The Halo Watch
Information Founding Chapter: Dark Angels
Founding: Twenty Second Founding
Homeworld: Fleet based
Fortress-Monastery: A Space Hulk,
The Watchtower Colours: Quartered Dark Green/Black with Purple Pauldrons
Specialty: None
Strength: Full
Battle Cry: Unknown
Inner Circle Chapter Master: Supreme Grand Master Yvain H’Tennek, a cunning man who is always accompanied by a cyber-lion.
Master of the Deathwing: Grand Master Silas Ramiel, a beast of a man and a noble warrior.
Master of the Ravenwing: Grand master Gabriel Sariel, a hot-headded but stubborn commander.
Grand Master of Chaplains:
Grand Master of Librarians:
History The gene seed of the Dark Angels is as pure that of any space marine chapter, but their dark and mysterious actions have lead to it being used less often than others. However, during the 22nd founding, the gene seed of the Unforgiving was selected after the disastrous 21st founding as it was one of the few not used. As the first marines grew to maturation, a message was dispatch requesting a cadre of warrior be sent to train this new Chapter. This call was answered by the Angels of Dark Storm, a Dark Angels successor, who sent Master Tarkin of the Third Company to lead this Cadre along with Chaplain Baros from the Angels of Absolution. As the first batch of Marines recovered from the implantation surgeries, Master H’Tennek decided on a name for this new founding of the Unforgiven, a chapter that would stand as sentinels against the machinations of Chaos and Xenos alike and strike as angels of death when the Imperium was threatened; The Halo Watch. The heraldry of their armor blended the colors of the Dark Angels of old and new and their symbol, a winged lantern, a metaphor for cutting through the darkness of the 41st millennium.
Many years passed before the Halo Watch departed Mars and made their way to their new homeworld. The fleet barring the Halo Watch came under attack by massive space hulk, catching the fleet off guard and scattering it. Rallying the scattered ships, Tarkin order the Halo Watch marine to began boarding operations against the hulk, hoping to sunder the hulk from the inside as it deflected blows from the fleets guns. As drop pods descended upon the hulk, the fresh marines faces there first real taste of war. Fighting through the twisted hallways, they discovered the masters of the warp spawn behemoth, the Orks. The hulk was infested with thousands of greenskins, all ready to sunder the next planet the hulk was to stumble upon. The Halo Watch forced the numerically superior Orks into fighting in cramped corridors where there numbers became liability instead of a boon. Mean while, the ships of the Halo Watch had been joined by an Imperial Naval taskforce that had been pursuing the hulk. Soon, the location of the central command hub was discovered, Master Tarkin teleported into the heart of the Ork leadership with a squad of Terminators. Massacring the boyz in the center as Tarking engaged in single combat with the Warboss. The fight lasted several hours as the two behemoths traded blows till Master Tarking gained the upper hand and beheaded the greenskin with his heavenfall blade. As the wounded Tarkin returned to the Chapter’s battlebarge to recover from his wounds, the orks fell into disarray without their leader. The Halo Watch began to see this chance encounter as a sign, and after the chapters Librarians consulted the Emperor’s Tarot, the Halo Watch laid claim to the hulk to become their fortress-monastery and began a 50 year cleansing of the hulk. The Naval Taskforce, thankful that the hulk was no longer a threat, departed. After the hulk was cleansed of all Orks, the Halo Watch dubbed it the Watchtower and began operation across the Imperium.
The beliefs of the Halo Watch were greatly affected by the members of the carde that trained them and the events of the Siege of the Watchtower. There belief structure closely resembles the Angels of Absolution, still very similar to those of their progenitor chapter, but consider themselves absolved of their own sins during the Fall of Caliban, and place a greater amount of emphasis on their holy duty of just hunting the Fallen as such and not to redeem themselves. This, along with the debt they owned to the Imperial Navy during the siege, caused a belief to form that they should never abandon imperial forces in times of great need in order to hunt the Fallen, Instead, they began to form semi-independent cells of members of the Deathwing, those of the 1st company and select inducted members from the 6th company, who mission in was to hunt members of the Fallen if the Halo Watch was otherwise engaged. This did cause some minor tension between the Halo Watch and the Dark Angels, but the success of the covert cells was undeniable, capturing several Fallen, so the Dark Angels choose to accept this idiosyncrasy.
The Chapter has seen combat from the Eye of Terror to the Eastern Fringe, suppressing rebellions, beating back xenos invaders and banishing daemons back to the warp. They suffered heavy losses in the Gamma Castellan Sector, but rebuilt there forces through a massive recruiting drive on the Hive World of Paradeso. Currently the chapter has shifted their efforts to the Veiled Worlds Crusade.
C&C is Welcomed
" -KingCracker
