Eclipse Knights

The Eclipse Knights are an imperfectly codex compliant Space Marine chapter. The few whom have witnessed the chapter have spoken tales of thoroughly mysterious, honor-driven bands of five to ten marines, or even lone warriors, stalking battlefields with a deathly grace and utmost concentration on the task at hand.

Legend tells of a tragedy that once fell upon the Knights. Fragments of the tale remain scatted across computer memory banks too easily overlooked to be wiped. A deep space boarding accident. Genestealers of an unknown number. Little but bolt pistols and tactical knives on hand to oppose the onslaught. A cargo bay full of all the necessary weaponry having long drifted out of boarding range, persumedly the result of the tenacity of of their Genestealer invaders.

Following these fragmented days, the chapter's size has without a shadow of a doubt shrinked to a mere 500 marines, perhaps in memory of another five hundred having needlessly lost their lives to tyranid claws. Little escapes the whispered words of the battle brothers to be properly analyzed by observers, but for all intents and purposes, it seems they are working for a day where their debts to the lost is repaid, and their self imposed hindrance will finally be lifted from their adamantum shoulders.