Purge Marines

The Purge Marines are an elusive and paranoid Chapter of (seemingly loyal) Space Marines. They are noted for the fact that the Imperium has an astounding lack of information on the Chapter. It is for this reason the wider Imperium remains suspicious of this Chapter. This feeling of suspicion appears to be mutual as the Purge Marines seem to see everyone as a potential Heretic waiting to reveal their treasonous nature. The moment the Purge Marines think a person is a Heretic, they go out of their way to eliminate said person along with anyone connected to them (leading to numerous inter-Imperial conflicts). For millennia, the Inquisition has tried time and again to declare the Purge Marines Excommunicate Traitoris but constantly fail to attain enough solid evidence for their case. Unable to declare them Renegade, the Inquisition petitioned the High Lords of Terra to send the Purge Marines into the distant regions of the Galaxy far away from other Imperial forces.

It is suspected that the Chapter's battle doctrine is incredibly violent. When Imperial forces arrive at a battle site supposedly visited by the Purge Marines, all they find is crippled and scorched architecture along with the mutilated and unrecognizable corpses of their enemies.

The Purge Marines have operated on their own without the aid of other Imperial forces for centuries. The reason for this is that the Purge Marines have developed a habit for annihilating their allies if they think they are even remotely heretical. For this reason the Chapter has been sentenced to an eternal Crusade in the distant regions of the Galaxy far beyond Imperial presence.

Chapter Appearance
The armor of the Purge Marines is almost entirely black with a dark grey trim.

The chapter icon is a "jaw-less" skull with large canine fangs and a large crack running down the center. The Chapter icon is displayed on the left shoulder pad.

The Purge Marines use white Codex "squad symbols" on the right shoulder pad while squad number is indicated by white roman numerals on the right shoulder pad's "bottom corners".