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The Grey Wolves were a Space Wolves successor chapter from the 3rd Founding that has been declared a renegade warband in M36.

Chapter History
Founded in M32 during the third Founding, this chapter crusaded with honor across the galaxy against all maner of chaos & xenos enemies. There most common enemy were chaos marines & pirates that plagued the galaxy in the early M30's.

the Defection
After several millenia of crusading the bulk of the chapter found itself in a war of attrition against eldar forces. When the Alljarl of the time, Abba Bonebreaker, has been injured and taken by seemingly enemy forces. in fact he had been saved by them and when he had mostly recovered there farseer showed him a psychic vision that flashed to hundreds of moments dating all the way back to the Horus heresy like the Word Bearers being forced to kneel by the emperor for worshipping him, and a speech given by the Emperor about his vision of the Imperial Truth, as well as many other moments forgotten or supressed over time. When he finally came back to reality they brokered a ceasefire with the other eldar forces and departed from the world. Once on his flagship Abba called the entierty of his crusading forces across the galaxy to come to Iben as soon as they tactically can. When they all gathered at there Fortress-Monestary on Iben he laid out the visions he had and that he had to at least see why the Allfathers vision had been altered, and tat he planned to travel to Fenris to seek the consul of the Space Wolves before going to Terra.

This fateful decision caused the Inquisition to send a strikeforce and attemt to silence them before he could reach Fenris but instead sparked a small war with the chapter upon the surface of Iben. The local population was utterly devoted to the Grey Wolves and thus fought hard to protect them from what they saw as traitorous forces of the inquisition. Millions died in the large scale bombing campaign against the few large cities before the planet. Eventually the chapter was able to fend off the assault but lost over half there number, there fortress-monestary, & most of there native population. After this the remaining wolves and natives scavenged as much resources as they could carry and loaded into the chapters fleet as well as some captured inquisition ships and left for a world that had been located but kept secret by Abba as a sanctuary world.

It was upon this desert world of Pueblo that a dark part of the chapters hstory took place known as the the night of the splinter. for  century the chapter recovered its numbers and supplies to eventually go back to crusading in some way, in this time they brought there chapter strength to about 2000. Three companies worth of grey wolves from all over the chapter, including a Jarl and most of his actual company, had decided to declare themselves a chaos warband and infiltrated the planets starport in the dead of night. They were able to steal several docked warships and some supply transports meant for the Laeraethus. Using the transports they got boarding pods fired into the ship at point blank range with no warning and used the time to get as close to the geneseed vault as possible. Most of the strikeforce is killed but there main veteran pack is able to steal half of the saved geneseed and escape using droppods. They were able to get picked up by the Jarls battle barge and head into the warp at the cost of there brethren still fighting aboard the transports. About a company worth of them survied into the warp but with this genestock & small naval fleet they joined a Chaos Sorceror named Akemos to create the Cabal of Destiny.

Pre Defection
Prior to leaving the Imperium the Grey Wolves were loosely centered on the panet Iben, a frozen world of ice and forest that was virus bombed following the Defection of the Grey Wolves. It is currently an inquisition controlled planet under heavy guard. Also as a crusading chapter they mostly were fleet based and had a formidable naval fleet on par with some sector battlefleets prior to the inquisition assault cut it down by over a third.

Post Defection
After traversing the galaxy they came to the planet Pueblo, a desert world outside of the imperiums control. The Pueblans did not like the invaders at first but after negotiations were conducted they agreed to an alliance. Pueblo was founded by various rogue traders and rich nobles fed up with imperial oversight. The planet is run by a council of the leaders of the many factions of the planet but the overall leader is the Alljarl of the Grey Wolves. Even thpugh they have a formidable fortification on the planets surface they use there biggest battle barge as there actual headquarters.

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Notable Crusades
Idolator Crusades (500-598 M33): Massive crusades fought by the entire chapter against chaos marine warbands in the eastern fringe. Even with the chas forces using daemons and other warpcraft they were wiped out or pushed out of the sector after 98 years of fighting.

Xenocide Crusade (003-009 M37): Short crusade fought to liberate several human systems at the same time from Ork and tau forces already in combat with each other for the systems. during this time they liberated a Feudal world of Larani V and recruited hundreds of hopefuls, from these hopefuls came a couple dozen wolves including Syllius & Saiot.

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Chapter Organisation
Like most chapters born of Leman russ' geneseed the Grey Wolves are notoriously anti authoritarian even before there defection and as such are not codex compliant. They are structured very similarly to the normal Space Wolves with varied packs instead of squads though some of the ranking was changed after they defected. As there size is much more than a standard chapter they spit there forces into 4 chapter sized groups called Thanes with each one lead by a Jarl who in turn is in command of 8-10 companies.

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 * Alljarl- The rank given to the leader of the Grey Wolves
 * Jarl- Rank given to the commander of each of the 4 Thanes. Each of the various Thanes are set up differently but each has a Battle Barge as its flagship as well as another dozen warships to defend it.
 * Shaman- A mix of a Chaplain & a Librarian, the current Alljarl was the most senior Shaman prior to taking up his new duties.
 * Shipmaster- Each thane has its own naval commander equal to a fleet master of a chapter, the shipmaster of the Alljarls thane is considered the overall fleet commander.
 * Shieldguard- Guardians of the jarls that are armed with a storm shield, storm bolter & some kind of power weapon though they can switch these out for any loadout needed to defend the Jarl or his orders. Each jarl has 4 of these veterans & the Alljarl has 16, 4 from each Thane.

Combat Doctrine
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Notable Grey Wolves
Abba the Bonebreaker- the legendary Alljarl that was in charge during the defection. He was killed during the assault on the Laeraethus by Xzore and his shieldguard when they

Alljarl Vikres Thorson- the current leader and a powerful Shaman in his own right.

Wolfguard Syllius Stormsword- Stalwart youth swordsman that was recruited from a imperium controlled feudal world besieged by ork for years before any help came fro the stars. the help that did come were not loyalist astartes but renegades that died just as hard defending the human population. Due to there renegade standing the local kings gave the warrior orphans that prowled the countryside hunting ork as recruits in secret. Part of the Alljarls thane as a pack leader.

Wolf Scout Saiot Falconeye- Childhood friend of Syllius that was trained as a ranger and as such is an expert marksman, considered the best shot in the entire chapter. Though a Wolf Scout he often is attached to Syllius' pack as a seperate allied entity instead of an actual member, as they are childhood friends who fight well together.

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Chapter Relics
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Chapter Fleet
the Laeraethus- A massive Gloriana class Battle Barge dating to before there founding that is more than capable of destroying planets and unleashing an entire Thane and its vehicles from its hangers within a few minutes of opening. It houses the chapters main vault of geneseed and relics after it became the fortress-Monestary after losing Iben.

Besides there flagship they have dozens of other Battle Barges, Strike Cruisers, and Escort Frigates. The chapter is also well stocked with air & round vehilces like Thunderhawks and land raiders as well as well over a dozen dreadnoughts. Much of this was the chapters to start with but by M42 they have had to capture supply depots and secluded naval caches across the galaxy to replenish what they have lost.

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Relations
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