Grey Hounds

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## Grey Hounds

Grey Hounds armorial with Chapter iconography.

Captain Galeo Bragamus, commander of the 1st Company.

## Space Marine Chapter

### **Allegiance**

Imperium of Man
(*Fedelitas Sine Recursu*)

### **Founding**

21st 'Cursed' Founding
(36th Millennium)

### **Successor of**

White Scars
(Jaghatai Khan lineage.)

### **Allies**

Dusk Howlers
Nova Knights
Storm Riders

### **Specialty**

Shock Assault, Multi-Vector & Sub-Orbital Attack, Rapid Deployment Operations, High-Mobility Warfare, Strategic Interdiction Operations, Guerrilla Actions

### **Colours**

Brass, Bone White, Black and Metallic Grey

"*Even In Death I Still serve.*"
— Dreadnought Venerable Peranum
The **Grey Hounds** are a Loyalist successor chapter created from the gene-seed of the White Scars during the 21st 'Cursed' Founding. Like many Chapters created during this ill-fated Founding, the Grey Hounds have also suffered unforeseen genetic idiosyncrasies. Almost nothing is known about this Chapter in official Imperial records, save that they share their forefather's battle lust and aggressive style of lightning warfare. Isolationist in their tendencies, the Grey Hounds will fight readily enough alongside other Imperial forces, however they remain aloof, preferring to keep their own counsel, and exchange only what battlefield intelligence they deem worthy of sharing in order to prosecute their campaigns and the protection of mankind.

## Chapter History

Founded with mobility in mind the Grey Hounds keep a fast and guerrilla-like approach to war, facing it's foes quickly and undermining them before the final strike. They employ both bikes and Udivian Hounds during their hit and run attacks behind enemy lines. This tactic has proven itself many times a greatly effective way of keeping Ork hordes at bay, destroying any chance of big agglomerations to become a danger to the Imperium.

There are noteworthy oddities on the chapter's founding files, but little attempting is payed off for it. Created and sent to keep watch on many threats, their inherited savagery came in hand and is especially effective when used against their foes. They take pride in their heritage, and work closely with other chapters and members of the Imperium when it's advantageous to the chapter. Members of the chapter are always found visiting other friendly and neighbour chapters while exchanging information and watching their work as part of the secret strategy known only as "Dark Operations" by the members of the chapter.

This secrecy, combined with the Hounds' aptitude for exploration, gathering of information and secrecy led eventually to suspicions being raised by members of the inquisition. Taking on a desperate action to avoid potential annihilation, they pledged servitude to Ordo Astra, placing them self in a better light and destroying some of the freedom relished by the chapter for so long. Now the chapter finds itself stretched thin, handling the protection of worlds and inquisitors while fending off as best as they can against the forces of evil.

### The Betrayal of Blood in 832-836.M41

During 862.M41, the Chapter's home world was besieged by a fast strike on it's Fortress-Monastery, led by members of the The Sanctified, who sought to steal gene-seed and cripple the Grey Hounds Chapter while it was isolated due to warp storms in their sub-sector. Receiving heavy bombardment for months and cut out from any help, the Hounds braced for impact. Chapter Master Madruga ordered the destruction of the gene-seed stocks kept under the fortress labs, as he suspected them to be the enemy's objective. After a long siege The Sanctified landed on the planet, managing to enter the fortress by a secret entrance, created by a traitor cell of corrupted Grey Hounds, in an attempt to corner and to cut down the few and tired remaining Grey Hounds in close-quarters combat.

After weeks of fighting, only a few loyal Grey Hounds on the fortress remained alive. The Chapter Master Tito Madrugada had already been slated for a in the initial engagements, and his orders to destroy the stored gene-seed was never accomplished due to the intervention of the traitor cell. Their fate was sealed, but still they bought time. In a desperate action, it was decided to take down as many of the enemy as possible in a final engagement. They proceeded to destroy every entrance remaining and used choke points to block key areas of enemy advancement. Still, even in bravery, one by one they died, taking as many of them down as possible, but being utimatelly defeated. This sacrifice, although wasn't in vain and as the warp storm soon started to fade away and the Hounds managed to pin the enemy advance for long enough.

The small Sanctified fleet was left exposed to the elements after the storm's dissipation, while its forces still were on the ground. Knowing of the impending doom approaching with every day wasted on their efforts, the band leader Bodah Madagoth decided to pull most of his warband and ships back in the warp with what spoils they managed to gather. The remaining landed troops would try to scavenge the ruinings and then embark with the remaining gene-seed and warspoils to the ships left and then regroup with the rest of the warband.

During the final steps before their departure twelve warships of the Grey Hounds coordinated by Captain Mor Caldera entered the System, cutting off the six remaining The Sanctified ships. Caught in surprises, they were bombarded them with all the fury and might that the Hounds could muster. The Sanctified ship Birth of Dispair, would attempt a daring move by activating it's warp drive and flee the system, but was blocked by the Escort ship the Celestial Hunter. Damaged during the engagement it's drive had been severely damaged, and upon activation misfired after deactivation, cutting the Celestial Hunter in half, merging with its hull, and exploding inside of it. With the remaining ships dealt with, the fleet turned its attention to the ground forces of the Sanctified and started bombarding them wile they had taken refuge in the destroyed Grey Hound Fortress-Monastery. The 1st, 3rd, 6th and 9th soon landed on the planet and cut down every living creature that they could see, loyal or traitor alike. No Grey Hound stopped until they surely regained control over the entire planet and purged any sign of chaos corruption.

### Patience on Revenge

After the events of "The Betrayal of Blood", 1st Captain Mor Caldera assumed the post of Chapter Master and began the arduous task of rebuilding at both the chapter and the Fortress-Monastary. Taking almost 50 years to the Chapter to get close to the strength as it was during the events of "The Betrayal of Blood", this quick rebuilding was fastened due to its close ties and previous unending efforts of the chapter who had, in essence, firmly secured its immediate surroundings. The recent events and the drive to build and change had positive and negative impacts on the chapter, who became to be more careful about it's information distribution, but managed to shake down stagnant and old ideals, reforming its operations together with its ranks and establishing a closer information gathering network.

The continent of Morland, where the Fortress was, had been leveled by bombardment, and so new fortifications were designed, taking advantage of its unusual flat terrain and continent-sized island. Under 500 remaining Battle-Brothers, and with all their genes-seeds stocks destroyed, Mor Caldera had to activate the "Dead Protocol". Since the start of their operations the Grey Hounds had kept close ties with Astartes Chapters close to their Home-World as well as other *Sons of the Khan*, this led in the creation of the "Dead Protocol", where each chapter would keep sizeable amounts of gene-seed of nearby and specific chapters in their vaults, maintaining them readily at hand to the eventual arise of it's need. The leaking of information about what transpired in their planet would put the Grey Hounds under scrutiny by members of Inquisition, who would ultimately back off due to strings pulled by members of the Ordo Astra - to whom the Grey Hounds swore service. This would also later be explored in order to sway nearby forges to send additional materials to the reconstruction of the Chapter's Fortress Monastery.

Soon the chapter their plans to rebuild would prove themselves a harder endeavor than initially imagined, as the population and their planet started to die down with the fallout of their battle, as the bombarding effects combined with the remains of the Celestial Hunted, Aborath's Vengeance and other ships destroyed felt on Armoria, created cataclysmic events on the planet's surface, bringing to life gigantic fire tornados, world ending volcanic eruptions and world breaking earthquakes. Quick actions took place and the volcanoes and forest fires that were spreading were taken down. Besides that, scavations on the destroyed Fortress revealed that a good portion of its underground vaults remained intact, containing not only relics, but also a large portion of stasis inducted humans, something that was used to replace steady losses of battle brothers and the planet's population. Further excavations would reveal relics from the planet's lost history. These relics would be claimed and traded in order to facilitate further advancements in the Chapter's reconstruction.

With their replenishment in order, the chapter started to take back shape. Knowing the flaws their previous monastery, Mor Caldera, took also in action plans to implement additional systems to halt any incoming attack in the planet, and to cut them down at any conceivable situation. Helping more then ever any one that they could, the Grey Hounds amassed favours with groups of interest and managed to make the events taking place in the chapter and home-world being unknown. Interest over their secrecy, actions and strange disappearance from its usual, though took again place on members of the Inquisition forces, but they managed to dissuade with both elusive tactics employed and though influence gathered with their close services with some of the Ordos.

Knowing of the possibility of a new attack taking place on the planet's surface, Chapter Master Mor Caldera decided to take extra precautions and greatly improved their secrecy tactics utilized on their "Dark Operations", making almost impossible to a new infiltration to take place on the chapter. Although actions to hunt down their traitor kin was taken, the chapter took an acting of weakness. Instead of actively pursuing the traitors, Mor Caldera decided that attracting them to a second confrontation would be a more preferable alternative, attracting the prayer to the predator's cave. Thus a campaign of false Intel sending in compromised channels was started. This gave an appearance of a crippled Chapter, haunted by its fragility and weakness, failing to rebuild after such devastation, but not the less, an interesting target as news of it's replenished stocks of gene-seed and undamaged vaults were spread. This, helped non the less by alied Astartes forces, became true to the enemy. The bait was taken, and just as planet saw another invasion by xenos and isolation due to Warp Storms during the War for the Mundano System, a far larger portion of Chaos forces besieged the planet. This time, though, the far less prepared forces of Chaos and ultimately faced their doom at the hands of the Hounds.

### Pathfinders

During their explorations, in early 37th Millennium, the Grey Hounds would pick up strange signals of Imperial vessels following their exploratory fleets. Determined to find out the identity of their observers, the Grey Hounds went to great lengths to ambush their observers, but were always bested due to superior equipment, as well the strange notion that those watchers knew fundamental parts of the Hound's inherited behaviours. After an entire century of observations, their identity was finally revealed, as Inquisitor Amada Madam of the Ordo Astra revealed their intentions.

Many fundamental aspects of the Grey Hounds founding were revealed, as well as an offer of mutual benefit would be formulated and later accepted. It's unknown many of the facts of the shocking revealed facts and of the precise agreement, but the Hounds would ultimately benefit with additional resources for their explorations and resource gathering, as well enjoy a certain degree of freedom from Inquisitional efforts. This would come at the cost of the Chapter being spread thin, accompanying Inquisitors, guiding exploratory and combative expeditions in troublesome areas when called upon. It's said that some companies would be divided into so many small operational cells that would take centuries before brethren of the same company saw each other, reunited with the Chapter to carry specific and dangerous tasks ordered by Chapter Masters and Captains.

## Notable Campaings

* **Second War for the Mundano Sub-Sector (012-014.M37)** - The rising numbers of orks and the overstretching both of the Mundano Guard and Nova Knights in dealing with the many threats encroaching in the Sub-Sector, let to the *Second War for the Mundano Sub-Sector*, were the than assumed dead warboss Makka Dakka rose again. The surprise attack, the slow reaction and stubbornness of the administration of the Sub-Sector almost led to the events of the *First War for the Mundano* to repeat themselves were not for the wildcard, the recently created Grey Hounds, who, accompanied by 2 companies of the White Scars arrived shortly after. During the events the Grey Hounds managed to fool the orks and aided by the combined forces of the White Scars and Nova Knights, managed to defeat once again Makka Dakka and protect the Mundano.
* **9th Black Crusade (537.M38)** - The 3rd and 8th companies of the Grey Hounds were attempting to get in contact with a force of the White Scars heading for Segmentum Obscurus. After learning of their objectives the Grey Hounds joined forces with the battlegroup led by Ultramarines and White Scars.
* **Third War for the Mundano Sub-Sector (942.M41)** - During M41, members of the Grey Hounds managed to learn of an encroaching WAAAGH! approaching the Sub-Sector. Organizing the defences on the region, the Grey Hounds combined forces with the Mundano Guard, the Nova Knights and the Angels Vengeful, managing to protect the Sub-Sector.
	+ **Battle of Udivar (942.M41)** - During the *Third War for the Mundano Sub-Sector (942.M41)* the Grey Hounds 1st and 5th Company protected their Homeworld, Udivar. While isolating the Orks from the population, a large Chaos incursion happend, led by the *Hounds United* warband. Missing their timing, they would perish to one of Chapter Master Mor Caldera's traps near to the Fortress-Monastary. Later the forces of the Angels Vindicant would make their way to Udivar. Arriving only after the fight, Mor Caldera and Nathaniel Raze, the Chapter Master of the Angels Vindicant, almost clashed in combat during a heated discussion. Just as quickly as they appeared, they left Mundano Sub-Sector in their silent hunt.

## Chapter Home World

The Feral World of Udivar is the current home world for the members of the Grey Hounds. Gifted as a reward for the efforts of the chapter in defending humanity, the world is quite similar to the White Scars' homeworld of Chogoris. Its population is divided into small tribes that inhabit it's vast steppes and fight for resources and territory. It's from this population pool that these Astartes recruit new initiates, keeping them in a state of almost total-war and proactively keep the population in steady numbers. Some legends sing of entire tribes disappearing overnight, hunted down by gigantic hounds and sun emitting enormous eagles while others tell of entire villages appearing at dawn lost comming from distant lost lands.

The world is inhabited by a vast and hostile fauna. The apex predator from this world is the Udivian Hound, a giant canine species that evolved from the original population of wolfs and dogs brought by it's colonizers. History shows that after the initial human colonization the world rapidly changed it's temperature, giving away it's vast forests and snow covered fields to a more harsh climate. This caused an enormous biological disaster that resulted in the actual state of the world.

Udivar is divided in two continents:

* **Armoria** - Armoria is a pangea-like continent, running from one side of the globe to the other.
* **Morland** - An isolated continent, Morland is a gigantic island found in the middle of the *Marina Sea*, it's where the *Death Plateau* fortress-monastery is located. The few original tribes located in the *Morland* gave the very first recruits from the world to the chapter. Later on these tribes were placed on stasis and stored under the Death Plateau as a stock to replenish the population in case of an apocalyptic event taking place in the world.

### Fortress-Monastery

Known as the *Death Plateau*, the fortress-monastery of the Grey Hounds is located in the middle of the continent of Morland. It is surrounded by vast plane steppes and has many defensive structures located at key locations. It has become part of the local folklore as its gigantic height reaches the clouds with their cannons, build on the structures that rise higher and higher behind the great light grey walls of the fortress. It also has extensive ancient tunnels that link the *Marina Sea* in the subterranean, as the continent of Morland was artificially turned into a plateau by the world's first colonizers.

It's said that through the '*Tower of Death*' - as it is called by the natives - one can reach the skies and reach '*Ceu*' (their equivalent of heaven) for an eternal life of feasting and extravagances. Some of the natives have attempted to journey into the fortress and the few managed to make it. These natives that manage to reach the fortress-monaetary are usually recruited for the ranks of the Grey Hounds. Sadly, not all that attempt to make this journey are suitable candidates and they are either turned in to servitors or put into stasis tanks for future use.

## Chapter Organisation

### Officer Ranks

* **Chapter Master**
* **Captain**
* **Lieutenant**

### Specialist Ranks

* **Stormseers** - The "Stormseers" of the Grey Hounds perform the same functions as other Chapters' cadre of Librarians, and are named after the same rank and due to influence from the White Scars.
* **Apoethecaries**

### Line Ranks

* **Veteran Sergeant**
* **Veteran**
* **Sergeant**
* **Battle-Brother**
* **Recruit** - Neophyte equivalent.
* **Aspirant** - Potential Astartes candidates.

### Specialist Units

* **An'hara** - Veteran bike specialist Astartes assigned to the 1st Company equiped with Power Lances and designated as a Close Support unit.
* **Ma'tara** - Veteran bike specialist Astartes assigned to the 1st Company equiped with ancient jet bikes salvaged and aquired by the Grey Hounds and designated as a Close Support unit;
* **White Guard** - Veteran formations designated as honour guard for each Company Commander. These formations consist of up to 5 of the Chapter's Veterans, these usually mastered similar forms of art and utilize similiar weaponry as their commander, following them in to battle and assisting the remaining of the company's command in combat;
* **White Thunders** - Veteran formations designed as honour guard for the Chapter Master. These formations consisto of 5 men squads, ranging from 20 to 25 members. They follow the Chapter Master and can provide assistance in key combat positions.

### Special Equipment

* **Power Lances** - Crafted by the finest artificers of the Chapter, they are medieval knight-like lances, based on the many traditions and designs encountered by the Grey Hounds during their expeditions and were created to replace the chapter's Power Spears. Power Lances are made to be specifically used in mounted combat duty and are usually employed with veteran riders from the chapter, maximizing it's lethality. These lances have been recorded as beeing capable of going through Tactical Dreadnought Armour with relative ease.
* **Power Scimitars** - One of the favoured weapons of the tribes of Chogoris is the scimitar or "tulwar" -- a light, curved blade well-suited to their mounted style of warfare. This Power Swords are crafted based on the design of these tulwars, kept both as a tradition and influence from the White Scars in the chapter and as a preferece from the chapter for it's design, more suited for mounted combat.
* **Chain Axes** - Utilized for their close quarters capabilities, some members of the chapter show preference for these weapons.
* **Jet Bikes** - Ancient jet bikes of various patterns and origins salvaged or aquired during galaxy exploration.
* **Artificer Armour** - Crafted by the finest artificers of the Chapter, these ornately detailed suits of Power Armour provide superior protective capabilities that rival even Terminator Armour. All who set eyes upon the wearer know that an honoured champion of the Imperium stands before them.

### Order of Battle

#### Headquarters

**Mor Caldera, Madakekhan of the Grey Hounds**
**Honour Guard**
**Chapter Equerries**
***Master of the Forge***
**Techmarines**
**Servitors**
**Battle Tanks**
**Transport Vehicles**
**Gunships**
**Light Attack Vehicles**
***Voice of the Storm***
**Chief Apothecary**
***Chief Stormseer***
**Epistolaries**
**Codiciers**
**Lexicaniums**
**Acolytum** | **Captain Asrael Cavalera**
***Master of the Fleet***
**5 Battle Barges**
**8 Strike Cruisers**
**12 Scorts**

#### Companies

**2 Lieutenants**
**1 Company Ancient**
**1 Company Champion**
**Company Veterans**
**10 Veteran Squads**
**Bikes**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Transport Vehicles**
**Land Raider**
**2 Lieutenants**
**1 Company Ancient**
**1 Company Champion**
**Company Veterans**
**6 Battleline Squads**
**2 Close Support Squads**
**2 Fire Support Squads**
**Bikes**
**Land Speeders**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Transport Vehicles**
**2 Lieutenants**
**1 Company Ancient**
**1 Company Champion**
**Company Veterans**
**6 Battleline Squads**
**2 Close Support Squads**
**2 Fire Support Squads**
**Bikes**
**Land Speeders**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Transport Vehicles**
**2 Lieutenants**
**1 Company Ancient**
**1 Company Champion**
**Company Veterans**
**6 Battleline Squads**
**2 Close Support Squads**
**2 Fire Support Squads**
**Bikes**
**Land Speeders**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Transport Vehicles**
**2 Lieutenants**
**1 Company Ancient**
**1 Company Champion**
**Company Veterans**
**6 Battleline Squads**
**2 Close Support Squads**
**2 Fire Support Squads**
**Bikes**
**Land Speeders**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Transport Vehicles**

**2 Lieutenants**
**1 Company Ancient**
**1 Company Champion**
**Company Veterans**
**10 Battleline Squads**
**Land Speeders**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Transport Vehicles**
**Gunships**
**2 Lieutenants**
**1 Company Ancient**
**1 Company Champion**
**Company Veterans**
**10 Battleline Squads**
**Land Speeders**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Transport Vehicles**
**Gunships**
**2 Lieutenants**
**1 Company Ancient**
**1 Company Champion**
**Company Veterans**
**10 Close Support Squads**
**Bikes**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Transport Vehicles**
**2 Lieutenants**
**1 Company Ancient**
**1 Company Champion**
**Company Veterans**
**10 Fire Support Squads**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Transport Vehicles**
**2 Lieutenants**
**1 Company Ancient**
**1 Company Champion**
**Company Veterans**
**10 Vanguard Marine Squads**
**Scout Squads**
**Bikes**
**Land Speeders**
**Transport Vehicles**

## Chapter Gene-Seed

As a successor chapter of the White Scars, the Grey Hounds gene-seed have inherited many of the characteristics of their common Primarch. Only a few phenotypic are noted within the chapter with it's gene-seed being remarkably stable and healthy, free of all other major mutations and Chaos contamination. It's unknown whether these phenotype differences are inherited due to the genetic material of it's recruitment pool in the feral world of Udivar or due to some ritual realized by the chapter.

There have been several recorded instances where Grey Hounds companies have bloodily exceeded their mission objectives. Whether such incidents are as a result of some inherent flaw on the White Scars' genetic material or came about after the Grey Hounds cultural integration of the tribesmen is unknown, but it seems to be undertood by the members of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Canine features, as well as behaviour differences observed to defer from usual White Scars' successors are theorized to come from the Chapter's founding, as records indicate those mutations showed in the Chapter since its start.

It's theorized that alterations were aimed to change the Chapter in an attempt to create a firmer obedient White Scars gene line. It's also believed that it did backfired tremendously, as the Chapter's secrecy, will explore and combat savagery would only increase. Even so the Chapter is welcoming of strangers, and does stabilise firm relationships with sub-factions of the Imperium and are known to go to great lengths in order to help its allies. In the end, it's only truly known by members of Inquisition and a few select members of the Chapter's Command what truly transpired in the Chapter's founding.

### Primarch's Curse: Savagery

It is unknown whether the controlled savagery came from their inheritance, or from the wild and fierce people of Udivar themselves, or even some combination of the two, but whatever the cause, there is a ferocity within their hearts and their blood that grants them great power, but which also threatens to consume all that they are and damn them.

All Grey Hounds are watchful for this necessary yet insidious savagery, and it is only with great discipline, the mastery of one-self, humble introspection and often the watchfulness of their Battle-Brothers that they can hope to master themselves, or otherwise loose entirely their sense of reality, become a rage driven husk.

When the Chapter's genetic curse manifests itself in an affected Battle-Brother, it comes on in tree stages:

* **Stage 1 - A Moment Unrestrained**: The Battle-Brother's discipline begins to slip and falter, allowing brief moments of untamed ferocity to emerge in the heat of battle. Often, the Battle-Brother will not even know that he is succumbing to this savagery, and it requires the presence of his brothers to warn him of his failure.
* **Stage 2 - Suppressed Rage**: Within the darkest reaches of the Battle-Brother's mind lurks the shadow of his rage and fury, seeking any opportunity to emerge, and causing the Battle-Brother to become belligerent and quick to anger.
* **Stage 3 - Rage Unbound**: The Battle-Brother's lack of discipline or forgetfulness makes their mental barriers begin slip and falter, slowly becoming quicker to anger and harder to be removed out of said state. Over time this makes them loose further control, becoming impossible to fight without becoming enraged. Eventually, they will lose complete control and become in battle a empty minded warring husk, killing with tremendous skill anything that comes near them, friend or foe, until they are torn apart in combat or die of exhaustion.

### Physical Appearance

The appearance of all Hounds shares some singular details. Their lack iris, slowly atrophying after initiation - fist becoming white and then slowly fading away - only showing the pupil and they all denote an appearance similar to their Primarch. As a Grey Hound warrior grows older his hair turns smoothly and becomes darker, eventually becoming jet black. His canines will also lengthen into true, dog-like fangs, a feature held in high regard by fellow Chapter members.

## Chapter Beliefs & Traditions

The Grey Hounds revere Jaghatai Khan as their Primarch, and follow many of the same Chapter traditions as the White Scars. They also maintain the belief that it is their duty to destroy the enemies of the Emperor in preparation for the day when he will rise from the Golden Throne to begin a new Great Crusade to unify the galaxy. On that day, Jaghatai Khan will return from the void, and call up on them and reform the Vth Legion, reuniting his and leading his sons once more.

To the chapter, the hound is a reminder of their fast and savage combat tactics as well as a symbol of acceptance of their own genetic defects. They would adopt it as both their symbol and name, but also as a reminder of their founding brothers and ancestors who where known as the Hounds previously. The hound also would later represent the mighty Udivian Hounds - giant dog-like creatures that inhabit their homeworld - that were adopted as mascots for the chapter and are used as war hounds and war mounts or war hounds for some of the mightiest and oldest of the chapter members.

It's known by whom has witnessed the chapter in action that they are quite fanatical about utilizing bikes and fast attack tactics. This heavy use on bikes is both motivated by their need of fast movement/deployment and by their traditions. Since the chapter's initial days, every member of the chapter is required to master the use of combat on two wheels, and as a sign of their acomplishment, they are rewarded and required to keep personal bikes. These bikes can be modified and utilized in their spare time while on their homeworld of Udivar, or as a replacement of a bike lost in action. Owning one of the fastest and most modified bikes on the chapter is a position of prestige among the members of the chapter, since it shows both mastery on the use of said bike, but also in the skills that made this bike in question to achieve it.

The vast steppes from Udivar, combinned with the non-presence of outsiders from the chapter in their fortress monastary continent of Morland, allow the astartes to travel throught it with ease, beeing able to achieve high speeds in vast distances with their vehicles. This, combined with the teachings from their gene brothers, made speed a hobby and an valuable skill in war for the Grey Hounds. When a member of the Grey Hounds perishes, personal belongings are usually gifted to their close friends of said astartes, as the personal bikes are usually kept away from burial ceremonies -- or they are donated back to the chapter, to be givent to a new member of the chapter or even incorporated in to the Chapter's Reliquary or added in to the Chapter's Armory to later use in combat.

### Self perfection

The members of the Chapter are required to practice in their free time secondary activities to improve their bodies and minds. This can take the form of a warrior sharpening their skills -- with things such as mastery of different weapons or a harsher regime of training -- by improving their minds by aquiring knowledge and by self expression -- creating artistic pieces such as paintings, statues or poems. This has posetive impacts on the battlefield and can help to combat the inherited savagery of the chapter's members, as the mastery of weapons and tactics keep them alive as impossibly skilled raging berserkers, and the sharpenning of their minds can make their tendency to fall in savagery something much harder to happen.

Aditionally some of the veteran members of the chapter are allowed to raise Udivian hounds as companions. Some of these members also are allowed to bring them to battle in the place of their bikes - in case of bike-squad member - or as warhounds, tracking enemies that scaped or as closequartes killing machines. After on of the companions of a brother perishes on combat their teeth, bones or leather may be weared on their armor or personal quarters as both a sign of affection and loss with some of their remains donated to other brothers and hounds to wich the lost companion also showed affection.

The members of the chapter utilize various forms of adournments as as a reflection of the astarte's ability and achievements. While every brother that masters the use of a bike recieve a single brass colored runestone, achieving the mastery of weapons see the brothers paint their armors' arms in white or brass. As the many skills are required to be practiced are mastered, the more addourned their armor becomes, eventually their armor will become white, filled with brass and fur/bone/teeth addourments and different tribal markings. To have an armor almost completelly white is one of the hardest achievementes, as is required the cosistent return of the brother with their armor clean of any blood in the posetion of several heads of the strongests foes faced in battle -- a task specially hard for their close combat tendencies, as many of the youger battle-brothers will return with their armors caked in the enemy's blood and vicera.

## Combat Doctrine

The Grey Hounds Chapter is specialized in Shock Assault, Multi-Vector & Sub-Orbital Attack. They do prefer utilizing rapid deployment tactics, employing high-mobility warfare by the heavy use of vehicles such as Assault Bikes, striking before their enemies have time to react their attacks. The chapter has preference for meele combat and will employ the use of many types of weapons such as swords, axes and chainblades.

Members of the Chapter also act in Strategic Interdiction Operations, and take Guerrilla Actions, cutting off any means for an enemy to regroup or restabilish and weakining them to the Chapter's advantage or before they are finally put down.

## Deathwatch Service

The Grey Hounds have a good relation with the Ordo Xenos and have both members actively serving the Deathwatch as well as taking part of smaller operations against Ork incursions. It's a proud achievement for a member of the Hounds to be selected to serve in the Deathwatch as it denotes that the member is not only skillful but trusted to carry the mantle of their chapter in such an important task.

## Notable Members

* **Mor Caldera** - The current Chapter Master of the Grey Hounds.
* **Captain Galeo Bragamus**  - Commander of the 1st Company.
* **Captain Carrasco** - Commander of the 3rd Company.
* **Captain Asrael Cavalera** - Commander of the 4thd Company.
* **Dreadnought Venerable Peranum** - a Venerable Dreadnought from the 1st Company, blessed with Dreadnough Armor following the *Second War for the Mundano Sub-Sector* in *014.M37*.
* **Tito Madrugada** - The previous and now deceased Chapter Master of the Grey Hounds who lost perished in the events known as "*The Betrayal of Blood"* in **836.M41**.

## Chapter Fleet

### Battle Barges

* ***Faith Bringer***
* ***Icon of Fury***
* ***The Gates of Udivar***
* ***The Might of Caldera***
* ***Throne of the Mighty***

### Strike Cruisers

* ***Cavalera's Wrath***
* ***Icon of Fury***
* ***Khan's Gaze***
* ***Plane's Walker***
* ***Star Seeker***
* ***The Abyss Gazer***
* ***Umbra Terminus***
* ***White Death***

### Escorts

* ***Blooded Hound***
* ***Celestial Hunter*** - Destroyed in 836.M41 by the ***Birth of Dispair***
* ***Celestial Menace***
* ***Grey Hunter***
* ***Icon of Speed***
* ***Lunar Hound***
* ***Nomad Hunter***
* ***Solar Hound***
* ***The Anhanguera***
* ***Tabajara***
* ***Ubajara***
* ***Yakecan***

## Chapter Relics

* ***The Pioneer's Honor*** - an ancient set of Mark II Crusade power armour belonging to the original 224st Pioneer Company. It still is painted on it's original colors and displays some damage that was received during the initial years of the Great Crusade.
* ***The Great Gift*** - an ancient set of White Scars Mark III Power Armour that predates the Horus Heresy, the *The Great Gift* is humored to have been owned by one of the very first members of the Grey Hounds. It was given to the chapter as a reminder of both it's origin and as a reindeer of eternal ties with the 5th legion.
* ***Thunder White*** - an ancient Scimitar Pattern Jetbike that was used by the White Scars during the Horus-Heresy. It was gifted to the first Chapter Master of the Grey Hounds by the White Scars' Great Khan shortly after the Chapter's founding.

* ***Charatran Pattern Chainaxes*** - multiple ancient chainaxes gifted to the chapter shortly after their founding, they are still utilized to this day only by the most skilled of the Chapter's warriors. Beeing reliques of times before the Chapter's founding, whoever utilizes them incarnates the fury and embodies the deadliness of the many astartes generations that came before.
* ***Grey Magnum*** - a two millenia old, heavily modified custom assault bike that was once owned by both Chapter Master Diogo Madaga and his antecessor Chapter Master Vido Yakecan. It's one of the fastest's and most resilient assault bikes to ever be recorded in the Chapter's files and it's an inspiring sight to it's recruits.

## Chapter Appearance

### Chapter Colours

The Grey Hounds primarily wear predominantly metallic grey power armour with brass shoulder pauldron trim. The left armorial and chapter iconography vary in colour to denote rank. Like most *Codex*-oriented Chapters, the Apothecaries of the Grey Hounds have most of their battle-plate painted white, with the exception of their right gauntlet which is painted in their company's pattern.

A black coloured squad specialist marking stenciled on the right poleyn (knee plate) or right shoulder pauldron, indicates a battle-brother's assigned squad specialty (Fire Support, Close Support, Battleline, Veteran or Command).

Squad numbers are displayed on the left poleyn or on the right shoulder pauldron. Within each company there are, at any time, ten squads of up to ten warriors apiece, that may then be reinforced with up to ten squads from the Reserve Companies.

#### Helmet Markings

To denote the various ranks and specialties within the Chapter, the Grey Hounds make use of various helmet colours:

* **White Helm** - A white helm with the Chapter's icon or a plain white helm denotes a Captain.
* **White Helm with a Black Stripe** - Denotes the rank of Lieutenant.
* **Black Helm with Brass Stripe** - Denotes a Veteran Sergeant.
* **Black Helm** - Denotes the rank of Sergeant.
* **Grey Metallic Helm** - Denotes Veteran status.

### Chapter Badge

The Grey Hounds Chapter badge is a stylised coloured silhouette of the Udivian Greyhound.

### Allies

* **Ordo Astra**- The Grey Hounds have the 8th Company in active duty as scouts and bodyguards for some of the Inquisitors of this Ordo. Members of the 8th Company usually are part of smaller expeditions that don't plan getting in to action and utilize their force only as a last resource, avoiding enemies and employing brute force when needed.

* **Ordo Xenos** - The Chapter maintains close ties with the Ordo Xenos, ensuring they maintain good relations with the inquisitors of this Ordo. The Chapter is known for supplying both manpower for service in the Deathwatch as well as working in conjunction to diminish the presence of Orks in many systems trough the Imperium. The Ordo also keeps constant tabs on the chapter since the events of the Defence of Udivar during the War for the Mundano Sub-Sector, as it may not be the end of the Orks on the Chapter's Home World -- completelly oblivious to the interactions with chaos forces during the fact.

* **White Scars and the Sons of the Khan** - The Chapter maintains close ties with both the White Scars and their successor chapters. Save a few chapters of the same genetic material, it's possible to find at any time a Grey Hound working as an observer or posing as an member of said chapter for external viewers while fighting on their battles. In exchange dozens of members of other chapters find themselfs directly cooperating with the Grey Hounds, sharing information, knowledge, or fighting side by side. This brotherhood is specially mantained due to the belief of the return of the Khan, as they all will come under his banner to fight in the last and greatest crusade.

* **Nova Knights** - by sharing the same sub-sector, the Grey Hounds and the Nova Knights learned to trust and to respect each other. During the many battles in the Mundano Sub-Sector, the Grey Hounds and Nova Knights gave formed bonds of brotherhood and trust. They are known to fight side-by-side in campaings in and outside their designated zone of action.

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### By the Grey Hounds

"*... for they will come back for more, and when they do ... We will be ready. We will make them pay with and suffer, their names will be obliterated out of history, their bodies thrown in the endless and cold void and their dream shaterred and forgotten.*"
—Chapter Master Mor Caldera, while swearing revenge on his traitor brethren in the ruins of the Death Plateau after the events of "The Betrayal of Blood" in 836.M41.
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### About the Grey Hounds

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 White Scars Successors
 Space Wolves Successors
 Imperial Fists Successors
 Blood Angels Successors
 Iron Hands Successors
 Ultramarines Successors
 Salamanders Successors
 Raven Guard Successors
 Unknown Lineage
 Renegades

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## Gallery

Grey Hounds Battle-Brother from the 5th Company, 9th Battleline SquadGrey Hounds Veteran Marine from the 4th Company, 4th Close Support Squad.Grey Hounds Veteran Sergeant from the 7th Company, 3rd Close Support Squad bearing tribal markings.Grey Hounds Intercessor, 3rd Company, 2nd Battleline SquadGrey Hounds' drop pod