WIP (DIY Chapter) Knights of the Green Templar

[Lathe Biosas]

INDEX ASTARTES: KNIGHTS OF THE GREEN TEMPLAR

 

 

 

Segmentum: Multiple (Irregular)

Founding: Ultima

Gene-Seed: Classified (Stable)

Chapter Strength: ~200 Battle-Brothers

Homeworld: None

Fortress-Monastery: Emerald Oath (Derelict Strike Cruiser)

Chapter Status: Tolerated Irregular Crusade Force

Battle Cry: [REDACTED — multiple recorded variants]

 

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Chapter Overview

 

The Knights of the Green Templar are an unorthodox Space Marine Chapter operating as a perpetual crusade force. They possess no fleet assets beyond a single, wrecked Strike Cruiser and exhibit extreme doctrinal deviation centered on a relic blade known as the Emerald Sword.

 

Despite repeated Inquisitorial review, the Chapter has not been declared heretical. Their continued existence is justified by consistent battlefield effectiveness against xenos and daemon threats, particularly in regions of anomalous warp activity.

 

Their sudden, unpredictable appearances across the galaxy remain unexplained.

 

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Origins (Sealed)

 

Imperial records do not list a founding date, Founding Number, or Primogenitor for the Knights of the Green Templar. Surviving documentation begins with a single classified incident involving an Ordo Astartes investigation, a Greyshield Strike Cruiser awaiting Torchbearer integration, and a lost archeotech artifact.

 

Subsequent data is fragmentary.

 

What is known is that the Strike Cruiser failed to complete a warp transition and was later located crashed upon an abandoned Aeldari Maiden World. The vessel was beyond repair. The Inquisitor attached to the mission was killed. His journals survive only in redacted form.

 

The Greyshields endured.

 

They did not disperse.

 

They reorganized.

 

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Fortress-Monastery: Emerald Oath

 

The Chapter’s sole permanent holding is the wrecked Strike Cruiser Emerald Oath. Its engines are irreparable, its void shields unreliable, and its astropathic systems function only intermittently.

 

The vessel serves as:

 

* Chapel

* Apothecarion

* Reliquary

* Induction site

 

The Knights make no attempt to repair or replace it.

 

They do not believe they are meant to leave by conventional means.

 

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The Emerald Sword

 

At the center of the Chapter’s doctrine is the Emerald Sword, a fragmented relic blade of unknown provenance. Its hilt remains intact; its blade reforges itself as shards are recovered.

 

The reforging process:

 

* Requires no tools

* Generates no heat

* Leaves no metallurgical residue

* Cannot be replicated or studied

 

The Knights do not understand how this occurs.

 

They consider understanding unnecessary.

 

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The Emerald Oath

 

All Knights swear the Emerald Oath upon induction. The Oath binds them not to a place, lineage, or commander—but to the completion of the Quest.

 

Whether this devotion is:

 

* A self-imposed crusade vow

* A cultural aberration

* Or the influence of the blade itself

 

…remains deliberately undefined.

 

Attempts to formally analyze the Oath have been obstructed by the Chapter’s Chaplains and, on two occasions, ended in

violence.

 

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Webway Transit Phenomenon

 

The Knights of the Green Templar possess no warp-capable fleet.

 

Instead, when the Emerald Sword nears shard-sites or regions of heightened psychic resonance, Aeldari Webway gates activate spontaneously in the blade’s presence.

 

The Knights:

 

* Do not know how the gates open

* Cannot predict their destination

* Have no means of navigation once transit begins

 

They enter regardless.

 

Strike forces have emerged from Webway portals across multiple Segmenta, often directly into active war zones. Some forces are thought lost for months or years, but return unscathed, or with new recruits.

 

Imperial authorities classify this as:

 

> “Uncontrolled Non-Warp Strategic Redeployment.”

 

Privately, several Ordo Xenos memoranda describe it as:

 

> “An intolerable breach that remains inconveniently useful.”

 

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Organization

 

The Chapter does not follow the Codex Astartes.

 

* No Companies

* No formal reserve structure

* Command authority shifts between crusade-bands

 

Veteran Knights cluster near the Emerald Sword and display heightened zeal, aggression, and ritual fixation. Neophytes and newly inducted Greyshields exhibit fewer symptoms—initially.

 

The Chapter’s effective strength fluctuates due to:

 

* Losses within the Webway

* Recovered isolated battle-brothers

* Unexplained reappearances of Knights long presumed dead

 

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Combat Doctrine

 

The Knights favor:

 

* Close-quarters assaults

* Flame and melta weaponry

* Decisive, uncompromising engagements

 

They display minimal interest in territorial control. Campaigns are abandoned abruptly if the Quest draws them elsewhere.

 

Imperial commanders report that the Knights are:

 

* Fanatically reliable once committed

* Completely indifferent to strategic withdrawal orders

 

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Relations with the Imperium

 

The Knights of the Green Templar maintain strained but functional relations with Imperial authorities.

 

They:

 

* Do not proselytize

* Do not claim authority beyond their crusade

* Do not request reinforcement or resupply beyond necessity

 

The Inquisition monitors them continuously.

 

Contingency protocols exist.

 

None have yet been enacted.

 

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Final Assessment

 

The Knights of the Green Templar are not loyal in the conventional sense.

 

They are directed.

 

As long as the Emerald Sword continues to point outward—toward xenos, daemons, and distant warzones—the Imperium tolerates their existence.

 

Should the blade ever turn inward, toward Terra or truth long buried, that tolerance will end.

 

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Editorial Note (Restricted)

 

 

> “The question is not where the Knights go when the gate opens.

 

> The question is who else notices when it does.”

Edited 19 hours ago by Lathe Biosas
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