The Space Marines of the Imperium
The 25th Founding of Space Marine Chapters, also known as the "Bastion Founding," occurred during the latter half of the 40th Millennium.
There are only four Chapters that are known to have been founded at this time -- the Emperor's Spears, the Fire Angels, the Omega Marines and the ill-fated Star Scorpions.
Select 25th Founding Chapters
| Emperor's Spears | Ultramarines | Roboute Guilliman | Nemeton | The Emperor's Spears is a Loyalist Successor Space Marine Chapter of the Ultramarines. The Chapter was created during the 25th Founding, the so-called "Bastion Founding." The Emperor's Spears hail from the feral Ocean World of Nemeton. It was one of three Chapters that once made up the Adeptus Vaelarii, better known as the Sentinels of the Veil. These Astartes guardians once stood watch over the Imperial worlds located in the backwater region of the galaxy called Elara's Veil |
| Fire Angels | Ultramarines | Roboute Guilliman | Lorin Alpha | The Fire Angels are a recently Founded Chapter, though not the first body to bear the title and panoply. They hail from the world of Lorin Alpha and while they share the genetic heritage of the Ultramarines, the Fire Angels have no special links to the wider body of Ultramarines Successors. Instead, the Fire Angels look forwards, carving their own legends in the annals of the Imperium’s history. Though only a few centuries old, the Chapter has already won many notable victories and taken part in numerous campaigns and Crusades. |
| Omega Marines | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | The Omega Marines are a Loyalist Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter that was Founded during the 40th Millennium, and could be a possible Chapter of the 25th Founding. |
| Star Scorpions | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | The Star Scorpions had the dual misfortune of producing highly mutated gene-seed and being utterly devastated by daemonic entities when the Chapter's fleet became trapped in the Warp. The exact fate of the Star Scorpions is unknown. They are now considered extinct, a lost Chapter of Astartes. It is unknown what Chapter provided the gene-seed for the Star Scorpions' Founding and little else about the Chapter is available in Imperial records. |
Sources
- Adeptus Astartes: Successor Chapters (Limited Release Booklet)
- Codex: Armageddon (3rd Edition)
- Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition), pg. 29
- Deathwatch - Honour the Chapter (RPG), pg. 131
- How to Paint Space Marines (Painting Guide), pg. 88
- Imperial Armour Volume Nine - The Badab War - Part One, pp. 47, 50, 90-97, 168
- Imperial Armour Volume Ten - The Badab War - Part Two, pp. 13, 19
- Insignium Astartes - The Uniforms & Regalia of the Space Marines, pg. 63
- Spear of the Emperor (Novel) by Aaron Dembski-Bowden
- Warhammer 40,000: Compendium (1st Edition), "The Badab War" by Rick Priestley, pp. 33-35
- White Dwarf Magazine #249 (UK), "Index Astartes: Emperor's Shield: Space Marine Chapters of the Armageddon War", pp. 30-33
- White Dwarf Magazine #103 (UK), "Rampaging Rhinos" by Rick Priestley
- White Dwarf Magazine #101 (UK), "Index Astartes: The Badab Uprising" by Rick Priestley
- White Dwarf Magazine #98 (UK), "Index Astartes-The Mentor Legion" by Bryan Ansell, Alan Merrett and Paul Cockburn, pp. 39-44