Utopians

"There must be another way of doing things, I refuse to bend to their will. This self-proclaimed authority which supposely speaks in name of all human race wants us to doom an entire civilization just because it questions things. Well, maybe we should begin to question them too."

- Adalis Vadon, Utopians Chapter co-warden.

Utopians are a renegade Space Marines Chapter of unknown origin created during the 21st founding. Little is known about this hapter

Rebirth and disobeying
"You could have left us alone. [...] If our philosophies are so much at odds, you could have passed us by and left us to our lives, unviolated. Yet you did not. Why? Why did you insist on bringing us to ruin? Are we such a threat to you?"

- The “False Emperor” of the world 63-19.

The Utopians were created during the 21st founding (also called the Cursed Founding) for the purpose of crusading: conquering worlds in the most efficient way.

Although it is unknown who was the Chapter's Progenitor, there are several candidates. The major one being Raven Guard because of the similitude in tactics and strategy. However, the erudidion and ideology are closer to the legion of the Thousand Sons and their creative impulses are similar to those of the Emperor’s Children.

In one of their expeditions, they encountered a highly advanced secular human civilization, the Shantii, that had been disconnected from the Imperium of Man since the beginning of the Horus Heresy and still followed the creed of the Imperial Truth.

After the first diplomatic contact, the Shantii refused to comply to the Imperium and adopt the religion of the God-Emperor. The Chapter Warden Lireac Atrum, out of curiosity refused to exterminate the whole planet population despite having specific orders from the High Lords of Terra.

Unfortunately, the diplomatic process between the Utopians and the Shantii was interrupted because of a sabotage made by one of the Chaplains, who following orders of the Ecclesiarchy and the High Lords of Terra, and the negotiations failed as the conflict escalated.

After many days of war against the Shantii, the Chaplain and the deception were exposed by Sargent Adalis Vadon, from the 9th company, that convinced the Chapter Warden Atrum to hold the armed conflict until an investigation was ran.

The Utopians then proceeded in the diplomatic efforts while helping with the reconstruction tasks of the planet. They eventually accepted the Shantii as a society in its own right without the need to belong in the Imperium and came to terms with the Idea of avoiding further acts of war despite their cultural differences.

After hearing about the news, the Utopians were declared Excommuniate Traitoris by the High Lords of Terra for their rebellion against the Imperium orders and the Blood angels were sent against them. For months, the Utopians and the Shantii held their ground but in the end, running low in numbers, they had to withdraw, leaving the planet and saving all the population they could.

The misterious monks
For decades, the Utopians wandered through the galaxy, scavenging what they could and evading the Imperium, sometimes coming in the help of Human planets, particularly against Chaos Legions and Orks.

One day, guided by one of the chapter Librarian’s vision from the future, they set course to a small jungle moon in a inhospitable system on the edge of the galaxy. The only inhabitants of the moon were a dozen of monks that appeared to be enhanced humans very similar to the adeptus astartes themselves. This monks had broken any contact with the Imperium or the human community that lived in the satellite's planet, which they called Amoen.

Although they refused to share any explanation of their past and denied the existence about any records about themselves, they gladly taught the Utopians their monk philosophy of nonviolence.