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First War for Armageddon - Imperial Victory: With their leader dead, the Chaos hordes fell into disorder. The remnants of the force repulsed at the River Chaeron retreated completely as they were counter-attacked by the Astartes of the Space Wolves. Pursued across the Ash Wastes by the combined forces of the Space Marines and the mechanised units of the Armageddon Steel Legion, thousands of Chaos Cultists, mutants and Traitors were slaughtered without mercy.Bereft of their daemonic allies, those invaders who did not fall as they crossed the polluted wastes were overtaken at Minos Bridge. No quarter was offered and their bodies were cast into the River Minos and their corpses set alight, turning it into a funeral pyre visible for hundreds of miles in all directions. The remains of the invaders drifted west, to fall within the putrid depths of the Plague Marshes, which remains a region of palpable evil and corruption on Armageddon to this day.The Imperium had prevailed, though virtually all of Armageddon Prime’s industrial infrastructure had been destroyed and the death toll was beyond measure. Though Angron's forces were vanquished, his monolith still stood, a beacon of inviolable evil in the heart of the equatorial jungle and its malign influence is as strong today as ever it was.
First War for Armageddon - The Purges: With several witness-bearing transports now safely out of the system, the Inquisition initiated the appropriate contingency. In addition to the transports and their escorting Space Wolves vessels, every person, installation, or world that came into contact with Armageddon escapees, even in the most temporary and fleeting manner, was now liable to be "cleansed" by the Inquisition. Kysnaros apparently had an extraordinary cross-Sector mandate and freedom of action, as his armada ranged far and wide, raining death on anyone or anything whose misfortune was to have crossed paths with Armageddon survivors. Exterminatus was carried out on several worlds, including the planet Tybult, virus-bombed by the specially rearmed Corel's Hope. The planet's fate was sealed when an Armageddon transport briefly stopped at the world's orbiting space docks for supplies. A number of Grey Knights vessels, some veterans of Armageddon and others who had joined Kysnaros' growing armada during the Containment, were also involved. Among them was the Battle Barge Fire of Dawn, the flagship of the 8th Brotherhood of Grey Knights commanded by Grand Master Joros, which also carried out Exterminatus missions during the campaign.Lord Joros was leading the Grey Knights force attached to Kysnaros' armada. This was another ad hoc Brotherhood-strength contingent, steadily increasing in numbers, that joined the containment campaign after the Armageddon war, along with the few Grey Knights who survived it. Joros became Kysnaros' principal advisor in the interactions with the Space Wolves, as the former had no experience in dealing with Astartes. Joros advised in favour of appealing to the Space Wolves' instincts as they respected strength and boldness above all. As such, Joros explained that the Inquisition should meet Space Wolves Astartes, at all times, from a position of strength. Overwhelming force and steadfastness of purpose were proposed as the cornerstones of the strategy to be followed, which Kysnaros readily accepted.For their part the Space Wolves, following Grimnar's commands, were engaged in an increasingly successful cat-and-mouse game with the Inquisitorial containment forces. Notwithstanding their losses to the containment fleet, they managed to spirit away several Armageddon transports, safely dispersing their human cargoes in a variety of far-flung star systems.
First War for Armageddon - Grey Knights Dissent: Within the Inquisitorial containment armada itself, dissent was building over both the scope and scale of the purges, and the violent actions against the Space Wolves -- which in every case went unanswered by them. Some Inquisitors were against the purges from the start, and had voted so in the Armageddon Conclave; the continuing campaign added to their frustration. Increasingly vocal amongst the dissenters was the Fenrisian Inquisitor Annika Jarlsdottyr of the Ordo Malleus. The attached Grey Knights were also frustrated over the course of events, and the fact that they were being used outside of their mission parameters. It was they who provided the campaign with its unofficial moniker as the "Months of Shame." In the dissenters' eyes, the situation was made worse by the fact that Logan Grimnar, even if misguided, seemed to hold the high moral ground, as the Space Wolves never fired back during hostilities.At least some of the dissent was fuelled by the mystery surrounding Kysnaros, and by his aloofness. He was a secretive and inscrutable figure, even to other members of the Inquisition. No reliable information was known of his past prior to his involvement in the First War for Armageddon and the containment campaign that followed. The mystery was enhanced by another unusual fact: Kysnaros was an Unaligned Inquisitor Lord, working outside of the existing Ordos of the Inquisition, and leaving no evidence trail available to them. Unlike other Inquisitor Lords, he had no retinue or servants, and seemed to keep his own counsel. His stature and authority were diminished in the eyes of his detractors by his apparent youthfulness, as extensive rejuvenat treatments made him look like a young man in his 20's. Yet the mandate entrusted him by his unknown masters seemed to be absolute.
First War for Armageddon - Death of Joros: Five months after the containment campaign begun, its cost was rising and its effectiveness diminishing, with no end in sight. As the campaign stretched into months, Grand Master Joros proposed that the Inquisition capture Grimnar. In his opinion, this would result in the Chapter's capitulation, and Kysnaros readily authorised a plan. As part of the plan, Kysnaros asked for a parlay with Grimnar, to which the latter agreed. The opponents decided to meet (with weapons and shields down) in Haikaran, a neutral star system.Kysnaros' mistrust of the Space Wolves was a match for Grimnar's mistrust of the Inquisition. The Inquisitor Lord knew that in similar previous situations the Space Wolves had misled and waylaid Imperial servants: he was not going to allow the Space Wolves to surprise him, and he called the containment fleet to Haikaran. As soon as the Space Wolves parlay flotilla, consisting of Grimnar's flagship, the Strike Cruiser Scramaseax, and four Escorts, translated into Haikaran realspace, the already assembled and waiting Inquisition force opened fire. The four Space Wolves Escort vessels were destroyed with all hands, while the Scramaseax was heavily damaged. Kysnaros then "invited" Grimnar to meet with him and discuss his surrender, the end of the conflict, and the reintegration of the Space Wolves into the Imperial hierarchy.Grimnar agreed, or pretended to. He and his three remaining Wolf Guard members travelled to the Fire of Dawn where all the Inquisitors under Kysnaros were present, accompanied by their retinues. Also present was the entire Grey Knights detachment, lead by Lord Joros. Kysnaros tried to explain the reasons behind his betrayal of the terms of parlay, and offered the Space Wolves peace in exchange for their surrender, or endless and inevitably ruinous conflict for the Chapter if they did not.Grimnar however had not come to surrender or be captured -- but to find out who was responsible for violating the "sacred oath of armistice." Lord Joros admitted that he, with heavy heart, had given the order to fire on the Space Wolves' vessels. In a blinding display of speed and ability, Grimnar then beheaded him. As everyone on the Inquisition side prepared to open fire on Grimnar, Kysnaros ordered them to hold. Over Joros' headless body, he again tried to alternately appeal to, and then threaten, the Great Wolf. The latter was unmoved. He treated the Inquisitor Lord with disdain, and had correctly guessed the feelings of the Grey Knights towards the containment campaign. Then, as the Grey Knights tried to psychically block them from escaping by teleporting, the Space Wolves shot four Grey Knights Justicars, the Justicars who were focusing the Grey Knights' collective psychic power, and their death broke the binding attempt. The Space Wolves then managed to teleport to the Scramaseax. Kysnaros, outplayed and forlorn over the episode and the Space Wolves' intractability, let the badly wounded vessel and its Astartes slip away into the void.
First War for Armageddon - Escalation: After the failed parlay and attempt to capture Grimnar, the conflict intensified. In the months that followed, the Space Wolves no longer kept their wrath or their guns in check, and often actively engaged pursuing Armageddon containment forces, destroying several Inquisitorial and Grey Knights vessels. Among them was the Glaive of Janus, which had been the flagship of the Grey Knights' 1st Brotherhood for 10,000 standard years. It was lost along with its entire crew and its complement of over 50 Veteran Grey Knights.The Inquisition sought reinforcements, securing the support of the Red Hunters Space Marine Chapter, amongst others. The Red Hunters joined Kysnaros' armada with their entire Chapter fleet and strength, including the massive Battle Barge In Sacred Trust, under the command of Chapter Master Daemar. Kysnaros had sought the support of the Red Hunters, a Chapter that traditionally aligned itself with the Inquisition, as proof that the Space Wolves did not represent all the Astartes of the Imperium -- but also because he was unsure of the Grey Knights, some of whom were surreptitiously ignoring the developing campaign and were slow to join it.Casualties on both sides mounted as the armed engagements escalated. At the same time, the containment campaign was meeting with increasingly less success, even as the number of its victims reached into the billions. It was clear that the Armageddon containment was a failure: too many survivors had been dispersed to too many unknown destinations thanks to the Space Wolves' superior cunning and strategy. yet this remained a hollow victory, as it made the Chapter indirectly responsible for the deaths of even more innocents purged by the Inquisition.Among the Inquisition's dissenters, things were reaching a boiling point. A widespread conspiracy to assassinate Kysnaros, supported by ranking Inquisitors such as Jarlsdottyr and respected Grey Knights such as Hyperion, was taking shape amongst elements of the containment armada. It was the belief of the conspirators that only Kysnaros' death would stop the internecine conflict and prevent it from developing into a full-fledged Imperial civil war. Kysnaros, now often counseled by the more hard-line Red Hunters officers, had in the meantime installed surveillance Servo-skulls on the bridge of every starship in the Inquisitorial armada.As the conspirators' plans were gathering steam, Kysnaros finally tacitly admitted that his strategy had failed. In early 445.M41, after 8 months of campaigning, the Armageddon containment campaign was abandoned. Kysnaros announced a new approach: all containment assets were ordered at speed to Fenris, the Space Wolves' lightly defended homeworld. In an unprecedented, last ditch gambit, Kysnaros intended to hold the planet hostage in order to force Logan Grimnar to agree to the Inquisition's demands. These demands by now had nothing to do with Armageddon, and everything to do with limiting the independence and autonomy of the Space Wolves Chapter.
First War for Armageddon - Uneasy Peace: Bjorn told Grimnar to immediately cease hostilities and to find a compromise with the Inquisition and the Imperium. He addressed Jarlsdottyr and Hyperion, as the ranking representatives of the Inquisition present, and stated that no Inquisition ship should ever again appear over Fenris; also that the Space Wolves who had learned of the Grey Knights should not be mind-wiped as was normal in such cases, but instead Hyperion should personally explain the Grey Knights' mission and its importance to all of the Astartes within The Fang, so that such a conflict should never again occurr due to misunderstanding and ignorance of the Inquisition's mission. The combatants reluctantly accepted the terms, and the siege of Fenris ended.However the terms of the truce were only accepted out of neccessity by both sides. The losses of the Space Wolves were extensive: during the 8-month engagement their Chapter fleet was decimated, many thousands of their Chapter Serfs or Thralls had perished, and large numbers of Astartes were dead or disabled. During the siege, The Fang was damaged even more severely than during Magnus the Red's attack in the 32nd Millenium. As many as four Imperial vessels had crashed into the massive fortress-monastery itself, while the orbital bombardment had caused even more crippling damage.The Space Wolves' losses were mirrored by the Inquisition. The Grey Knights specifically suffered serious casualties, with several of the Chapter's starships lost, as well as a Brotherhood-strength contingent of irreplaceable Astartes. The casualties came on the heels of the First War for Armageddon campaign which had already cost both sides dearly.Even more damaging were the unspoken repercussions: the almost total breakdown of trust between the Space Wolves and Imperial authorities, especially the Inquisition; the second-guessing of their Inquisitorial masters by some Grey Knights and the obvious reluctance of others to join Kysnaros' containment campaign. However, despite the dissent within his ranks, Kysnaros was not a rogue operative. He summoned a large number of Inquisitors, and an entire Chapter of Space Marines with their fleet. He prosecuted an 8-month violent campaign against a celebrated Loyalist First Founding Chapter of Space Marines, and had exclusive call on a Brotherhood-strength force of Grey Knights, using them clearly outside of their anti-daemon mission parameters. Kysnaros' mandate was coming from the higher echelons of the Inquisition, as was made obvious during the discussion of the truce terms among the assembled Inquisitors over Fenris. The Inquisitors had no choice but to accept the truce, yet they immediately started to ponder ways of bringing the Space Wolves to heel, going as far as to consider manipulation of the Chapter's gene-seed.The Space Wolves also had no illusions: the Inquisition was not going to leave them in peace. Even as the last Inquisition vessel was departing Fenris, Grimnar and the remnants of the Chapter were preparing for the next round of their conflict with the Imperium's secret police.
First War for Armageddon - Senior Commanders: Logan Grimnar - Great Wolf (Chapter Master) of the Space Wolves ChapterTaremar Aurellian - Brother-Captain of the Grey Knights Space Marine ChapterGustav Karlson II - Lord General and Chief of Staff of the Armageddon Secundus Command Guard
First War for Armageddon - Adeptus Astartes: Space Wolves - Entire ChapterGrey Knights - 1 Company
First War for Armageddon - Imperial Guard: Armageddon Steel Legion - Unknown number of regiments deployed
First War for Armageddon - Forces of Chaos Order of Battle: The following data is extracted from the suppressed memoirs of Lord General Gustav Karlson II.Compiler's Note: Imperial scholars often refer to the constituent elements of an invading host as "cohorts." A cohort is generally said to consist of between 1,000 and 5,000 troops: the equivalent of an Astra Militarum regiment in manpower but far inferior in terms of supporting units. In addition to these conventional formations, Angron summoned countless numbers of Daemons: a situation that made strategic planning near to impossible in many theatres.
First War for Armageddon - Senior Commanders: Angron - Daemon Primarch of the World Eaters Traitor LegionKossolax the Foresworn - Chaos Lord of the Foresworn Chaos Space Marine warbandSkchalick - Chaos Lord of Lord Skchalick's Elite Chaos Space Marine warbandHans Kho'ren - Chaos Lord of the Skull Takers of Hans Kho'ren Chaos Space Marine warband
First War for Armageddon - World Eaters Warbands: Angron's Chosen - 1 companyThe Foresworn - 1 companyLord Skchalick's Elite - 1 companySkull Takers of Hans Kho'ren - 1 company
First War for Armageddon - Mutant Cohorts (Invaders): Jakob’s Kin - 17 CohortsThe Unsanctified - 2 CohortsThe Children of Garnacea - 31 CohortsKith of Nihil - 4 CohortsTuskgor's Tribe - 12 CohortsThe Mentes III Migration - 10 CohortsSyrcnsk’s Reavers - 18 CohortsThe Stigmatus Covenent - 11 CohortsOther groups - estimated 55-65 Cohorts
First War for Armageddon - Daemonhost Covens: Inner Circle - est 20 CohortsSanctum Guard - 4 CohortsDaemonhosts - (SUPPRESSED)
First War for Armageddon - Traitor Titan Legions: Legio Vulcanum II - Complete LegionLegio Mortis - Demi-Legion
First War for Armageddon - Traitor Guard: Native units that turned traitor at the outset of the war:Armageddon Command Guard - 2 CoysArmageddon Hive Militia - 80 RegimentsArmageddon Steel Legion - 13 RegimentsArmageddon Ash Waste Militia - 3 Regiments
First War for Armageddon - Chaos Cults: Civilian cults dedicated to the Ruinous Powers that turned Traitor at the outset of the war:The Eight Ways - 2 CohortsThe True Creed - 4 CohortsThe Cult of Noyade - 12 CohortsChildren of Quietus - 19 CohortsThe Justified Ancients - 1 CohortOther groups - estimated 40-50 Cohorts
Firstborn - Firstborn: The "Firstborn" is the term used within the Adeptus Astartes and the wider Imperium since the start of the Indomitus Crusade for the original Space Marine genetic template created by the Emperor of Mankind in the late 30th Millennium.Firstborn Astartes possess only the original 19 gene-seed organs crafted by the Emperor. As a result, though still transhuman warriors, they lack the greater strength, height, resilience and reflexes of their Primaris Marine brethren.In the immediate wake of the Ultima Founding, it was not possible for Firstborn Marines to undergo the procedure created by Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl to become Primaris Marines. The survival rate was considered too low for the attempt to be made.This changed just before the War of Beasts began on the world of Vigilus in the Era Indomitus when the Ultramarines Chapter Master Marneus Calgar volunteered to undergo the surgical procedure known as the Rubicon Primaris.Archamagos Cawl succeeded in implanting the three missing Primaris gene-seed organs into Calgar's body. After the procedure, Calgar was reborn as a Primaris Marine, proving the conversion was possible.Since then, many other Firstborn from Chapters across the galaxy have crossed the Rubicon Primaris to become even more effective defenders of Mankind.
Firstborn - Combat Roles: Even after the crossing of the Rubicon Primaris, Firstborn Marines remained highly important to the existing Space Marine Chapters.They continued to comprise important combat units in Adeptus Astartes battleline, close support, fire support and Veteran squads, including in the following tactical roles.Scout MarinesTactical SquadsAssault SquadsDevastator SquadsCenturionsVanguard VeteransSternguard VeteransTerminators
Fist of Dorn - Fist of Dorn: The Fist of Dorn is a relic weapon in the form of a massive master-crafted Thunder Hammer traditionally carried by the Space Marine officer who serves as the Captain of the elite 1st Company of the Imperial Fists Chapter. The weapon is shaped to resemble a gauntleted fist that is holding each end of the warhammer's head.It is currently carried into battle by Captain Darnath Lysander, who received it from his predecessor Kleitus when the latter was killed in a teleportation accident during the siege of Haddrake Tor. The arcane technologies built into the Fist of Dorn allows it to strike with far more powerful blows than those of a standard Thunder Hammer, and the weapon was designed to be most effective when used to assault heavily armoured vehicles and fortifications.
Fist of Iron - Fist of Iron: The Fist of Iron was an ancient Gloriana-class Battleship that served as the flagship of Ferrus Manus, the primarch of the Iron Hands Legion during the Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy of the late 30th and early 31st Millennia.This flagship led the flotilla of Iron Hands warships which comprised the Xth Legion's 52nd Expeditionary Fleet. The massive vessel drifted in the void like a slab of steel and bronze, its hull scarred and unpainted from the damage it had sustained during many campaigns of Imperial Compliance.Like their primarch, the Iron Hands cared little for ostentation or the embellishment of the vessels within their Legion fleet.
Fist of Iron - History: During the opening days of the Horus Heresy, it was within the Iron Forge of the Fist of Iron that Fulgrim, primarch of the Emperor's Children Legion, attempted to sway his brother and great friend Ferrus Manus to the Warmaster Horus' cause of rebellion against the Emperor and His Imperium.Fulgrim had sent the bulk of his IIIrd Legion and the 28th Expeditionary Fleet on to meet Horus and the 63rd Expeditionary Fleet in the Isstvan System while he and a small force aided the Iron Hands' 52nd Expeditionary Fleet in retaking the world of Callinedes IV from the Orks.Great bonds of friendship and brotherhood had long existed between the IIIrd and Xth Legions, and Fulgrim felt that he could convince Ferrus of the righteousness of Horus' cause. Fulgrim's hope proved disastrously wrong and the meeting of the two primarchs in Ferrus' private inner sanctum did not go well, as Ferrus was utterly outraged that his brothers would dare to turn against their father the Emperor.The meeting ended in violence, as the Gorgon made his difference of opinion over continued loyalty to the Emperor known to the Phoenician with his weapons, determined to stop Fulgrim's betrayal of the Imperium before it could begin. Ferrus attempted to use his silvery necrodermis hands to destroy Fulgrim's golden sword Fireblade, but the resulting explosion knocked him unconscious.Fulgrim intended to kill his unconscious brother with the weapon he had forged for him, the warhammer Forgebreaker, but proved unable to kill his oldest friend despite the promptings of the Slaaneshi Daemon embedded within the Blade of the Laer that now corrupted his soul. Instead he took the wonderous weapon that he had once crafted in brotherhood for Ferrus as a reminder of their former friendship, and left behind Fireblade, which Ferrus had forged for him.When Fulgrim emerged from Ferrus' inner sanctum, he gave a signal to his elite Phoenix Guard, who instantly beheaded all of the Iron Hands Morlock Terminators who served as Ferrus' own elite bodyguard with their Power Halberds. The Emperor's Children also nearly slew the Iron Hands' First Captain Gabriel Santor.Fulgrim successfully fled the Iron Hands' expeditionary fleet in his personal assault craft, the Firebird, as he ordered his warships, the battle barge Pride of the Emperor and its escorts, to open fire upon the ships of the 52nd Expeditionary Fleet.Fulgrim called a halt to the attack before the destruction of the Fist of Iron was complete. Leaving the crippled Xth Legion's fleet becalmed, the warships of the Emperor's Children disengaged and made the translation into the Immaterium to rendezvous with the rest of the 28th Expeditionary Fleet and the forces of Horus in the Isstvan System.
Fist of Iron - Anvilarium: One of the primary chambers within the Fist of Iron was known as the Anvilarium, which served as a reception hall for any business to be conducted between Ferrus Manus and outsiders. This vast chamber resembled a mighty forge with huge, hissing pistons rising and falling at the edges of the audience chamber, and the distant clang of hammers echoed through the sheet metal of the floor.It was a cavernous space, with the pungent aromas of oil and hot metal heavy in the air, the space redolent of industry and machines. Within the Anvilarium, mighty deeds were planned and unbreakable bonds of brotherhood were forged. The elite Iron Hands honour guard of Morlocks Terminators stood sentinel around the edge of the chamber, the mightiest of them protecting the gates of the primarch's inner sanctum, known as the Iron Forge.The Terminators' towering forms were rendered ghostly by the hissing clouds of steam that billowed from the deck, the fearsome visage of the Morlocks making them look like the vengeful predators that howled across the frozen tundra of the Iron Hands' homeworld of Medusa, for which they had been named.
Fist of Iron - Iron Forge: Ferrus Manus' chambers aboard the Fist of Iron, known as the Iron Forge, were constructed of stone and glass, as cold and austere as the frozen tundra of Medusa. Those lucky enough to be invited within could almost feel the chill of the Iron Hands' icy homeworld in the design.Blocks of shimmering obsidian carved from the sides of undersea volcanoes kept the chamber dark, and glass cabinets of war trophies and weapons stood as silent sentinels over the primarch's most private moments.The Iron Forge was where Ferrus Manus kept his most prized relics and personal creations. Its gleaming walls were fashioned from smooth, glassy basalt and hung with all manner of wondrous weapons, armour and machinery crafted by the primarch's silver hands.A vast anvil of iron and gold sat in the centre of the forge, and Ferrus Manus had long declared that none save his brother primarchs were permitted to enter this most private sanctum.Vulkan of the SalamandersLegion had once declared it a magical place, using the language of the ancients to describe the magnificence it contained. To honour Ferrus' skill at the forge, Vulkan had presented him with a Firedrake banner, which hung next to a wondrously crafted gun with a top loading magazine and perforated barrel formed in the shape of a snarling dragon. Its brass and silver body comprised the finest workmanship ever seen, its lines and curves so beautiful that to simply label it a weapon was to deny that it was in fact a work of art.
Fists Exemplar - Fists Exemplar: The Fists Exemplar was a Second Founding successor of the Imperial Fists' genetic lineage.This Chapter was initially composed of the more progressive Imperial Fists Legionaries, who agreed with the views of Roboute Guilliman, the primarch of the Ultramarines, that it was necessary for the Legiones Astartes to be broken down into smaller existing formations, known as Chapters, following the disastrous and costly Horus Heresy.Rogal Dorn deemed the new Chapter Master -- the former Imperial Fists Captain Oriax Dantalion -- and those that followed him as exemplars of a new order for the Imperium and the Space Marines, and so the primarch named them the "Fists Exemplar."Following the War of the Beast in the mid-32nd Millennium and the treachery of one of its captains, the Chapter's surviving battle-brothers were distributed throughout the Adeptus Astartes.The Chapter itself was erased from Imperial history by the orders of the acting lord commander of the Imperium, Maximus Thane.
Fists Exemplar - Notable Campaigns: War of the Beast (544-546.M32) - See above.
Fists Exemplar - Chapter Colours: Per Chapter tradition, the Fists Exemplar's power armour was left unpainted. It was both a Chapter tradition and a requirement. Cast in storm cloud grey, the Fists Exemplar's unadorned and unmarked ceramite was reminiscent of the original "Grey Legions" of the post-Unification Wars era Space Marine Legions of old, before they gained their own marks of distinction and character.
Fists Exemplar - Chapter Badge: The Fists Exemplar had no Chapter badge, instead allowing their pauldrons to remain the slate-grey of unadorned ceramite.
Fists of Brass - Fists of Brass: The Fists of Brass were a host of Khorne Daemonkin of unknown origin. Almost nothing is known about them aside from their involvement in a fatal clash with the Ork WAAAGH! Badstomp in 301.M40 which destroyed the warband.
Fists of Brass - Notable Campaigns: Martyrs' Glory - In 301.M40 the Fists of Brass hurled themselves into the teeth of WAAAGH! Badstomp across the seventeen moons of the Madrakae. Explosive carnage broke out as the two war-hungry hordes collided head on, but the Chaos warband was massively outnumbered and wiped out within solar days. Despite their deaths, however, the oceans of blood the Fists of Brass had spilled during the battle drew eight legions of Khornate Daemons into realspace, which soon fell upon the Orks and started the battle anew.
Fists of Brass - Warband Colours: The Fists of Brass warband's colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Fists of Brass - Warband Badge: The Fists of Brass warband's badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Fists of Olchis - Fists of Olchis: The Fists of Olchis were once a Loyalist Chapter of Space Marines of unknown origin and Founding. They were lost after entering the Eye of Terror in 321.M37 as part of the Imperial Abyssal Crusade. It is unknown what they endured during their sojourn into the Eye, and they were declared Perditas by the Imperial Inquisition, who feared that if the Chapter still existed, it had been corrupted by Chaos.The Fists of Olchis were later nearly completely destroyed upon their return to Imperial space by the Red Talons Chapter, a battle in which the Red Talons Contemptor Dreadnought Skara Brae took part.
Fists of Olchis - Abyssal Crusade: Following the Ecclesiarchal Purges of 321.M37, a dozen star systems were engulfed by Warp Storm Dionys, its echoes rippling along the spiral arms of the galaxy as it raged through the Empyrean. Records of mutation and Chaos Cultist activity quadrupled overnight. Worse yet, it was not only the citizens who were affected by the sudden influx of Chaos. Many of the Space Marine Chapters with homeworlds affected by the Warp Storm found that the secret imperfections in their gene-seed were writ large upon their new recruits, giving rise to a wave of disturbing manifestations both physical and psychological. The Fists of Olchis were one such Loyalist Chapter of Astartes that had been affected by these Warp Storms.When the Ecclesiarchy heard of this sinister tum of events, Saint Basillius the Elder demanded that all those Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes whose homeworlds had been touched by the Warp Storm be rendered unto his judgement. Such was the elder's influence with the High Lords of Terra that within a standard year this had come to pass. After a series of stringent tests and prognostications, hundreds of Chapters were deemed unaffected by the Warp Storm. No less than thirty were found wanting. The Judged, as these fallen Chapters came to be known, volunteered for a redemptive Penitent Crusade. The most militant of their number demanded the right to purify their tainted flesh in the fires of battle, to make a noble end from tragic misfortune. To the surprise of his closest advisors, Saint Basillius agreed to this proposal. He saw it fitting to send the accused into the Eye of Terror, taking the fight for the Imperium's future to the Daemon Worlds inhabited by the Traitor Marines.A representative from each of the doomed Chapters held an emergency Council of Dismay to discuss the proposed Crusade. After scant hours of debate, they acquiesced to Basillius' demands, for they believed that martyrdom was preferable to an existence of suspicion and doubt. The last few days of 321.M37 saw a solemn procession of Strike Cruisers and Battle Barges pass through the Cadian Gate into the Eye of Terror, relay systems dormant and heraldic colours obscured by black mag-plates. One by one, the Chapters of The Judged disappeared into the iridescent dust nebulae that surrounded the Eye. As the massive Space Marine flotilla entered the Eye of Terror, they were set upon by a massive Chaos warfleet. The resultant battle was so fierce that the ships of The Judged were forced to retreat and were scattered to the furthest corners of the Eye.Chapter after Chapter fell to the perils of the Eye, for the Abyssal Crusade had entered a hell from which very few emerge unchanged. The true account of what occurred within the Eye to the Fists of Olchis is unknown, but most of the tales of the Chapters of The Judged ended in tragedy and sorrow. The current whereabouts of the Chapter are unknown and the Imperial Inquisition has declared them Perditas, believing them to have been corrupted by Chaos if they have survived the hell of the Eye.
Fists of Olchis - Chapter Colours: The Fists of Olchis' Chapter colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Fists of Olchis - Chapter Badge: The Fists of Olchis' Chapter badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Five Hundred Years' War - Five Hundred Years' War: The Five Hundred Years' War was a conflict fought between the Orks of Warlord Morbok's Empire of Scrap and the Kin of the Grand Orion Compact that lasted for five hundred Terran years. It resulted in the ultimate death of every last Greenskin in the empire in the most widespread Grudge ever fought in the history of the Leagues of Votann.
Five Hundred Years' War - History: Though they are protected by every means at the disposal of the Kin, some of their precious Votann have still fallen to the predation of foes, much to the shame and sorrow of the Kin.The Five Hundred Years' War was triggered when the Orks of WAAAGH! Morbok overran the hold of Oriâkh's Irongate Kindred and tore apart the Ancestor Core within.The Grand Orion Compact, the league of which Oriâkh's Irongate was a member, swore the most widespread Grudge in recorded Kin history for this death of their Votann, hurling all their might against the Warlord Morbok's Empire of Scrap for more than five Terran centuries, until the last Ork was slain and the insult answered.
Flail of Corruption - Flail of Corruption: A Flail of Corruption is a type of Power Weapon wielded by the Blightlord Terminators and Plague Marines of the Death Guard Traitor Legion. Like all weapons blessed by the Plague Lord Nurgle, a Flail of Corruption can infect any foe struck by it with a variety of deadly and extremely fast-acting pathogens.
Flail of the Unforgiven - Flail of the Unforgiven: A Flail of the Unforgiven is an archaic Power Weapon commonly utilised by the Knight Masters of the Dark Angels Space Marine Chapter's elite cadre of Deathwing Terminators known as the Deathwing Knights. The Knight Masters eschew the usual Maces of Absolution preferred by their fellows in favour of these brutal Power Flails, which greatly augment their strength and unleash concussive blows that will send enemies sprawling.These weapons are carried as a badge of office for a Deathwing Knight Master and are a reminder to all the Fallen Angels of their ultimate fate at the hands of the Dark Angels and their Unforgiven Successor Chapters.
Flak Armour - Flak Armour: Flak Armour is a light and relatively simple form of body armour used by the military forces of the Imperium of Man.It is used as standard issue body armour for the countless millions of Imperial Guardsmen and Planetary Defence Force members across the galaxy.Many layers of ablative and impact absorbent material go into making each suit, enough to deflect or negate most low-level attacks such as small arms, shrapnel, and proximity blasts.Solid hits from high impact weapons can generally negate it, but given that it is relatively lightweight, cheap to produce, and dependable in most combat situations, many veterans keep using Flak Armour even when offered better.A Flak Armour set usually consists of a breastplate, shoulder pauldrons, knee plates, greaves and a helmet.
Flak Armour - Construction: Flak Armour is manufactured from multiple layers of ablative and shock-absorbent materials that are primarily ceramic in origin and are intended to deflect and absorb the kinetic energy of a weapons strike or blow.The armour provides little protection from a direct weapons strike, though the protection it provides is sufficient to deflect damage from shrapnel, adjacent, though not direct explosions, and ricochets.The ablative properties of its ceramic construction are also excellent at heat dispersal, thus providing a small measure of protection from glancing hits with directed energy weapons like Lasguns.The materials commonly used in the construction of Flak Armour include carbon-fibre, plasfibre and thermoplas strips, although a number of different materials can be integrated in non-standard suits of the armour intended for more specialised uses.Thermal-absorbent materials, applied to the armour's outer layer, can reduce the thermal signature of the soldiers using it and provide an enhanced capability to remain invisible to enemy forces during night reconnaissance missions.Rarer still, cameleoline fabric can be incorporated into the outermost layer of some Imperial Guard regiments' fatigues to enhance their ability to conceal themselves.Although Flak Armour is overall a relatively low grade of personal infantry armour, it is incredibly cheap and easy to manufacture for the Imperium, thus making it among the most popular forms of personal protection in the galaxy with a variety of the starfaring races.
Flak Armour - Usage: Flak Armour is most often used by the Astra Militarum, Imperial Planetary Defence Forces and the armsmen of the Imperial Navy, but is also used by many other intelligent races' military forces, including the Orks and the nearly-extinct Squats.Due to the sheer diversity of military formations that make use of Flak Armour, there is no standardised format for it, either in the Astra Militarum or other services. Many Imperial Guard regiments customise their armour as a result of their own specific cultural and environmental needs.For instance, the Cadian Shock Troops regiments of the Astra Militarum use the most common pattern of Flak Armour, including helmets, breastplates and shoulder pauldrons as illustrated above, while the Valhallan Ice Warriors prefer to incorporate their Flak Armour in the form of an overcoat that provides protection from the frigid conditions that prevail on their ice-covered homeworld.However, in the end, all the different forms of Flak Armour serve the same purpose and provide the same level of protection, differing only by the environmental demands of the battlefield and the traditions of the unit deployed to fight in them.
Flame Cannon - Flame Cannon: The Flame Cannon is a type of Flamer weapon that is used by the Doom Wing and the Fire Lord Daemon Engines of Chaos.These daemonically-possessed vehicles are assault aircraft that take the forms of gigantic birds of prey and are completely dedicated to the service of Tzeentch, the Chaos God of change and deceit.The Doom Wing is armed with a single Flame Cannon located under its bird skull-shaped nose and the Fire Lord is armed with two, one on each of its wings.The Flame Cannon fires deadly Warpfire, and is capable of being used to strafe ground targets and attack other aircraft.
Flame Eagles - Flame Eagles: The Flame Eagles is a Loyalist, Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter. It is suspected that it is one of the rare Successor Chapters of the Raven Guard. Its exact Founding date is unknown.
Flame Eagles - Chapter Colours: The Flame Eagles primarily wear golden power armour. The Aquila or Imperialis on the chest plate is red. The red squad specialty symbol -- battleline, close support, fire support, Veteran or command -- is indicated on the right shoulder plate.A white High Gothic numeral is stenciled on the centre of the squad specialty symbol which indicates squad number.The colour of the shoulder plate trim indicates company number in accordance with the dictates of the Codex Astartes -- i.e. white (1st Company), yellow (2nd Company), red (3rd Company), green (4th Company), etc.
Flame Eagles - Chapter Badge: The Flame Eagles' Chapter badge is a red eagle with small flames emanating from its wings, which are displayed and inverted, centred on a field of yellow.
Flame Falcons - Flame Falcons: The Flame Falcons was one of the cursed Space Marine Chapters created during the Cursed 21st Founding.Although its earlier successes promised a great future for the Chapter, it was almost completely wiped out by the Inquisition before a hundred standard years had passed following its Founding. The cause of the Inquisition's attack was the fact that during an engagement, members of the Chapter had burst into flame. These Astartes came to no harm, and believing the flames to be a gift from the Emperor of Mankind, they fought with a fierce savagery that won the day.This ability was very likely the result of an unforeseen psychic mutation within their gene-seed that had come about as a result of the modifications the Adeptus Mechanicus had made to the gene-seed of all the Chapters created during the 21st Founding. The members of the Inquisition did not share the Chapter's belief that it had been blessed by the Emperor, and when the Chapter returned to its homeworld of Lethe to celebrate its victory, it was attacked and almost completely destroyed by a force of Grey Knights who believed the Flame Falcons to have been possessed by Daemons.
Flame Falcons - 21st Founding: The 21st Founding was the largest Founding of Space Marine Chapters since the Second Founding following the Horus Heresy. It took place in the 36th Millennium shortly before the start of the Age of Apostasy. The focus of the 21st Founding for the Adeptus Mechanicus was perfecting and removing the existing, identified deficiencies in flawed Adeptus Astartes gene-seed, and ultimately the production of new and improved primarch-like Space Marines as part of what was called "Project Homo Sapiens Novus".Unfortunately, the Adeptus Mechanicus' Genetors proved far less skilled in the genetic sciences than the Emperor of Mankind, and their efforts resulted in the development of seriously flawed gene-seed that was used to craft the organ implants for the new Chapters. The Founding itself ended when one of its projects, already corrupted by Chaos, sent a signal through the Warp and alerted Fabius Bile, a Traitor Marine who served Chaos Undivided by seeking out new recruits for the Chaos Space Marines, to its existence. Bile had been engaged in his own quest to improve upon the Emperor's work since the Horus Heresy and he found the "improved" Space Marines of the 21st Founding to be creations after his own black heart.The 21st Founding is also known simply as the "Cursed Founding," because of the appalling bad luck that seems to dog the Chapters that were created by it. Worse still, some of these Chapters have developed unexpected genetic idiosyncrasies, mutations that strain the tolerance of the Inquisition and threaten the Chapters' survival. As a result, the Chapters of this Founding have gradually dwindled in size as their inability to raise and induct new recruits means that their battle casualties cannot be replaced. The most seriously afflicted Chapters exhibited spontaneous and extreme physical corruption, turning them into a race no longer human or sane. Most of the Space Marine Chapters founded during this time eventually turned Traitor and swore themselves to Chaos or met a gruesome end at the hands of other Space Marine Chapters and the Inquisition's Ordo Hereticus.
Flame Falcons - The Emperor's Blessing, a Chapter's Curse: Next to nothing is known of the Flame Falcons Chapter in official Imperial records, for it was declared Excommunicate Traitoris within a standard century of its inception. Initial combat trials involving the Chapter were a resounding success, and it was put on active service on the Southern Rim of the galaxy, based on its homeworld of Lethe. Its first engagements, with Orks and Aeldari Corsairs, promised a great future for the Chapter, as its battle-brothers were observed to be hardy and courageous, even for Space Marines.It was at the battle of Raffenburg's World that things began to go awry for the Flame Falcons. At the height of the battle, their largest engagement to that point, the 1st Company was observed to spontaneously immolate at the height of the fiercest fighting against the rebel forces. Fearing witchcraft, the Chapter's commander reinforced the front line and sent for an Inquisitor who was accompanying the Astra Militarum forces. When it was reported by the reinforcing Space Marines that the members of the 1st Company were not dead, but were in fact fighting with renewed savagery covered in flames to which they themselves were immune, the commander declared it a miracle, a gift sent from the Emperor.The Inquisitor had a different opinion. Knowing that he could not assault the Flame Falcons immediately, he bided his time, witnessing the remainder of the Chapter undergo the same horrific change as the 1st Company. Upon the successful completion of the campaign, the Flame Falcons returned to Lethe in a celebratory mood, convinced, as they were, that their unique ability was a manifestation of the Emperor's grace. Soon after, the Grey Knights, the Chamber Militant of the Daemon-hunting Ordo Malleus, at the behest of the Inquisition, assaulted Lethe, ruthlessly destroying the supposedly "cursed" Chapter. It is thought that a small number of Flame Falcons escaped that day, but of their fate, nothing is known.
Flame Falcons - Notable Campaigns: Scouring of Lethe (Unknown Date.M41) - The Grey Knights and several Ordo Malleus Inquisitors helped destroy the Flame Falcons Chapter during the Scouring of Lethe when they mistook the Flame Falcons' fiery bodies for a sign of their corruption by Chaos.
Flame Falcons - Notable Flame Falcons: Gherak - Gherak was a member of the Flame Falcons who survived his Chapter's purge as a Deathwatch Black Shield serving under Inquisitor Lord Otto Dagover.
Flame Falcons - Mutation: Immolation - The battle-brothers of the Flame Falcons Chapter are cursed with a terrible mutation that causes their bodies to become wreathed in flame. The Inquisition is particularly uncompromising in punishing these mutants wherever it encounters them.
Flame Falcons - Chapter Colours: The Flame Falcons' Chapter colours are not recorded in current Imperial records.
Flame Falcons - Chapter Badge: The Flame Falcons' Chapter badge is not recorded in Imperial records.
Flamer - Flamer: Flamers, also known as "Flame Guns", are Flamer Weapons that come in a wide variety of designs and patterns, but all are ideal for flushing out enemies in cover and putting groups of foes to the torch with projected flame.The two most common variants of Flamers either have a detachable fuel canister under the barrel, or a hose connecting to a backpack canister.Flamers are most commonly used by Imperial assault forces such as Space Marine Assault Squads, though xenos races such as the Eldar, Orks and the Tau are also known to make use of similar weapons.
Flamer - Operation: Flamer Weapons project fire upon their foes and generally use a fuel referred to as Promethium, though it can also be a home-made concoction or other chemical brew depending on the local technology level. Most forms of Promethium are mono-propellant fuels that ignite via a smaller pilot flame at the tip of the barrel, though some Flamers use binary hypergolic fuels that ignite on contact with one another.Once produced, the intense jet that spurts from the barrel creates a torrent of liquid fire, which spreads out in an inferno that burns even underwater, leaving enemies hard-pressed to put out the fire.
Flamer - Notable Flamers: Surtur's Breath - Just as the Astartes of the Salamanders Chapter know well how to protect themselves from flame, so too are they adept at its use. Many Salamanders alter their Flamers with unique modifications and upgrades they have learned over their long careers. One such modified Flamer has a reputation with the members of the Deathwatch operating in the Jericho Reach. Legend says it once belonged to a particularly vicious Salamander by the name of Surtur, who used a unique propellant that made the Flamer shoot at an extended range with terrifying ultraviolet fire.
Flamer - Eldar: Dragon's Breath Flamer - Utilised exclusively by the Fire Dragons Aspect Warriors of the Eldar, the Dragon's Breath Flamer can unleash a ranging inferno upon a nearby foe. They are similar to the Heavy Flamers employed by the military forces of the Imperium of Man.