Angels Redeemed

[Ajax Tlamunus]

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Imperial Record	LI-3s / A11 LI-3s
Input Ref.	Ajax Tlamunus, Historical Revision Unit 48/237
Input Clearance	Historicus Prefectus
Input Dated	007990.M41
Further Ref.	Classified
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Founding Date	4001001.M32 (Third Founding)
Founding Chapter	Angels of Redemption
Progenitor Gene-Seed	Legion I (Dark Angels)
Descendant Chapter(s)	None
Homeworld	Metzada
Fortress Monestary	Towers of Heaven
Colours:	Dark Green & Ivory, Halved
Specialty:	Persecution of Traitors and Renegades
Strength:	Approx. Full Strength (1,000 Marines)
Battle Cry:

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Chapter Approved Scheme M.40
Brother Enosh
Third Company Second Tactical

Notable History

Chapter #713 of the Adeptus Astartes, formally named the Angleus Redemptio but more commonly known as the Angels Redeemed was founded in the wake the inter-legionary wars of the thirty second millennium. Tradition places the date at 4001001.M32 -- the very first day of the millennium. The chapter is therefore over eight thousand years old, making it a chapter of the Third Founding. Upon its inception, the High Lords of Terra gave it the chapter number 713.

Along with their training cadre from their Angels of Redemption progenitor chapter, the new chapter receied the geneseed, implant zygotes, rituals, and other paraphenalia of indoctrination and a signifigant amount of material support from the Dark Angels. At the chapter's founding, Captain Mehalalel of the Angels of Redemption's First Company was named Chapter Master by the High Lords of Tera... But on consultation with the Grand Master of the Dark Angels of the era, Master Mehalalel appointed Chaplain Lamech of the Dark Angels as the new Chapter's First Captain. This great controversy came to be known as the Mehalalel Schism -- although a few survivng records indicate it may also have been known as the Mehalalel Heresy at the time.

Several of the High Lords of Terra and many Chapter Masters from outside the Dark Angel's geneline felt that Mehalalel was attempting to defy the will of the Emperor and the wisdom of Robute Gulliman. The Speaker for the Chartist Captains called the chapter "A base accountant's trick," and the Grand Provost Marshal of the Adeptus Arbites denounced them for "rebuilding the legiones astartes in open defiance of the holy throne!"

The Dark Angels and their several successor chapters still had a great deal of influence in the young Imperirum, as well as many anceint bonds of loyalty and mutual aid with other chpaters, the Adeptus Mechanicus, and the Navigator Houses. Despite calls for the disolution of the new chapter, a compromise was reached. The Angleus Redemptio were assigned to a homeworld, Metzada, in the galactic southeast of the Ultima Segmentum, far from the Dark Angels or the Angels of Redemption in the Segmentum Obscurus.

Auditors named by the Grand Provost Marshal of the Adeptus Arbites and the Inquisitorial Representative were tasked with reporting to the High Lords of Terra and the Senatorum Imperialis of the Imperium once each century on any improper levels of collusion between the chapters.

Little record of the chapter exists between the resolution of the Mehalalel Schism and the final decades of that catastrophic period in Imperial history known as the Age of Apostasy. During this years and the Age of Redemption which followed (roughly 020.M37 until 040.M38) the Imperial Cult grew in power as never before and enormous numbers of suspected Heretics are rounded up and executed. The Angels Redeemed are often in the to pursue traitors, persecute iconoclasts, and purge renegades from within the ranks of the Adeptus Astartes by command of the High Lords of Terra. As a result, the chapter develops a reputation as experts in the systematic destruction of other Adeptus Astartes forces that have strayed from the proper path.

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Chapter Approved Scheme M.40
Brother Sergeant Haran
Third Company Second Tactical

Livery

The Angels Redeemed wear armor party per pale, vert and argent or to put plainly their armor is dark green & pure white, halved down the center, in the exact manner as the Angels of Redemption. The chapter badge is a winged sword, usually rendered in dark red, in the style of the Dark Angels. Company affilitaion is not indicated anywhere on personal armor, although small geometric badges are displayed on vehicles. Squad affiliation was indicated by the squad number in dark red on the knee, although not on Termintors.

This close adherence to the livery of their progenitors, although not forbidden by the Codex Astartes, only fed the controversy of the Mehalalel Schism. As part of the compromise, the Angels Redeemed agreed to always display the Aquilla in bone white and that specialists among their chapter, such as Librarians and Techmarines, would adhere more closely to the Codex Astartes.

[librisrouge]

Specialty: Persecution of Traitors and Renegades

 

There are chapters where this is a "specialty?" I call it a lively Thursday. What are the rest of us doing? Sitting on our butts?

 

All kidding aside, I really like this chapter.

[JaM_TW]

I like it too.

 

Have you run this past the DIY-guys yet (Liber, that is)?

[Ajax Tlamunus]

Specialty: Persecution of Traitors and Renegades

 

There are chapters where this is a "specialty?" I call it a lively Thursday. What are the rest of us doing? Sitting on our butts?

 

This was my politically correct way of saying "killing other Space Marines." I borrowed the phrasing from Asterion Moloc's description.

[Ajax Tlamunus]

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Standard of Succor
One of the Three Sacred Standards

Organisation

To an outsider, the organisation of the Angels Redeemed is much the same as Codex Chapters, ten Companies each of one hundred fighting men. It is at the higher levels of command that the Dark Angels become quite different to standard Chapters and different in subtle ways from the other Unforgiven. Each Chapter has a number of senior officers and specialist troopers who stand apart from the main body of Space Marines, and in the Angels Redeemed these men are known as the Inner Circle. Only warriors who have fought through the ranks for many years and have proved their loyalty to the Chapter time and time again are allowed to progress into the Inner Circle. It is these sinister individuals who shoulder the burden of the Angels Redeemed\' secret shame and it is they alone who decide who is worthy to join their ranks. Each company of the Angels Redeemed is led by a Master of the Chapter who has passed through the Deathwing into the Inner Circle.

The First Company of the Angels Redeemed are where the greatest difference between other codex Chapters lies. The 1st Company is known as the Deathwing, veterans who only ever take the field of battle in Terminator armour. Unlike other Unforgiven successor chapters, the Angels Redeemed do not have a seperate company for the Ravenwing. Instead those veterans most skilled at high speed attack are simply left in the assault units of their original Battle Company, with the sergeants and senior members being introduced to the outer ranks of the Inner Circle. The remainder of the Chapter is organised along strict Codex lines, with the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Companies forming the Battle Companies, the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th the Reserve Companies and, lastly, the 10th Company is made up of Scouts.

Beliefs

The Angels Redeemed Chapter gives praise to the God-Emperor of Mankind but, much to the chagrin of the other Unforgiven, they do revere Him as a deity. Unlike most First Founding Chapters or their immediate successors, the Angels Redeemed venerate their Primarch far less than the Emperor. They worship the God-Emperor as the founder of the Imperium, as their creator, and as the divine ruler of the Universe. To the Dark Angels the Emperor is not a man, but a god-made-flesh, and his worship has largely absorbed the monothesistic religion native to their homeworld of Metzada.

But, much to the dismay of the Ecclesiarchy, they reject absolutely the authority of that organization. Ecclesiastical missonaries are forbidden from setting foot on the \"sacred soil\" of Metzada, under penalty of death, and the few regiments of Imperial Guard that the Angels Redeemed have permitted to be raised from the native population over the millennia have not been allowed to have representitives from Commissariat assigned to them.

The driving force of the Angels Redeemed is the hunting of those Fallen Dark Angels who were swept into the vortex that destroyed Caliban, a secret goal shared with most of the Unforgiven Chapters. Due to the extreem distance that seperates the Angels Redeemed from their Founding Chapter and fellow Successors, the Angels Redeemed have often had to pursue this goal without aid and with utmost secrecy. This has had a two-fold effect on the chapter. First, the presence of Arbites Auditors and close scruitiny of the Inquisitorial Representative during the Chapter\'s formative centuries led to the effective disbanding of the Ravenwing as known to other Dark Angels Chapters. Second, the need to still hunt and capture the Fallen meant that Chapter still needed to train to do battle with and quite regularly engage in conflict with other Imperial Space Marines.

Thus, over the last several millennia, the Angels Redeemed Chapter have become experts in battling their brothers. They have turned their relationship with the Adeptus Arbites and the Inquisition around, they are no longer regarded as suspects but as allies. The Angels Redeemed Chapter is now often used to purge traitors, iconoclasts and renegades from within the ranks of the Space Marines by the High Lords of Terra. They are regarded as experts in the systematic destruction of other Adeptus Astartes forces that have strayed from righteousness, viewing such targets as both worthy of the Emperor\'s wrath, as well as frequent hiding places for the Fallen. Too date, the Angels Redeemed are known to have destroyed three renegade chapters: the Immortal Hearts, Knights of Eternity, and Living Flame.

[Isiah]

This is great :P. My only comment would be that of the chapter badge which is merely a colour change away from that of the DA – too confusing in my opinion.

 

Cheers

I

[Ajax Tlamunus]

That's actually sort of the point. I love the unique armour style of the "official" Angels of Redemption, but have the freehand painting abilities of a spastic chimpanzee during an earthquake... so I know I'll never be able to properly paint the Angels of Redemption chapter icon. There are a thousand sources of presculpted Dark Angels icons, andI know I can paint those. So, I decided to do Angels of Redemption with Dark Angels icons and call it a DIY chapter... I figured that would be confussing to outside observers, probably be nearly heretical to certain higher ups in the Imperium, and still kinda mesh with the Unforgiven's philosophy of "Am I bovvered?"

[Isiah]

... I figured that would be confussing to outside observers, probably be nearly heretical to certain higher ups in the Imperium, and still kinda mesh with the Unforgiven's philosophy of "Am I bovvered?"

 

Fair enough ;). Liking the subterfuge.

[Ajax Tlamunus]

I like it too.

 

Have you run this past the DIY-guys yet (Liber, that is)?

 

For some reason, my BBCode tagging goes all wonky when I tried to post it over there... I have no idea why.