IA: Hammers of Ultramar

[Brother Lunkhead]

This Astartes Chapter is one of four fallouts from my Praetorian Sword Chapter story and is just for fun. Expect it not to be too serious Expect it to be heavy handed with obvious historical references, personal references, and a pun or two

 

This is a tank and artillery heavy chapter.  The Veteran Company runs a combination of Terminator Squads and Heavy Tanks Squadrons. All battle company heavy support squads are Medium Tank Squadrons (Predators and Repulsors). The 9th Company (Heavy Support Reserve) runs Devastator and Hellblasters, as well as Mobile Artillery Batteries.

 

The plains of Kursk are ideal for large tank exercises, and Hammers' homeworld is famous for it's tank and artillery school. The best gunheads from all over the Imperium train and test their skills here.

 

The Hammers can be found on many Imperial fronts. IG commanders appreciate the curtesy of close coordination and support that this Astartes Chapter gives. But they know to stay out of their way. When the Hammers of Ultramar roll, they hit fast and they hit hard. They like a good bar brawl too.

 

As always, comments and money are welcomed

 

IA: Hammers of Ultramar

 

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ORIGIN: 

               

At the end of the Horus Heresy and as part of the Scouring, Roboute Guilliman sends out several retribution fleets with broad mandates to seek and destroy surviving Chaos forces and enclaves, and to assist loyalist forces and civilians as necessary. One of these fleets, Retribution Fleet Praetor is under command of Chapter Master Mericus Bellerophon, former Invictarus Suzerain commander and part of Guilliman's inner circle.

 

While escorting a civilian refugee fleet to safe Imperial space, they are ambushed by a combined Chaos fleet which immediately sets upon the civilian ships. Bellerophon, immediately understands that his choices are limited. If he turns and fights he can destroy the Chaos fleet, but at the cost of the refugee fleet. He can run, but the Chaos forces will simply follow, and like a pack of wolves pick off the weaker civilian ships one by one. The only viable option is to have a portion of his fleet turn and fight a holding action, allowing the bulk of the fleet time to escape. Fleet Master Marcus Voyen (Bellerophon's closest human friend) volunteers to lead the holding action. Bellerophon knows that Voyen is the best man for the job and that it is also a suicide mission. He will never see his friend or the ships of the holding squadrons again.

 

Voyen launches his desperate little fleet into a savage attack against the Chaos forces, while the bulk of Fleet Praetor and the refugee fleet escape into the warp. In their death run, Voyen's forces smash the Chaos fleet and Bellerephon's rage and hatred of Chaos is fueled even brighter by the death of his friend and so many of his ship crews. It is a hatred that will burn hot until the day he dies.

 

Upon entering the warp, the fleet encounters a storm of power and ferocity  unlike any they had ever experienced. Many ships are lost and huge portions of the fleet are separated in the storm. As the surviving squadrons exit the warp they are scattered throughout the galactic rim. But that is not the worst of it. Navigators and ship cartographers inform the Chapter Master that the stars are wrong. His ships have not only been flung to the far reaches of the galaxy but the far reaches of time as well. It is estimated that they are almost ten thousand years in the future.

 

After many battles and long searching over more than a century, Bellerophon is finally content that he has made contact with all surviving elements of his fleet. He has lost many ships along with over five thousand Astartes, and countless freemen and civilian refugees. Also, through an extensive intelligence network he and his Librarius have established, he has a clear view of what has become of the Imperium. They are truly in a dark age, in every sense of the word.

 

At the end of what would later be known as the First Tyrannic War, and after furious battle with the Tyrannid invaders on the edges of Ultramar, Bellerophon makes contact with Macrage and meets with Marneus Calgar in secret. Once convinced of the truth behind Bellerophon's fantastic tale, the two Chapter Masters confer and make plans for the inevitable confrontation with the Inquisition.

 

For Calgar and the Ultramarines, meeting  Astartes from the XIII Legion is a miracle. To actually speak with brothers who stood with the Emperor and the Primarch, who witnessed the Emperor's dream made manifest and then sundered by Horus' treason is nothing short of a wonder for them. For the Inquisition, it is nothing short of the ultimate nightmare. To actually have eye witnesses to the Horus Heresy walking in the Imperium is intolerable. The Inquisition arrives in force with elements of Battlefleet Ultima, demanding the surrender of Bellerophon, his Astartes, and all freemen and civilians under his authority. The inquisitorial forces are faced by ships of the Ultramarines, the Ultramar Defense Force, and elements of Retribution Fleet Praetor. Inquisitor Egotoobig tells Chapter Master Calgar that more forces are on their way. Calgar smiles and assures the Inquisitor that they most certainly are. Numerous warp portals appear at the Mandeville Point and swarms of Primogenitor war ships pour through and take up battle positions behind the Imperial naval forces, weapons locked.

 

After long and tense deliberation, a compromise is arrived at. Under supervision of the Ultramarines Chapter, Bellerophon and his people will submit to inspection by the Inquisition and the Grey Knights. Once cleared, the forces of Retribution Fleet Praetor will be divided into five groups that will form the nucleus of five new chapters of Astartes. The new chapters will then take charge of all accompanying freemen and civilians who will be bonded in servitude to the chapters for life as will their children and children's children in perpetuity. Secret charters are issued, and all are sworn to silence.

 

Thus is born the Praetorian Sword, the Hospitallers Militant, the Hammers of Ultramar, the Ursan Lords, and the Liberation Knights, new Space Marine chapters to bring the Emperors Light to the darkness.

 

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BASIC DATA:

 

                       Primogenitor Legion: XIII, Ultramarines

 

                       Primarch Primogenitor: Roboute Guilliman

 

                       Founding: Classified (=][= Inquisitorial File1619 =][=)

 

                       Chapter Master: Nikolai Konev

 

                       Homeworld: Kursk

 

                       Chapter Monastery: Steel Citadel

 

                       Known Descendants: None

 

                       Colors: Blue, Orange, and Maroon

 

                       Symbol: Steel colored crossed thunder hammers over a steel colored Agemo on a field of Blue

 

                       Specialty: Armored assault and siege breaker operations

 

                       Battle Cry: Thunder and Lightning

 

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[Brother Cambrius]

Interesting initial start, but the one thing that screams at me is that Heraldry is very ... loud. Slaanesh would approve of that. May I suggest just colouring the Shoulder Pads in the blue and keep the rest in the Quartered scheme with a black or steel chest eagle?

<EDIT> Something akin to this:

In terms of their personality, if they are the Hammers, are they a more bullish, heavy-firepower toting Chapter, or more one that likes to get up close and personal to hammer down the foe?

Cambrius

[Brother Lunkhead]

Thanks for the tip, but the colors stay...…. Those are my school colors (Virginia Tech - Burnt Orange and Chicago Maroon) and I've wanted to use them since forever for a Space Marine Chapter  The Blue is similar to the Praetorian Sword design and is the Hammers' nod to their original Chapter Master, Bellerophon. They're an aggressive chapter, so I think it will work. The Howling Griffons have a similar livery

 

I added some additional text to my first post that explains them a little better. This is mostly a place holder for when I get back from the Praetorian Sword IA. As I said this is for fun. Waite 'til you see the other Praetor Brotherhood Chapters. I'll be posting similar articles for them soon. You haven't seen outlandish yet

[Messor]

I already really like that the Hammers are tank heavy. The promise of more outlandishness makes me eager to see more, particularly their personality.