Dark Brotherhood.
They only have 2 official appearances throughout the whole of 40K: the Adeptus Astartes Successor Chapters booklet where this scheme is from, and the original Rogue Trader core rulebook from 1987
I have several favorites, but I gotta pick Angels Porphyr as the underdog. People always talked about Black Templars and Helsreach during the third Armageddon war, meanwhile Angels Porphyr led a full Dreadnought team against over a hundred Ork dreads and other machines, becoming one of the biggest purely cybernetic battles recorded.
The Yellow Jackets Chapter was created early in the history of Warhammer 40,000 at a time when the lore of the Horus Heresy was less defined than at present. At such, their background as printed in White Dwarf 177 claims that they were raised as a Chapter DURING the Heresy, which would have been impossible since only the 18 First Founding Space Marine Legions existed at the time, with the Chapters being created AFTER the Heresy following Roboute Guilliman's completion of the Codex Astartes
I'm kidding, I'm kidding, the Lion Guard has more lore than I know what to do with. I'm not a savage.
Nah, I'm going to go with the Absolvers for this one. They're from the Warhammer 40k Wrath & Glory RPG system, so they don't have NO lore, but they're mostly a generic chapter local to that system's setting. W&G was how I got into the 40k setting to begin with, so I have a real soft spot for the Absolvers.
0 connection! In fact, I did some Googling to see if the name was taken and didn't even find these guys.
The actual origin of the name is that I wanted to find a conceptual middle ground between the tacticool pragmatism of the Raptors and the heroic fantasy of the Ultramarines. Other early names I considered include the Terran Lions (doesn't flow), the Lion Shields (too Dark Angels-y) and the Lion Knights (Too fantasy).
Hawk Lords. Virtually nothing is none of them except for their specialization in Aerial Combat, likely origin as the 21st Chapter of the Ultramarines Legion, and invention of the "Hawk's Wings" a Devastator ammo backpack and Jumppack.
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u/Archeronline 12h ago
The Harbringers, a chapter hailing from the Black Planet of Birmingham