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;Company Chapel
This is both the most commonly found room in a fortress-monastery and also the The most commonly used room for place of worship of the Emperor. Part Every company has its own chapel located within its company block. This worship is part of the Marine brethren's regime of the Space Marines involves the recitation of litanies and battle-prayers, and these occur herediscipline
;Penitorium
Marine battle-brothers guilty of any kind of transgression are held here as a form of remedial and penitent punishment.
Brothers requiring to pay some form of penance for a transgression are placed here. Other non-brother criminals are not placed within the Penitorium as it is strictly used for internal affairs.
;Private Chambers
These are the private offices and rooms used by the various Masters of the Orders in the Space Wolves fortress-monastery. These include Order, including the Master of the Ships, Master of the Forge, Apothacarion and Master of the Ordnance. 
;Communal Dormitories
These contain the living and sleeping chambers are used by of the Chapter's non-combat members of the chapterstaff, including slaves, servants, technicians and naval personnel. They are less Spartan than those of the battle-brothers. 
;Guest Chambers
These chambers are Relatively luxurious compared to other chambers in the base and are reserve only reserved for important visitors. They each have a private chapel built within and generally contain visiting such as members of the [[administratumAdministratum]]. 
;Foundries
The foundries are where the Marines manufacture and repair their weapons and equipment of the chapter are created and repaired. The Space Wolves foundries are large and well stocked to keep up with the constant demand put on them. Those who work within skilled workers of the foundries are known as Brother Artisans but are ruled over by the Master of the Forge. The Equipment is evaluated at an adjacent testing and weapons grounds are located close by for easy accessweapon ground.
;Shuttle Silos
The bulk of the Space Wolves' fleet is located in orbit and the only vessels located within the fortress are those required to get to the fleet, mostly including couriers and transport vessels.
;Teleportorium
These teleporter rooms are spread throughout the base in four places and are the primary means of getting from moving between the surface to fortress and the fleet. They are known as Teleportorium One, Two, Three and Four and One is used to receive guests.
;Launcher Pads
There are twenty Twenty four aircraft are housed in underground hangers beneath the launcher pads, including four large transports and eight high speed scouts and they are surrounded by diamantine armour casing in the walls, possibly as a last escape mechanism.
;Armoury
The armoury is a A large but crowded underground complex. Its main lift shaft is shielded by double-thickness ceramite-cored doors used to protect it if the base is ever breached. The bulk of the complex is taken up with four large store ammunition stores which are individually shielded with stasis fields and seven layers of laminated armour which means that even if one of the dumps fully explodes, it can be contained and prevent the others from explodingweaponry. The security for the whole complex falls to the Master of Ordnance and each armoury may only be entered in his presence due to , the doors requiring his gene-print as well as a and coded signal. This can be overridden by In an emergency the Chapter Master alone who knows the Commander may override this with a secret password to open the doors in an emergencyspoken code.
;Apothacarion
All of the An advanced medical care takes place in the Apothacarion and it combines all the resources of facility, used as a hospital, for research centre and as a bio-lab. This is where warriors are surgically transformed into superhuman Marines. The skilled medical staff have private quarters above the Apothacarion and , while the servants and nurses live below it. The Master of the Apothacarion is in overall command of the area and is in charge of the surgical process of making share a human into dormitory on a Space Marinelower level.
;Assimularum
This is the second largest room in the complex besides the Great Hall . It is a vast and can house high vaulted room, in which the entire chaptercan be gathered. It is used for mass gatherings and meetings as well as mass feasts. Speakers will address the gathered marines from a raised dais in front of the alter. During great feasts the high table is placed in the dais where Commander Enoch and the Masters of the Chapter will sit (Enoch, the Lord Lucanceremonies, is, in the original background, the Chapter Master of the Space Wolves). Screens usually cover the Reclusiam behind the alter however when the room is used for religious ceremonies they are removedfestivals and special feasts.
;Reclusiam
The Reclusiam is usually partitioned from the Assimularum by a screen, and is used only for cult activities. It is looked after by a religious officer known as a ''Reclusiarch'' and the chapter's holy relics and many of their most precious battle trophies are kept here. The Reclusiarch has an office off to one side, and there are three private chapels dedicated to [[Leman Russ]], ''The Emperor Deified'' and ''The Emperor Oracular''.
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