Rift Stalkers

The Rift Stalkers are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter comprised entirely of Primaris Space Marines, created from the lineage of the heroic Raven Guard and raised during the recent 27th Founding ("Ultima Founding") of 999.M41. These ultimate transhuman warriors were created by the order of Lord Commander of the Imperium Roboute Guilliman, the recently resurrected Primarch of the Ultramarines, who tasked Archamagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl ten millennia earlier, following the Horus Heresy, to craft a legion of new transhuman warriors to be the last line of defence, as Guilliman foresaw a time of encroaching darkness when Chaos would threaten the galaxy itself. These gene-crafted warriors have been tasked with aiding the Imperium of Man against the gathering darkness on all sides from Chaos, xenos and the myriad of threats that threaten the Imperium on all side, and are the key component of the resurrected Primarch's Indomitus Crusade to reclaim the galaxy for Mankind.

Chapter History
For ten millennia, Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl has been working on a task set for him by the Primarch Roboute Guilliman before he was mortally wounded by the Daemon Primarch Fulgrim in the days after the Horus Heresy: a new legion of transhuman warriors. Developed on orders from Guilliman 100 standard centuries past, Primaris Space Marines were diligently developed and perfected by the Priesthood of Mars during the long intervening millennia. As an optimist, but never a fool, Guilliman learned from the mistakes of the Horus Heresy, and he foresaw that the Forces of Chaos would never relent in their aim to bring the Imperium low. He anticipated that devastating times would once again engulf the galaxy and knew that warriors resilient enough to stand against them would be needed as never before. That time has surely come. Now, as the Imperium of Man is poised on the brink of annihilation at the hands of Chaos, his task is at last complete.

The Primaris Space Marine is a new breed of hero for this, the darkest age in the Imperium's history. These new warriors are the next step in the evolution of the Emperor's Angels of Death -- genetically altered from their brethren to be bigger, stronger and faster -- timely reinforcements for the Imperium's armies as their enemies close in for the kill in the wake of Abaddon the Despoiler's 13th Black Crusade and the birth of the Great Rift dividing the Imperium in two.

To aid them in battle, these gene-forged warriors are equipped with new arms and armour forged on Mars itself, such as the Mark X Tacticus Pattern Power Armour worn by the Primaris Space Marine Intercessors, which combines the most effective elements of ancestral Horus Heresy patterns of battle-plate with more recent developments in Power Armour technology; the Mark II Cawl Pattern Bolt Rifle, the archetypal firearm of the Adeptus Astartes, now re-engineered, re-crafted and perfected, and Redemptor Dreadnoughts.

At the dawn of the Indomitus Crusade to retake the Imperium from the advancing armies of Chaos and xenos alike, Lord Commander of the Imperium Roboute Guilliman has gathered his new armada, along with elements of the Adeptus Custodes, a small contingent of the Silent Sisterhood and a vast war host of Primaris Space Marines as he fights to liberate the scattered bastions of the Imperium. Some, Guilliman has forged into new Space Marine Chapters, whole brotherhoods comprised only of these new transhuman warriors. Others he has offered to the existing Space Marine Chapters. Many Chapter Masters have welcomed their Primaris brethren into their ranks, accepting the new reinforcements gladly. Others, though, view these new creations with suspicion or outright hostility, claiming that the Emperor's work should never have been meddled with by mere mortals.

Though they are a step removed from their brothers, the Primaris Space Marines still bear the gene-seed of their Primarchs, and some dissenting voices worry how this new type of warrior will react with the known genetic quirks and flaws of some of the more unusual Chapters, such as the Blood Angels and the Space Wolves. Though the Primaris Space Marines offer new hope to a besieged Imperium, the future remains a dark and uncertain place...

Chapter Colours
The Rift Stalkers primarily wear white coloured Mark X 'Tacticus' pattern Power Armour, the polar opposite of their Progenitors who wear midnight black. The Aquila or Imperialis on the chest is black in colour. The black coloured squad specialty marking on the right shoulder pauldron (Tactical, Assault, Devastator or Veteran designates squad specialty. The colour of the trim on the right shoulder pauldron indicates company number in accordance to the tenets of the Codex Astartes. The left shoulder pauldron proudly displays the Chapter's iconography -- the same black coloured raven heraldry of the Raven Guard. A black coloured gothic numeral stenciled on the left poleyn (knee guard) indicates squad number.

Chapter Badge
The Rift Stalkers' Chapter badge is the same stylised black coloured raven centerd on a field of white is the same icon utilised by their Progenitors.

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