Educators

Educators armorial with Chapter iconography.

An Educators Primaris Vanguard Marine.

### **Specialty**

Information Gathering, Support Missions, Extended Unsupported Operations within Hostile Domains, Strategic Decapitation Strikes, Covert Operations

### **Colours**

Bone White and Dark Green

" *Knowledge is power! Ignorance is death!*"
— Unnamed Battle Brother of the Educators.
The **Educators** are a small and secretive loyalist non-*Codex* compliant Space Marine Successor Chapter created from an unstated lineage and compose entirely of newly revealed Vanguard Space Marines. Due to similarity of the Gene-Seed it is believed that the Chapter was originated from the Mentors, but this is not entirely confirmed by the Adeptus Mechanicus.

## Chapter History

The Educators was founded during the Ultima Founding in 999.M41 and has since it's creation been in the greatest secret stationed on the small Space Hulk *Dark Avenger* in the Segmentum Solar. From their base they conduct covert missions by sending out small task forces, often that consisting of only one squad or sometimes even single Battle Brothers. Since it's founding the Chapter has been involved in countless of engagements and battles all over the galaxy. The Educators are also frequently used as advisors and military aides to other Imperial military forces and organizations.

## Notable Campaigns

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## Chapter Fortress-Monastery

The Space Hulk *Dark Avenger* function as the fortress-monastery of the Chapter. This Space Hulk is very small if you compare with how big a Space Hulk usually are. It consists of only a couple ancient ships and some other small vessels. For that reason alone the Dark Avanger is often uninteresting for pirates, traders and aliens. However for those few desperate individuals that tries to board the Dark Avenger, they are never seen again.

## Chapter Organisation

### Officer Ranks

* **Rector** - Chapter Master equivalent.
* **Curator** - Captain equivalent.
* **Vigerius** - Lieutenant equivalent.
* **Caput** - Sergeant equivalent.

### Line Ranks

* **Magister** - Veteran equivalent.
* **Discipulus** - Battle Brother equivalent.
* **Discens** - Neophyte equivalent.

## Order of Battle

The Chapter are not organized in companies, but use exclusively small groups. Each group is led by a Vanguard Lieutenant and a Vanguard Sergeant. The foremost brothers of the Chapter are called **Magister** and are used only in the most vulnerable and dangerous missions.

## Chapter Combat Doctrine

The Educators uses exclusively small Strike Teams that consisting of 5-10 brothers at that operates behind enemy lines and and uses various tactical and strategic approaches. The brothers are exceptionally trained in the art of sabotage, infiltration, information gathering and covert operations. They are often used to take out key personnel and other valuable targets and objectives.

They make heavy use of diffrent plasma and laser weapons and the Adeptus Mechanicus frequently give new and advanced prototypes for the Chapter to use.

## Chapter Fleet

The Chapter uses a small flottila of Gladius-class Frigates. These small ships has been chosen by the Educators because they fits with their tactics and prefered ways of war.

### Notable Vessels

* **Herald of Terra** - This frigate was a part of a small strike force that destroyed a large fleet of heretical vessels.
* **Carnage of Heretics** - During a operation deep in Tau-controlled territory this alone frigate came across and disabled a Tau capital battleship.
* **Pursuer of Shadows** - The crew of this vessel sacrificed themselves during a battle against a Dark Eldar rading force by ram and destroyed the enemy flag ship.

## Chapter Beliefs

The brothers of the Educators are devoted servants of the God-Emperor of Mankind. They consider themselves personally blessed by Him and this makes them believe to be in His devine light. This belive makes the brothers of the Chapter very pious, on the verge of almost beliving to be divine themselves.

## Chapter Gene-Seed

It is belived that the Educators Gene-Seed is originated from the Mentors. However the Mentors do not have any known successors chapters. But the similarities between this two Chapters are stunning and according to the Adeptus Mechanicum, they suspect that there is an connection.

The Gene-Seed of the Educators are making them extremely intelligent and and it is possible to compare each brother with a experienced professor of military history, psychology and physics. In addition to this so are the brothers created with the same combat experience as an 1st company Firstborn Battle-Brother with decades of service. This making them exceptionally lethal on the battlefield.

## Recruitment

The Educators are extremely selective when choosing a new brother and in can take decades for the Chapter to find a sutiable candidate, and the process for a aspirant to be accepted usually takes several standard years. This makes the Chapter constant understrength. Usually new brothers are recruited from diffrent worlds within the Segmentum Solar.

## Notable Educators

* **Marcello Falaguerra** - The current Rector (Chapter Master) of the Educators. He is a master of military strategy and a fearsome warrior. When in battle he uses his mastercrafted Grav-Gun, the **Dead Skull**.

## Notable Chapter Relics

* **The Undertaker** - This relic Power Sword has been with the Chapter since it's founding.

## Chapter Appearance

### Chapter Colours

The Mark X Phobos Power Armour of the Chapter are mainly painted in bone white. The helmet, pauldrons and vanbraces are painted dark green. There are no markings of which detachment the brothers belong to or any rank on their armour, except for the Chapter Badge that´s painted in white on both pauldrons.

All brothers use weapons commonly used by Vanguard Space Marines, but prefer to use plasma and laser weapons.

### Chapter Badge

The Chapter Badge of the Educators is a white owl.

## Relations

The Chapter have a very close ties with the Adeptus Mechanicus.

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

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