Editing Conservators (section)

==The Remembrance==
For a freshly founded chapter to lose over two thirds of its members within the first few years was a staggering, nigh on crushing loss. So many battle brothers, veterans of decades of combat, had simply vanished. For the few survivors, it was a sobering reality that they faced, having to forge ahead and create a new chapter, forge a new legacy, with so little left of what they had been. Faced with the prospect of replacing a huge portion of their number with fresh recruits, the surviving first generation of Conservators decided on a way to preserve their chapter's history for future generations. Thus was created The Remembrance.

Rather than a specific item, The Remembrance is a tradition. Each item a Conservator serves with is often handed down from the ones who came before him. Every boltgun has known many masters, served in many conflicts, and carrying that weapon is not only to carry an instrument of war, but to become a part of that ongoing, living story until you hand it off to another battle brother and the next chapter of that story begins. As such, each weapon, each suit of armor, has a Remembrance, a recording of who has used it, the deeds of note they carried out with it, and where and when they served with it. The chapter itself also has a Remembrance which records the members of the chapter, what they have done, who they were, so that each and every member of their ranks will never be forgotten by future generations.

Every marine is required to be familiar with the Remembrance of the various pieces of equipment they use in their duties, to understand the weight of the responsibility these ancient, often irreplaceable weapons carry. To understand that they each are a single chapter in a story that is still being written with each trigger pull, each armored step, each slash of the sword. In the case of gear recovered from another chapter, the Remembrance honors the deeds of the former owner with equal attention. If a fallen marine from a different chapter cannot be returned to their own chapter, then that Astartes is added to the chapter's Remembrance and his tales and deeds given equal glory and attention as that of any lifelong member, that marine declared an honorary Conservator in death. This is not to claim responsibility for the actions of that marine, but rather to pay him respect and honor, for his posthumous service to the chapter.