Editing Fire Angels (section)

==History==
[[Image:Mark VIII Fire Angel.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Tactical Marine in Mark VIII "Errant-pattern" Power Armour]]The Fire Angels are a recently founded chapter from the 25th Founding. Though only a few centuries old, they have already won much honour for their victories in various campaigns and crusades.

Since they are so young, there hasn't been enough time for them to deviate from the [[Codex Astartes]], and thus they have not developed any particular traits that let them stand out, though in the [[Deathwatch (RPG)|RPG]] they are above average close combatants (like literally all asskicking Chapters are) and marksmen which makes them pretty handy. Probably partly due to the fact that they focus their training on "typical Astartes" methods of war. So, a focus on maximizing the advantages of being superhuman through kicking ass with super-strength and no-scoping everyone with insane reflexes and senses. Doesn't this make them better than the Ultramarines at being Space Marines?

However, also because they are so young, they lack more specialised war machines and relics and have to make do with standard Rhino variants. The same goes for Terminator armor, and is the reason most of their 1st company is comprised of [[Veteran Squad|sternguard veterans]].

They do not revere their [[Spiritual Liege|ancestral primarch]] [[Roboute Guilliman]] as most chapters do, believing this to be a form of idolatry. Instead, they worship the [[Emperor]] as a God, [[Black Templars|making]] [[Red Scorpions|them]] [[Adulators|relative]] oddballs amongst Astartes Chapters, most of whom rather see Him as an inspired and extremely advanced man as well as their forefather. In fact, the Fire Angels have gone so far as formally adopting the Imperial Creed, sharing many of its teachings and beliefs.

As a result, the Chapter has close ties with various bodies within the [[Ecclesiarchy]] and typically fights alongside the [[Adepta Sororitas]]. Battle-Brothers of the Fire Angels have received numerous citations and honours from the lords of the Ministorum, something that very few other Chapters would care to accept or even acknowledge, since, y'know, the Ministorum isn't a sanctioned organization and therefore is actually illegal and heretical in the first place. <s>Uh, no. The Ministorum has been represented among the High Lords of Terra since M32 and are an integral part of the Adeptus Terra. They aren't illegal or unsanctioned.</s> The Ministorum was created by the citizenry via the illegal worship of the Emperor, grew in great power despite not being sanctioned by either the Emperor or the High Lords (who don't have the authority to sanction something banned by the Emperor anyway), and then were given a seat on the High Lords due to not wanting the Ecclesiarchy to be independent of Imperial authority and running amok on its own. It was never sanctioned nor could it legally ever be sanctioned. Of course, by this logic, the vast majority of the Imperium as we know it is probably technically illegal.

Worshiping the Emperor was forbidden by the Emperor, which means the Fire Angels are actually <s>heretics</s> criminals!

Altogether, these guys are as opposite from Ultramarines as you get without looking at other First Founding successors. Even more so if they ever stop being codex compliant.

The Chapter participated in the [[Badab War]] on the loyalist side and departed the front following heavy losses and learning that the [[Space Sharks]] loyalist chapter had arrived, meaning that there is some bad blood between them.