Reclaimers - Notable Campaigns: Defence of Corania (Unknown Date.M41) – The Tyranids attacked the Imperial world of Corania without warning, forcing every Astra Militarum regiment on the planet to resist ferociously for nearly a year before the fleet from the Navis Imperialis and several companies drawn from both the Reclaimers and the Swords of the Emperor Chapters turned the tide.Interitus Prime Incident (928.M41) – A Reclaimers company under the command of Captain Gries, based on the strike cruiser Revenant, was tasked to assist the Adeptus Mechanicus with the investigation of a mysterious subterranean archeotech structure on the desolate world of Interitus Prime. Upon arriving in the system, they detected the destruction of an orbiting Mechanicus transport by a Night Scythe. Captain Gries brought their battle barge close and boarded. As they were placing demolition charges to destroy the foul xenos spacecraft, Commissar Ciaphas Cain burst forth unexpectedly from a Warp portal, fleeing for his life from the Necron tomb complex below. He was the only survivor as the Adeptus Mechanicus Explorator team he was attached to on-planet had been entirely wiped out by the waking Necrons. Though not confirmed, it can be assumed that the tomb complex was then destroyed by the Reclaimers company.Cleansing of Viridia (928-938.M41) - The Reclaimers made their first landing on Viridia in Fidelis, at the palace of the Imperial Governor DuPanya, losing no time in breaking the heretical siege lines which had kept the Emperor's anointed custodian of the planet confined and powerless to intervene directly in the constant turmoil of civil strife which had done so much to mar the fair face of Viridia. The cathedral of Fidelis, always a beacon of hope, and therefore under constant threat from the dissident elements, was liberated within the hour, as was the shrine of the Omnissiah, freeing the Tech-priests to begin ministering to the city's wounded Machine Spirits with the utmost dispatch. Perhaps the most desperate battles were those to eliminate the artillery batteries which the rebels had set up to prevent a mass landing of Imperial Guard troops, which, if left in place, would have taken a terrible toll in lives and resources. The mission to remove one such battery was led by Captain Gries of the Reclaimers' expeditionary force and his Command Squad, while the task of placing a beacon to guide the teleporting strike team which destroyed the other was entrusted to none other than Commissar Ciaphas Cain, accompanied by Colonel Mira DuPanya, the governor's youngest daughter and a formidable warrior in her own right. Both missions ended in unqualified success, with the complete destruction of the designated targets, although one was to have unexpected and serious consequences. DuPanya and Cain's reconnaissance en route to their destination had revealed the true nature of the enemy the Imperial forces were facing, and, for the first time, the full extent of the hideous conspiracy gnawing away at the fabric of their society became clear. The world of Viridia was infested with the taint of Tyranid Genestealers. Over the following days, the full extent of the Genestealer Cult operating on the planet became clear. The psychic xenos had infiltrated nearly every part of Viridian society; from the local Adeptus Arbites to the sanitation workers' guild. The job of cleansing the tainted world was not easy. Fortunately, additional Imperial Guard troopships arrived with the added support of a few score thousand Guardsmen from Tallarn, Vostroyan and Caledonian regiments. Captain Gries had made no secret of the fact that he intended pulling his forces out to look for a more interesting war as soon as the Reclaimers had finished cleansing the offworld habitats, and when the Astartes left Viridia there would hardly be any need for them to continue liaising with the Imperial Guard. Almost a decade was to pass before the Inquisition's Ordo Xenos felt able to declare Viridia free of xenos taint with any degree of certainty, and the local authorities remain vigilant for any sign of a renewed outbreak to this day.Hunt for the Spawn of Damnation (928-958.M41) - Conferring with the acolytes of the Omnissiah, the chief magos of Viridia identified the source of the Genestealer taint on that world -- a space hulk designated the Spawn of Damnation. This ancient vessel was first sighted in 447.M36, in the Spinward Drift. The hulk had emerged from Warp space into the Viridian System in 781.M41. A system defence boat was despatched to investigate but the hulk had disappeared back into the Immaterium. Though the derelict had only been in-system a few solar hours, somehow the Genestealers aboard the hulk had managed to infect one of the local spacefaring vessels, which had reached the world of Viridia. By entering the Warp at the same point that the Spawn of Damnation had, the Reclaimers intended to find the space hulk and cleanse it of the xenos. But the Reclaimers' true intentions were to explore the venerable space hulk, for it would surely be a repository of archeotech almost beyond imagining. After a brief misadventure in an Ork-controlled star system, the Reclaimers caught up with the hulk in the Serendipita System. The local system's PDF commanders wanted to blast the space hulk into oblivion before it became a threat to the entire system, but to the Astartes of this Chapter, the potential rewards were well worth the risks. This would prove to be the Reclaimers' undoing, for upon investigation of the wrecked vessel, they were attacked by a large brood of Genestealers, who killed many of the Terminators with the boarding party. Commissar Cain and his aide Jurgen became separated from the group, and spent many solar hours, perhaps even several standard days, going through the derelict collection of Warp-melded starships in an attempt to circumvent the Genestealer brood. The pair agitated the brood enough that it moved away from the boarding area in pursuit, and the Reclaimers were able to copy data from the Spawn of Damnation's main cogitators. With some valuable archeotech data recovered in this way, the Reclaimers strike force had already left the hulk when Cain and Jurgen luckily discovered a cyber-altered task unit with an intact teleporter unit. However they were in need of a swiftly-provided rescue by the Space Marines from the horde of gibbering Genestealers behind them, whom they had also provoked into engaging a group of Orks aboard. The Reclaimers and Adeptus Mechanicus then spent the next thirty standard years exploring the hulk and recovering archeotech, and landed a volunteer expeditionary force aboard the hulk before it returned to the Warp in 958.M41.Defence of Fecundia (992.M41) - The Reclaimers and Adeptus Mechanicus took much of the archeotech recovered from the Spawn of Damnation to Fecundia, a Forge World in the Damocles Gulf, and the Chapter maintained a small presence there for the next half-century. In 992.M41 Fecundia came under attack by scouting elements of Hive Fleet Kraken, and the Reclaimers on-planet assisted the Astra Militarum in the defence. Once again, the redoubtable Commissar Ciaphas Cain served as an intermediary between the mortal forces and the Space Marines.Cleansing of Eucopia (992.M41) - Sergeant Toba Morie of the Reclaimers' 8th Company was dispatched to the Forge World Eucopia to investigate production delays of munitions destined for the Chapter, once again encountering Commissar Ciaphas Cain, who was conducting a parallel investigation into the delays on behalf of Lord General Zyvan. Cain and Sergeant Morie joined forces, and the Space Marines aided the local forces in putting down a mutiny by dozens of local Skitarii. Though Genestealers were initially suspected, Cain later discovered a Necron stasis tomb within a deep mine shaft, and subsequently learned that Aznibal, Necron Overlord of the Hapset Dynasty, had joined forces with a Heretek named Magos Tezler, who hoped Aznibal could aid the Tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus in discarding their flesh entirely as the ancient Necrontyr had. Sergeant Morie dispatched a Thunderhawk loaded with Tactical Marines to capture Tezler and his supporters, then, following an attack plan developed by Cain, led Reclaimers Terminators to infiltrate the tomb itself, concealed within Tezler's promised next shipment of materiel to the xenos. Morie demolished the Portal through which Aznibal and Tezler were rebuilding a World Engine, then joined the battle and aided Cain and loyal Skitarii in slaying Aznibal. Once cleared of hostiles, the stasis tomb itself was thoroughly demolished with Melta Bombs and mining charges on the orders of Magos Vorspung.13th Black Crusade (ca. 999.M41) - The Reclaimers sent 4 companies to the defence of Cadia before its fall during the 13th Black Crusade.