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Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes / Space Marines
In General
- Bigger Is Better: Space Marines are huge with your average Astartes being between 7 to 8 feet tall and are virtually unstoppable in battle with only the greatest Force Users like Anakin, Obi-Wan, Mace, and Dooku managing to hold their own in battle with them.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Among the three Space Marine chapters from Xek-Tek, the Skywatch wear blue-and-gold armor like their founding chapter, the Crimson Razors wear red-and-gold, and the Tempered Hands wear purple-and-gold.
- The Dreaded: After the first few initial battles against them, the Space Marines are quickly becoming a terror on the battlefield, as the Republic and the CIS have very little to counter them.
- Lightning Bruiser: Space Marines, despite their extremely heavy armor and massive size, can still move remarkably fast and have exceptional reflexes. This, combined with their insane strength, makes them extremely dangerous opponents with even the Jedi being outmatched.
- One-Man Army: Space Marines are designed to be this and they have plowed through almost everything the Star Wars galaxy can throw at them so far.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The two most prominent Space Marine Chapters in the story are the Crimson Razors and the Skywatch. The Crimson Razors are the red oni, being characterized as the more aggressive, violent, dogmatic, and fanatical. The Skywatch are the blue oni, being characterized as much more patient, strategic, pragmatic, and preferring to play the Long Game. Bonus points for the Crimson Razors having their armor primarily painted red, while the Skywatch have their armor primarily painted blue.
- Super-Strength: Anakin, whose fighting style is heavily based on his physical strength, is easily overwhelmed by an Astartes when they cross blades.
- Super-Toughness: Space Marines have this much to the shock and horror of their opponents. The Space Marine Anakin and the Bad Batch fight gets part of his face slashed by Anakin's lightsaber, blown up by his own grenade, then blasted in the face and is still moving. It takes Anakin cutting off his head to finally kill him.
- The Worf Effect: Starting around the midpoint of Season 2, the story will occasionally introduce a new major character by having them defeat a Space Marine with varying degrees of ease.
- When Ciaphas Cain introduces himself to Jabba the Hutt, his importance is emphasized by how the Salamander Space Marines accompanying him treat him with respect and willing deference.
- Count Dooku's first scene in this fic has him easily defeat Brother Araknus and mention having easily slain Araknus's entire veteran squad offscreen.
- The true Grievous establishes himself as a force to be reckoned with by orchestrating the destruction of a small Crimson Razors fleet attacking Hypori and killing three Space Marine squads including an Astartes Captain and a Librarian.
- Captain Fordo establishes himself as a Badass Normal during the Second Battle of Axum by singlehandedly taking down a Tempered Hands Space Marine using a vibroknife.(Though, this was a mix of surprise and Fordo having certain field advantage that this space marine did not have, i.e. launching a surprise attack on a space marine that was encumbered with a heavy weapon in an enclosed area.
The Skywatch
In General
The Vigilant Eye of the Skywatch
A fleet-based Ultramarines Successor Chapter from an early Founding, the Skywatch Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes are one of the three Chapters of Space Marines that called the Xek-Tek sector home prior to their evacuation and arrival in the Star Wars galaxy. They are led by Orion Phatris.- All There in the Manual: A lot of their background information comes from this Reddit post
by the author. - Badass Creed: They have two; "Victory through Vigilance" is their most repeated one followed by "Honor through courage."
- Blue Is Heroic: Out of the three Space Marine Chapters that came from the Xek-Tek Sector, the Skywatch are the closest to being the most traditionally heroic, being mainly concerned with protecting the Imperial citizens of the Xek-Tek Sector and their armor design is reminiscent to that of noble knights from tales of ancient heroes. Their Chapter's primary color is blue.
- Cool Starship: Their largest Battle-Barge and Fortress-Monastery is the Master of Light, which is 12 kilometers in length and 5 kilometers in height. The vessel is over 10,000 years old, dating all the way back to the days of the Emperor's Great Crusade. Despite it's age, it is a Lightning Bruiser in combat, able to accelerate much faster than any of its contemporary Battle-Barges and even briefly overtaking its smaller Escorts in space.
- Doomed Hometown: Their Chapter Homeworld of Heimdal Primaris was destroyed in the distant past by a xenos alliance called the Terriphont Entente, who used gravitational technology to cause it to collide with one of its neighboring planets. The Skywatch themselves narrowly escaped their homeworld's destruction and transitioned to being a fleet-based Chapter soon thereafter.
- The Engineer: When they reform a troubled world, the Skywatch will often choose to construct large fortifications, edifices, and monuments to the Emperor on the planet for the locals to use once they leave.
- A Friend in Need: In the past, the Skywatch once donated an entire company's worth of power armor to the struggling Astra Vulpines Chapter after fighting alongside them to defend Kallastan from a Tyranid invasion. This resulted in one entire company of the Skywatch being undersupplied and put on "light" duty for almost five hundred years, but the tradeoff is that this act earned the loyalty of the Astra Vulpines and the two Chapters have been extremely close allies ever since.
- Humble Hero: Unusually for an Ultramarines successor chapter, the Skywatch will often deflect the glory of their great deeds onto their allies in an intentional display of humility, allowing them to maintain a level of obscurity and good reputation that permits them to get away with a lot of their less-than-traditional activities.
- Internal Reformist: The Skywatch have earned themselves a reputation for reforming the power structure of every planet that they protect or have to put an insurrection down on, in order to ensure that the corruption, incompetency, or unnecessary cruelty that had previously led to the Chapter being summoned there does not lead to further catastrophe. They justify this behavior as being for the greater good of the Imperium as a whole, and it notably bears some resemblance to the Inquisitorial philosophy/faction known as "Recongregationism".
- Interservice Rivalry: They have a long and bitter feud with the Spear Heralds Chapter, brought about due to a dispute over ownership of the Skywatch's Battle Barge Master of Light, which the Spear Heralds claim was stolen from them. This eventually escalated to several shadow wars being waged between the two rival Chapters.
- Military Maverick: The Chapter as a whole constitutes this, considering their aforementioned reformist tendencies and their deviation from the Codex Astartes: they have no reserve companies, and every single company with the exception of the 1st operates with its own Scout corps; effectively making each one its own mini-chapter. The Librarius has also been completely overhauled and replaced with the Circle of Vigilants.
- Pragmatic Villainy: They are just as devoted to the ideals of conquest and genocide as any of the other Imperials, but they recognize that they are at a significant tactical disadvantage. As a result, their goals center around capturing ideal stronghold worlds, wiping out any native resistance, and then fortifying what they have taken so as to be able to endure any counter-attacks until they have functioning supply lines in place. Orion Phatris even calls out his Crimson Razors counterpart, Davik Thune, on how their rampage through Separatist space, whilst reaping impressive tallies of carnage, also vastly depleted their supplies and even resulted in the deaths of Space Marines and the destruction of ships — losses that neither the Crimson Razors nor the greater Imperial Refugee fleet can take lightly. Orion's character profile even lists "pointless cruelty" among the list of things he dislikes.
- Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Part of the reason the Skywatch has been able to get away with being so Codex-Deviant for ten thousand years is due to their strong ties to the Ordo Xenos of the Inquisition; quite a few Astartes from the Skywatch (including their current Chapter Master) are confirmed to have served in the Inquisition's Deathwatch and one of the Xek-Tek Inquisitors is even a former Skywatch Aspirant. In return, the Ordo Xenos shields the Skywatch from any Inquisitorial scrutiny with independent Inquisitors who try to investigate the Skywatch often being Un-personed.
- The Spartan Way: One of the trials that the Skywatch put their new recruits through is called the Rite of True Seeing and is famous for often resulting in the death of the trainee in question. It involves stripping a trainee almost naked and then locking them alone in a room with Empathic Shapeshifters that take on forms of terror and death depending on each recruit's perceptions and expectations. The only way for a recruit to survive is to empty their mind of their emotions, thereby forcing the shapeshifters to default to their standard form: a beautiful flower called Katathma. These flowers are cultivated aboard the Master of Light and are said to have originated from the Skywatch's original Chapter Homeworld prior to its destruction.
Skywatch Divisions
The Skyward
Skyward Order
The Skyward Order is the secretive inner circle of the Skywatch, consisting of members drawn from different Skywatch divisions and companies who have been trusted by Orion Phatris with safekeeping their Chapter's secrets and carrying out the tasks that will ensure their Chapter lives on in glory, even if it means the Skyward themselves must live in sin and obscurity. In Season 1, they are deployed by Orion during the Battle of System K794 to purge the Xek-Tek refugee fleet of its civilian leadership in order to pave the way for Orion to seize power and establish his Imperial Council.- All There in the Manual: The author gives more background information about the Skyward in his Episode 24 After Talk regarding what the Skyward actually are and their role within the Skywatch Chapter.
- False Flag Operation: In the written FF.Net version of Episode 4, the Space Marines of the Skyward Order that assassinate an Archmagos under Orion's orders Pretend to Be Brainwashed by Genestealers—deliberately injecting themselves with strands of Genestealer DNA right before their attack and screaming lines like "FOR THE PATRIARCH, AND THE VOID GODS!"—so as to ensure that the Skywatch Chapter won't get blamed for the Archmagos's death.
- The Ghost: In the original version of the series released on YouTube, the Skyward make zero appearances despite Orion mentioning them in Season 1 and being the ones responsible for assassinating most of the Imperial officials who could have challenged Orion's claim to leadership. This is downplayed in the FFN version of the series where we see a Fictional Document at the end of Chapter 4 detailing a Skyward operation to assassinate an Archmagos.
- Small Role, Big Impact: They don't really appear beyond Season 1 (where are are mentioned but never seen), but their thorough culling of the Xek-Tek refugees is what enables Orion to consolidate power and form his Imperial Council in Season 3.
- Suicide Mission: Some of their members were effectively given one as their targets were Admech Archmagi who were so heavily guarded that the Skyward Marines would get overwhelmed and killed immediately after killing their target.
- Token Evil Teammate: To the rest of the Skywatch. The Skyward basically function as a black ops group responsible for unethical and morally dubious missions which the greater Skywatch (who otherwise evoke the image of Knight in Shining Armor) don't want to be associated with.
The Circle of Vigilants
The Warlocks of the Circle of Vigilants
The council of nine Warlocks that have replaced the Librarians within the Skywatch. They are a highly secretive group of Astartes Psykers, rumored to dabble in sorcery and demon-summoning, that answer only to the Chapter Master of the Skywatch...and themselves.- Authority in Name Only: Since they are part of the Skywatch, Orion theoretically should hold authority over the Circle since he is the Skywatch's Chapter Master. However, in practice, the Circle behaves more like an Aloof Ally of the Skywatch than a sub-group. This is at least partially intentional in order to distance the Skywatch as a whole from any unethical or illegal activities the Circle engages in, though the trade-off is that Orion holds very little actual control over them.
- Cryptic Conversation: It's revealed in Episode 34 that when Orion went to the Circle for their advice way back in Episode 24, the Circle gave him a cryptic prophecy seemingly written to be as misleading as possible. The general gist of the prophecy is that in order to for "the Emperor" (which could easily mean Palpatine instead of the God-Emperor) to rise, the Skywatch must strike at the "heart of the universe" (heavily inferred to be Coruscant given how Palpatine departed from the planet with the Republic's counterattack armada because of an unspecified premonition he had).
- Fantastic Rank System: They are not organized like your typical Librarius and have their own unique ranks. The nine Librarians are all referred to as "Warlocks" and are considered equal in rank to one another.
- Noodle Incident: According to the author's Reddit post describing the Skywatch Chapter, the Neo-Watchers have had to cull the Circle eight separate times throughout the Chapter's history for reasons unknown.
- The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: The Warlocks of the Circle generally tend to keep to the shadows, and they have yet to make a true appearance within the story, with the first in-universe introduction to their order being Orion going to them to seek counsel.
- Seers: While they have filled traditional combat roles expected of normal Librarians in the Skywatch's past, the current Chapter Master, Orion Phatris, prefers their use as an intelligence service first and foremost.
- Specifically Numbered Group: There are always supposed to be nine Warlocks in the Circle of Vigilants and that number is kept to consistently whenever it is possible.
Neo-Watchers
The Neo-Watchers
A sub-group within the Skywatch consisting of non-psyker Battle-Brothers who act as the attendants to the Circle of Vigilants. They are led by Watchmaster Zarach.- Authority in Name Only: Much like with the Circle of Vigilants, the Neo-Watchers function as their own mini-Chapter with Orion having very little say in how they operate despite being the Skywatch's Chapter Master.
- Cool Sword: They wield Null Blades, presumably a Power Sword variant of Null Rods, which project an anti-psyker field around their blades that nullify the Warp powers of psykers.
- Depleted Phlebotinum Shells: Included among their arsenal are Blank Rounds, bolter rounds which have an anti-psyker effect like a Blank does.
- Fantastic Rank System: Their rank-and-file are called Neo-Watchers while their commander is called the Watch Master (typically a former First Company Captain).
- Mage Killer: One of their duties is to kill the Warlocks in the Circle of Vigilants should the situation call for it. This has happened eight times in the past throughout the Skywatch's history as a Chapter.
- Power Nullifier: They primarily use weapons specifically designed to counter and cancel out psyker abilities such as Null blades, Blank rounds, and Psyk-Out grenades.
- Praetorian Guard: Their primary job is to serve as the guardians and custodians of the nine Warlocks in the Circle of Vigilants.
- Trick Bomb: Included among their arsenal are a few Psyk-Out Grenades which spreads an Anti-Magic effect over its blast radius when set off.
- Who Watches the Watchmen?: The purpose of the Neo-Watchers is to watch over the Circle of Vigilants and ensure that they don't go rogue or do anything that would be considered treasonous. However, as Orion notes in Episode 24, there doesn't seem to be any oversight for the Neo-Watchers themselves, who answer solely to whoever is the Watch Master with the Skywatch Chapter Master being an Authority in Name Only for them.
Named Astartes
Orion Phatris
Chapter Master Orion Phatris
See his entry on the Imperium of Man page.
Aurelian Teks
Captain Aurelian Teks, Commander of the 3rd Company
- The Ace: As befitting an Astartes promoted to Captaincy just after his first century of combat. Orion describes him as an excellent swordsman, pilot, and gunner.
- The Baby of the Bunch: He's the youngest Captain in his Chapter and is described as "wearing his youth plainly on his face" by his Chapter Master.
- Big "WHAT?!": His reaction in Episode 3 to hearing Jessehra Korvan claim that they need to power down their ship's Gellar Field while traveling through the Netherworld/Warp and Orion going along with her suggestion.
- Blood Knight: Aurelian becomes crestfallen when he is sent below decks when the Master of Light — the Skywatch's flagship and Fortress-Monastery — is about to go into battle for the first time in ages during the Imperium's first naval battle with the Republic. He perks up however when his Chapter Master clarifies that he is being sent below to prepare his company for a boarding action against the enemy fleet, thus being granted an even greater honor than merely bearing witness to the ensuing carnage; he will get to be a part of it.
- Brief Accent Imitation: In the FFN version of Episode 3, he does a brief impression of Nexus Lente's voice while repeating Lente's question about what is happening to their ship when the Skywatch's flagship begins to tear itself apart while traveling through the Warp/Netherworld due to the ship's Gellar Fields being too overpowered.
- Co-Dragons: He and Rollah Sendurran seem to share the role of The Dragon to Orion Phatris. While Rollah seems to act as an unofficial ringleader for the Imperial Council in Orion's stead, Aurelian serves as Orion's right-hand man and spends most of his time by his side.
- Inconsistent Spelling: Earlier episodes' subtitles spelled his name as "Aurelian" but the subtitles for Episode 34 have it spelled "Auralian".
- Oh, My Gods!: He asks "Has Horus stolen all your damned sense?" to the female Tech-Adept working aboard the Master of Light's bridge in Episode 3 when she suggests that they need to lower their Gellar Fields while traveling through the Netherworld/Warp.
- Overranked Soldier: Downplayed. Aurelian is just over a hundred years old, which still makes him fairly young for a Space Marine, who typically live for many centuries. Despite this, he holds the rank of Third Company Captain, a position typically given to long-time Veteran Marines, and is shown acting as the right-hand man to his Chapter Master, a man who is seven times older than he is.
Nellos
Nellos
- Bodyguarding a Badass: He is one of the two honour guards seen accompanying Orion Phatris and is responsible for protecting him. Orion is a seven-hundred-year-old Chapter Master, making him an Old Soldier and a certified Four-Star Badass in his own right.
- Given Name Reveal: He appears in the background in Season 1, but his name is only revealed to be Nellos in the first episode of Season 2.
- Praetorian Guard: As a Space Marine honour guard, Nellos is considered one of his Chapter's best warriors and is responsible for protecting his Chapter Master.
- Satellite Character: He is mostly characterized as one of Orion's most trusted bodyguards. He spends most of his appearances in Season 1 standing next to Orion's throne while holding his helmet for him.
- Spear Carrier: So far, he's only made a few background appearances and said two lines.
Renphi's Killer
An unnamed Battle-Brother who served under Aurelian Teks in the Skywatch's Third Company. During the Battle of System K749, this Marine participated in the Skywatch's boarding of the Republic flagship Honor Hound where he slew the Jedi General Renphi and nearly killed Dr. Shina before being stopped by Renphi's Padawan Gaphin.
- An Arm and a Leg: During the Space Marine boarding of the Honor Hound, he gets his right arm sliced off by Renphi.
- Battle Trophy: After slaying Renphi, he steals Renphi's lightsaber from his corpse and claims it as a trophy.
- Hero Killer: He tracks down and kills Renphi, a Jedi Knight who fought in the Clone Wars, offscreen during the Space Marine boarding of the Honor Hound.
- Laser Sword: He takes to using Renphi's yellow lightsaber as his melee weapon after personally killing the Jedi General. Near the end of Episode 5, he uses it to nearly execute Shina and duel Gaphin.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Despite having just lost his right arm, this Battle-Brother was still able to swiftly kill Renphi offscreen despite this being his first time facing a Jedi and presumably being unprepared for Renphi's Force abilities.
- One-Armed Warrior: Even while missing his right arm, he was able to quickly kill an experienced Jedi Knight and duel a Jedi Padawan while wielding a lightsaber.
- No Name Given: We never learn his name.
- Villain of the Week: Is more or less a one-shot antagonist who only appears as the primary threat for Episode 5.
- Would Hit a Girl: Has no qualms reducing a terrified and helpless female civilian scientist like Dr. Turanni to a bloody smear on the floor. He also tries to cut down Dr. Shina without any remorse despite her clearly posing no threat to him and even successfully communicating with him via a translator app on her Data Pad.
Other Members
Captain Annar Solstin, Commander of the 5th Company
The Captain of the Skywatch's Fifth Company. He was among his Chapter's Company Captains gathered before Orion during his speech to the rest of the Imperial Fleet at the end of the second episode.- Minor Major Character: He's a Space Marine Captain who commands an entire company yet only has one minor appearance in Episode 2 with a single line.
- Spear Carrier: So far, he's only had a single appearance at the end of Episode 2 where he has one line inquiring about what should be done if the replacement Navigators in their fleet won't cooperate with their orders.
Captain Nexus Lente, Commander of the 8th Company
The Captain of the Skywatch's Eighth Company, Nexus Lente was an elder Astartes in his Chapter who was aboard the Skywatch's flagship Master of Light the first time that they traveled through the Warp to reach the galaxy after being transported into the Star Wars universe.- Minor Major Character: He's a Space Marine Captain and clearly a seasoned veteran who has probably fought in countless battles over the course of centuries, making him a very valuable member of his Chapter. He only appears at the start of episode 3 as a Spear Carrier.
- Oh, My Gods!: In the FFN version of Episode 3, Astartes Captain Nexus Lente yells "What by the name of Guilliman is wrong with the ship?!!" when the Skywatch's Battle-Barge begins tearing itself apart while traversing through the Warp due to having overpowered Gellar fields.
- Spear Carrier: So far, he's only appeared once at the start of Episode 3 where he has a single line.
Brother Xavier Gemaniss
- All There in the Manual: His name is revealed by the author in one of his reply posts on Reddit.
- Chainsaw Good: He can be seen wielding a chainsword against the clone troopers aboard the Honor Hound.
- The Voiceless: Doesn't say a word when he appears in Episode 5.
Chapter Master Altrak Highspire
One of Orion Phatris's predecessors as the Chapter Master of the Skywatch.- All There in the Manual: His existence is only known from a Reddit post by the author describing the Skywatch.
- Posthumous Character: He's dead by the events of the story and his position has since been taken up by Orion Phatris.
- Save the Jerk: During the Felling of Jantia Primaris, he and his Chapter answered the call of the Crimson Razors and even administered medical aid to them after the battle ended despite Endorle Kresh, the Razors' Chapter Master at the time, having done nothing but constantly insult Altrak and challenge him to duels multiple times in the past. This earns him Kresh's respect, who recanted his previous insults and stopped issuing challenges to single combat afterwards.
Non-Astartes Personnel
Zerventus
Astrogator Zerventus
The head astrogator of the Skywatch's Battle-Barge Master of Light.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: The fact that Orion considers him a "fairly good astrogator" is the only reason he's willing to overlook Zerventus being so overweight that he requires mechanical Spider Limbs to keep his balance and walk around.
- Given Name Reveal: When he appears in Season 1, he is initially unnamed. His name is only revealed as Zerventus at the start of Season 2.
- The Navigator: As the head astrogator of Orion's flagship, his role is to presumably help the Master of Light navigate through realspace.
- Spider Limbs: He is so morbidly obese that he has spider-like servo limbs which he needs to compensate for his weight and move around.
Keela Shastrava
Chief Navigator Keela Shastrava
The Chief Navigator of the Master of Light, the Skywatch's flagship and Fortress-Monastery. Upon arriving in the Star Wars universe, she gets cut off from the Astronomicon and mistakenly assumes the Emperor has perished, leading her to suffer a Freak Out that leaves her unfit for duty.- Despair Event Horizon: When the Imperials first exited the Warp into the Star Wars universe, she had an epic breakdown due to no longer being able to see the Astronomican and believing this meant the Emperor had died. Until Orion figured out that the Xek-Tek fleet was actually transported to another galaxy, she wouldn't stop crying and sobbing.
- Despair Speech: Delivers one hell of a "lose all hope" speech that gets recorded by the Skywatch and replayed in Episode 1.Keela: By the weeping stars, I can see! For the first time, I can see, and my sight blinds me! Woe to us, woe to the world, and the universe. For my eyes can see all, and yet the light of the Emperor has faded completely. Woe! Woe, for our lord in the stars shines no longer! Woe, for we are made orphans! Woe to us all, for our father has died!
- The Navigator: As the chief navigator of the Skywatch's flagship, it's her job to use her Third Eye to help her ship navigate through the Warp using the Astronomican as a point of reference.
- The Voice: Never actually makes an appearance in the series. A recording of voice is heard in the first episode as she gives her Despair Speech but that's it.
Jessehra Korvan
Tech Adept Jessehra Korvan
A Tech Adept who served as part of the bridge crew of the Master of Light. She was in charge of the Battle-Barge's Gellar Fields.
- All There in the Manual: Her name is revealed on this post by the author containing an illustration of the scene she appears in.
- Bit Character: She only appears in Episode 3 where she has a couple of lines and is operating the Gellar fields of the Master of Light.
- Brain/Computer Interface: She manages the Gellar Fields of the Master of Light through wires connecting her brain to the ship's controls.
The Crimson Razors
In General
The Bloody, Bladed Fist of the Crimson Razors
An Imperial Fists Successor Chapter who deeply admires the Black Templars, the Razors are one of the three Space Marine Chapters who came to the Star Wars Galaxy. They are led by Davik Thune.- Became Their Own Antithesis: They originally prided themselves on being "true Sons of Dorn", proudly differentiated themselves from the Black Templars, favored using Bolters over melee weapons, and were longtime detractors of the Codex Astartes. Over the centuries, their Chapter underwent gradual changes that made them more and more resemble the Black Templars with many of the younger Marines developing an obsession with swords. After the fall of Cadia, their Chapter Master went from being one of the biggest detractors of the Codex Astartes to one of its greatest advocates and supporters.
- Colourful Theme Naming: They call themselves the Crimson Razors. Their ships also tend to have names associated with the color red like Black Crimson and Red Harbinger.
- Deadly Graduation: Their recruitment method consists of taking young boys, placing them in squads, and then making those squads fight each other for months. Then, after the squads have been whittled down to the strongest (with the weaker squads being killed), each squad of child soldiers is ordered to fight amongst themselves; those that refuse are killed. The last boy standing from each squad is then told to execute his former brothers in arms. If he does, he is taken to be implanted with gene-seed and begin the transformation into a Space Marine of the Crimson Razors. If he refuses, he and his comrades are all killed.
- Dwindling Party: The Crimson Razors lose a lot of their named members over the course of the series. As of Season 3, Davik Thune and Tasleon are the only named Crimson Razors who are still alive, the rest of the named Crimson Razors that were introduced having been killed off in one way or another. This gets downplayed since Thune still has a ton of other unnamed Crimson Razors serving under him and the deaths of the named Razors hasn't significantly impacted the Chapter as a whole in any meaningful way.
- Evil vs. Evil: They are currently warring with the Confederacy of Independent Systems. So far, the Razors have been curb-stomping the CIS forces, even managing to raze Raxus Secundus and take out General Grievous. However, the tables have started to turn with the awakening of the true Grievous followed by the Razors' first defeat at Hypori.
- Expy: They are heavily inspired by the Black Templars, as they are a Space Marine chapter who are fleet based, worship the Emperor, and are renowned for their skill in close combat. Their monstrous teeth and cannibalistic post-battle rights call to mind an obscure Space Marine chapter called the Carcharadons, who for added measure are also a fleet-based chapter renowned for their aggressiveness.
- Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: Whereas the Xek-Tek Imperials as a whole at least have a somewhat understandable reason for hating the Galactic Republic — from their perspective, it seemed as though the Republic attacked them first by indirectly destroying an unarmed Imperial refugee ship during their first contact — the Crimson Razors lack any such justifications for despising the Confederacy aside from the usual Imperial xenophobia and religious dogma. The Separatists and their allies had never made any aggressive moves against the Imperium, yet the fact that the Separatists use a droid army is seemingly reason enough for the Razors to almost totally abandon the Imperium's war effort against the Republic so they could go off to wage their own genocidal war against the CIS.
- Hero Killer: During the Blue Massacre, this Chapter succeeded in killing around twenty seven Jedi stationed on Axum, including Jedi Council member Ki-Ad-Mundi.
- Red and Black and Evil All Over: They are genocidal conquerors whose flagship Black Crimson is a Battle-Barge with a red-and-black color scheme.
- Red Is Violent: "Crimson" is literally in their name and they wear primarily red armor. Out of the three main Space Marine Chapters in the story, they are without a doubt the most brutal, aggressive, and bloodthirsty.
- Sapient Eat Sapient: One of their Chapter traditions when carrying out a xenocide is to spare some individuals from the soon-to-be exterminated alien race so they can eat them alive head first as part of their victory feast. One example of this is Utapau in Episode 32.
- Scary Teeth: All the Crimson Razors have sharpened, shark-like teeth. These are not merely for show as demonstrated in Episode 32 when the Razors purge Utapau and start gorging themselves on the native Pau'ans.
- Token Evil Teammate: They're characterized as much more brutal and cruel than the Skywatch, emphasizing the villainous aspects of the Space Marines as a whole. Their attacks on Separatist worlds are shown as far more bloody and gruesome than those carried out by the Skywatch, including committing Exterminatus and holding genocidal cannibalistic feasts.
- Token Religious Teammate: Among the Space Marine Chapters in the Star Wars galaxy, they are the only one known to actually worship the Emperor as a god like the rest of the Imperium.
- Villain Killer: They've killed quite a few Star Wars villains in their genocidal crusade against the Separatist Alliance. This includes Admiral Trench, the entire Separatist Council, and the imposter General Grievous.
Astartes Commanders
Davik Thune
Chapter Master Davik Thune
See his entry on the Imperium of Man page.
Vordran
Force Captain Vordran
An Astartes Force Commander from the Crimson Razors who led a small task force assigned by Thune to destroy the Separatist factory world of Hypori. Here, the Razors would face their first defeat at the hands of the true Grievous.- Big "WHAT?!": His reaction in Episode 31 during the Space Battle over Hypori when he sees the Bearer of Hatred get rammed by two Separatist fire ships.
- Defiant to the End: Even when disarmed, alone, and surrounded by Grievous's droid army with no hope of escape, Vordran refuses to give into despair and continues trying to fight Grievous, even fashioning himself makeshift weapons on the fly using the parts of a destroyed Buzz Droid.
- A Father to His Men: Cares deeply about the Space Marines under his command and was enraged when shown the corpses of his subordinates that Grievous slew.
- Little "No": His reaction in Episode 31 to seeing the Bearer of Hatred explode and tumble into Hypori's atmosphere.
- Mook Lieutenant: His position in the hierarchy of the Crimson Razors. He ranks high enough to be trusted to lead his own task force, but still ranks below Company Captains.
- Sacrificial Lamb: He appears in Episodes 31 and 33 as an Astartes viewpoint character and is in charge of the battlegroup sent to destroy Hypori. He gets outwitted and defeated by the true Grievous, who presumably kills him offscreen. Vordran's purpose in the story is to be a victim of the true Grievous, demonstrating the threat that Grievous poses.
- Uncertain Doom: He's last seen facing down Grievous alone while surrounded by an army of droids.
Endorle Kresh
Chapter Master Endorle Kresh
One of the previous Chapter Masters of the Crimson Razors. He was a brash Jerk with a Heart of Gold who held a rivalry with Altrak Highspire, the Skywatch Chapter Master of his time.- All There in the Manual: His entire existence is only known thanks to this Reddit post about the Skywatch.
- Fire-Forged Friends: Despite having a bitter rivalry with Altrak, he eventually mellows out after the Skywatch came to his Chapter's aid during the Felling of Jantia Primaris. After this battle, Kresh recanted his insults towards Altrak and stated that he wouldn't issue any further challenges to duels, claiming that Altrak and the Skywatch acted honorably.
- Posthumous Character: Is dead by the events of the series with Davik Thune now acting as the Crimson Razors' Chapter Master.
- Throwing Down the Gauntlet: He challenged Altrak Highspire to a duel multiple times during the Arkasian Heresy due to being offended by the Skywatch's Internal Reformist tendencies with the worlds they save. Altrak never ignored Kresh's challenges and insults, but he never rose to them either.
Astartes Specialists
Tasleon
Brother Tasleon
- The Bus Came Back: Like Araknus, he disappears from the story after Episode 8 and returns much later in Episode 31 aboard the bridge of the Imperial cruiser that Grievous's forces board during the battle for Raxus Secundus.
- Check and Mate: When he explains to General Grievous why he's already lost in Episode 31.Tasleon: One, attack the capital world of the Confederacy. Two, lure the bulk of the Confederate fleet here. And three, entrap you here. It was obvious from the moment you arrived, General, that you wanted to capture one of our ships. Know that, while it is my master and Chapter that serve as the instruments of your annihilation, it is I, Brother Tasleon of the Machine Faith, who is the architect of your destruction.
- Combat Tentacles: Has multiple servo-arms which he uses for both combat and hacking into computers.
- A Day in the Limelight: Downplayed. He is the viewpoint character for the final POV segment in Episode 7, where he hacks into Trench's mind, disarms Trench's bomb on Anaxes, and encounters Echo in the cyberspace of the Invulnerable's computer vaults.
- Egocentric Team Naming: Subverted. In Season 1, Tasleon is introduced as being part of "Fireteam Tasleon" during the Battle of Anaxes, but Araknus is actually the one leading the fireteam.
- Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: As Tasleon himself admits to the fake Grievous in Episode 31, the reason he carries such a personal hatred for the Separatists, despite them never having previously done anything to harm him or the Imperium, is because he views the mere existence of the Separatist Droid Army (as well as cyborgs like Grievous) as an affront to the Machine God. In his mind, the only solution to this is to totally purge all the Confederacy's droids and their creators from existence so no one in the Star Wars galaxy will ever think to construct such "abominations" ever again.
- Flashy Teleportation: When he activates his power pack's teleportation device to escape the doomed Imperial cruiser he and the false Grievous fought aboard, Tasleon's body sears and glows with bright energy before he disappears.
- A Form You Are Comfortable With: When he makes contact with Echo through the computers of Trench's flagship in Episode 8, both of them are using a Brain/Computer Interface and appear in the virtual world through avatars. Echo chooses to appear as his normal self while Tasleon takes on the appearance of a brown-skinned man wearing simple red robes so as to not give away any details about the Astartes to Echo.
- Hypocrite: He calls General Grievous an abomination for being a Full-Conversion Cyborg when that's exactly what many in the Adeptus Mechanicus also are.
- "It" Is Dehumanizing: In Episode 7, Brother Tasleon's internal narration continuously refers to Admiral Trench as "it", unsurprisingly indicating that the Techmarine doesn't view nonhumans as people.
- Mind Rape: Subjects Admiral Trench to this in Episode 7 and later Echo in Episode 8. In both cases, he forcibly extracts information about their respective galactic governments from their heads.
- Pragmatic Villainy: In Episode 7, he works hard to save Anaxes from being destroyed by Trench's planet-cracking bomb. Not because he necessarily cares about all the humans living on Anaxes, but rather because Thune had expressed a desire to conquer Anaxes and letting Trench destroy the planet ahead of the Crimson Razors' invasion would be detrimental to their goals.
- See You in Hell: Says this to the imposter Grievous in Episode 31 before activating his teleporter and leaving the Kaleesh cyborg to his fate.Tasleon: Enjoy the ship, General Grievous, and its last voyage into hell.
- Taking You with Me: Subverted. In Episode 31, after giving his speech about how he will be the one to destroy Grievous, a seemingly defeated Taselon activates an unknown flashing device on his power pack and Grievous reacts by leaping behind his droidekas' shields, expecting the Techmarine to self-destruct. Instead he teleports away to safety as it's revealed the warship Grievous boarded was rigged to explode.
- Villain Killer: So far, he's mind raped Admiral Trench to death during the Battle of Anaxes and orchestrated the trap which killed the imposter General Grievous during the battle over Raxus Secundus.
Saphran Indellous
Epistolary Saphran Indellous
- Battle Aura: As a Librarian from an Imperial Fists Successor Chapter, Saphran has the ability Golden Son, where he covers himself in a golden aura that radiates the same level of awe and fear that the presence of a Primarch like Rogal Dorn would evoke.
- Breath Weapon: In Episode 28, a weakened and downed Saphran shoots blue-and-red daemonic lightning from his mouth at Depa Billaba in retaliation after she spits on his body. She uses Vaapad to absorb the attack and then throws a spin kick into Saphran's face to make him stop.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: He considers his battles with the Jedi to be routine and says as much during his Badass Boast to Obi-Wan.Saphran: To you and to most of your order, today has brought you to the pinnacle of your strength and perhaps, beyond it. Am I wrong? [Beat] To me, Jedi, this "war" is just another Xenocide.
- Defeat Means Respect: When Saphran is initially faced with Jocasta Nu, he laughs and mockingly asks if the Jedi have grown so desperate that they've resorted to sending their retired elders to act as cannon fodder to slow him down. After Jocasta is the one who fires the killing spot upon him, however, his tone changes and he seems to regard her as a Worthy Opponent. He ultimately chooses her to be the one who he says his last words to.
- Deflector Shield: His power armor is equipped with a refractor shield generator that projects a personal force field around himself, enabling him to tank multiple lightsaber strikes without needing to dodge or use his psychic powers to defend himself.
- Die Laughing: He dies while laughing after hearing his killer, Jocasta Nu, refer to herself as the Chief Librarian of the Jedi Order.
- Dragon-in-Chief: To Captain Yorran. Saphran was sent to the Hellsmasher by Thune to act as Yorran's bodyguard while the naval captain oversees the occupation of Axum from his ship's bridge, ostensibly putting him under Yorran's command. In reality, Yorran has little-to-no actual authority over Saphran, who treats his orders like suggestions. It goes without saying that Saphran is more than capable of overpowering and killing Yorran anytime he wants since he's a seven-foot-tall Super-Soldier empowered by the Warp while Yorran is just a regular human.
- Dying Smirk: He dies laughing at his Jedi enemies and his corpse continues to sport a smirk even after he's passed away.
- Evil Sounds Deep: Speaks with a deep and gravely voice.
- Extra-ore-dinary: During his fight with Obi-Wan's strike force, Saphran uses his powers to temporarily permeate his soul into the metal panels of the floor, melting the floor panels around him into hot liquid metal which he then splashes outward into a molten cascade that injures Cere Junda. He later employs this move again during his duel with Mace Windu in Episode 28.
- Fireball Eyeballs: While using the Warp, both his eyes are covered in blue flames.
- Flash Step: Does this during his duel with Obi-Wan in Episode 21. From Obi-Wan's perspective, it seems that Saphran just warped right in front of him without moving a muscle.
- Genius Bruiser: He's a towering, fully-armored Space Marine with all the abilities that entails. He's also a studious member of his Librarius and makes it a personal hobby to study the fighting techniques of all his enemies.
- Golden Super Mode: Being from an Imperial Fists Successor Chapter, Saphran naturally has access to psychic abilities unique to Imperial Fist Librarians including the ability Golden Son, where he transforms himself into a radiant and golden figure suffused with the power and nobility of Rogal Dorn, which he uses during his battle with Obi-Wan's Jedi strike force.
- The Heavy: Saphran himself is not the one in command of the Hellsmasher, and he is subordinate to Davik Thune and the Chief Librarian of the Crimson Razors. However, he is the most visible antagonist and the drives the conflict forward in Obi-Wan and Mace's storylines in Season 2, which is basically a protracted fight scene between the Jedi and Saphran that only ends with the latter's death at the end of the season.
- Hero Killer: He killed almost every Jedi that was on Luminara's strike force offscreen. Later, he kills a significant number of the Jedi that accompanied Obi-Wan and Mace, including Depa Billaba.
- In the Hood: He's introduced in Episode 12 wearing a metallic hood that hides his face.
- Magic Knight: As expected of a Space Marine Librarian. He's the second-most powerful psyker in his Chapter's Librarius. In terms of physical combat, he has all the power, speed, and durability of an Astartes decked out in full power armor.
- Magic Staff: As befitting a Librarian, he uses a Force Staff to channel the Warp and also as a close-quarters weapon.
- No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Saphran's death is a tremendous blow to the Crimson Razors; as their Epistolary, he was the second most powerful psyker in their entire chapter. He is, to all practical extents, utterly irreplaceable, as it would take thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of psionic youths to find one who is both genetically compatible with the Crimson Razor gene-seed and would also pass the brutal tests of physical and mental hardiness to be allowed to begin training as a Librarian. And even once they found one who survived the gauntlet, it would still take decades if not centuries for them to complete the training and practice needed to attain Saphran's level of experience and might. With an entire galaxy hostile to them and no reinforcements from the Milky Way coming, the Crimson Razors don't have the recruitment pool or the centuries they need to replace Saphran.
- One-Man Army: Takes out two Jedi strike forces consisting of dozens of Knights and Masters with ease.
- Outside-Context Problem: To the Jedi, who prior to encountering him believed that only the Sith were able to match their mastery of the Force. This was further reinforced by the fact that most Imperial psykers the Jedi had encountered up until Saphran were Unskilled, but Strong, possessing a lot of raw power but being unable to wield it with precise control and being vulnerable to the Jedi's Force disruption techniques. Saphran was the first psyker the Jedi encountered that was Strong and Skilled in the Warp/Force to the point of rivaling a Sith Lord. The fact that he's also a Space Marine was another surprise for the Jedi, who weren't aware that the Astartes fielded powerful Force/Warp users in their ranks due to all their previous battles having been against regular Astartes troops. Luminara's strike force was completely unprepared and got almost completely wiped out while Obi-Wan's strike force was forced to retreat after taking heavy injuries.
- Power Makes Your Voice Deep: While tapping into the Warp, his voice drops by several octaves and sounds much deeper compared to the other characters.
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Says one in episode 12 at the start of his fight with Obi-Wan's strike force.Saphran: Now, witness the glory of the Emperor...THROUGH ME!''
- Rasputinian Death: He gets a heart and two of his lungs punctured by a lightsaber, but continues fighting. Then gets a massive hole bored straight through his torso with a Sith Wars-era beam weapon from the Jedi's arsenal. And he still clings to death for minutes afterwards, even holding a dying conversation with his killers by using his telekinetic powers to manipulate his vocal chords.
- Really 700 Years Old: He's been part of the Crimson Razors for over three hundred years.
- Shock and Awe: He has shooting daemonic lightning from his hands as one of his Warp abilities.
- Smug Super: Acts incredibly smug and superior while fighting the Jedi. Considering that the only Jedi able to even keep up with him are legendary warriors like Obi-Wan and Windu, his smugness is not unwarranted.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: For the Jedi, specifically Windu and Obi-Wan. Prior to encountering him, the Jedi had been effortlessly cutting through the voidsmen guarding the Hellsmasher. Then comes along Saphran, who easily wipes out a strike force of around fifty Jedi by himself and forces another similarly-sized strike force to retreat after dealing them severe losses. Even Obi-Wan, one of the greatest warriors in the Jedi Order, is unable to beat him in a straight-up fight and it takes the combined effort of several legendary Jedi Masters to finally put Saphran in the ground. After Saphran's defeat, Mace Windu acknowledges that the Jedi were unprepared for an enemy like him and orders his corpse to be recovered so the Jedi can study it in hopes of being better prepared should they ever encounter another Librarian in the future.
- We Can Rule Together: During their fight, Saphran acknowledges Obi-Wan as being a Worthy Opponent and offers to spare his life in exchange for submitting to the will of the Emperor. Subverted since Obi-Wan understands that Saphran wasn't being serious and the offer was intended as a thinly-veiled form of mockery.
- Worthy Opponent: Regards Obi-Wan as one.Saphran: Amidst an order of witchling waifs, I am finding you to be a uniquely delightful challenge. It gratifies me that it is a human who ultimately stands before me, and brings me some measure of pause.
Dendran
Brother-Librarian Dendran
A Crimson Razors Librarian who was part of the task force that Vordran led in his mission to destroy Hypori.- Boom, Headshot!: He's killed with a shot to the head by a commando droid in Episode 33.
- Red Shirt: His first onscreen appearance in Episode 33 has him immediately get killed by a droid sniper.
- Telepathy: As a Librarian, he naturally has telepathy as one of his Psychic Powers which he uses in Episode 33 to help Vordran send a telepathic distress call to Thune that gets cut short by a commando droid sniping Dendran in the head.
- Worf Had the Flu: The last Librarian who appeared in the series before Dendran was Saphran, a One-Man Army Magic Knight who singlehandedly fought off dozens of experienced Jedi Knights and Masters. The true Grievous easily kills this Librarian with a sniper round to the head in Episode 33. However, it's worth noting that Dendran was heavily injured in a ship crash and was delirious when Vordran and the other remaining Astartes found him, making him far easier prey than he normally would have been.
Astartes Troops
Araknus
Brother Araknus
A Veteran Battle-Brother in the Crimson Razors. He leads the fireteam that seizes control of Trench's flagship during the Battle of Anaxes. He later returns during the Battle for Raxus Secundus where he's leading one of the squads sent down to Raxus's surface to destroy the planet's shield generators.- Always a Bigger Fish: His focus story essentially emphasizes that not even Space Marines are invincible. He gets cocky about how much better he is than any warrior in either the Republic or Seperatist ranks. Then he meets Dooku, and the Sith Lord cuts him down with almost flippant ease, after having already wiped out his entire squad beforehand.
- Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He's a prideful and zealous Space Marine veteran who looks down on his peers for their choice in weapons, smugly kill steals from his own fireteam during their boarding assault on Trench's flagship, and is mentally always blabbing on about how superior he and his Bolter are to everyone else.
- Attack on the Heart: Dooku kills him by stabbing him through the heart with his lightsaber, then slicing his lightsaber out of his body in a way that cuts through Araknus's second heart.
- Back for the Dead: After last being seen in episode 8, he makes his return in episode 24 where he gets killed off by Dooku during the Crimson Razors' assault on Raxus Secundus's shield generators.
- Defiant to the End: Even as he lays defeated at Dooku's feet after being told that the rest of his squad is already dead, Araknus spends his last words to defiantly proclaim that more Space Marines like himself will be coming to avenge his defeat.
- Establishing Character Moment: He's introduced narrating about how Bolters are the only true weapon of a Space Marine, looks down on his subordinates for preferring melee weapons, and smugly kill steals from his fellow Astartes during the boarding of Trench's flagship at the Battle of Anaxes. This shows how he's a cocky Gun Nut and an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy.
- The Gadfly: He kill steals from his fellow Astartes during their attack on Trench's flagship in Episode 7 seemingly because he finds it amusing to see their annoyed reactions (well that and because he wanted to impress upon them how much of a "superior" weapon his Bolter was compared to their melee weapons).
- Gun Nut: His first appearance literally has him mentally waxing poetic about how awesome he thinks his Boltgun is and cooing to it.
- Long-Range Fighter: Unlike the rest of his fireteam, Araknus prefers fighting with his Boltgun and only has a combat knife for getting into melee fights. When Dooku destroys his Bolter with Force Lightning and forces Araknus into a sword duel, Araknus is shown to be left at a clear disadvantage and is easily killed.
- Mook Lieutenant: In Episodes 8 and 9, he's in command of the Space Marine fireteam that boards Trench's flagship and seizes control of the bridge during the Battle of Anaxes. He also leads one of the teams sent to Raxus Secundus's surface to disable the planet's shield generators.
- One-Man Army: He is shown singlehandedly destroying an entire column of B1 battle droids, commando droids, and droidekas in Episode 24.
- Psychotic Smirk: Gives one to Anakin before opening fire on him with his Bolter when he sees Anakin barge into the bridge of the Invulnerable after Araknus's fireteam has already seized control in Episode 8. Of course, Araknus was wearing his helmet so Anakin couldn't see his smile, but the sentiment is still there.
- Rhyme Theme Naming: He and the known veteran Space Marines on his squad have rhyming names with the other two Marines being named Banetus and Orlentus.
- Sacrificial Lion: He's set up as a major character early in the story, being a viewpoint character who is introduced leading the Space Marine fireteam that kills Admiral Trench and encounters Anakin at the Battle of Anaxes. When he next appears in Episode 24, he ends up being bested in a duel by Count Dooku and killed in order to show that the Sith are still a threat.
- Stereotype Flip: He comes from a Chapter that is renowned for their skill in close combat and preference for fighting in melee, yet he himself prefers to fight using his Bolter and even looks down on his fellow Astartes who use melee weapons instead of their Bolters.
- Wrecked Weapon: His precious Bolter is destroyed by Dooku's Force Lightning during their duel in Episode 24.
Hastus
Brother Hastus
- Boom in the Hand: During his fight with Anakin, Rex, and the Bad Batch in Episode 8, Hastus prepares to throw his frag grenade at them, but Crosshairs shoots the grenade before he can throw it, causing it to blow up in Hastus's hand.
- Climax Boss: He's the last opponent fought in Season 1 and his fight scene against Anakin, Rex, and the Bad Batch takes up the climax of the season's penultimate episode with the following episode being a Dénouement Episode. He's also the first Space Marine that the main Star Wars characters fight, and gives the Jedi and clone troopers a taste of what combat against an Astartes is actually like.
- Close-Range Combatant: Unlike Araknus, Hastus is a melee fighter who has a two-handed power sword as his primary weapon and a combat knife as his secondary weapon. The closest thing he has to a ranged weapon is a frag grenade.
- Language Barrier: When Hastus fights Anakin aboard the Invulnerable, neither can initially understand what the other is saying due to Hastus speaking Imperial Gothic while Anakin is speaking Galactic Basic. It's only at the end of their fight right before Hastus's death when Tech is able to translate some of the Space Marine's last words using a datapad translator.
- Leeroy Jenkins: Upon encountering Anakin in Episode 8, Hastus almost immediately splits off from his fireteam and pursues the Jedi alone down the corridors of Trench's Separatist dreadnought even after Araknus (acting on Tasleon's advice) presumably ordered him over the vox comms to cease his pursuit and come back to the bridge. This leads to Hastus finding himself fighting Anakin, Rex, and the Bad Batch alone without backup, resulting in his eventual and entirely preventable death.
- Off with His Head!: Anakin ultimately kills his by slicing off his head.
- Rasputinian Death: He has half his mouth burnt by Anakin's lightsaber, gets pelted by heavy blaster fire, has a frag grenade go off in his hand, takes a point-blank shot in the face from the blaster equivalent of a sniper rifle (reducing his face to a skull), and is finally decapitated.
- Starter Villain: He's the first Space Marine that the main Star Wars characters encounter and his fight with Anakin takes up the climax of Season 1.
- 'Tis Only a Bullet in the Brain: Downplayed. He takes a direct shot to the head from Crosshair's sniper rifle and gets most of his face blown off. Despite this, he reveals himself to be Not Quite Dead and laughs.
Kandrin
Sergeant Kandrin
A Space Marine Sergeant from the Crimson Razors Chapter. He is assigned to Vordran's task force during their mission to destroy Hypori.- Killed Offscreen: He is killed offscreen between Episodes 31 and 33 by the true Grievous, who has a commando droid imitate Kandrin's voice over the comms to lure Vordran into his trap.
- Mauve Shirt: He's distinguished from the other Astartes on Vordran's strike force that survived their Strike Cruiser crash-landing on Hypori by being the only one to have the rank of Sergeant and quickly taking up the role of second-in-command to Vordran. He's still ultimately another named Astartes Red Shirt whose role is to get killed by the true Grievous.
- Number Two: To Vordran, being the second-highest ranking Astartes on his task force.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: We are only just introduced to him at the end of Episode 31 before he splits up from Vordran and gets Killed Offscreen by the true Grievous.
Terradin
Brother Terradin
A Crimson Razors Battle-Brother part of Sergeant Kandrin's squad. He and his squad were assigned to Vordran's task force and participated in the attempted Exterminatus of the Separatist factory world Hypori.- Firing One-Handed: In Episode 33, he fires Bolters (automatic weapons that shoot rocket-propelled, explosive projectiles) one-handed while fighting off commando droids.
- Guns Akimbo: In Episode 33, Terradin dual-wields a pair of Bolters while providing covering fire for Vordran against the commando droids that ambushed them.
- Impromptu Tracheotomy: Gets shot right in the neck with an explosive round fired by a commando droid using a stolen Bolter. Terradin survives the shot, but is left bleeding out from the neck wound.
- Inconsistent Spelling: The narrator himself initially calls him "Terrinak", but switches to calling him "Terradin" for the rest of his appearance in Episode 33.
- Mauve Shirt: He's the last Marine under Vordran's command to get killed and certainly has the coolest death, but he's ultimately just another Battle-Brother for the true Grievous to have killed in order to establish himself as a serious threat.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: We only just get to learn his name in Episode 33 and see him do some Guns Akimbo action before he dies from blood loss caused by a commando droid shooting him in the neck with a Bolter.
Gorginon
Brother Gorginon
A Crimson Razors Battle-Brother who was assigned to Force Captain Vordran's task force.
- Darkness Equals Death: In Episode 33, the true Grievous ambushes him and drags him away into the darkness of a wrecked starship where he is killed.
- Killed Offscreen: We never get to see his death as by the time that Vordran and Terradin catch up to Gorginon, they find his headless corpse.
- Off with His Head!: Gets his head ripped off by the true Grievous.
- Red Shirt: Is unceremoniously killed as soon as we learn his name by the true Grievous.
Non-Astartes Personnel
Alarak Norn
Ship Captain Alarak Norn
The shipmaster of the Crimson Razors Battle-Barge Black Crimson and the de facto admiral of Davik Thune's fleet.- Bit Character: He only has a single appearance at the end of the "Davik Thune and the Droids" mini episode where he has a short conversation with the titular Chapter Master.
- The Captain: He captains the Crimson Razors' flagship Black Crimson.
- Mook Lieutenant: To Davik Thune, as the commander of the naval forces in Thune's fleet.
- One-Steve Limit: Averted. He shares the same last name as Kallak Norn, one of the major Imperial Guard POV characters fighting on Axum in Season 2. However, there's nothing to indicate the two have any relation to each other.
- The Voice: His voice is heard over the comms in "Davik Thune and the Droids" where Thune orders him to orbitally bombard Raxus Secundus's surface after dispatching of the admiral leading the Separatist home fleet.
Persava Lions
Ship Captain Persava Lions
The shipmistress of the Crimson Razors Strike Cruiser Red Harbinger. Persava is described as a mundane woman with slight augmentations. She was part of the task force sent to destroy Hypori under Force Captain Vordran's command.- Big "YES!": Her reaction during the space battle over Hypori when the Red Harbinger manages to get past the Separatist blockade and enter Hypori's atmosphere.
- The Captain: Of the Red Harbinger, one of ten Space Marine strike cruisers in the Crimson Razors' assault fleet.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: "Burning Throne! Brace for-"
- Mook Lieutenant: She commands the ships in Vordran's battlegroup on his behalf.
- Off with Her Head!: Her head somehow gets severed from her body during her ship's forced crash landing on Hypori.
- Tempting Fate: Right before their fleet emerges from the Warp into the Hypori system, she calls their mission "a blessing in disguise" and assures Vordran that the Separatists defending Hypori won't stand a chance. She might have been right if the true Grievous wasn't the one in charge of Hypori's defense.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Is only around for a single space battle before getting killed off.
The Tempered Hands (Spoilers for Season 3)
In General
The Iron Touch of the Tempered Hands
A fleet-based Iron Hands Successor Chapter with a penchant for striking once and striking hard. They were one of the three Space Marine Chapters which came to the Star Wars galaxy. Like their founding chapter, the Tempered Hands are led by a council rather than a singular Chapter Master. Prior to the Xek-Tek Sector's evacuation, the Tempered Hands received Primaris reinforcements and upgraded technology from Roboute Gulliman's Indomitus Crusade. They are led by the Council of Tempered Minds.- The Cavalry: In late Season 3, they are among the reinforcements sent by Orion to assist the Imperial Navy in evacuating the Imperials from Axum. Beginning with Episode 43, the Chapter deploys ground forces to the planet and hold back the Republic forces so that the Imperials at the Basilica of Salvation can regroup and evacuate.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: The Tempered Hands' first battle against the Republic consists of them completely annihilating hundreds of Jedi and an entire Legions of clones without losing a single Marine.
- Fantastic Rank System: The Tempered Hands technically don't have a Chapter Master since they are led by a council of equals similar to the Iron Hands. However, they do have the unique rank of "Arch-Imbalancer" which is bestowed upon the most prominent member of the Council of Tempered Minds, who is basically a Chapter Master in all but name. Currently, the Astartes who holds this title is Sebastian Vondrel.
- Hufflepuff House: Out of the three main Space Marine Chapters, the Tempered Hands are the only ones that don't receive an episode focused on them and don't make any prominent appearances despite being mentioned since episode 2. Subverted in the second half of Season 3 where the Tempered Hands are deployed to Axum in full force and replace the Sisters of Battle as the villainous faction which the Jedi and Clones have to fight.
- Machine Monotone: As an Iron Hands Successor Chapter, the Tempered Hands seem to make heavy use of cybernetic augmentations. So far, all of the named Tempered Hands characters speak with a deep, almost flat monotone.
- New Meat: Initially, some within the Tempered Hands like their Ninth Company Captain Taltan questioned their Chapter's decision to accept Primaris Marines into their ranks, seeing them as newbies who hadn't proven themselves yet. However, the Primaris Marines managed to win most of their Firstborn counterparts including Taltan over with their zeal and Eager Rookie attitude.
- Out of Focus: They don't receive any focus for the first two and a half seasons, only making their debut in Season 3, near the end of the Second Battle of Axum.
- Unseen No More: After being The Ghost for nearly three seasons, the Tempered Hands finally debut in Episode 40 when their Chapter Fleet arrives at Axum as part of the reinforcements sent by Orion to aid Lord Admiral Rollah's embattled battlefleet.
Named Members
Arch-Imbalancer Sebastian Vondrel
See his entry on the Imperium of Man page.
Captain Heldras Torve, Commander of the 1st Company
The Captain of the Tempered Hands' First Company. He first appears in Episode 43 where he and one of his Chapter's Apothecaries enters the Basilica of Salvation to speak with Lazarus and Samael.- Badass Boast: Gives one on behalf of Sebastian Vondrel and his Chapter to Lazarus in Episode 43.Heldras: There will be no losses. No Angels shall fall before we are finished. The only one of us whom [the Republic] will even be able to target will be the master of our Chapter, and he is already dead. And rest assured, Saint Lazarus, no matter how hard the Republic may try, they cannot kill death.
- Bling of War: His armor is described as a "walking shrine" and is caked in gold and silver finery, which clearly sets him apart as his Chapter's 1st Company Captain.
- The Dragon: As the 1st Company Captain of his Chapter, he functions as the second-in-command to the Arch-Imbalancer.
Captain Dysphorys Taltan, Commander of the 9th Company
The Captain of the Tempered Hands' Ninth Company. He was initially one of the most vocal critics of his Chapter's decision to welcome Primaris Marines within their ranks, though he has since learned to embrace the Primaris Marines as one of his own, so much so that he himself underwent and survived the transformation from a Firstborn into a Primaris Marine. He first appears in Episode 43 where he is overseeing the deployment of his Chapter's Whirlwind artillery tanks.- Cyborg: He has a cybernetic brain.
- A Day in the Limelight: Downplayed. He gets a single POV segment in Episode 43.
- Ludicrous Precision: "Current estimates dictate a 74.8% chance that [the Imbalancer's] battle will begin at the same time as our own. I intend to have closed the margins of death by an additional 12.9% effectiveness by then."
- Mook Lieutenant: He's shown commanding the Tempered Hand Marines setting up the Whirlwind artillery tanks in Episode 43.
Force Commander Belarus Harphan
An Astartes Force Commander of the Tempered Hands Chapter who accompanies Dysphorus Taltan in Episode 43.- Ludicrous Precision: Makes one such calculation in Episode 43.Belarus: The Republic is moving its forces rapidly up towards us, however. I estimate a 98.2% chance of engaging them in less than seven minutes.
- Mook Lieutenant: As a Force Commander, he ranks below his Chapter's Company Captains but ranks high enough to be leading non-standard sized units into battle.
- Number Two: Seems to serve as Dysphorus Taltan's right-hand man.
- Satellite Character: So far, his appearance revolves around interacting with Dysphorus Taltan.
- Thunder Hammer: He is armed with a Thunder Hammer.
Assorted Forces From Other Chapters
Salamanders
A famous Space Marine Chapter of the First Founding descended from the Eighteenth Legion and their Primarch, Vulkan. At least one squad is known to have been with the Xek-Tek fleet when they were transported to the Star Wars galaxy and was among the Imperial forces who volunteered to look after the civilians Orion marooned on Tatooine.
- Badass Crew: Five of them are able to clear out Jabba's Palace and eliminate any opposition without taking a single casualty.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Inflicts one on the criminals and Gamorrean guards defending Jabba's palace in Episode 24.
- Fire-Breathing Weapon: One of the Salamanders who attack Jabba's palace in Episode 24 is using a flamer.
- Translator Buddy: The Salamander armed with a flamer acts as this for Ciaphas Cain during his meeting with Jabba in Episode 24, translating the former's words from Imperial Gothic to Huttese.
Space Wolves
A famous Space Marine Chapter of the First Founding descended from the Sixth Legion and their Primarch, Leman Russ. At least one squad is known to have been with the Xek-Tek fleet when they were transported to the Star Wars galaxy and is currently active on Tatooine as of Season 3.
A Wolf Lord whose Pack was among the Space Marine squads that came from outside the Xek-Tek Sector to aid in the evacuation, and wound up getting dragged alongside the other Xek-Tek Imperials to the Star Wars galaxy. He appears in Episode 32 leading a scouting mission on Tatooine to secure one of Jabba's outposts with Boba Fett as his guide.
A relatively young Swiftclaw who is part of the Pack sent by Ciaphas Cain alongside Boba Fett to investigate a survey station on Tatooine.
An unnamed Iron Priest who was part of the Space Wolves pack sent by Ciaphas Cain to secure an outpost on Tatooine with the help of Boba Fett.
In General
- Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Unlike the other Space Marine Chapters that came from the Xek-Tek Sector, none of the Space Wolves who appear in the story are shown wearing any helmets.
- Super-Speed: While traveling through Tatooine's desert in Episode 32, Boba notices how the Space Wolves running on foot have no trouble keeping up with the Space Wolves riding bikes and a giant wolf.
The Wolf Lord
- Canis Major: Has a giant Fenrisian Wolf named Lenvrik which he rides atop of as his steed.
- The Creon: He seems content to be subordinate to Ciaphas Cain even though his rank as a Wolf Lord makes him the equivalent of an Astartes Captain, meaning that he has no real obligation to follow the orders of a retired commissar, even one who is a respected war hero like Cain.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": His actual name isn't revealed with everyone just calling him "Wolf Lord".
- Large and in Charge: Is described as physically being larger and broader than the men he leads.
- Outranking Your Job: A Wolf Lord is the Space Wolves' equivalent of an Astartes Captain, expected to lead one of the Chapter's twelve Great Companies, each of which ideally numbers around 100 Space Wolves (often more in practice due the Space Wolves not being a Codex-compliant Chapter). This guy is shown to be commanding a grand total of seven other Space Wolves (less than even a single Packnote ) alongside one bounty hunter. He's also shown personally leading a small reconnaissance team on scouting mission into potentially hostile territory ahead of the main army, stuff that would realistically be handled by a Pack Leadernote It's possible that he originally was the commander of a Great Company, but only brought a single Pack with him to help evacuate the Xek-Tek Sector, leading to him getting unexpectedly cut off from the rest of his men when the Xek-Tek fleet made the Blind Jump into the Star Wars galaxy.
- Rugged Scar: He has scars under his eyes and across his chin, described as being too irregular and asymmetrical to have been intentionally added, indicating that he has survived some brutal battles.
- Supporting Leader: Plays this role in Episodes 32 and 33. Despite leading the squad, it's his subordinate Yannik alongside Boba Fett that receive the episodes' focus.
- Technicolor Eyes: He has bright yellow eyes, described as being as "intense as the twin suns of Tatooine."
Yannik
- An Arm and a Leg: Loses his entire right arm while dueling a rogue Jedi aboard a hijacked spice train in Episode 33.
- Badass Biker: As a Swiftclaw, he's a Space Wolf who rides around on a giant motorbike.
- A Day in the Limelight: He is the viewpoint character for the first POV segment of Episode 33, showing his perspective as he duels A'Sharad Hett onboard a hijacked spice train.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: While fighting A'Sharad Hett in Episode 33, Yannik's opponent is wearing the stolen components of a survey outpost's machinery which the Imperium needs to colonize Tatooine on his bandolier. This means that Yannik can't risk damaging the components with his Bolter, leaving him to rely solely on his combat knife against his foe for most of the fight. As soon as Yannik steals back the parts, he switches to using his Bolter, which immediately forces his opponent to flee.
- Inconsistent Spelling: The subtitles in Episode 32 spell his name as "Yannik" while Episode 33's subtitles instead spell it as "Yannick".
The Iron Priest
- Artificial Limbs: He has a pair of large servo limbs protruding from his back.
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Like the Wolf Lord, he is only addressed by his rank "Iron Priest".
