Iron Revenants

Iron Revenants livery shield depicting Chapter iconography.

A newly inducted Iron Revenants Primaris Intercessor of the 4th Clan Company, 5th Battleline Squad.

## Space Marine Chapter

### **Allegiance**

Imperium of Man
(*Fedelitas Totalis*)

### **Successor of**

Iron Hands
(Ferrus Manus lineage.)

### Successor Chapter(s)

None

"*Today you don the suit that shall remain on you until death. Wear it with pride, for those whose name you take wore it with pride as well.*"
— Chaplain Charon, Iron Revenants 5th Company
The **Iron Revenants** is a Loyalist *Codex Astartes*-compliant Space Marine Chapter. The Iron Revenants is a Successor Chapter of the stoic and unforgiving Iron Hands considered part of the Ultima Founding, although their original chapter records extend back to the troubled 36th Millenium, a time of great upheaval.

## Chapter History

In 999.M41, the 13th Black Crusade of Abaddon the Despoiler erupted in the Segmentum Obscurus. The original chapter of the Iron Revenants were located on the warpath to Cadia. In a phyrric victory, the chapter was able to protect the planet of Kaldeia and Forge World Mezoa at the cost of their entire fleet. Although the worlds were protected, none would return to the fortress-monastery to report losses or awaken the remaining dreadnoughts kept in stasis until the Indomitus Crusade.

Some time during this crusade, a Torchbearer task force arrived, comprised of a mixture of Sisters of Silence and Adeptus Custodes of the Emissaries Imperatus. They bore with them a profound gift - newly revealed Greyshield Primaris Battle-Brothers of the same genetic line as the chosen Chapter to be reinforced.

The Primaris Space Marines that landed on the moon found a cold welcome of dust and darkness, realizing the complete and utter destruction of their chapter. Renewing their bonds to Mezoa and Kaldeia, the marines' petition of tech-priests was granted and the Rites of Awakening were used on the slumbering dreadnoughts. It was at this time they learned of their lost fleet to the Black Crusade, as one of the dreadnoughts had given sage advice concerning the battle plans to intercept the Chaos warbands.

Over the course of many years, the Iron Revenants scrounged the corpses of their broken fleet from the icy grip of space. Their Martian heritage and tutelage from tech-priests allowed the marines to commune with the machine spirits to revive long lost power armor, relics, and transport ships.

## Notable Campaigns

* 7th Black Crusade **(811.M37)**- Investigating a Chaos warband raid on a nearby planet, the Iron Revenants were able to utilize the Emperor's Tarot, giving them insight into the upcoming raid on Kaldeia. Utilizing this intel, the chapter hid their fleet in the asteroid belt orbiting the solar system. The warband, believing their transports to be traveling covertly, did not expect the sudden and brutal onslaught of bombardment cannons from the battle barge flagship *Iron Maiden* and her escort of three Thunderhawk squadrons. After crippling the ships, the boarding parties of tactical marines ensured none escaped before setting the ships to self-destruct.

## Chapter Home World

The Iron Revenants recruit from the planet Kaldeia, home to noble Imperial Knight House Hermetika.

### Fortress-Monastery

The chapter fortress-monastery -- known as the Bastion of Rust -- is located in the deepest trench and partially built into the lone moon of Kaldeia. A long abandoned prototype Forge World before the creation of Forge World Mezoa, the Iron Revenants have steeped themselves in the esoteric rites of the Martian forge. As such, all of the marines are fully capable of maintaining and performing moderate repair work on their weapons and armour, leaving the Chapter's Artificers and Techmarines with the free time necessary to create great works of technology and metallurgy. As a result, the Iron Revenants have a sizable amount of master-crafted weapons and artificer armor, especially for a rather new chapter as a whole.

## Chapter Organisation

Like most *Codex Astartes*-compliant Chapters, the Iron Revenants are divided into 10 companies, known as Clan Companies, of 100 Space Marines each. Each company is led by a Captain, who -- in addition to his company command -- is in charge of a particular aspect of the Chapter's logistics, assists in a secondary aspect to the next higher company, and is assisted by a lieutenant in his role. This prepares the companies for any loss of leadership and a logical chain of command in the heat of battle.

### Officer Ranks

* **Chapter Master**
* **Iron Captain** - First Captain equivalent, who also serves as the First Company Captain, is second to the Chapter Master in organization and is his second on the Rust Council in all voting matters and initiations.
* **Captain**
* **Lieutenant**

### Specialist Ranks

* **Keeper of the Iron Ring** - Reclusiarch or High Chaplain equivalent, the Keeper of the Iron Ring serves as the Master of Sanctity of the Iron Revenants Chapter. As part of his sacred duties, the Keeper is responsible for maintaining precise records of the Chapter's battles, so that lessons are never lost for future battle plans of the Chapter. The Keeper maintains close ties to the Master of the Forge, especially concerning the use and maintenance of all relics.
* **Iron Chaplains** - Equivalent to a Chaplain in other Space Marine Chapters, an Iron Chaplain specializes in Neophyte indoctrination, including leading new initiates in the Rust Council and communion with Machine Spirits.
* **Chief Librarian**
* **Librarian**
* **Master of the Forge**
* **Techmarines**

### Line Ranks

* **Veteran Sergeant**
* **Sergeant**
* **Battle-Brother**
* **Scout Marine**
* **Neophyte**
* **Aspirants**

### Order of Battle (Post-Indomitus Crusade)

#### Headquarters

**Unknown**
**Chapter Master of the Iron Revenants**
**Chapter Champion**
**Honour Guard**
**Iron Captain (First Captain) Gabriel Leblanc**
**Iron Chaplains**
**Venerable Dreadnoughts**
**Keeper of the Iron Ring (High Chaplain) (Add Name)**
**Iron Chaplains**
**Chief Apothecary (Add Name)**
**Apothecaries**
**Chief Librarian (Add Name)**
**Epistolaries**
**Codiciers**
**Lexicaniums**
**Acolytums** | **Master of the Forge (Add Name)**
**Techmarines**
**Servitors**

#### Companies

**Company Champion**
**Honour Guard**
**Command Squad (Company Standard Bearer, Iron Chaplain, Apothecary, Techmarine & Lexicanium)**
**Veterans (including Terminators)**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Techmarines**
**Transports**
**Battle Tanks**
**Gunships** | **Captain**
**Company Champion**
**Honour Guard**
**Command Squad (Company Standard Bearer, Iron Chaplain, Apothecary, Techmarine & Lexicanium)**
**Tactical Squads**
**Intercessor Squads**
**Assault Squads**
**Inceptor Squads**
**Devastator Squads**
**Aggressor Squads**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Techmarines**
**Transports**
**Battle Tanks**
**Gunships** | **Captain**
**Company Champion**
**Honour Guard**
**Command Squad (Company Standard Bearer, Iron Chaplain, Apothecary, Techmarine & Lexicanium)**
**Tactical Squads**
**Intercessor Squads**
**Assault Squads**
**Inceptor Squads**
**Devastator Squads**
**Aggressor Squads**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Techmarines**
**Transports**
**Battle Tanks**
**Gunships** | **Captain**
**Company Champion**
**Honour Guard**
**Command Squad (Company Standard Bearer, Iron Chaplain, Apothecary, Techmarine & Lexicanium)**
**Tactical Squads**
**Intercessor Squads**
**Assault Squads**
**Inceptor Squads**
**Devastator Squads**
**Aggressor Squads**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Techmarines**
**Transports**
**Battle Tanks**
**Gunships** | **Captain**
**Company Champion**
**Honour Guard**
**Command Squad (Company Standard Bearer, Iron Chaplain, Apothecary, Techmarine & Lexicanium)**
**Tactical Squads**
**Intercessor Squads**
**Assault Squads**
**Inceptor Squads**
**Devastator Squads**
**Aggressor Squads**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Techmarines**
**Transports**
**Battle Tanks**

**Iron Champion (Company Champion)**
**Honour Guard**
**Command Squad (Company Standard Bearer, Iron Chaplain, Apothecary, Techmarine & Lexicanium)**
**Tactical Squads**
**Intercessor Squads**
**Techmarines**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Transports**
**Battle Tanks**
**Gunships** | **Captain**
**Company Champion**
**Honour Guard**
**Command Squad (Company Standard Bearer, Iron Chaplain, Apothecary, Techmarine & Lexicanium)**
**Tactical Squads**
**Intercessor Squads**
**Techmarines**
**Land Speeders**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Transports**
**Battle Tanks**
**Gunships** | **Captain**
**Company Champion**
**Honour Guard**
**Command Squad (Company Standard Bearer, Iron Chaplain, Apothecary, Techmarine & Lexicanium)**
**Assault Squads**
**Inceptor Squads**
**Techmarines**
**Assault Bikes**
**Attack Bikes**
**Land Speeders**
**Transports**
**Battle Tanks**
**Gunships** | **Captain**
**Company Champion**
**Honour Guard**
**Command Squad (Company Standard Bearer, Iron Chaplain, Apothecary, Techmarine & Lexicanium)**
**Devastator Squads**
**Aggressor Squads**
**Techmarines**
**Dreadnoughts**
**Transports**
**Battle Tanks**
**Gunships** | **Captain**
**Company Champion**
**Honour Guard**
**Command Squad (Company Standard Bearer, Iron Chaplain, Apothecary, Techmarine & Lexicanium)**
**Scout Squads**
**Reiver Squads**
**Vanguard Marine Squads**
**Scout Bikes**

## Chapter Recruitment

A space elevator spans between the moon and Kaldeia, proving to be a perfect test for the smithing skills of prospective members known as the "Trial of Ascension". Those who are able to craft a rudimentary suit capable of surviving the long distance and vacuum of space are greeted with their new title of "Fresh-Forged".

## Chapter Combat Doctrine

Due to their homeworld's Imperial Knight House and close association with a Forge World, the Iron Revenants have inherited a unique focus for combat compared to traditional chapters. In line with their forebears, they prefer heavy firepower from a distance to soften their enemy, immediately followed up by honorable melee combat.

This style of combat also reflects the homeworld's dark, winding volcanic tubes under the surface that are used for tactical drills by the chapter to hone chainsword technique and artillery skirmishes are applied on the moon, far from any possible casualties.

## Chapter Beliefs

Iron Revenants are as defined by their gene-seed as the Iron Hands are with their predilection of cybernetic augmentations. As soon as a Neophyte joins, the process of covering oneself in full armor and enhancement begins. Rather than relying on their bodies as Ferrus Mannus intended, the marines lean on their high intellects and problem-solving to commune with the Machine Spirit in each piece of equipment to over-compensate the "weakness of flesh."

These beliefs are further enforced by the Iron Chaplains, whose fiery rhetoric preaches the ingenuity of Ferrus Manus to create machines of war and that all should follow in his footsteps with their own works. This stands in stark contrast to the Iron Hands, who eschew the use of a Chaplain in favor of an Iron Father, and brings the chapter further in compliance to the *Codex Astartes*.

## Chapter Gene-Seed

The Iron Revenants have located many documents concerning their gene-seed, although much of the information conflicts with current Imperial records. The largest discrepancy, causing a schism in the chapter, is the inconclusive result concerning their Primarch by the Inquisition in the 37th Millenium. Suspicions mounted due to the scrubbed Founding of the chapter and their close relationship to a Forge World, bringing into question whether the chapter was another secret project by the Mechanicum to create a compliant Space Marine chapter under their sway.

Additionally, the Iron Revenants have a divergent flaw from the Iron Hands baseline. Rather than an extreme fear of the flesh and bodily replacement, the marines instead fear to remove their suits. Although the body of a Space Marine is the most perfect human form ever created, given every augmetic aid known to the Adeptus Mechanicus and able to withstand great trauma, the members instead focus on improving their suits around the body in a sort of heightened paranoia. This has been a driving force in the creation of master-crafted weaponry and artificer armor at the cost of reduced rest and mistrust for other chapters.

The inconclusive result was only recorded in the Chapter's archives, which put it at odds with the original data slates concerning their gene-seed. In a stranger twist of fate, the Inquisitor in question who demanded the test was logged at another Forge World in the Segmentum Pacificus, sowing doubt to the validity of the stranger's claims concerning their heritage or even their credentials.

## Chapter Fleet

The chapter only possesses the recently resuscitated flagship *Iron Maiden* and a handful of escort ships.

## Chapter Relics

* ***Bouclier de L'enfer*** - Wielded by Iron Captain Gabriel Leblanc, this storm shield was used to great effect against Da Burnin' Boyz, an Ork warband that had infested the remains of the *Iron Maiden* after her loss in the 13th Black Crusade. In honor of his valiant courage, the Adeptus Custodes who aided the Primaris in their quest enshrined the bones of the fallen Chapter Master into the shield as a reliquary.

## Chapter Appearance

### Chapter Colours

Iron Revenants are primarily clad in silver armor which is edged in gold, including the tops of their helmets, shoulder pauldron trim and sabatons (foot armour). The faceplate of their helmets, coutres (elbow guards) and poleyns (knee guards) are coloured a lighter silver. The Cog Omnissiah, Aquila or Imperialis worn on their plastrons (chest guards) are also gold in colour.

A black coloured squad specialist symbol is stenciled on their right poleyns, indicating a battle-brother's assigned squad specialty (Fire Support, Close Support, Battleline, Veteran or Command). A small gold coloured lozenge (diamond symbol) with a black coloured gothic numeral, indicates a Battle-Brother's assigned squad and is located on their right armorial inset. A larger black coloured clan symbol is stenciled on the left poleyn, which indicates a battle-brother's assigned Clan Company. Each Clan Company maintains their own unique symbol and iconography.

The Astartes of this Chapter also wear increasing layers of rust-red cloth. Following in lock-step with their Iron Hands forebears, the robes provide additional heraldry on the field of battle in a logical fashion in accordance with the *Codex Astartes*. The function of cloth denotes further ascension in the mysteries of their fortress-monastery, monitored by the chapter's Rust Council, comprised of the Captains, Chaplains, Techmarines, and Chapter Master. Those initiated are provided a tabard, with increasing ranks denoted through hoods and cloaks, further obscuring their forms under another augmented covering.

### Chapter Badge

The badge of the chapter is a cog, representing the Opus Machina and the nobility of their members from House Hermetika. Members of higher rank add new rings of cogs to show their deeper understanding of technological rites. The stylised digital skull and binaric symbols indicate the Chapter's dedication as the Emperor's 'Angels of Death', as well as their grim determination to carry out their duties no matter the odds.

## Relations

### Allies

Due to the symbiotic nature between Mezoa and House Hermetika, the Iron Revenants are able to procure higher quality recruits and equipment; of course, the benefits reap a steep cost, keeping the Chapter in constant debt to the Forge World and the strict honor codes of Kaldeia.

## Notable Quotes

### By the Iron Revenants

"*As the heretics have sown the wind with their cries for 'mercy', now they shall reap the whirlwind of the Omnissiah's wrath!*"
— Attr. Captain Hephastos Sturgus, 3rd Clan Company, circa M38.
"*Pile their bodies high and let the stink of their burning corpses reach the traitors in their spires.*"
— Unknown Iron Revenants Veteran Sergeant during the Castigation of Korino campaign, Indomitus Crusade.
"*Heretic Astartes targeted..engaged. Envelopment protocol effective. Hostiles elminated with extreme prejudice.*"
— Unknown Iron Revenant Fire Support specialist during the Purge of Hadon IV, Indomitus Crusade.
"*Targets surrounded. All units draw close combat weapons. End their heresy.*"
— Unknown Iron Revenants Iron Captain during the Kordobis Castigation, Indomitus Crusade.
### About the Iron Revenants

*Feel free to add your own*
"*Although righteous in their cause, the Iron Revenants are too zealous in their prosecution of their duties. Their reckless fury might bring about their undoing.*"
— Observation made by a Sons of Iron Astartes about their cousin Chapter.
"*Hah! 'Iron Body, Iron Soul,' I like that. It is appropriate. It is certainly more emotive than our own battle cry, but our cousin's vengeance burns hotter than ours.*"
— Siege Master Yermin Kelvic of the Warmachines Chapter.
"*Hail fellow Sons of the Gorgon. Though we might be distant, we our cousins, for our blood is the same. Our hands and weapons were wrought in the very image of our very own gene-sire's. We will let these vile heretic scum know who brings their doom. We shall now put twisted flesh and bone to the test of iron and fire!*"
— Iron Captain Valk Malevolos of the Iron Gorgons Mogh 2nd Clan Company, during the Naissus Massacre, Indomitus Crusade
"*The average Imperial citizen believes that an Astartes are perfectly upright and caring beings, interested in only the defence of the Imperium and well-being of the common man. The Iron Revenants are anything but. I have seen civilians flee in abject terror before them, towards enemy lines rather than face their unfettered wrath on more than one occasion. I cannot understand the mind of an Astartes, but I suppose it is not the place of mortal men to understand the inner workings of the Al-Malik's (Emperor's) Angels of Death.*"
— An opinion of an anonymous Jundi Awwal (Private First Class) of the Persepolis Janissaries Astra Militarum Regiment, in regards to the tactics of the Iron Revenants.

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