I have been tossing around the idea of just whom I want to have portrayed as the miscellaneous chapter in Immortal Enemies. I say miscellaneous because they will not be featured in first person perspective, and they are the only marine chapter that will appear more or less as the group acted upon rather than an active participant in the overall plot. I had originally offered the spot to Molotov’s Castigators, which I encourage you to visit among the links, just because they are rather cool, but lets say he wasn’t all that impressed with the part offered. It probably had to do something about the rather notable womping this target chapter is to take so the buck is passed to another chapter.
I am still working on what chapter I want to take this hit. I can tell you with good authority that I want it to be a second (possibly) or (more ideally a) tertiary founding… and I am still open to created chapters. That is why I created the idea for Chapter 1984, a chapter who functioned under a traditional name, but in a strange turn of event has come to function under just its founding number, as best they can calculate it. They have all but thrown off all imperial heraldry, abide strict discipline to their own combat doctrine, which originates from the Index Astartes but is not as ritualized as that index is, has gone to good efforts to reverse engineer much of their technology, and maintains the Emperor as a great man more than a God.
As pictured below, in an example that includes the chapter’s symbol, they are meant to wear a bit of hybridized armor, prefering a lot of aspects of Mk III armor, but with some of the Mk VII and Mk VIII innovations. The chapter would have a certain disdane for hand to hand combat, which is why I am thinking they might not be ideal for the portion of the story that I want to put them into, but I wanted to get other feedback, possibly suggestions, and a general understanding of what someone would think about such a fervently professional and emotionless chapter.
They would ideally probably be from the Iron Hands geneseed. Their mentality towards weakness would be similar and they would have a very strict and somewhat unique interpretation of what is acceptable behavior. While appreciated by some branches of the Inquisition, they would likely have many enemies there, given that they do not view Emperor-worship as proper behavior, though they accept it as a necissary evil in most cases.
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Should they be included?
Who should be?
Should they be expanded in some other way?
Is this a bad idea?
Et cetera…