Founding reason: Counter to an existing threat

Founding: 40th millennium

Progenitor: Ultramarines
Purity: same as Ultramarines, and maintains close links with them
Demeanour: detests heretics
Mutation: none
Flaw: Pride in colours; dislike concealment and covering their
colours.
Chapter Legend: A Chapter Master is known as a bane of Orks, and
is remembered by them to this day
Homeworld: Oceanic Hive world
Rulership: distant rule
Organisation: Divergent chapter
Combat Doctrine: Drop Pod Assault
Special Equipment: Rare weaponry (large stock of otherwise rare
weaponry)
Chapter beliefs: Praise the Emperor above all
Chapter Strength: Nominal strength
Friends: Adeptus Mechanicus
Enemies: Orks

Name: Astral Spears

Colours:

Insignia:

Battlecry: Pierce their Heart!

Bio:
With the proliferation of Orks in the north of the Segmentum Solar in
the latter part of the 40th Millenium (some of whom would later
become part of WAAAGH!! Ghazghkull), the Adeptus Terra decreed
that a new chapter should be founded to be able to intercept this
threat should it become a threat to the Sol system. Using the
ubiquitous Ultramarines geneseed, as well as training provided from
Ultramarine Veterans, the Astral Spears were raised and trained to

specialise in boarding actions against Ork Roks, Hulks and other

ramshackle Ork vessels.
The Astral Spears prefer to intercept their targets before they make
planetfall, using a combination of drop pods, boarding torpedoes
and Caestus assault craft to punch through, or land on, the hull of
their enemys ships. Once aboard, the Chapter makes heavy use of
Grav weaponry, exploiting the low gravity environment to make
even subtle changes in mass have devastating consequences as
they collapse bulkheads, rupture hulls, and (with concentrated fire)
even draw vessels off course. It was in early M.41 that Chapter
Master Augustus Antioch launched such an attack on the
burgeoning WAAAGH!! Gitmash as it embarked from Vanir IV,
destroying the Ork fleet before it even left the system. The
explosions from the ruptured warp drives were visible from the
surface of the Ork-infested planet, which the fearful inhabitants
attributed to an entity they knew only as Da Burna.
As a result of their tactical peculiarities, the Astral Spears have great
demand for void-hardened armour as well as Grav-weaponry.
Fortunately, the Priests of Mars have deigned to grant them just
that, likely out of recognition for their continued protection of the
Segmentum Solar, and by extension Mars itself.
To assist in training for their preferred strategy, the Astral Spears
maintain their Fortress Monastery in the depths of the world ocean
of the planet Pleisia, where the few rocky archipelagos are used as
foundations for stilted hive cities. The crushing pressure, whilst an
almost perfect opposite threat to the vacuum of space, provides a
continual reminder of the dangers of extreme environments and the
necessary gravity with which a Marine must conduct himself under
such conditions. The Chapter deliberately keep their status mythical
to the denizens of the hive; those underhivers with the courage to
plumb the depths of the world ocean in search of a legend are
considered prime candidates for recruitment.