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==Details of The Fatemaker Controversy==

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Not much is known today of the Fatemaker Commandery. Where most historians agree is that the Vulkan Imperium contacted this insular Astartes Chapter in what used to be the border of the old Malachias Sector in the late 54th Millennium. Their realm, which they referred to as the ‘Kapellan Safe Zone’, consisted of fifty well-organized and well-preserved worlds out of reach of most Galactic powers of the time.
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The last fragmented records of the Pre-Strife era named the Fatemakers to be the sole guardians of that sector, and so it was originally presumed that these Space Marines were their direct descendants, who in those long thousands of years had changed their armor's color and chapter traditions. This was contradicted by the fact that the Kapellan Astartes, as they called themselves, knew who the Fatemakers were and vehemently insisted that that particular Chapter had been destroyed. Claiming that the Fatemakers ‘walked in a circle and are no more.’ The leader of the Vulkanite expedition and his Fire Beast advisers were not satisfied with this answer, especially after some compromising data had been found on the pursuits of the Kapellan Space Marines. Hostilities between the Vulkanite fleet and the Kapellan Safe Zone were cut short however, when the Chapter Master of the Kapellans offered the fleet a deal: he requested an audience with Vulkan, and in return would accept the Primarch’s judgement on his realm without further conditions.

The Chapter Master’s audience with the Primarch lasted for five hours, after which Vulkan gave the order to prepare his flagship, and personally took a journey to the Kapellan Safe Zone. There are no records of what he witnessed; however, on his return he declared the Safe Zone to be a semi-autonomous part of the Vulkan Empire, and that the Kapellans were indeed not identical to the Fatemakers Chapter.

Perhaps this was the problem which caused all these contradictions with the Kapellans: after all, if they were always referred to as “the Kapellans, who were definitely not the Fatemakers,” it is only to be expected that the Commandery itself would eventually be associated with the name, whether they liked it or not. And they did not like it at all; it seemed that the Commandery was almost superstitiously reluctant to share anything in common with that ancient Chapter. The name stuck, however, and by the beginning of the Last Primarch War, the Kapellans’ true Chapter name was barely mentioned at all.

Although the Kapellans had unpleasant secrets, their value in battle was undeniable. They preferred two distinct strategies: a part of their forces were divided into small, specialized groups capable of applying surgical strikes against specific targets. While this set of tactics was reminiscent of typical Pre-Strife Space Marines, they had another tactical preference which was almost Crusade-era in nature. The Kapellans were fully comfortable with applying huge Astartes formations on the battlefields, accompanied by standard infantry, armored and aircraft, but also supplemented by hordes of battle Ogryns who called themselves ''‘Sons of Metragon’''. These abhumans were treated as equal citizens of the Safe Zone, and their ferocity and raw strength was further augmented by heavy cybernetization and crude yet effective hand-to-hand weaponry. The Ogryns and the Kapellans’ other allies, including the '''[CLASSIFIED ON THE PERSONAL ORDER OF LORD VULKAN]''' also accompanied the Commandery to the Muster before the Last Primarch War, although the Kapellans contributed an equally large force to the Magellan Reich to aid them against the war on the Chaos entity known as Doombreed.

And so the Commandery fought its way into Galactic history, and in the light of later events, the mystery surrounding the ancient Fatemakers seems both trivial and irrelevant. My personal opinion is that we can accept the word of Lord Vulkan in this case: he ordered the Fatemaker Chapter symbol to be placed on the Wall of Remembrance on Armageddon. This wall contains all the symbols of the Space Marine Chapters which have perished since the creation of the first Astartes, and the inversed ‘Q’ among the other 846 symbols clearly indicates the Primarch’s belief in the Fatemakers’ final demise.

'''[Archivist Nikolai Guliano; excerpt from ''Astartes Chapters of the Human Imperiums, Unpublished Edition'']'''
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