Red Scorpions - Chapter Homeworld: For the first several standard millennia of its existence, the Red Scorpions was exclusively a fleet-based Chapter. Its two battle barges, the Sword of Ordon and Auel's Bane, have long served as focal points of its fleet. The Red Scorpions' reserves were generally divided between the two, so that in the event one was lost, the Chapter would not be decimated.While the lord high commanders were well aware of the risks that this entailed, they were unwilling to establish a planetary foothold as the Chapter was always on the move conducting its Imperial Crusades. During its extended crusade into the Ordon Rift, the Chapter seized control of the Feral World of Zaebus Minoris. It also constructed a battle station -- Vigil -- which remains in orbit around the planet and serves as the Chapter's fortress-monastery.Since that time, the Red Scorpions have maintained the highest levels of secrecy about their holding. Of the few outsiders that are aware -- mostly high-ranking members of the Adeptus Administratum -- none know the Warp routes to reach the world. Travel through the Ordon Rift is a treacherous undertaking. Without knowing the precise routes, a journey to the world through the Immaterium entails substantial risk.Prior to securing Zaebus Minoris, the Red Scorpions Chapter recruited the spiritually and physically purest candidates it could find from throughout the galaxy. Since seizing control of the world in the 39th Millennium, the vast majority of its new initiates have come from the native feral tribes. Only the most heroic and pure of potential candidates that the Red Scorpions encounter elsewhere are even considered for initiation.The small, arid world of Zaebus Minoris is inhabited by a primitive, pre-industrial Human culture of roughly the Bronze Age level of technological development. Missionaria Galaxia reports indicate that these tribes each have a central temple complex, at which each newborn male child is presented to the gods for their approval.On the first full moon of the newborn's life it is presented to the high priest and placed upon the temple's stone altar. The tribesmen believe that the gods look down from the moon in judgement upon their children. In the night, those that are judged inadequate die (usually from exposure).Most are allowed to live, the infant being returned to its father at dawn to begin a normal life amongst the tribe. A few -- those judged to be the very best by the high priest -- are taken by the gods. For a tribe this is the greatest honour and shows they have the gods' blessing. All tribes hope that their children will be taken, to live amongst the gods as one of them.Of course those children that go missing are indeed taken, selected by the Red Scorpions' Apothecaries after vigorous genetic screening, to begin the process of becoming a Space Marine at the Red Scorpions' fortress-monastery, the orbiting battle-station Vigil.As these newborn recruits have had no experience of their primitive culture they carry none of this cultural baggage with them. As they grow they will have no memory of their parents, background or culture, and life within the Chapter will be all each recruit ever knows.Because recruits are inducted at an early age, the Red Scorpions exhibit no planetary cultural influence of any kind, unlike other Chapters that recruit from primitive Human societies.