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Hi, I'm Ubrik Ragan (Oo-br-ik Ra-ga-n), and I'm new to this forum, and I thought some of you all may be interested in the background of a Space Marine Chapter I created...

The Angels Revenant

Created during the 2nd founding, shortly after the Horus Heresy, the Angels Revenant chapter were created as an experiment. The Imperium needed to make sure that it's defenders were incorruptible by chaos forces, so that the traitor marines would never again be able to threaten humanity on such a scale. This was the first chapter where the recruits were subjected to "Daemonic Possession Therapy", in the hopes of producing a spiritually pure space marine. This was done by allowing each new marine to be temporarily possessed by a daemon, in controlled conditions, for twenty-four hours, whereupon the marine was freed from the daemon by a trained exorcist.
Initially, it worked, and the vast majority of the marines were purified by the experience; even though some were irrevocably changed by it. These changes usually manifested in strange abilities, such as gaining the vision of an eagle, or a sense of smell akin to that of the Space Wolves. Occasionally, it was a personality trait that changed, making a perfect sniper (silent, patient), into a crazed berserker (exactly what it says on the tin). And in rare cases, actually changed a marine's physical attributes - such as giving him two left hands (as with their current chapter master).
But these changes were considered a worthy sacrifice for the purity the experience granted.

However, by the time of Abaddon the Despoiler's first black crusade, in 781.M31 , these "changes" took an altogether different form, as the daemons of the warp became exponentially more powerful, even managing to possess a marine with two or more daemons at a time.
Imperial records of these new "changes" were utterly destroyed, but it was clear that most of the chapter became allies with the Traitor Marines, even aiding the black crusade. The chapter was swiftly declared Excommunicate Traitoris.
But even though the the chapter was declared excommunicate, they were not destroyed, as happened to nearly all new traitor chapters. Instead, the Inquisition contacted the loyal half of the chapter, and offered it a chance to redeem itself.

The remains of the Angels Revenant chapter became a space-faring crusade, intent on eradicating all the heretical remnants of itself, and proving their loyalty by launching suicidal attacks on alien worlds.

In 581.M41 , the Angels Revenant chapter recieved it's first communication from the Imperium in over 8,000 years. The mesasage was so heavily incrypted, it took over a year to translate, even with the resources of the entire chapter and it's colony of humans from it's original homeworld (from which it's recruits are derived). The communication was an ultimatum from the Inquisition that left them with no choice but to accept.

It was in 607.M41 , when the thousand Angels Revenant, and over 5,000,000 guardsmen reinforcements, descended upon the Ikvaar system, where a whole system of Necron Tombworlds had been awoken by the recent arrival of Chaos Space Marines. The war lasted until 750.M41 , when the Angels Revenant emerged - reduced to only two-hundred marines, and a colony of five thousand, yes - but victorious. And the planet Ikvaar III was to be their new homeworld.

Still technically Excommunicate Traitoris, the chapter is regaining it's strength, and working hard as ever to prove their loyalty to humanity.


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Interesting.
Kind of reminds me of the Soul Drinkers though (loose inspiration?).


I'll warn you though.
This thread won't end well. Incorruptability never goes down well with all the lurking Grey Knight fanboys/haters.

Ubrik Ragan wrote:
Created during the 2nd founding, shortly after the Horus Heresy, the Angels Revenant chapter were created as an experiment. The Imperium needed to make sure that it's defenders were incorruptible by chaos forces, so that the traitor marines would never again be able to threaten humanity on such a scale. This was the first chapter where the recruits were subjected to "Daemonic Possession Therapy", in the hopes of producing a spiritually pure space marine. This was done by allowing each new marine to be temporarily possessed by a daemon, in controlled conditions, for twenty-four hours, whereupon the marine was freed from the daemon by a trained exorcist.

Problem: Already done, and successfully, by the Exorcists chapter.

Lexicanum wrote:
The Marines of the Chapter underwent a process known as "Daemonic Possession Therapy". Each Marine was, under very tight security, subject to possession by a minor denizen of the Warp. The creature was allowed to remain within the host body for twelve hours until they were cast out by a Daemon Hunter. Some of the Marines were so damaged physically and psychologically that they had to be terminated. Most however survived and needed only minor reconstructive surgery.

After a minor period of recuperation the subjects were taught the ways of combating Daemons, trained in the use of the 666 verses of the Book of Exorcisms and equipped with the weapons of an Exorcist. To test their new creations, the Marines were put into combat on a Daemon World on the northern edge of the Eye of Terror. A squad of the Grey Knights were held in reserve, just in case they turned on their masters, while the Exorcist Space Marines achieved a kill ratio of 97:1. Most impressive, especially against Daemons. Test results showed that their adrenaline production tripled and the levels of serotonin dropped drastically. This made the Marines much more aggressive and gave them increased combat effectiveness. Only 1% of the Marines fell to Daemonic infestation again, but the scientists believed they could eradicate the likelihood of this happening. On the basis that their souls are incorruptible and pure, they are effectively invisible to most warp daemons as their souls do not register for the leak of the mortal corruption. Only extremely powerful daemons are able to spot them.

Judging by the similarity I'm guessing he took inspiration from the post.

actually, I've never known anything about the exorcists, and the lexicanum says they were a long time after 2nd founding.
Also, the "daemonic possession" experiment kinda failed in my chapter - it being the first trial - and they were just less likely to fall to heresy under normal circumstances. So it still kinda fits into the "future history" of 40k.

But, I can see why you think I got it from the exorcists.