Storm Angels



=History=     During the time known as the Horus Heresy, the fifth legion, also known as the White Scars, defended Terra and the Imperial Palace against the traitor invasion. Led personally by their primarch, Jaghatai Khan, they used their tactic of lightning raids against the rebels to deadly effectiveness, stopping many of the enemy advances in their tracks. After Horus was slain by the Emperor in combat, it was the White Scars, with the help of the remaining Blood Angels and Imperial Fists, which routed the traitors from Terra.

 Shortly after the end of the Heresy, Roboute Guilliman wrote the Codex Astartes and commanded that all remaining legions be broken up into smaller chapters. Rogal Dorn of the Imperial Fists, supported by Leman Russ of the Space Wolves as well as Jaghatai Khan, railed against this declaration. The weakened Imperium teetered on the brink of a second civil war. Seeing that Roboute and his supporters would not relent, Rogal and the primarchs who backed him could foresee the empire they fought so hard to protect being engulfed in flames again, from which it would never again recover. Dorn finally gave in to spare the Imperium more bloodshed.

 In what was known as the Second Founding, Jaghatai broke the White Scars up into five separate chapters, leaving one to carry on the name and heraldry and four to forge their own paths across the stars. Shortly after this, near the end of the thirty-first millennium, the Third Founding took place. This was the Founding from which the Storm Angels were born.

 Commander Elaek Indriel, a Terran-born White Scar who served the legion faithfully even prior to being united with their primarch, was chosen by the Great Khan himself to build this new chapter. Having fought during the Great Crusade at the side of the Emperor himself, Indriel knew what was asked of the Astartes and modeled his new chapter after his own experience. As his new chapter’s homeworld, he chose the world of Coriolis, a beautiful and volatile planet the White Scars conquered during the Crusade.

 In M32, the 6’th Strike Company participated in the Adrusian Campaign against the self-proclaimed prophet Captain Haeglin of the Word Bearers Traitor Legion. It was during this operation that Lieutenant Kaen Joriel made an eternal oath to seek out and find any Astartes that have broken their vows of loyalty to the Emperor and slay them. He became the first of a long line of warriors known as the ‘Alastors of the Storm’.

 When fighting broke out across the Imperium in M36 in what is known as the Age of Apostasy, the Storm Angels found themselves across from the Angels of Truth Chapter, a Dark Angels successor chapter that had been swayed to Arch-heretic Goge Vandire’s side. Upon learning of their former brother’s treachery, the Storm Angels fell upon the the renegade’s homeworld of Kraetir IV with righteous vengeance. They spared none of the heretics and by the end of the Apostasy, the planet was a lifeless rock and the Angels of Truth had been completely exterminated.

 In M37, the Second, Third, and Seventh Strike Companies were sent to Surlox Prime when contact was lost with the forgeworld. Upon entering the system, no vox transmissions could be heard and there was no space traffic around the normally bustling planet. They made planetfall only to find themselves caught in a trap set by Adeptus Mechanicus Skitarii forces who had declared themselves loyal to the Ruinous Powers as well as elements from the Night Lords Traitor Legion. Recovering quickly, the Storm Angels crashed into the Dark Mechanicus forces with untold fury. Even as severely outnumbered as they were, they fought on killing hordes of the heretics, but they were steadily losing the protracted conflict. When all seemed its darkest, the Legio Tigris arrived and deployed the entirety of its titan legion to the surface of the planet. With renewed vigor, the marine forces were aided by the titans and crushed the traitors to the man. After the battle, the Storm Angels and War Tigers each swore oaths of loyalty and friendship that have persisted strongly into the present day.

 Early in M39, a detachment of Storm Angels aboard the Strike Cruiser Eternal Fury aided a small Mechanicus outpost on the edge of the Forlorn Rend, a small area of space on the far edge of the galaxy in the Segmentum Obscurus where warpspace spills into the Material Realm. A previously undocumented xenos force had attacked the moon-based outpost and the Storm Angels repelled the attack, routing the aliens into the Rend, from which they did not return. As the marines pushed the xeno forces back into the anomaly, the Eternal Fury was itself crippled and pulled into the Rend and destroyed. In recognition for their loss and heroism, the lone remaining Arch-Magos gifted the Storm Angels with several STC templates that had not been seen by the Astartes.

 Near the end of M41, the planet Armageddon once again sent a plea for help across the Imperium, and the Storm Angels answered along with many other Astartes chapters. The greenskins had returned to the worn-torn planet in the biggest Ork Waaagh ever seen in the history of the Imperium. The Storm Angels were primarily utilized for boarding actions against ork fleet ships, destroying a great deal of their crafts and crippling many others. They also made an orbital drop against the orks attacking Hive Helsreach, routing many of the aliens.

 When Abaddon’s thirteenth Black Crusade assaulted the area surrounding the Eye of Terror, the Storm Angels fought his forces in many theaters of war. On Mordax Prime, they fought the orks until they were outnumbered a hundred to one, and still they made hit and run attacks against ork supply zones. When the order to overload the electrical grid on Saint Josman’s Hope was given, they were there to evacuate imperial citizens and hold the traitors on the planet, many of them giving their lives. When Abaddon’s fleet finally made it to Cadia itself, they stood firm with their brother-chapters and turned his forces back into the warp. Many Storm Angels were lost, but their sacrifices will live forever.