Imperial Sentinels

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"Only the dead have seen an end to war, and the Imperial Sentinels are not quite there."

- Lord Commander Caspian Artorius

The Imperial Sentinels Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes have been waging war across the stars in the name of the God-Emperor since the Primarchs walked among men. Their way of war is one of calculating precision, unflinching determination, and unshakable discipline. They are a thin black line between the Imperium and the countless foes seeking to destroy it, for as long as one Imperial Sentinel yet stands atop the ramparts the Imperium shall never fall.

Founding and Early Beginnings
The Imperial Sentinels chapter is almost as old as the Imperium itself, being of the 3rd founding over ten millennia past. For every single year they have fought to keep the Heretics, Traitors, and Xenos at bay, and neither they nor the Imperium have yet succumbed.

The first Chapter Master of the Imperial Sentinels was the Imperial Fists Company Captain and former Praetor Caspian Artorius, a keen naval strategist and adept swordsman. These traits marked him apart from his fellows, and when the Primarch Rogal Dorn set into motion the 3rd founding Caspian was selected to become Lord Commander of one of the new additions. Tasked with taking to the stars to continue the scouring, to bring the wrath of the Emperor and His grieving son to those deemed responsible wherever they attempted to go. A task the newly dubbed Imperial Sentinels and their chapter master relished. As is custom for a Founding the Sentinels were armored, armed, and equipped as befitted true sons of Dorn with a massive flagship Battle Barge, dozens of suits of Tactical-dreadnought armor, 1,000 geneseed sets, hundreds of armored vehicles and aircraft, and more. For no expense is spared when it comes to His Angels of Death.

For a century the chapter built itself up, training, fighting alongside their Primogenitor Chapter till they were individually combat effective; Then they were unleashed. The first to be ground to dust by the Imperials Sentinels were a roving band of Word Bearer Traitor Marines, whose name has been lost to history, that had been assailing the frontier Forge World of Actium. The pitiful Traitor fleet was torn apart by the Blade of Retribution, Caspian sat upon the command throne. From the heavens rained bombardment cannon shells or lesser ordnance issued by the chapter’s strike craft, but these were little threat in comparison to the Sentinels themselves. Through the fires set aflame by the conflict strode the ebony armored Terminators of the 1st and 2nd Companies, the Templar Brethren. Behind them in lockstep marched the Sternguard, Vanguard, Tactical, Assault, and Devastator Marines with Caspian at their head. This precedent for leading from the front set by the first Lord Commander would carry from the War of the Beast, to the Age of Apostasy, and beyond. Suffice it to say the Word bearers did not survive, the corpses burnt after being relieved of their most valuable pieces of wargear for reconsecration and reuse in the Emperor’s name.

Then as quick as they came the Sentinels set sail, after repairs and the collection of possible aspirants from the ravaged world’s population that is, towards the next war zone. As would become customary for them they refused a formal thanks and/or celebration, taking their recompense in repairs, resupply, and equipment.

War of the Beast
Two hundred years after their inception, in the year 200 of the 33rd millennium, the Sentinels would face their true crucible of war. Orks in the untold billions had rallied to the banner of a Warboss known simply as The Beast. By now the Sentinels gene-father had disappeared, reported missing in action during the First Black Crusade. Despite his absence the sons of Dorn enacted the Last Wall protocol, mustering with their gene-Brothers into legion strength. The Rook, Blade, and Bolter of the Imperial Sentinels stood proud alongside the Fist sigil of both the Imperial and Crimson Fists, and the Crusader cross of the Black Templars among others. Astartes of the Sentinels were at all three battles of Ullanor, losing dozens of battle brothers in each engagement till even the Lord Commander of the chapter was slain. Through it all the survivors remained steadfastly resolute in their duty, throwing everything they had against the endless green tide.

By the end of the Third Battle for Ullanor the Sentinels withdrew to the ancestral 7th legion homeworld of Inwit to replenish and recuperate. Despite the catastrophic losses sustained thus far in the conflict and far from full strength the Sentinels provided several brothers to join the newly reconstituted Imperial Fists chapter.

Also seconded were the first of the Sentinels to join the fledgling Deathwatch, the beginning of a long and proud history of doing so. However these would be the final acts of the chapter during this war, so ravaged were they.

That is until the events known as the Beheading. Although absent from Maximus Thane’s execution of Drakan Vangorich the Sentinels, finally restored to full combat effectiveness, joined the coalition of chapters who restored order to the Throneworld.

Golden Age of the Imperium
From the ashes of the War of the Beast an era began of fresh conquest and expansion, the so called Forging, ushering the Imperium into a golden age not seen since the Great Crusade. And ever at the forefront were the Imperial Sentinels, taking the fight to xenos, Traitor, and heretic alike. At the edges of Segmentum Tempestus sat a small micro-empire ruled by the Chaos Space Marines of the Iron Warriors, Ancient and hated foes of the Sons of Dorn. One by one the worlds of the so called Nova Olympian empire were razed by the black armored Battle Brothers of the Sentinels till only the final stronghold remained. The capital Hive World of Nova Olympia was laid waste to, all but one of the hives cities destroyed outright by the mighty warfleet of the chapter. Finally came the brutal close urban combat, as if a picture perfect example of a Zone Mortalis out of the Codex Astartes. Any strong points located were annihilated in wave upon wave of air strikes or by a salvo of bombardment cannons till all that remained was a blasted out hell scape, a dead husk that once was home to billions. Those that attempted to flee ran straight into the waiting jaws of the Reserves, eager for a chance at combat against the great enemy. When the Chaos Astartes themselves tried to break out in an armored speartip the Sentinels met them tank for tank, deploying three dozen Predators and their twin Sicaran Battle Tanks. After a brutal four hour slog the Iron Warriors had been annihilated to the last. Once the Sentinels had all returned to their ships a salvo of Cyclonic Torpedoes launched from the Blade, destroying the planet.

Next to meet their wrath were Night Lords Legionnaires turned pirates, who had been preying on Imperial shipping for centuries. The Sentinels ambushed the pirate fleet, setting an unarmed and unescorted convoy into a deserted system to bait the enemy. It worked, whether out of greed or arrogance the pirates fell right into the trap. Behind them emerged the entire chapter fleet, dozens of warships in all but dwarfed by the Blade. The enemy flagship was similar in tonnage and armament, and both sides were more than willing to indulge in a naval engagement. Eventually the lesser capital ships and certainly the escorts gave both monstrosities a wide berth, until they had room to fight properly. At extreme ranges the lance batteries of the Blade overloaded the enemy ship’s shields multiple times. By the time the distance had been closed to Macrocannon range the Blade was virtually unscathed while the Night Lords’ ship had suffered moderate damage. In the point-blank broadside that followed the Sentinels’ Battle barge was decidedly the victor. What remained of the pirates quickly fled, leaderless, outnumbered, and outgunned. While they continued to plague the sector for several more decades their impact on the Imperium was negligible at worst.

Nova Terra Interregnum
When the Segmentum Pacificus declared itself independent of the Imperium the Sentinels changed course immediately upon hearing the news, the great plasma reactors seeming to burn brighter and hotter in the pursuit of traitors.

Their first combat action during the centuries long time of the twin empires was the brutal suppression of the Tellarite Rebellion. While the Land Leviathans gave the Astartes of the Sentinels pause for a brief moment early in the campaign within a standard Terran year their effectiveness had been nullified. Now virtually unhindered the Sentinels systemically slaughtered those who championed and fought for the Ur-Council, visiting the Emperor’s righteous fury onto the traitors. Although this time they paid more heed to the damage done to the infrastructure at the behest of the Adeptus Mechanicus, or what remained after the Moirae Schism. Tens of millions died at the hands of the unfeeling, unshakable Sentinels till those that were still alive laid down their arms and accepted Imperial rule once again after nearly two decades of losing. They recovered the plans to the Land Leviathans, bringing them to the nearest forge world in exchange for a shipment of Terminator armor.

While traversing the great void the Sentinels’ warfleet came cross the Aeldari Craftworld of Anthemion. With a roar of righteous fury the Blade of Retribution led her fellows into the jaws of the Craftworld’s defenses. Hundreds of strike craft ducked, dodged, and weaved through massive barrages exchanged between the capital ships. Xiphon Interceptor met Nightshades in a display that would’ve been awe-inspiring if it was not so terrifying. The valiance of the Craftworld’s defenders could not be denied, but it was not enough to hold back the Imperial Sentinels. Macrocannon and bombardment cannon shells shattered Wraithbone, inflicting catastrophic damage to the Craftworld. Lord Commander Maximillian Drayus lead the Templar Brethren to face the last survivors in honorable combat, teleporting aboard and making their way to the Infinity Circiut only to be met by an Avatar of Khaine. The Lord Commander met the godly shard in personal combat as the Terminators of the 1st and 2nd Companies butchered the Aspect Warriors that yet remained. After hours of fighting and with the Craftworld falling apart under extended bombardment the Sentinels Teleported back to the Blade, two of the Honor Guard carrying their mortally wounded chapter master whilst another pair bore aloft the Sword of Khaine wielded by the Avatar. It was placed in the Armory where it resides today as a testament to Drayus.

Age of Apostasy
From its inception there was deep enmity between the Sentinels and the various Emperor-worshiping cults, in particular the Ecclesiarchy of the Temple of the Emperor Ascendent. As torch bearers for the logic driven Imperial Truth the Sentinels found the belief in any god let alone the belief that the Emperor was a god abhorrent. But the Sentinels bit their tongues, turning a blind eye to the growing decadence and corruption like so many others in order to prevent another galaxy wide civil war.

Goge Vandire’s Reign of Blood however would force their hand, they declared him guilty of abuse of power and joined the ranks of the Confederation of Light. Not that they believed Sebastian Thor had visions from the Emperor, their only reason for aiding with the so called Master of the Warp being he was the most powerful contender against Vandire’s hegemony. They joined their Imperial Fist, Black Templar, and Soul Drinker cousins a well as the Martian Tech Guard and the Fire Hawks chapter in laying siege to the Ecclesiastical palaces on Terra. The majority of the Sentinels’ fleet and chapter remained in orbit to stave off any attempts by whatever was left of the Frateris Templar to break the siege while the 9th Company provided close air support for the ground forces. When the fighting ceased the Lord Commander descended to the surface of Terra, the birthplace of mankind to meet with the others leaders of the coalition. He vouched for the complete abolition of the Imperial Cult but was overruled, settling for the restrictions levied on the organization and leaving before he caused a scene by killing the new Ecclesiarch.

Ages of Redemption and Waning
From the ashes of the Age of Apostasy arose a new era of expansion and warfare not seen since before the Nova Terra Interregnum. In Segmentum Pacificus the Sentinels saw the most action, bleeding battle brothers during the ceaseless campaigning until the calamity of Exobyte. There the chapter was brought to its knees by the skeletal androids of the Necrons. Although fighting hard the previous battles had reduced them to such a strength that they were unable to overcome the foul xenos. In a humiliating retreat the Sentinels lost their Lord Commander, Chief Librarian, and two Company Commanders. The Imperium has overextended itself in war fervor, now the myriad threats supposedly pushed back by the Redempton Crusades retaliated. Once more the Sentinels withdrew to Inwit, the 7th Legion’s ancestral homeworld to replenish their numbers and carve new oaths of vengeance into the Temple pillars. They missed out on the Macharian Crusade and subsequent Heresy, taking time to rebuild their strength before making a return to the frontlines.

Age of Ending
Following the failures of the Redemption Crusades it appeared as if the darkness would finally claim the Imperium and plunge it into a downward spiral it wouldn’t recover from. But the Sentinels would not allow that to occur, at least not without a fight. Leading a crusade into the very Warp itself against the Daemon World of Gehenna and the Khornate Iron Warriors warband of the Ravager Jackals. Although failing in the ultimate objective of destroying the warband outright the esprit de Corps of the chapter was restored. Their reprieve would be short however as the green tide of Orks rallied to the Prophet of their imaginary gods Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka into a WAAGH!, their target the ashen Hive World of Armageddon. Their participation in the desperate defense on the ground was negligible, their focus instead on the void war. Hundreds of Astartes and Imperial Navy capital ships faced down thousands of their Ork counterparts. Experienced in such warfare the Sentinels reaped a deadly toll on the Ork invaders, felling dozens of enemy warships and half a dozen medium sized space hulks. Eventually the enemy fled the field, like animals with their noses bloodied and tails between their legs. But a Storm was gathering, one that would cut the the Imperium in half. The Chief Librarian Augustus Vilion, saw at the eye of this oncoming storm a cobalt and gold figure leading a new crusade that would push back the hordes of foes. And so the Sentinels made way for Terra, reaching about halfway when word of Cadia’s destruction and the resurrection of Roboute Guilliman was received through the Astropathic Choir. They completed their journey, arriving scant weeks ahead of the Terran Crusade. Ancient Artorius was roused from his slumber at once, as was the entire Dreadnought brotherhood. For the first time in thousands of years the Sentinels stepped onto the soil of Terra, fighting back Khorne’s Legions beside the Adeptus Custodes and a living, breathing Primarch.

Chapter Homeworld
The Imperial Sentinels lay claim to no terrestrial fortress-monastery or set of recruitment worlds being a Fleet-Based Chapter, their spiritual and strategic home being the Battle Barge Blade of Retribution.

Command Ranks
Lord Commander Chapter Master

Commander Company Captain

Master of Sanctity Head of the Chaplains in charge of the recruitment and initiation of new space Marines

Reclusiarch Head of the Chaplains in charge of maintaining morale and leading the brothers in battle-cants during combat

Master of the Forge Head of the Chapter's Techmarines

Chief Apothecary Head of the Apothecarium

Specialist Ranks
Templar Brethren Title given to those who have ascended to the ranks of the 1st or Second Companies and earned the right to wear Terminator armor

Recruitment
Aspiring recruits for the Imperial Sentinels are drawn from the crews of the warships that make up the Chapter Fleet. The trial to begin one's training is brutal and simplistic, a no-holds-barred cage match to the near death. For the victor, a chance at becoming a gene-forged super soldier, but for the loser lifelong shame and reassignment to menial or dangerous shipboard tasks.

Once an Aspirant has passed their first test they undergo a lengthy and trying training regimen bringing the participants to peak physical condition, marksmanship skills that would give the Vindicare Temple of Assassins a run for their money, and the familiarity with the cockpit of a voidfighter that can only come from thousands of combat hours logged. During this time they have periodic implantations, culminating in the final gene-seed implantation surgery.

An opportunity to undertake the final challenge and be awarded the title and equipment of a full Battlebrothers must be earned through one hundred confirmed kills either in the Scout Company or the chapter's squadrons of Stormbird strikecraft. Once that condition has been met the Neophyte must last for ten minutes against a fully-fledged Battlebrother in Power Armor.

Funerary Rites
All brothers of the Adeptus Astartes know that death will one day claim them, such harrowing service to the Imperium has but one end for its heroes, to fall in glorious battle. How that fall may come varies greatly, but among the Sentinels the last rites administered by the Chaplaincy are decidedly cold. For when life leaves the body, so does the brother that body once held, now only a corpse. After the body is hopefully returned to the parent vessel the progenoid glands are removed along with any salvageable equipment. Then it is placed into a torpedo capsule and borne to the launch decks by any surviving squad mates if possible or the company command squad if not. Most Sentinels are borne in the void between the stars, their bodies are commended to it as recompense for their service.

Combat Doctrine
Masters of void warfare like their legionnaire ancestors, the Sentinels tear apart the foe with disciplined volleys of Lance and bombardment cannon fire before closing to boarding torpedo and teleportation range. Once aboard the Sentinels leave no survivors, cutting down the enemy while advancing to the bridge, engineering bay, and gunnery deck to cripple and/or commandeer the vessel.

On the ground their tactics are more nuanced, employing a creeping orbital bombardment to suppress anti-aircraft batteries to the Thunderhawks can descend and unload their cargoes of Scout, Eliminator, and Assault squads for recon in force and to deploy drop pod and teleportation beacons. From the bowels of the waiting capital ships come dozens of the drop pods bearing Tactical, Intercessor, Devastator, Aggressor, and Hellblaster squads as more Thunderhawks ferry the necessary armored vehicles to the surface. The ground force now assembled they advance in a rolling tide, supported from the sky by carrier-based strikecraft and the bombardment cannons mounted aboard the largest vessels.

The Sentinels’ Assault Marines function more like the Despoiler Squads of the Legiones Astartes, fighting with blade and bolt pistol in hand and a combat shield on their pistol arm to deflect oncoming fire and shrapnel. They lack jump packs universally, even among the Vanguard Veterans they simply enjoy access to superior armaments in storm shields and wrist-mounted Bolters.

Chapter Beliefs
The Imperial Sentinels’ history stretches back to before the superstition and religious fervor that now grips the Imperium cane to prominence. Their oldest members remember the Emperor’s Imperial Truth and hold it in as much reverence and regard as the average Hive Worlder does the Lectitio Divinitatus. This is not to say they worship the tenets of the Imperial Truth, but the ideals of logic, reason, and science it attempted to bring to all mankind are sacred to the Imperial Sentinels. They deny the existence of any gods, let alone the Emperor as one, causing untold animosity between them, the Ecclesiarchy, and the Ordo Hereticus. To them the Chaos Gods are simply extremely powerful Warp entities, extremely malevolent Warp entities. Gork and Mork, the twin gods of the Orks, are nothing more than figments of their fight-addled and puny brains. Khaine, Cegorach, and the other members of the Eldar Pantheon are psychic weapons built to fight the Eldar’s wars for them, eventually gaining full sentience.

Lord Commander Taren Lash
The Chapter Master of the Imperial Sentinels is the stoic, iron-willed Taren Lash, the elder of two Lashes currently in service to the chapter. Born over eight hundred years ago on a barely habitable volcanic rock to a tribal chieftain, he was groom d from birth as a war leader to succeed his father. But the Emperor had a different path in mind for him, striding onto the battlefield in the power armor of the Adeptus Astartes rather than living out a menial and primitive is existence. One of the other tribes had begun to worship the Ruinous Powers, eventually summoning Daemons to fight their rivals, Taren’s tribe amongst them. As unholy abominations slaughtered his people Taren called out for the Emperor to save them. From the heavens descended Black-armored angels, Angels of Death, Adeptus Astartes of the Imperials Sentinels chapter. The collapsing line of mortals fell back behind their unexpected reinforcements, watching with awe as daemonic flesh was blown apart by Bolter shells or shred by chainswords. Taren, still only a teenager, rallied the remaining able-bodied fighters and moved to support the Astartes. When the final monster wheezed out of the material plane his tribe was decimated. The survivors that were deemed suitable Aspirants were gathered up by the Sentinels, Taren included, and alongside his brother Ethan the future Lord Commander passed the initiation trial to become as Neophyte and joining the ranks of the chapter's elite Wrath Squadron. Within thirteen years, the fastest in the chapter's history, he had completed the prerequisite kill count to attempt the trial to become a full Battle-Brother. His opponent would be the current Lord Commander, an rare but not unexpected occurrence. For two hours he fought the aged chapter master, Aedan Slait, however experience won out in the end and Taren was bested. However he had more than surpassed the ten minute requirement and was elevated to the Seventh Reserve Company. By the end of his first century of life Taren ascended to the ranks of the third company as a Tactical Sergeant. During the riots on Armageddon in 474.M41 he distinguishes his reputation for hands on leadership by leading his squad directly into a mob of rioters numbering in the hundreds that had been assaulting the food shipments. Suffice it to say at the sight of His Angels of Death order was restored after a brief scuffle. For his actions Taren was once again transferred, this time to the Veteran Second Company. After another century in service to the Emperor he ascended to the captainship of the company, earning the title of High Sentinel. Two hundred years later Taren would have a rematch with the Lord Commander, though the outcome was vastly different this time. The aged Chapter Master’s Prime has come and gone, it was time for a new man to take up the mantle, that man was Taren, as it has been for the past four centuries right up to today.

Chapter Fleet
As a void-specialized and fleet-based chapter the Sentinels maintain a larger and more ship-to-ship focused collection of warships. They inherited most of their fleet from the mighty Imperial Fists legion fleet, when the Astartes and Imperial Navy were far more intertwined. Their warships are modified from more common hulls, exchanging armaments or outright removing them to be more codex compliant, reconfiguring launch bays to support Astartes strikecraft, removing much of the crew quarters to make way for Power Armor racks and Dreadnought Sanctums, automating much of the menial functions such as loading and targeting weapons, etc.

The chapter's mobile Fortess-Monastery is the Great Crusade-era Battle Barge Blade of Retribution. Due to its age the Blade is far from typical in design, armament, or role. Three batteries of five Plasma Macrocannons on both port and starboard sides make up the primary armament with the addition of prow torpedo tubes and two wing mounted Novacannon to complete the ship killing arsenal, also mounted along the dorsal and ventral hull are several triple Lance Turrets. For non-weapon features the Blade contains the chapter’s Temple of Oaths, where the Sentinels inscribe their gravest vows in Blackstone pillars. Also within is the Forge, including a manufactorum for producing ammunition, spare parts, and the more basic equipment used in day to day operations. Finally are the Mausoleum of Heroes where every Lord Commander is buried and the Dreadnought bay.

Aside from their flagship Battle Barge the Imperial Sentinels have three Harbinger-Class vessels named as follows, Harbinger, Vigilant, and the Warden of the Righteous.

Next down the line is a strong backbone of eleven Liberator-class cruisers, similar in design aesthetic and role to the comparable vessels of the Imperial Navy. These powerful warships house a host of Lance and Macrocannons in addition to Bombardment cannons, doling at the Emperor's fury in the black void of space. Non save ships of similar or same classifications can withstand sustained salvos of a cruiser's main armament, which is a single battery of eight Macrocannons on port and starboard, a single prow Lance, several torpedo tubes, and three hangar bay doors on port and starboard to allow the many strike craft of the chapter to launch into the fray. Following this core of mainline capital ships is the humble but no less deadly Revenant-Class light cruisers, of which the Sentinels crew fifteen such warships. These vessels are powerful enough to take on and destroy escorts with ease and even larger vessels in coordination with allied ships. Their armament is identical to that of the larger Liberators save for the exclusion of the prow Lance, fewer torpedo tubes, and no hangar bays. And last but not least by any stretch of the imagination are the escort frigates of the Adjudicator-Class to patrol, reconnoiter, and dissuade enemy warships from getting to close to the larger capital-class vessels of the chapter. Twenty-two of these ships round off the chapter fleet of the Imperial Sentinels, making the total accounting just shy of fifty voidcraft.

Bitter Valor
A master-crafted power sword of unknown age and make theorized to be older than the Imperium itself, Bitter Valor is the badge of office for the Lord Commander of the chapter since it’s inception. Many a Chaos Lord, Ork Warboss, Aeldari Exarch, Druhkari Archon, Tau Commander, and Tyranid Hive Tyrant have been laid low by the razor sharp edge of Bitter Valor as well as untold millions of lesser foes since the first Lord Commander took up this sword.

Land Raider Achilles Sigma
Rare amongst the Armories of the Adeptus Astartes are the Land Raider Achilles Alpha, even more so in the 42nd Millennium, however the Imperial Sentinels have managed to obtain a handful of these ancient war machines and carefully maintained them over the millennia while making a few modifications along the way. In place of the Alphas' obsolete quad launcher is the deadly Avenger Bolt Cannon typically found mounted on Fire Raptor gunships as well as the addition of additional armor plating.

Actium-Pattern Plasma Rifle
In the hands of an Astartes the Plasma Rifle is a lethal weapon capable of rendering the heaviest armor or even light vehicles molten slag; the weapons used by the veterans of the Imperial Sentinels are no different. Originating from the western Forge World of Actium these specific armaments are not as potent as their Mars-Pattern cousins but more stable far with a greater range.

Chapter Colours
The Imperial Sentinels primarily wear dark grey coloured power armour. Like all Astartes, they proudly display their Chapter iconography on their left shoulder pauldron which is coloured a blood-hued crimson colour. Upon the right shoulder pauldron they display a white coloured squad specialty symbol which indicates an individual battle-brother's assigned specialty (Tactical, Devastator, Assault and Veteran). A black roman numeral is stenciled upon the squad specialty icon to indicate squad number with a gold gothic numeral on the right knee to indicate Company.

Chapter Badge
The Imperial Sentinels Chapter badge consists of a crossed ebon-coloured sword and bolter with a gold coloured citadel superimposed over the top of this symbol, centered upon a field of crimson. The golden tower represents the Imperium and the Sentinels’ sworn duty to defend it till they die while the veterans wear the blade and Bolter as well, the tools with which they uphold their oaths.

Allies

 * Adeptus Mechanicus - (Legio Fulminata/Forge World Actium)
 * Imperial Fists successors: The Sentinels maintain extremely good relations with most of the original Last Wall chapters of the very early foundings. Amongst these their closest links are to the Imperial and Crimson Fists, along with the Black Templars. So close is the bond between Primogenitor and successor in the case of the Imperial Fists and Sentinels that on rare occasion the latter have been granted permission to draw recruits from the ancestral homeworld of Inwit. It is said although unconfirmed that many of these would go on to become Company Commanders, Honor Guardians, and even Lord Commander of the Chapter in one instance.
 * Ordinators Chapter

Enemies

 * Every Iron Warriors Warband known to the Imperium
 * Perturabo - Daemon Primarch of the Iron Warriors.
 * Blood Axes and Da Gofs Ork Tribes

By the Imperial Sentinels
"In the valley of death I stand, in the shadow of heroes I bow, in the battle to come I will fight, if I die before dawn breaks, I accept my fate."

- Battle Hymn of the Imperial Sentinels

About the Imperial Sentinels
Feel Free to Add Your Own"This battle is too even. We can't win it without sacrificing too much...all squadron, disengage the Mon'keigh fleet...and remember this day for one day, revenge will be ours."

- -Autarch Baenarth Firewing of Nacretineï, ordering the withdrawal of his forces during the Raid on Tevor V.

"Disciplined, devoted and damned good fighters. May the light of the stars illuminate their victories."

- Kaiser Heinrich of the Mordekaisers on the Imperial Sentinels after fighting alongside them.

"They lack the technological marvels of the Necrontyr, yet I find their methodologies to be eerily similar to our own, both in void warfare and in planetary invasion. I do not know how these creatures managed to develop such advanced tactical acumen while their technology has stagnated so. Regardless, I deem that to face them openly in the void, especially, is an unnecessary risk even for us."

- Chief Cryptek Sekhedes, of the Khafretekh Dynasty

"Sir, Guardsman Enrique Salvador submitting my report of the Astartes... if I were being completely honest sir, they scare me. They are the emperor’s... Angels doesn’t fit, they are silent and solum and frighteningly focused. They fought quickly and brutally efficient. They are no angels, they are the emperor’s devil dogs and I’m damn glad they’re with us."

- Color Sergeant Salvador Enrique 442nd Salmessian Sentinels [Date Unknown]

"Brother Captain, when you told me of your time in the Deathwatch, you mentioned serving alongside an Imperial Sentinel? I met with men of their number leading an interdiction force. I specifically remember you extolling their virtues in melee combat."

- Captain Sun Cao

"After seeing them in action I’m sure you agree, they are as impressive as your Quilong"

- Captain Baizhang

"Do not insult my company by comparing them to those bullheaded sons of Dorn. When my company fights it is art; Blades are our brushes and blood is our ink. These Sentinel are not artists, theirs is but a crude way of war, lacking in our beauty, they don’t even use jump packs for their assault squads. Instead they charge in like the brickheaded fools they are!"

- Captain Sun Cao

"Introduce them to Zuolin’s brotherhood, I’m sure their head-taking Swordmaster would love their crude ways."

- Conversation between Captains Sun Cao and Baizhang of the Jade Knives chapter

"Southern fortress wall taken down! Thanks to you, this tyrannical rouge governor will have nowhere to run. Liberty in the Emperor's name!"

- Member of the Emperor's Liberators praising the Imperial Sentinels for their aid.

"Dour, aren't they? I don't know, I suppose they weren't what I expected when I envisioned meeting an Astarte for the first time. Not to say I'm disappointed! Far from it. Just after growing up on so many tales of glory I didn't imagine these grim, steely creatures. They are unnerving, in a sense. Yet even more, their Spartan demeanor is reassuring. Especially as we stand here on the precipice of doom.""

- Colonel Lauri Rinne, 131st Truskan 'Frostrangers,' during staging for the Gehenna Crusade

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