Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-66.187.233.202-20160311162536

I feel like I may be missing something obvious here, but I can't for the life of me find anything about this.

The Eccelsiarchy is forbidden from having "men under arms" which gave us the Adeptas Soroitas - but the Ordo Hereticus is not actually part of the Eccelsiarchy and in fact "monitors" it for signs of heresy. To me, that implies that they are entirely separate organizations.

So with that in mind, why is it that the Ordo Hereticus does not have a Space Marine chapter of it's own like Xenos and Malleus? The Eccelsiarchy ban on maintaining a chapter would not apply to the Ordo, so why do they rely on the Adeptas as their Chamber Militant? 