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The Jade Lions are a Loyalist Successor Chapter created from the lineage of the savage and fierce White Scars created during an unknown Founding sometime in M39. Stationed on the Eastern Fringe in response to the growing Tyranid threat. The Chapter has repeatedly assisted in the defence and reconquest of planets targeted by the growing T'au Empire.

Following their inception, the Chapter claimed the feudal world of Zoung Gou as their homeworld. The planet is covered in a rough and jagged hills and crags, interspersed with dense jungle. This difficult terrain that their recruits are pulled from has made the training of their bike forces gradually be phased out in favor of more drop-based shock forces. However, the population demonstrates an affinity for using stealth tactics, which the chapter has adopted as a common strategy.

While not officially embracing of the Imperial Faith, their association with their homeworld population is gradually increasing the number of aspirants who fully accept the Emperor as a god.

They retain much of the White Scars' appreciation of the arts of calligraphy and poetry. However, they have switched to doing most unofficial writing in the symbol-based script of their homeworld

Distancing from other White Scars and their successors has arisen due to the chapter's abandonment of high-speed cavalry warfare. This has caused some internal debate on whether or not they should resume this style for fear of losing their heritage and their connection to the Khan himself.

Within the Pit, there is a great chamber with a large pond where battle-brothers gather to meditate by the water. A sacred garden is kept here, with a large cultivation of grass from Chogoris is kept. On the wall is are two great jade and gold inlays that depict two worlds: Terra and Chogoris. These are put in place to remind them of their ancestry and loyalties. To the Emperor and the Khan.

Chapter History
The Jade Lions are a White Scars Successor Chapter founded in M39. Stationed on the Eastern Fringe in response to the growing Tyranid threat. The chapter has repeatedly assisted in the defense and reconquest of planets targeted by the growing T'au Empire.

The chapter swelled in strength but tragedy soon befall the Jade Lions. While on campaign, a large portion of their fleet was swallowed by the opening of the Great Rift. Almost instantly, the chapter was decimated.

The remaining brothers gathered an elected Captain Ryuu Kohaku to become the new Shogun (Chapter Master) and he decreed that the surviving battle brothers shall undergo the Rubicon Primaris, in an effort to fortify the diminished chapter. Each of the 132 warriors submitted to the procedure, gradually with only 5 attempting it at a time. 23 died during the procedure, which included the Stormseer Chou Pai and captain Dae-Seong.

Eventually, the Jade Lions emerged as a full Primaris force ready to resume its service to the Imperium.

Soon after, the Jade Lions were called on to reconquer the world of Mesopa II, an Imperial Industrial world that had defected to the Tau Empire. A viscious battle with forces of the Vior'la Sept ensued, eventually pushing the Tau off the world. Extreme ramifications for the world's treason followed with planetary tithes being increased and the majority of the ruling elite executed.

Perhaps the largest campaign of the chapter was during the events of the Desalle Conspiracy, a grand daemon orchestrated war that involved two space marine chapters, multiple Guard regiments, Slaanesh cultists, Craftworld forces, and even a Drukhari raiding force taking advantage of the disruption.

Notable Campaigns
The Malcome Defense and Mesopa Defection: During the Tau Third Sphere of Expansion, the Jade Lions defended the Hive World Malcome from the Vior'la Sept. While the battle for the Hive World was a definitive win, a larger portion of Vior'la forces was setting up defenses in the neighboring system of Mesopa, centered on the second planet. Mesopa II was an Imperial Industrial world whose leading elite had decided to defect to the growing Tau empire after what they perceived to be centuries of Imperial neglect, and they lacked the resources to mount a defense even if they had wanted to remain loyal to the Imperium.

This battle was a much tougher fight for the Space Marines, heavy urban fighting reduced most of the major interactions to close quarters firefights. The Tau were repelled from the world and the local population suffered severe punishment for their treason.

Guronzara Tendril: They earned one of their greatest honors on the frozen world of Guronzara IV, successfully repelling a tendril of Hive Fleet Kraken, preventing further scouring of the system, particularly the forge world of Guronzara II. On Guronzara IV, to prevent being overwhelmed by the Tyranid tide, the Jade Lions set up their defense in one of the great valleys of the world and laid explosives along the mountain sides and waited till the main force of the swarm entered the pass.

The explosives detonated, causing massive avalanches of snow and rock to crush the majority of the Tyranids. The had the side benefit of forcing the remaining swarm to bottleneck to a single opening, thus letting the chapter form a successful firing line to destroy the rest. Remnants of an ancient battle were revealed by the avalanche, along with relics from the White Scars of the Great Crusade era, and the greatest among these was the intact body of a Contemptor Dreadnought, which now is one of the most prized relics and battle assets of the Jade Lion, as it fought alongside the Khan himself.

The Desalle Conspiracy: In M41, the Jade Lions were involved in the events of the Desalle Conspiracy, a term that covers the series of events set in motion by the Cartel of Aleciandre Desalle.

-The major events: Desalle’s narcotic trading empire begins selling Azurbrail. A chemical discovered in a dream by the chief Alchemist, Milan Onavette, who was visited in the dream by a being simply called Lapis, Who begin whispering to Onavette certain rituals that would produce a more potent product. The Geishas, a major gang of hive city Duo Gonj on Kirako V, makes a deal with Desalle to be the sole distributor of Azurbrail on the planet. The Geishas use their stranglehold of the product to elevate their position to match the sway of even the planetary governor.

Onavette is instructed by Lapis to modify the formula, the drug now carries a warp taint that is noticeable to newcomers but addicts will overlook just to get their next dose. Desalle, the upper leaders of his organization, and the geishas fall to this warp taint, and begin the worship of Chaos

A shipment of the new Azurbrail is smuggled to Zoung Gou, the chapter homeworld of the Jade Lions, by a rival gang hoping to find their own market. The strong warp taint draws attention from the Stormseers of the Jade Lions who launch an investigation to discover the source of the taint

Desalle and the Geishas begin carrying out the orders of Lapis, sending out a series envoys and agents masquerading as Adeptus Administratum authorities and refugees, informing nearby Imperial Guard regiments of a nearby Eldar Maiden World where a trading fleet was ambushed by a Craftworld fleet.

Lapis orders psykers under his command to perform a ritual to project a false psychic imprint of the future that will affect how Eldar Farseers will see into the future. This false image shows 2 planetary regiments of Guard attacking the Maiden world, when the true plan is for 4 worlds to lend aid.

This plan is so Lapis can create a grand “meat-grinder” war on the world positioning itself where it can feed on all the souls of the fallen

The Jade Lions assaulted the Geisha controlled hive city, eventually receiving aid from. They were able to pierce through the ramshackle defenses of the cultists, making their way to the central spite of the city. It was here that the Geisha controlled psykers were sacrificed to unleash a daemonic incursion into the city to combat the space marines. The ensuing battle halted the daemonic incursion, but revealed the communications with the local regiments and they they were heading to an orchestrated death trap.

3 of the regiments were able to be reached and informed of the deception. However, the Aqua Cognita Imperial Guard was unable to be communicated with, and they arrived at the maiden world only to be desicively crushed by the Craftworld's fleet.

The Desalle fleet was waiting outside the system for the right time to swoop down and finish off the remaining forces of both sides and devour the aelderi spiritstones left behind. Seeing that the meat-grinder had been averted, they retreated back to Kirako V, only to be intercepted by the Loyalist forces.

The marines and their allies boarded the flagship, where Lapis itself emerged from the warp to defend the vessel, in hopes it could salvage its plans. The Slaanesh forces were destroyed and Lapis' realspace form banished. The remainders of the Desalle fleet escaped and fled into the Great Rift.

The warp taint ran thick on Kirako V with the most of the hive cities being controlled by cultist gangs. A council of the allied Chapter Masters and the Ministorum officials determined Exterminatus to the be the only way of preventing the taint from spreading to the rest of the system and beyond.

Fortress-Monastery
A large and deep cave filled with hundreds of natural and artificial passages, that has been converted in a fortress for the chapter. Local legends claim a god lived in the cave, and the Chapter investigated these rumors upon their arrival, what transpired during this investigation has been officially labeled secret.
 * The Feng-wui Pit

Within the Pit, there is a great chamber with a large pond where battle-brothers gather to meditate by the water. A sacred garden is kept here, with a large cultivation of grass from Chogoris is kept. On the wall is are two great jade and gold inlays that depict two worlds: Terra and Chogoris. These are put in place to remind them of their ancestry and loyalties. To the Emperor and the Khan.

Officer Ranks

 * Shogun: This is equivalent to a Chapter Master, however his absolute and unquestionable authority is only during campaigns, for peaceful management and on the homeworld, executive decisions are determined by a council of the company captains, chief Stormseer, Chaplain, and the Shogun.


 * Duizhu: The captains of the Jade Lions


 * Duifu: The lieutenants of the Jade Lions


 * Wajou: The Chaplains of the Jade Lions.

Enemies
The Jade Lions have had frequent encounters with the following foes:
 * Tau Empire
 * Vior'la Sept
 * Tyranids
 * Hive Fleet Kraken
 * Drukhari
 * Kabal of the Drowned Moon
 * Cult of the Silent Lotus
 * Death Guard

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