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Today we talk about the unshakable bastions of trans-human energy that anchor the Imperium – the Fortress Monasteries of the Adeptus Astartes.

Fortress-Monasteries are monumental fortresses the place Space Marine Chapters have their headquarters.

Overview & Summary

Chapters are extremely monastic in addition to army organizations. As the Space Marines are all warrior-monks on this regard, their fortress-monasteries are devoted each to battle and worship.

Fortress-monasteries are normally based mostly on Imperial worlds, or on abandoned moons or asteroids. In the case of fleet-based chapters the chapter flagship serves as a cellular fortress-monastery. The places of some chapter planets are hidden whereas others are well-known. The most popular location for a fortress monastery is an Imperial world, which the Chapter Master is typically additionally the planetary governor of. In different instances the Chapter Master will make a take care of the prevailing planetary governor, paying a tithe in return for the land they occupy. They are normally welcomed by governors, because the presence of Space Marines deters invasion.

 Fortress Monastery of the Howling Griffons

Typical Layout

The following is an outline of the Fang, the fortress-monastery of the Space Wolves on Fenris:

• Company Chapel: The mostly used place of worship. Every Company has its personal chapel situated inside its Company block. This worship is a part of the Marine brethren’s regime of self-discipline.
• Penitorium: Marine Battle-Brothers responsible of any sort of transgression are held right here as a type of remedial and penitent punishment.
• Private Chambers: These are non-public places of work and rooms utilized by the varied Masters of the Order, together with the Master of the Ships, Master of the Forge and Master of Ordnance.
• Communal Dormitories: These include the residing and sleeping chambers of the Chapter’s non-combat workers, together with servants, technicians and naval personnel.
• Guest Chambers: Relatively luxurious chambers reserved for essential guests akin to members of the Administratum.
• Foundries:The foundries are the place the Marines manufacture and restore their weapons and tools. The expert staff of the foundries are referred to as Brother Artisans. Equipment is evaluated at an adjoining testing and weapon floor.
• Shuttle Silos: The bulk of the Chapters fleet is situated in orbit and the one vessels situated throughout the fortress are these required to get to the fleet, principally together with couriers and transport vessels.
• Teleportorium: These teleporter rooms are unfold all through the bottom in 4 locations and are the first technique of shifting between the fortress and the fleet. Teleportorium One is used to obtain visitors.

• Launcher Pads: Twenty 4 plane are housed in underground hangers beneath the launcher pads, together with 4 giant transports and eight excessive velocity scouts.
• Armoury: A big however crowded underground complicated used to retailer ammunition and weaponry. The safety for the entire complicated falls to the Master of Ordnance and every armoury might solely be entered in his presence, the doorways requiring his gene-print and coded sign. In an emergency the Chapter Commander might override this with a secret spoken code.
• Apothecarion: An superior medical facility, used as a hospital, for analysis and as a bio-lab. This is the place warriors are surgically remodeled into superhuman Marines. The expert medical workers have non-public quarters above the Apothacarion, whereas the servants and nurses share a dormitory on a decrease degree.
• Assimularum: This is the most important room within the complicated in addition to the Great Hall. It is an enormous and excessive vaulted room, during which your complete chapter will be gathered. It is used for mass conferences, ceremonies, non secular festivals and particular feasts.
• Reclusiam: The Reclusiam is normally partitioned from the Assimularum by a display screen, and is used just for cult actions. It is taken care of by a non secular officer referred to as a Reclusiarch and the chapter’s holy relics and plenty of of their most treasured battle trophies are stored right here. The Reclusiarch has an workplace off to at least one aspect, and there are three non-public chapels devoted to Leman Russ, The Emperor Deified and The Emperor Oracular.
• Refectory: This space is for the primary eating procedures and contains kitchens, store-rooms, disposal models and purification vats. The strict and easy weight loss program of the preventing warriors are augmented by a posh bio-chem designed to keep up their superior our bodies. Meals are eaten in silence following prayers of thanks by probably the most senior brother current.
• Oratorium: There are a number of Oratorium unfold all through the bottom and are used for personal conferences, lectures, briefings and small assemblies.

• Librarium: The Librarium is greater than a group of books because it additionally acts because the central repository of data and the primary seat of communications. The chapter’s astropaths spend most of their time right here, monitoring and broadcasting messages from the bottom. The Chief Librarian is in total command of the written histories and communications inside and with out the bottom in addition to the bottom defences. These defences are managed from an armoured room within the Librarium. Based inside this room are additionally the Communications Officers and quite a few librarians, astropaths and technical assistants.
• Cells: A cell is given to a brother to stay in. They are organized in blocks of ten, straight associated to the members of a preventing squad with every of the ten blocks representing an organization. Each block has a small administrative workplace and the non-public chambers of the captain.
• Hydro-culture: This space accommodates a provide of native produce and unique or seasonal greens collected and grown for the advantage of the chapter. Other chapters typically keep a lot bigger services than the Space Wolves nonetheless.
• Terrarium: This house is devoted to the upkeep and propagation of crops from all through the galaxy. It offers each a restful space and a supply for a few of the medicine used within the Apothacarion.
• Scriptory: There are a number of Scriptories unfold across the base and so they present instantaneous entry to unclassified Librarium information. These are accessed by means of a pc terminal and permits customers to pick, seek the advice of and document new entries for the primary library.
• Solitorium: The Solitorium is a distant location (exterior the fortress) designed to supply brothers with an area for contemplation. It will be occupied for something from just a few days to years on finish. Marines who search promotion are anticipated to go looking their souls and undergo self-deprivation for weeks on finish to show their value.
• Dungeon: The Dungeons lie deep beneath the Apothecarion and are house to the widespread prisoners, however not brothers who could be positioned within the Penitorium. The partitions are lined with bolstered diamantine though prisoners don’t spend lengthy within the dungeons earlier than being taken to the Apothacarion for interrogation.
• Generatorum: The energy supply for the fortress-monastery on Lucan is a gaggle of 4 big crystal-piles which penetrate the floor of the planet and convert underground warmth into power through a phased crystal interface (presumably there are a lot of different methods of producing power on this scale, that is however one instance of the probabilities).

• Defence Laser: These lasers are mounted in armoured turrets and thirty two of them stay completely switched on. The different eighty eight could also be dropped at bear inside 4 days of activation.
• Local Defences: The perimeter of the bottom is roofed by 317 separate weapons turrets together with 4 laser cannons and a missile launcher in every.
• Missile Silos: Over 400 Missile Silos are unfold over Lucan and are the primary pressure of the Space Wolves’ floor to orbit weapons. They are every managed from the armoured room throughout the Librarium.
• Catacombs: The catacombs are the burial place for the Space Wolves and are house to many historical heroes of the chapter.
• Great Hall: The Great Hall is the primary room you come to when coming into the bottom. It is designed to awe the visiting visitors and is the most important single room on the planet (Lucan). It accommodates most of the battle trophies of the Space Wolves and work of well-known battles are displayed on the partitions. Ancient weaponry and armour from way back to the Horus Heresy are on show behind plexi-glass. The spacecraft Medusa, flown by Leman Russ himself, hangs from the ceiling of the room and spans its complete size.
• Barbican: The Barbican is the huge gate home that leads into the Great Hall. This has a everlasting guard to obtain visitors from overland, air and orbit.
• Crypts: Sacred chambers the place fallen battle-brothers are laid to relaxation.

Spaceborne Fortress Monasteries

Some chapters possess unusually giant or wholly distinctive spaceborne bases of operation. The most notable of those are The Rock of the Dark Angels, the remnant of their house planet of Caliban, and The Phalanx of the Iron Warriors – stationed over Holy Terra.

Listing of Notable Fortress Monasteries

Lexicanum

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