Archived: Gorgons

The Gorgons is a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and a Second Founding Successor Chapter of the Furies. The Gorgons possess a reputation for being unusually xenophobic and brutal Astartes, even for the Imperium, as well as often unreliable combatants who do not work well with other Imperial military units. Descriptions of the Gorgons are of a force of berserkers who make war with savage abandon and eschew all contact with other military forces.

The Chapter is highly active in the prosecution of the Regent's wars, seemingly deployed according to the highest level pronouncements of the Senatorum Imperialis and rarely if ever answering calls to war from any other Imperial authority. Many of the operations in which the Gorgons have been committed are notable in that they are against other Space Marine forces, often Renegades or isolated elements within an otherwise loyal Chapter that refuses to suppress its own. The Gorgons undertake such missions with relish, testing themselves against the most potent enemy they can find -- other Space Marines. They have often volunteered for missions against the Astartes of the Cleophan Imperium and of Traitors, particularly those of the Host who they share an undying hatred with like their forebears.

On the rare occasion of the Chapter serving alongside brother Adeptus Astartes, excluding those also descended from Pluton Dirae, the Gorgons have displayed such open contempt that all manner of recriminations have ensued, up to and including the fighting of duels and other low level hostilities. It is often reported that the Gorgons are disdainful of all other subjects of the Imperium and that they radiate a malign intensity that makes even the boldest Imperial general fearful of approaching them.