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The Suisei Samurai Colour: Blue with red aquila/imperialis, pauldrons (including trim), elbow-guards and hands. Red is also the overall spot colour. Show squads with Japanese numbers on the right knee. Symbol: A white radiant sun with a black dot in the middle, usually on red Gene-seed origin: Imperial Fist Founding: Belived to be of the Fifth Chapter-Master: Nozaki Homeworld: Suisei [γ-class], a tidal locked planet which surface is inhospitable but have a planet spanning cave network which have been terraformed in ancient ages past. The Chapter is theoretically the direct rulers of the planet but they delegate much of it to the non-transhumans. The Suisei Samurai is a mostly Codex following Chapter. Among the way the ignore the tenets of the Codex are in the use of Honour-weapons, the units Weaponmaster and Deathless, and that they often work together with Suisei’s Astra Militarum regiment, the Suisei Ashigaru, as advisors to the regiment officers and using the guardsmen as support to the Space Marine. Deathless, dishonoured marines that are on death quests to redeem themselves by sacrificing themselves for the good of the Chapter. Are used for suicide missions. Their armour is painted white. A handful of times Deathless have been able to regain their honour and surviving, in those cases they are taken back into the Chapter, either in their old role or in a new position. Weaponmaster are a rank within the Chapter, they are a special rank within the Chapter’s tech-marines that are masters of the creation and use of personal weapons. When a neophyte rises from the 10th company into the ranks of full Space Marines he spend time with Weaponmaster, showing of his skills, testing different weapons, discussing the ex-neophyte’s thoughts about many different subjects, at the end of this meeting (which usually last a day or two, even if some are shorter than that, while other have lasted over a week) the Weaponmaster gives the new Astartes a fine crafted weapon that will be his Honour-weapon. The Honour-weapon is usually a bolter, boltergun, chainweapon, combat knife, or similar standard Astartes main- or sidearm, but it can also be more specialised weapons like a sniper rifle, rocket launcher, two-handed swords, power weapons, or other more unusual Astartes weapons. A battle-brother is expected to work to master his Honour-weapon, take good care of it and always taking it with him on duty, even if it don’t fit his current role. If a battle-brother loses his Honour-weapon he is expected to go on a quest to get it back and slay the enemy that took it from him. If a Honour-weapon is destroyed the battle-brother is expected to collect the weapons remains, go on a quest to slay the enemy that destroyed it (if the enemy remain alive), followed by a season with the Weapon-master where the battle-brother and the Weapon-master go through how the destruction happened, see what’s left of the Honour-weapon, and go through a similar process as before the battle-brother was given the Honour-weapon. This is usually followed by a reforging/making of the Honour-weapon, but sometime the Weapon-master gives the battle-brother a quest to fulfil before remaking the Honour-weapon, and in a few instances it is declared that the battle-brother was fully at fault for his Honour-weapon’s destruction and is declared a Deathless, his Honour-weapon only remade ones he has regained his honour by his own death. The Suisei Samurai specialise in take and hold actions, where they take an area and hold it until reinforcement comes - are known to hold an area no matter their loses, until either reinforcement comes or they all die. They usually work together with the Imperial Guard for this. This do not mean they are willing to foolishly throw away their lives for impossible missions, any such sacrifice is a tactical decision where they are certain that reinforcement can come within the time they can hold the area, even if means all of them have to die for victory. As part of their aspirant and neophyte training are they not just trained in the arts of war and personal combat but also given basic training in cultural arts like penmanship, poetry, painting, woodcarving, gardening, and is expected to continue with at least penmanship and one more of the cultural arts after becoming full Space Marines. The Chapter have a well-developed information network with informants (both open and shadowed) on all near planets, all the important planets in the sector, and among the interstellar organisations within it. Those informants don’t only report on possible threats or rising feelings of rebellion, but also on any kind of newfound technology, political developments, and similar that the Chapter could find of interest. This has made them skilled player within the sector’s political games and knowing what kind of things that may be of use for future conflicts. They also share much of the information about newfound technology and modifications with their artisans and fabricators, making it so that Suisei are producing technology that some people would have preferred monopoly on. Homeworld: Suisei Suisei is a γ-class (imperial world) tidal locked planet which surface is inhospitable but have a planet spanning cave network which have been terraformed in ancient ages past. The caves and caverns come in many different sizes, many large enough that you could park a void ship in them. Most larger caves are, thanks to the miracles of ancient technology, somehow mimicking a environment you can find on the surface of human compatible worlds. Some of them even have seasons. The natives just accept this as normal, and if Suisei’s tech-priests know more than just how to keep the systems working, they keep it to themselves. The population is socially divided into workers, administrators, small business owners, and soldiers – your social position is not set in stone and it is not unusual that people change their social belonging during their lifetime if they strive for it, or make it possible for their child to do it. Personal automobiles are rare, people get around with bike, tram and train – smaller trucks are used for transportation of varies. Radio is the main mass-media (there are many different channels with different focus, all fully state controlled). The larger cities are all connected with bullet trains. Many of the cavern are partially waterfilled and there are many boats and ships travelling those areas. Suisei have their own Planetary Defence Force made up by people from the warrior class, with the PDF’s elite and higher officers being returned veterans from the Suisei Ashigaru IG regiment, which in turn recruit from the PDF. The PDF are led by the Master of the Keep, who delegate most of the leadership to non-transhuman officers, and the troops train together with members of the Suisei Samurai, not every trooper have personally worked under a Marine but they have all seen and heard them and know how to work under them without the problems that humans unfamiliar with astartes can show. Recruitment of aspirants are done throught great games for boys in every area, where they compete in physical and mental contests. Those that show themself most worthy get to continue to the next level where they are gene-tested, mentally probed and if they pass become aspirants.