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==Overview==
The Mentors are a secretive chapter, who prefer to work alone. They are untrusting of other chapters. Currently, they are in battle with [[Biel-Tan]] Craftworld [[Eldar]] and [[Orks]] of the [[Charadon]] System.{{Fn|2}} On their founding they were designated with the chapter number of 888, a number previously belonging to the [[Star Scorpions]] Chapter. {{Fn|3}} The Star Scorpions were a Chapter of the [[Twenty Fifth Founding]] and had the dual misfortune of producing redundant [[gene-seed]] and being devastated by warp entities after becoming lost in the [[warp]]. Although what exactly happened to the Chapter is unknown, the [[Emperor]] decreed the Chapter be considered dead. The gene-seed of the Star Scorpions survived, although the mutated gene-seed made [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] efforts to rebuild the Chapter futile.{{Cite This}}
During the [[Twenty Sixth Founding]], the [[Adeptus Terra]] assigned one of the newly created chapters (the Mentor Legion) with the colors and number of the Star Scorpions. The Mentors were given an entirely new generation of genetic material collated from the storage banks of the [[Terra]] laboratories.{{Cite This}} The Mentors are a specialist Chapter and their modus operandi is quite different from that of the bulk of the Adeptus Astartes. The Mentors have an extraordinary capacity for learning, particularly of military matters. Because of this, the chapter's main pursuit is perfecting the fusion between science, the art of war and military technology. The Mentors do not engage in campaigns or wars as other chapters do, but instead "loan" squads of Marines to other Imperial forces for the duration of a battle or sometimes a whole campaign. Squads of Mentors may be found fighting alongside the [[Imperial Guard]] or even other Chapters throughout the galaxy.{{Fn|6}}
