Index Astartes: Brotherhood of Steel

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2nd Company Tactical Marine

 

• Chapter Name: Botherhood of Steel
• Founding: 23rd "Sentinel" Founding
• Founding Chapter: Iron Hands
• Chapter Master: Raguel Hammerhand
• Homeworld: Hephaston
• Fortress-Monastery: Eye of Manus (Modified Ramilles-Class Star Fortress)
• Chapter Colours: Silver and Purple
• Specialty: Bionics and Siegecraft
• Warcry: Sergeant/Chaplain: "Through Honour and Steel!" Marines: "We are reforged!"

Overview

 

The Brotherhood of Steel is a loyalist Space Marine chapter founded during the 23^rd “Sentinel” Founding. They are descended from the Iron Hands Space Marine Chapter/Legion. They specialize in Bionic Enhancements like their progenitor chapter as well as taking a specialty to siege tactics and the use of solid-state weaponry (bolts, slugs, missiles, etc.) distrusting the fickle nature of energy weapons.

 

History

 

The 23^rd “Sentinel” Founding occurred early in M38. Before then, nearly 57 Space Marine Chapters had been lost to the Imperium, due to either turning renegade, the Age of Apostasy, or attacks made by marauding Chaos and Ork warbands. The disasterous 21^st “Cursed” Founding was also responsible for some of these loses. It was after all this, the High Lords of Terra decreed a new founding of Space Marine Chapters to help recuperate their losses.

 

The chapter that was to become the Brotherhood of Steel was chosen from Iron Hands gene-seed stock. A group of veterans from the Iron Hands were selected to oversee the establishment of this new chapter. They selected the Feral World of Hephaston to establish as the chapter’s homeworld. This pre-gunpower civilization utilized steel-age swords and axes as well as bows and arrows. The warring clans of the world competed with each other for honour and prestige. The Iron Hands Veterans saw this world as suitable for the chapter. The Adeptus Mechanicus provided this world with a modified Ramillies-Class Star Fort to serve as the Chapter’s Fortress Monastery which was christened the Eye of Manus, in honour of their Pimarch.

 

Missionaries on the planet below worked with the Veterans to begin recruitment from the clans, under the pretense that the order came from the God-Emperor that every first born son when they’ve reached their 10^th Birthday to serve the Brotherhood of Steel. The first groups of aspirants were sent up by Thunderhawk Gunships to begin genetic testing for compatability to the Gene-Seed implants. Those who fail the genetic testing were indoctrinated as the first of the Chapter’s Serfs. Those whose bodies rejected the implants either died during implantation or were stabilized enough to become mindwiped and be made into the Chapter’s Servitors.

 

Once the first Squads of Battle-Brothers had completed their training. The Iron Hands Veterans that had watched over their development were pleased with how they had turned out and appointed the most skilled as the first Chapter Master before returning to Medusa. The Brotherhood of Steel’s history had begun.

 

Notable Engagements:

• 465.M38 – Raid on Hephaston: The chapter’s homeworld is raided by Dark Eldar slavers, hoping to take the warring clans back to Commoragh as slaves for their dark machinations. This proves the first real test for the Brotherhood of Steel as they defend their world and drive off the xenos invaders, but not before losing 100,000 of the planet’s population to the Dark Eldar.
   
• 236.M39 – Waaagh! Gazrhul: The 2^nd and 4^th companies engage an Ork Waaagh invading the Forge World of Marius VII. The Orks are driven back after nearly 6 months of fighting that resulted in the death of their Warboss.
   
• 445.M40 – Cultist Uprising: The elite 1^st Company makes planetfall on the hive world of Lorthent to aid Imperial Guard regiments in suppressing a cultist uprising. The stalemate is broken when the Chapter’s Vindicator tanks and Thunderfire Cannons break the enemy’s battle lines to allow the Guardsmen’s forces to divide and slay the cultist leaders.
   
• 806.M41 to 815.M41 – The Hephaston Crusade: Necron activity is detected in systems surrounding the Chapter’s Homeworld. The current Chapter Master, Raguel Hammerhand, sends out a signal to recall all available Brotherhood of Steel forces to begin planning defenses against the coming threat. On the Agri world of Celeborn the Brotherhood makes planetfall and assault the awakening Necron Warriors while supporting the planet’s PDF. Reinforcements arrive in the form of a Black Templars Crusader Fleet as they prove invaluable allies in the 9 years it takes to purge the worlds of the Hephaston sector one planet at a time of all Xenos presence.
   
• 999.M41 – 13^th Black Crusade: The Brotherhood of Steel sends 2 battle companies to reinforce the Cadian system and set up siege lines to break through the enemies battle lines. This turns out disasterous when Abbadon the Despoiler uses the Blackstone Fortresses to overload the Cadian Pylons and the planet is engulfed in the Eye of Terror. Of the 200 Battle-Brothers sent, no more than a couple dozen have escaped with the retreating forces. They return to Hephaston to lick their wounds, morn their losses, and plan their next move.

Chapter Organization

 

The Brotherhood of Steel adheres to the Codex Astartes, as set forth by the Primarch of the Ultramarines, Roboute Guilliman. The Chapter maintains 10 battle companies and support staff.

 

Homeworld

 

The Chapter Homeworld for the Brotherhood of Steel is the Feral World of Hephaston, located on the borders of the Segmentum Obscurus and the Segmentum Pacificus in the Galactic Southwest. The inhabitants of this Feral World consist of warring clans that are a pre-gunpowder civilization. Bows and arrows, swords, spears, axes, and maces are the pinnacle of weapons technology on this world. The inhabitants consist of warring clans that compete with each other for prestige and control or regions of the planet. The largest ones rule their regions while smaller clans fight for a larger clan’s favor or alliance. The climate of Hephaston is broken up into three different zones: The southern regions are vast, arid deserts. Lakes and rivers are hidden in small mountain valleys where the clans fight for control of the water. The central regions are vast mountain ranges with forests and rivers. The northern regions are great forests with massive rocky plateaus that rise from the forest canopy, where great fortress cities are built to house the greatest of the clans. In each of the regions a great temples are found that are dedicated to the Emperor of Mankind while are neutral territory to all the clans. These temples also serve as Chapter Keeps for the Brotherhood of Steel, where the recruits are sent to be shuttled up to the Eye of Manus in orbit above the planet.

 

Combat Doctrine

 

The Brotherhood of Steel makes use of bionic enhancements like their primogenitor chapter, the Iron Hands. They’ve also made a specialty of siegecraft, preferring the application of overwhelming firepower to destroy their foes through the use of Vindicator Tanks and Thunderfire Cannons. Lastly, they are distrustful of energy weapons, rarely fielding them unless no other alternative is available. They thus prefer solid-state weapons (Bolts, Slugs, Missiles, etc).

 

Chapter Beliefs

 

While the Brotherhood of Steel shares the Iron Hands dislike of any form of weekness, they believe in purging weakness through battle, honing their skills and in their eyes having purged their weakness becoming ‘reforged’.

 

Gene-Seed

 

The Gene-Seed of the Brotherhood of Steel comes from that of the Primarch Ferrus Manus, making them successors of the Iron Hands Legion/Chapter. Their gene-seed shares with their need for bionic enhancements to remove their weaknesses, but less apparent than their founding chapter/legion.

 

Notable Brotherhood of Steel

• Raguel Hammerhand - Current Chapter Master and Captain of the 1st Company the "Paladins of Hephaston"

Chapter Fleet

 

Battle Barges

• Hammer of Manus
• Shield of Hephaston

Strike Cruisers

• Hammerhand
• Fury of Steel
• Spear of the Gorgon
• Ironheart
• Hand of Brotherhood
• Light of Marius VII
• Righteous Indignation
• Sword of Vengeance
• Might of Ironblood
• Steel Sentinel

 

Chapter Appearance

 

The Brotherhood of Steel has a colour scheme of silver with purple shoulder insets, backpacks,  and weapons. The shoulder trim designates is coloured to the company designation as laid out in the Codex Astartes (1^st Company – Silver, 2^nd Company – Gold, 3^rd Company – Red, etc.) The left shoulder pad displays the Chapter Symbol: A sword rising up between a split cog, symbolizing the Iron Hands and their separate successor chapters. The right shoulder pad designates the squad specialization (Tactical, Devastator, Assault, Veteran, or Command). The knees are coloured purple as well with a gothic number painted on the right knee to denote the squad number he is part of.

[joschlumpf]

First of all, nice idea making savages going full Iron Hands :D

Did you know that the Brotherhood of Steel is a main faction in the Fallout Universe? You could use that for this Chapter!

There are two things that bugs me:

1. As stated in another thread, ramilles starforts are extremely rare and therefore no newfounded Chapter will get one. (not that I would care but as I said this was a point of discussion on another thread already so be warned )

2. It´s also extreme uncommon that a newfounded Chapter gets a Master from within. Normally their ancestors build the first Leaders like captains and chaplains, because a newmade Astartes just don´t have the knowledge and experience to lead 1000 superhumans.