Rynn's World: A Space Marine Battles Novel (Warhammer 40,000)

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Also in keeping with the spirit of the original mission, the team decided to collect and paint entirely new armies in the style of their 1980’s predecessors. For the Crimson Fists they were able to capture the Rogue Trader look by utilising the new plastic ‘beakie’ MKVI Space Marines, and for the Space Ork Raiders subtle use of paint schemes and iconography taken straight from the first edition rulebook created an unmistakably retro looking Ork army. Lord Hellblade - Noble title accorded by the people of Rynn's World to the Chapter Master of the Crimson Fists, who is recognised as a member of the Imperium of Man's feudal nobility with Rynn's World as his demesne. Lord Hellblade is also always the commander of the Chapter's elite Crusade (1 st) Company. Though but two dozen in number, Kantor and his Crimson Fists fought as heroes of legend, taking a grievous toll on an Ork horde that numbered hundreds. With Kantor at the forefront, the Space Marines battled their way clear of the ravine's treacherous confines and sought the high ground. There they planted their feet and fought shoulder to shoulder against the horde, but still the Orks kept coming. With all the Crimson Fists' Thunderhawk gunships lost in battle or under heavy repair, Kantor knew that both evacuation and reinforcement were impossible, and the Orks showed no sign of giving up the battle. They required swift cultural integration to ensure that, like a wounded body fitted with a hurried prosthetic, the Chapter did not reject these newcomers for the strangers they were.

Confident that he had the world in his grasp, Snagrod put out incessant, ranting broadcasts, boasting that his next conquest would be Rynn's World, which lay only a few weeks of Warp travel from Badlanding. Chapter Master Pedro Kantor responded immediately, despatching the 3rd Company under Captain Ashor Drakken to Badlanding to stall the Ork WAAAGH! and determine its strength. The Hellabore Assault (867.M41) - Captain Alessio Cortez and the Crimson Fists' 4 th Company battled the Eldar of Craftworld Iyanden on the world of Hellabore. Despite suffering grievous wounds, including a stab wound to one of his hearts, Cortez led the final assault that routed the Eldar from Hellabore. Much of their activity was focused within the Loki Sector of Segmentum Tempestus, but this was not the only region of the galaxy in which they defended the Imperium. Through their long service, the Crimson Fists have often answered the calls of the Inquisition as well as the Adeptus Administratum. No matter the nature of the foe, these Battle-Brothers remain loyal to the Imperium and its sacred cause.The world is largely isolated from other human-inhabited planets, but the Crimson Fists' presence has led to the implementation of an extensive planetary defence system.

The Siege of New Rynn City was to grind on for eighteen solar months, but the Crimson Fists were able to maintain their defences until an Imperial Navy liberation fleet, including elements from 6 other Space Marine Chapters, finally arrived in 990.M41, 18 solar months after the invasion began. The Imperial reinforcements drove the Orks from the world. The planet is sparsely populated, mountainous, and devoted to intensive agriculture, with its principal export being jadeberries, an exotic fruit native to the planet. Rynn's World possesses one major conurbation (New Rynn City) and eight smaller cities plus small farms and agricultural centres (1,468 facilities according to most recent Imperial census). The Imperial Fists were not the only Sons of Dorn to defend Vigilus against the alien during the War of Beasts. With them came their foremost Successor Chapter, the Crimson Fists, who had lost so much to the Greenskin species on Rynn's World a solar decade before. On Vigilus, that debt would be paid in blood.

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The Chosen - The Chapter's Serfs are made up of failed Astartes Aspirants collectively called "The Chosen", who serve the Chapter in multiple combat support roles. It is from these Serfs that messengers, skilled labourers and even the Chapter Master's Major-Domo are all drawn. Conversation between Ultramarines Primarch Roboute Guilliman, Lord Commander of the Imperium, and Crimson Fists Chapter Master Pedro Kantor during a private audience