![]() ![]() ![]() Vaxhallia's fate grew yet more dire when the plague ship Terminus Est arrived in orbit, disgorging hundreds of Plague Marines and countless millions of Plague Zombies onto the planet's surface. Soon Vaxhallia was a roiling caldera of war that drew in forces from across the sector. The entire Hammers of Dorn, Fire Lords and Crimson Fists Chapters initiated the planetstrike, reinforced by twelve battle-groups of Cadian Shock Troopers and the Imperial Knights of House Raven. As a result, when the Imperium finally responded, it did so in grand style. This atrocity did not long go unnoticed Vaxhallia had served as an astropathic relay hub and a fortress-planet, vital to the defence of the Herakles System. Over the course of a single solar month, The Purge engineered the destruction of no fewer than fourteen billion Imperial citizens. The planet's surface was soon riddled with consumptive disease and crippling famine. Vaxhallian Genocide (926.M41) - The Chaos Renegades known as The Purge chose the verdant Imperial world of Vaxhallia as their next victim.The Fire Lords, Imperial Fists, and Revilers launched a counterattack to secure vital Imperial artefacts before Exterminatus was declared. The Krandor Rebellion (853.M41) - The Krandor Rebellion escalated when Alpha Legion forces arrived and the Planetary Defence Forces of Krandor crumbled.The dissolution furnaces roared day and night, and when Captain D'Estev and the Fire Lords 5 th Company finally arrived, all they could do was destroy Janzikh in retaliation for his dark deeds and the genocidal slaughter of the Burr System's countless millions. Burr Major was the first planet to fall, thanks to the recklessness on the part of its remaining defenders, but soon both worlds were firmly under the Necrons' control. Dissolution of Burr (831.M41) - The Necron Overlord Janzikh of Phall launched an invasion of the binary worlds of Burr.The Imperium grieved for three of its mightiest heroes. ![]() The Fire Lords, Relictors and Rainbow Warriors eventually halted the invasion but took grievous casualties, including the loss of all three Chapter Masters. ![]() Blood Star Campaign (748.M41) - A massive daemonic incursion into the Scarus Sector was heralded by the star Ares turning an ominous blood red.Siege of Kantarel (Unknown Date.M41) - At an unknown date, the Fire Lords battled the Orks in the Siege of Kantarel alongside the 9th Company of the Raven Guard and the 293rd Regiment of the Tallarn Desert Raiders.A close-quarters battle broke out, and though the Fire Lords lost several of their Centurions in the process, the grisly death of the Chaos Space Marine Lord Doluthec ensured the warband was left leaderless and eventually defeated. Their Centurion Siegebreaker Cohorts bore holes into the rockcrete of the hulk, leading a massed assault right into the dark chamber that served as its bridge. The Space Marines of the Fire Lords Chapter received the dignitaries' distress call and diverted their crusade to make planetfall upon Bereguel. Though they believed themselves to have escaped the worst of the disaster, the dignitaries soon learned otherwise when the renegade Space Marines of the Purge emerged from the heart of the hulk and began to hunt them down. Many of the world's most valuable dignitaries saved themselves by taking to underground bunkers as the conglomerate nightmare of the Space Hulk burned through the atmosphere. Hell's Last Duke (931.M38) - The Space Hulk Hell's Last Duke ploughed into the surface of Bereguel Tertia, causing an extinction-level event.Company is denoted by pauldron trim this warrior belongs to the 3rd Company.Īs their name might suggest, the Fire Lords are known for their utilisation of all manner of incendiary weapons, from hand-held Flamer units all the way up to Firestorm bombardment charges delivered from low orbit. This possible origin is reinforced by their presence at the 816 th Feast of Blades, which all the Successor Chapters of the Imperial Fists vow to participate in once every standard century on a specific planet.įire Lords Chapter Colour Scheme as displayed by a Primaris Marine. There are several theories on the subject, though it is generally believed by most savants of the Administratum that the Imperial Fists are the true source of the Fire Lords' gene-seed. There is no definite information on what Chapter's gene-seed was used in the Fire Lords' creation. History does not record which Founding gave rise to the Fire Lords, nor whether the Chapter was specifically named for its favoured battle tactics. Fire Lords' Chapter Colour Scheme as displayed by a Firstborn Space Marine. ![]()
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