Keepers of Equity

History
little is known of the keepers, and less still is known of where they came from. Due to their appearances being recorded as early as M33 it is theorised that they are at the very least a splinter faction of a traitor legion.

Members of the Ordo Theoreticus have had considerable difficulty obtaining any information upon the group to the degree that they are unsure if the Keepers of Equity are even a renegade chapter or a traitor warband. This is also attributed to the imperium being unable to capture any of the keepers for interrogation as with the exception of 3 instances, they dissapear as quickly as they arrive.

Known incursions
During M33 the Blood angels successor, The Bloodborne was wiped out completely while consolidating their forces on their chapter homeworld. While the astartes chapter monastery itself yielded no survivors, reports from civillians on the planet's surface claimed that gunfire and explosions rang out from the direction of the monastery before a large unidentified void ship appeared in orbit and razed the monastery from orbit. The attack took only several hours.

In M37 an imperial navy battlegroup in the irrellian sector intercepted what appeared to be a lone chaos space marine vessel fleeing from a much larger vessel of unknown origin. Before the battlegroup could intervene the smaller vessel was rended into dust by an unknown force and the ship dissapeared into the warp. At this time it is believed that the ship was the same vessel that took part in the attack on the blood legion.

Finally and by far the largest breakthrough within the imperial intelligence community occured in late M39 when The Precursors of Men Space marine chapter transmitted an urgent SOS, claiming that their space hulk chapter monastery was under attack from an unknown force and their ten thousand strong force of astartes had been whittled down to just under two thousand within a day. Astra militarum and Adeptus Astartes Chapters quickly responded to find the supposed space hulk base cut cleanly in half by an unknown force. With no trace of the enemy, imperial forces surveyed the wreckage finding only empty armor and standard issue astartes weaponry. The chapter master however held information crucial to the identification of the keepers, in his dying moments he had come face to face with the leader of the group and recorded the message below.

CM- "''Identify yourselves!" -coughing and gunfire-''

?- "Our identification will mean nothing to your chances of survival but very well. We are the Keepers of Equity and our mission is simple, to preserve the delicate balance that the galaxy sits on"

CM-"balance? what balance traitor?"

?-"In short dear chapter master, you and your brothers. The Established lore is quite clear"

CM-"Enough nonsense! This ends no-" -silence-

?- -sigh- "their kind always think themselves so superior, the creators never learn"

??- "Tyrellion, all traces of the Created's impurities destroyed"

Tyrellion- "very well, Keepers of Equity! We Depart! Ready the Archive to slice this abomination in half"

-recording ends-

Finally after several millenia of chasing ghosts the intelligence community had some grasp on who they were hunting, and hunt them the imperium has for thousands of years.

Headquarters
It is unknown where the Keepers of Equity base their operations from but many scholars and intelligence agents believe that they must operate out of a single large voidship that the recording recovered in M39 described as the 'Archive'. Many theorise that using a single ship is how the Keepers avoid detection from imperial battlegroups and patrol fleets.

Beliefs
very little is known of the Keepers beliefs. from what is understood, they target those who they view as bringing inbalance to the galaxy. From information gathered by the ordo theoreticus it is understood that while not confirmed, imperial military units are not the only ones exempt from judgement, as proved when what was believed to be The Archive destroyed a chaos vessel in M37

It is unknown how the Keepers determine if a target is to he judged but some theorise groups with exceptional power or divergence from the standards the rest of their faction holds is a valid reason. This backs up the destruction of the Precursors of Man as they numbered ten thousand marines strong. A number of loyalist astartes not seen united since the horus heresy.

Gene-Seed
The gene seed compasition of the keepers is as of yet currently unknown, it is theorised that they must use thousand sons gene seed of some level to fuel their reported high levels of psychic power.

Organisation
little is known of the how the keepers operate. members of various ordo summise that the keepers deploy a number of infiltrators across the galaxy, each of them seeking out 'Created' that require military intervention. once a target has been located, the Archive is called upon and the keepers of equity's main force arrives to deal their judgement.

Notable Warband Members
Tyrellion - The only named member of the keepers and the suspected leader. It is rumored that Tyrellion was one of the original thousand sons as an astartes by the name of Ti Rellan served as a sargeant of their 5th fellowship and was seemingly lost in combat before the events of the heresy. of course this is all rumor and nothing concrete has been found as of yet.