Category:Mantis Warriors

Category:Mantis Warriors
Allegiance:	Secessionist
Founding Chapter	Marauders (White Scars lineage)
Founding:	Unsure; believed to be Eighth Founding (mid M34)
Chapter Master:	Khoisan Neotera (Chapter Master during the Badab War)
Home World:	None (Ootheca before the Badab War)
Fortress-Monastery:	Unknown
Colours:	Emerald green armor
Specialty:	Unknown
Strength:	Unknown

The Mantis Warriors (or Mantis Legion) are a Space Marine Chapter, who sided with the rebel Astral Claws during the Badab War. They were granted the Emperor's forgiveness at the conclusion of the conflict.

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History

The Mantis Warriors were founded as part of the 598.M35 founding, created to help relieve the White Scars in monitoring and countering the many threats harboured by the Maelstrom.

Badab War

During the Badab War, the Mantis Warriors sided with the rebel Astral Claws, along with the Executioners and the Lamenters.

The first recorded involvement by Loyalist Marines came in 904.M41, when the Fire Hawks ship Rapturous Fire was attacked and captured by the Mantis Warriors. In 907.M41, as Badab was being besieged by loyalists, two chapters were drafted in to investigate the worlds occupied by the Mantis Warriors and Executioners. For example, there were a battles on the Gargathea III between join forces of the Astral Claws and Mantis Warriors and the Loyalist Raptor Space Marines. After a harsh encounters Loyalist were victorious and drove the rebells from the planet.

In 912.M41 the rebellion was defeated and the Astral Claws nearly destroyed. The Mantis Warriors were granted the Emperor's forgiveness and sent on a one hundred year crusade. Their Chapter Master, Khoisan Neotera, was stripped of his honour and armour, and imprisoned in Penitentiacon in isolation for the rest of his life. As part of this penitent crusade their homeworld, Ootheca, was forfeited to the Space Sharks Chapter, which had taken part as loyalists in the war. This meant that for the duration of the crusade the Mantis Warriors would be forbidden to recruit new members, and as of the end of M41 they are critically short of personnel.