Marsh Lions

The Marsh Lions are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of an unknown founding and officially a successor chapter to the Dark Angels Legion.

## Chapter History

### Origins

The Chapter was created in secret by the Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl his underling, Zane Gergilus as an early experiment on the Primaris Project. Using a Dark Angels Fallen, Baraquel Ganymal, desperate for redemption they gathered Dark Angel Gene-Seed to experiment on. The gathered Gene-Seed however was particularly unstable and unfit for the experiments, leading Cawl and Gergilus to combine the Gene-Seed with another more stable variant, the Gene-Seed of Mortarion, The Prince of Decay and the Primarch of the Traitor Death Guard Space Marine Legion. As the Gene-Seeds combined, it started mutating even more rapidly until it suddenly stabilized. Gergilus worked rigorously to decipher the mutations, discovering the X-Mutation that allowed the Gene-Seed to be compatible with certain female genes.

Gergilus and Cawl intrigued by the X-Mutation scoured the Imperial Archives for planets containing a large population of these females, finding the planet known as Arc in the Sistec Sector. Cawl tasked Gergilus to travel to this planet and perform a field test with the Gene-Seed, hoping its research might help in his Primaris Project.

In order to keep the experiment secret, the former Dark Angel Baraquel was made the first Chapter Master of the Marsh Lions chapter and oversaw the creation of the Marsh Lions 1st Company, The Keepers. These first 100 Astartes was created on a secret space station, bred from captives and prisoners from surrounding systems. Baraquel Ganymal made sure to pick the most brutal and cunning recruits for his trails, pitting them in various deadly challenges against each other, known as "The Culling". Once Baraquel was satisfied with their training, he and Zame Gergilus set off to the Sistec Sector.

### The Pilgrimage

The journey to Sistec Sector took the Baraquel far longer than expected, for years Baraquel and his Keepers ventured through the warp in an event known to the Chapter as The Pilgrimage. During this travel they fought off numerous demon attacks but not much more of this event is known or detailed in the Chapter records as many of The Keepers took a vow of silence during the Pilgrimage, forbidding them from ever speaking again.

As they left the warp over the planet Arc Zane Gergilus and Baraquel immediately setting up their base of operations on the red moon of Arc, Vauceluris.

### The First Culling

Shortly after setting up their Fortress-Monastery on the rust fields of Vauceluris Baraquel travelled to the surface of Arc, meeting the planetary governor and collecting his tithe of humans both male and female to participate in the first founding, among them was the governors own daughter, Joanna Romelia and Kaphikas Kane. After the Culling the survivors formed the Neophytes of the 1st Company.

## Organization

The Chapter is organized into 10 Companies, although these do not rigorously follow the Codex Astartes.

* Chapter HQ
	+ Baraquel Ganymal (former)
	+ Joanna Romelia
* 1st Company (Veteran)
	+ Company HQ
		- Captain Galeo Corteius
	+ The Keepers
		- Veteran Terminator Squads (2)
			* Lieutenant Luther Shohrot
		- Veteran Assault Squads (2)
			* Lieutenant Lady Grescaal
		- Veteran Tactical Squads (2)
			* Lieutenant Fo Oraeniles
* 2nd Company (Assault)
	+ Company HQ
		- Captain Millo Strakers
	+ 1st Drop Troop
		- Tactical Squads (2)
	+ 2nd Drop Troop
		- Tactical Squads (2)
	+ Millos Stalkers
		- Assault Squad (3)
		- Veteran Scout Squad
		- Outriders (3)
* 3rd Company (Battle)
	+ Company HQ
		- Captain Kaphikas Kane
		- Apothecary Ada’du Oortal
	+ Terminator Squads (2)
	+ Tactical Marine Squads (6)
* 4th Company (Battle)
	+ Company HQ
		- Captain Dorotea Wyld
	+ Tactical Marine Squads (6)
* 5th Company (Battle)
	+ Company HQ
		- Captain Herrir von Bolt
	+ Tactical Marine Squads (5)
		- Lieutenant Seleia Grimm
		- Lieutenant Souz Scroff
	+ Assault Dragoon Squads (1)
* 6th Company (Support)
* 7th Company (Reserve)
* 8th Company (Reserve)
* 9th Company (Reserve)
* 10th Company (Recon)
	+ Company HQ
		- Captain Hagez Fitzis
	+ 1st Recon
		- Scout Squads (2)
		- Scout Bike Squad (1)
	+ 2nd Recon
		- Scout Squads (2)
		- Scout Bike Squad (1)
	+ Recon Support
		- Storm Land Speeder (1)
		- Deep Recon Scout Squad (1)