Blood Gorgons

The Blood Gorgons are a Renegade Space Marine Chapter that primarily raids the Baston Sector.

Chapter History
The Blood Gorgons were founded during the 21st Founding (The so-called Cursed Founding), the largest Founding of Space Marine Chapters since the Second Founding following the Horus Heresy. This Founding took place in the 36th Millennium shortly before the start of the Age of Apostasy. Known as "Project Homo Sapiens Novus", the Adeptus Mechanicus were attempting to remove identified deficiencies in flawed Adeptus Astartes gene-seed. Their goal; to ultimately perfect produce new and improved Space Marines. Unfortunately, the Adeptus Mechanicus' Genetors proved far less skilled in the genetic sciences than the Emperor of Mankind, and their efforts resulted in the development of seriously flawed gene-seed that was used to craft the organ implants for the new Chapters. Led by Lord Gammadin, the Chapter Master when the Gorgons were first created, he had been their shepherd when the Imperium declared them renegade – Excommunicate Traitoris – mere centuries later, and it was he who parted the warp‐sea to lead them into the Eye of Terror.

Combat Doctrine
Primarily, the Blood Gorgons are raiders. Unique to this Renegade Chapter is that unlike other Renegade Chapters, the Blood Gorgons do not tend to use fear and intimidation to achieve their own goals. Instead they show a level of comprehension and focus that is rarely seen by other Traitor Legions.

Notable Marines
shipping lines of the Segmentum Obscurus. So attuned were they, that in battle the pair could orchestrate intuitive tactical decisions without communication. For four centuries they fought as parallel twins until Monomachus angered the Chaos Gods and his form was corrupted into that of a spawn. It was said that Gammadin was greatly shamed by this and slew Monomachus himself, an act that would have caused him considerable physical pain. By that time, Gammadin was a warrior so great, with blood so rich and vibrant with the power of Chaos, that no mere aspirant could hope to be blooded to him. Following Monomachus, numerous unsuitable aspirants were killed by the rich blood of Gammadin. Rituals of Binding were dangerous, both through the traumatic shock of surgery and the whims of daemonic spirits. Although Gammadin’s experience was vast, he could not share it, for dozens of aspirants died or went mad in the rituals of transfusion and excise. It was not until Sabtah – an inductee from the legion plains of Symeon – that a bond showed promise. The aspirant endured months of torture on the operating slabs, his body sent into shock by the process of plasma binding, until he emerged as a young charge of the great Gammadin. For the next three thousand, six hundred and fifty‐one years, Sabtah the Older had become Gammadin’s brother, growing stronger and wiser through their synergy. Until Gammadin was betrayed and murdered by Anko Muhr, a Blood Gorgons Chaos Sorcerer, on their recruiting world of Belasia.
 * Lord Gammadin (Chapter Master & Ascendant Champion of Chaos) - The first Master of the Blood Gorgons, Gammadin led his Chapter into damnation. It was recorded in the Chapter's history that it was Gammadin whom had first begun to experiment in daemonology and the rituals that would form Blood Gorgons custom.  Using Gammadin’s knowledge of arcane lore, the dark Rituals of Binding was used.  Gammadin was blood bound to his most trusted lieutenant, Monomachus.  This involved the exchange of excised organs and blood.  This created an almost supernatural connection between those who survived the procedure.  Together, Gammadin and Monomachus led the Blood Gorgons to raid and terrorise the

Chapter Fleet

 * Cauldron Born (Chapter Ship) - The Cauldron Born is the fortress-ship and home to the renegade Blood Gorgon's Chapter of Chaos Space Marines. The Cauldron Born is an artefact of Blood Gorgons biological experimentation - pseudo-surgery and daemonology.  It was said that the floating fortress had been grafted with the flesh of a daemon prince and that organic matter had been cultivated to merge with the ship’s engines, spawning a spirit that inhabited the circuitry.