Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-67.197.44.118-20130216115719/@comment-1657156-20130411075244

Chadw1ck wrote: Chaos and Marines allied in a ultramarine novel. A warband faught alongside two space marines to destroy something in the warp. And all thr Alpha legion needs is a primarchs word and they havent been tainted by the warp they refuse to go in it. Plus if Russ comes back with the energy to heal the Emperor then maybe he will grant the Legion forgivness. Heh. Not exactly...

The novel you're thinking about is "Dead Sky, Black Sun". In it, two heroes of the Ultramarines, Uriel Ventrus and Pasanius Lysane, found themselves on the daemonworld of Medrengard. There, they encountered a warband of RENEGADE Space Marines. But, Renegade Space Marines are NOT the same thing as Traitor Marines or Chaos Space Marines.

Rather, Renegade Space Marines are those Space Marines that have either left their Space Marine Chapter (due to disillusionment or some other reason), or were exiled from it.

The two Ultramarines actually had their lives saved by the Renegade Warband, when they first encountered it. It was composed of a variety of Space Marines from different chapters ranging from the Doom Eagles to the Raven Guard.

They soon learned that the Renegades were on Medrengard fighting a gurella war against the Iron Warriors Warsmith, Honsou, and his terrible army of Chaos marines and daemons.

It was actually the first Warhammer 40k novel I ever read. And after I read it... I WAS HOOKED!

I strongly recommend it.