one thing came up, the Iron Wyvern Techmarines had fallen to the Chaos gods. That not only made things easier for them, not only in the eyes of the Imperium but the Inquisition as well.

## Chapter Homeworld

The Chapter Homeworld of Folka is a desert world, much like Tallarn, which most of the planet is uninhabitable to normal humans. Only a few cities on the surface remain while a few underground cities dot the planet. The Chapter don't impose a strict rule, they so have a set of rules that they are expected to follow. On occasion, the Guardians will execute both heretics and criminals publicly in order to show who is in charge.

Other than the human population, there are also local mutant gangs on the world which the Guardians have done little to stop. The reason is quite simple, they see these mutants as cannon fodder for their new recruits. Keeping these mutants around but in low numbers, they can use them to give their recruits a good amount of training live on the field.

### Fortress-Monastery

The Stars Gate is an asteroid that floats over the planet. Made out of several asteroids, the monastery acts as both as the Chapter's main base of operations, and a trading hub as the Chapter doesn't like people going down to the planet or leaving it. Unless they are slaves.

## Chapter Organisation

### Specialist Formations

#### Knights of The Imperial Order

During training, if a Guardian particular tests, they are recruited into the demon hunter faction of Alpha Red. These new Initiates are trained in anti-demon weapons and tactics. This training is is so intense that less then 10% of subjects make it though. But when they do, it means that they have an innate sense of close quarters combat and demon hunting skills.

Because they are a separate group of the Alpha Red, they do not always have access to the Chapter's supply lines. To counter this all of the Knights are trained extensively in the building and maintenance of their weapons and power armour. In fact, part of their ascension to Knighthood is to build their own weapons and armour before they get accepted. They begin their Knighthood as the Chapter's Assault Intercessors honing their close quarters and demon hunting skills and training. The final level of Knighthood is a Bladeguard Veteran who commands a small force of Knights into battle with them.

### Order of Battle

When the Guardians go to battle, they first deploy Vanguard battle groups in order to soften up the enemy, secure landing zones or harass the enemy before the main force deploys. During their infiltration operations, they would then set up foxholes and advantage positions that would allow them to counter enemy movements when the main force moved up.

After the main force deploys, they then coordinate with the vanguard to set up a pincer movement. The main force would focus on combating the enemy head on while the Vanguard will focus on cutting supplies, reinforcements and more to the main enemy forces.

#### Companies

Unlike other Chapters, the Guardians have their Chapter companies divided up into four different specialities. Only the 1rst and 10th companies don't fall into these specialities as the first is the command and veteran company and the 10th is for the chapters new recruits. The other 8 companies are split up into 4 different types. Subjugation, Shadow, Iron and Wyvern.

**Iron:** The 5th and 8th company are designated are the Subjugation companies of the chapter. The primary role of these companies is to force complacence of any world or army. Mostly made up of armoured units, they can be compared to astra militarum armoured regiments. Their main objective is to destroy the enemy force so much that they will not try to combat the Imperium again.

**Wyvern:** The 4th and 7th companies are designated as the Chapters Shadow/ Vanguard companies. Made up of vanguard and stealth elements, the Shadow Companies main objective is to infiltrate and harass the enemy forces. The term Shadow largely refers to the fact that they hide in the shadow and are very hard to take down even if they are found.

**Guardian:** The 3rd and 6th companies are designated as the Chapters Guardian companies. With Iron and Wyvern focusing on Heavy and Vanguard units respectively, Guardian companies are comprised of standard units such as Intercessors and Hellblasters. This doesn't make them any less dangerous as it makes them flexible, but less specialised when compared to Wyvern or Iron. But as standard practice, companies do and often place units under another companies command for missions that require more of a flexible hand rather than rigid specialisation.

## Chapter Relics

### About the Alpha Red Guardians

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