Fire Hawks
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Background
The Fire Hawks were a loyal Space Marine Chapter who came to a disastrous end.
The Fire Hawks distinguished themselves in many important wars, fighting alongside the Black Templars, Imperial Fists, Soul Drinkers, and the Martian Tech Guard against Goge Vandire.4, 5 They were also the first loyalist chapter to become engaged in the Badab War after one of their vessels was attacked and captured by the Mantis Warriors in 904.M413, the chapter participated in the war for three years before being assigned to other duties in 907.M413.
During the long struggle of the Age of Apostasy, their chapter world of Zhoros was destroyed by thermal bombs. Afterwards the Fire Hawks became a mobile fleet-based chapter.1
The beginning of the end came when the Fire Hawks were called to the Crows World subsector in 963.M41 to deal with Dark Eldar or Eldar Pirates. The entire chapter fleet, as well as their mobile space fortress Raptorus Rex, attempted a warp jump from the Piraeus system, 120 light years from Crows World. The space fortress, five ships, over 800 brethren and 2,000 other personnel were expected to reach Crows World within no more than 12 hours. They never arrived.1
In 983.M41 the chapter was officially declared lost in the warp and assumed destroyed. The Bell of Lost Souls tolled a thousand times, and it is said that the Emperor himself ordered a black candle be lit in the Chapel of Fallen Heroes.1
As many as two hundred members of the Chapter survived as the Legion of the Damned.2
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Sources
- 1Codex: Ultramarines (2nd Edition) p. 63
- 2White Dwarf 99, Index Astartes: Legion of the Damned, by Rick Priestley
- 3White Dwarf 101, Index Astartes: The Badab Uprising, by Rick Priestley
- 4Codex: Sisters of Battle (2nd Edition)
- 5Codex: Black Templars (4th Edition) p. 19
- 6Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition) p. 30
