Rough ideas for WIP Chapter

[ShadowSong7007]

Been playing 40k forever but this is my very first DIY chapter. Working out some ideas and gathering info.

After reading what all I have jotted down just let me apologize for the Rain Man style of posting. Have a ton of ideas bouncing around but I'm trying not to be too cliche'.

Name: Not sure yet. Something with "Jackal"

Some ideas I am toying with.

First I want them be a desert world based chapter. Not sure about the gene-seed. I'm thinking Raven Guard or perhaps Ultramarine since its stable.

I know the world is selected and recruits taken in but what world happen if the world was say attacked by Orks?

For instance something I'm toying with: New chapter is being created and trained. Orks crash on desert world. Oh snap people are dieing. So say the chapter is sent in to help stop the Orks. Obviously the marines are fresh off the farm and not doing so hip. IG is sent in to help crush the Orks. The Imperial Guard, the 185th Jorus "Rabid Jackals" regiment

Chapter master marine gets killed, Marines left damn near leaderless. Marines learn from IG vets. Learn how to fight in the desert, use stealth and the lay of land to their advantage.

Marines and IG murder the Orks but being Orks they are never really gone. IG gets shipped off to where ever and Marines stay because this is their homeworld/base/recruiting world. Marines honor the IG regiment by taking Jackal into their name maybe the Ghost part because of the stealth tactics. Would explain why a Ultramarine gene-seed successor would use Raven Guard style tactics.

As a result of the battle the Marines have a somewhat more positive outlook towards normal humans (i.e. Salamanders)

Once again sorry about the rambling style of post just trying to put to pen and paper what I have dancing around my head. I apologize if this completely way out in left field. I promise I read the Guide to DIYing and all the other before I spewed this post out. Seriously dashed my dreams of my super awesome missing primarch that used to worship Slaanesh but is now totally cool with the Imperium because they were lost in the warp and then came back and killed Abaddon during the 13th black crusade chapter. Oh and they would have cussed out the Inquisition every time they see them, just because.

[Ecritter]

The great thing about UM geneseed is that (if you look at some of the decendents) the marines can turn out anyway you want. With proper explanation, anything is possible.

 

Now on to your idea. Killing off the CM won't leave the chapter anywhere near leaderless. They still have Captains and Sergeant, along with every other type of HQ unit. So you will need more then that to get things going.

 

Everything else seems fine.

[ShadowSong7007]

True, I guess what I was going for was with the Chapter Master dead then the chapter needed somehow to forge its identity. The whole blank slate idea.

[soddinnutter]

Death of the CM and then the nearest Captain takes charge. Death of all the Captains and the head Librarian, Chaplain or possibly, but more rarely, Apothecary gets the crown for the duration of the emergency. If they all die then your Chapter has probably reached the state of attrition where the Sergeants are leading individual little groups of survivors and your chapter is already dead in all but name. Crimson Fists nearly ended up at that state.

 

If they are still capable of rebuilding they will probably not submit to rule by the Guard. Ever. Mortals do not command a race of near immortal War-Angels, the pride of the Astartes is legendary.

 

How about back during their old fleet based days they are fighting alongside a few dozen regiments from a nearby arid wasteland of a world. They are out exterminating an ork world, whose population has been depleted due to massive civil war when the succession of Warboss was called into question, to claim it in the name of the Imperium and also to rescue several million human slaves from the iron and uranium mines of that world.

 

Everything is going fine. Then, about 2 months after the end of the campaign when they are trying to impose a New World Order on the now Imperial World, the chapter gets a message that a world quite close is suffering an uprising of Slaaneshi cultists, the Governor is dead, the PDF are either dead or corrupted, the Arbiters are under siege in their fortress and deamons are being sighted. IG regiments gets a message that their homeworld is usurping and if they don't go back and reimpose order pretty bloody quick the -]I[- is going to glass the planet.

 

So they both go back and kick seven clours of snot out of the desert world and in the ashes the Space Marines claim the world by Right of Conquest.

 

Then the orks come back. they see what happened to their mineral extraction and slave breeding world and send a retaliatory WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!! against the Space Marines.

 

The City States of the planet could be located underground, where the water gathers in the cool caves.

 

Laughing Jackals as a name maybe? Bloody Jackals? Jackals of [insert planet name here]?

 

Don't worry about UM gene-seed demanding that they act like a UM clone chapter No. 459. Mortificators are 2nd founding UM and they are all death cultists, and the UM hate them.