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Chapter History
The Umbral Spectres are a Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines, founded at the end of the Indomitus Crusade and the breaking up of the Unnumbered Sons primaris legion. Their behaviour patterns changed drastically in the decades following; showing themselves to favour stealth, unique units and ever-changing company compositions depending on the battlefield conditions.

The Chapter after it’s activation has gained a reputation for their casualties free approach to warfare and a-blatant disregard for the Codex Astartes, treating it like as suggestions rather than the holy document it was considered to be by their progenitors. This sentiment has caused some friction with other Chapters, particularly where cooperation was required between two or more chapters.

Their first campaign was against the Tau Empire. Their recent expansion efforts during the campaign was turned as the Chapter capitalised on multiple weaknesses within the Tau Battlesuits including a major software flaw that Umbra himself discovered that has since been "patched" to quote the strange terminology sometimes used by Umbra. Through that victory, the campaign turned into a deadlock for a key period of three months. The Spectres left after the Fulminators Chapter came to reinforce, launching a full scale counter-attack to drive the Tau out of the system to make way for refugees from other conflicts.

The Chapter had disappeared from Imperial space but before they went missing, they began to stage large scale reforms among accompanying Astra Militarium regiments, providing them with weapons and vehicles atypical or Illegal of guardsmen usage, such as Land Raiders recovered from a Space Hulk. the status of those regiments has since been confirmed with the re-emergence of the chapter, they had been separated from the chapter with much better equipment and state of morale than before they went with the chapter, they are currently being monitored for any suspicious activity.

More recently due to the chapters extended interaction with Astra Millitarum regiments rumours have spread that the chapter's armour in some deployments does not even reflect light and that the blue highlights seemingly glow in contrast to their darker than void armour.

Vigilus
The chapter played a small role in the Vigilus conflict having a companies worth of their marines present during the conflict, Ultramarine observers have taken note of the blackshield squadron that had accompanied the chapter and the combined arms approach they took to the conflict working with local PDF and Guardsman forces along with the gifting of rare weapons and vehicles to those working with them that had been documented in other encounters with Millitarum forces.

Chapter Combat Doctrine
The Umbral Spectres fight similar to other Ultramarine successors, though with a more flexible view on the tactical specifics outlined in the Codex Astartes. Against most foes the only thing that might stand out is a particular expertise in countering close combat forces.

Chapter Belief
For a Successor Chapter of the Vaunted Ultramarines, the Umbral Spectres feel they have grown beyond the need to adhere to the rigid dictates of the Codex Astartes. Despite their independence and bellicose nature, they still venerate their gene-father as other Scions of Guilliman Chapters do, for the Umbral Spectres' oaths of allegiance are sworn to him and the the Master of Mankind. Though they look upon the Codex Astartes as a foundation for their way of life, they do not literally follow its teachings through blind orthodoxy, for to do so would be both foolish and unwise. The Umbral Spectres do not believe in rigidly adhering to dogma, for this is what has led to much of the stagnation and apparent difficulties that currently runs rampant throughout the wider Imperium.

Chapter Gene-Seed
Officially the Chapters Gene Seed is from Ultramarine stocks, however a corpse of one of their marines has been recovered with intact gene seed that does not match the gene seed provided for tithes. Few fragmentary records show the gene-seed may be 'Chimeric', as it has been adulterated or somehow altered during its creation.

Notable Members

 * Chapter Master Umbra - Umbra is a mysterious Astartes having reportedly in his records killed a traitor Astartes through sheer luck alone during the siege of Terra using the relic plasma Spear of Darkness that has been beside his side even before he was found by Archmagos Dominus Bellisarius Crawl. His name has not been disclosed to many persons and the nickname Umbra was given to him after founding the Umbral Spectres and the name stuck and became the name many knew him by. During the Indominus Crusade he lead an Intercessor company within the Unnumbered Sons as a Captain leading from the front in the heraldry of the Ultramarines before being chosen by the Primarch to become the Chapter Master of the Umbral Spectres at the crusades end. his whereabouts are currently not known as with the bulk of his chapter.

Chapter Relics

 * The Spear of Darkness - A unique Plasma weapon utilising stabilised plasma held within a Magnetic Field shaped into a blade of crackling darkness, it is the Signature weapon of Chapter Master Umbra. despite its plain unadorned and fragile silver shell of which a more durable replacement is currently in the Chapter's forges it is potent and capable of slicing through Terminator armour.

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