CHAPTER HQ STRUCTURE, COMMAND POSITIONS AND NOMENCLATURE The headquarters of the chapter is also the personal office of the Supreme Grandmaster. This organization is some what very similar to the ministries and departments of the Adeptus Ministorum in their function. The entire staff of the headquarters comes under the purview of the Grandmaster of the Household. His is the responsibility of the smooth function of the nerve center of the chapter. The command staff of the headquarters comprises of a loose group of individual masters and grandmaster who stand apart from the line battle units. Amongst these are many officers who have had many centuries of battlefield experience but have been pulled out of active service due to battlefield wounds or other reasons. Mixed amongst them are many young and promising commanders. This highly varied mix serves to maintain an extremely dynamic status within the headquarters as the future operations of the chapter are planned and executed. Furthermore the presence of independent commanders allows the rapid creation of independent strike forces made up from elements of various companies and dispatched under the command of these individuals on specific missions without disrupting the command organization of each company. In addition to the space marines attached to the headquarters there are hundreds of human chapter serfs, scribes and servitors who perform the mundane tasks of administration, housekeeping and maintenance. Chain of Command Each company reports to its own headquarters, commanded by the Master of that company, usually with a personal rank of grandmaster. All ten companies of the battle line report back directly to the chapter headquarters. The sub-organizations such as the librarius, chaplaincy, armorium, fleet command are all commanded by Grandmasters, all of who not only report to the chapter headquarters but have direct access to the supreme grandmaster. Standing apart from the specific ranks of command given to individual commanders, there are a number of command positions within the chapter that carry with them a positional title. Some of these are also attached to an honorific title. Masters of the Companies Each of the ten companies that make up the battle line up of the chapter has a commander who is given the positional title of Master of that Company. The command titles of the commanders of the first and second companies are appropriately altered to read Master of the Deathwing and Master of the Ravenwing respectively. These individuals have a highly honoured task and are responsible for everything concerning their company. The nomenclature of their personal ranks may be further modified by their command position. Thus a commander with the personal rank of Grandmaster who is placed in command of the Deathwing company will retain the positional title of Master of Deathwing and his personal rank may be modified from Grandmaster to Grandmaster of Deathwing to honour his command. Grandmasters of Specific organizations There are highly specialized sections within the chapter organization that stand apart from the battle line up. These sub-organizations carry a positional title of Grandmaster with their command positions due to their extremely important roles within the chapter. Some of these positions also carry with them honorific titles. Only experienced members with a personal rank of Grandmaster can be appointed to these positions. |
This entire section is one attempt to describe the long history of the Dark Angels in a linear form. Every known piece of history and event based on GW publications has been written in my own words and linked together in a reasonably plausible manner by additional fiction. This is in no way the official GW version nor is it in anyway an attempt to infringe on their IP. There are many versions of imperial history buried within the sands of time and this is but just one of them. Read on if you dare! |
SUPREME COMMAND DARK ANGELS CHAPTER Chronicled By ( Shadow Guard ) |
CODEX ASTARTES ANGELUS MORTIS |
