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[[Image:Raptor_Taros.jpg|thumb|right|Raptor Marine (Taros Campaign)]]
969 [[M41]] - While en-route to assault the [[Ork]] world of Gramnia Major in the [[Segmentum Solar]] as part of the crusade against the Arch Maniac of Calverna the '''Raptors'''' ships were thrown off course while travelling traveling through the warp. When they emerged, the chapter was forced to crash land their battered ships on the nearest planet, the [[Death World]] of [[Jemadal]].
Jemadal was an orb of dense, slimy jungle, stagnant and dank to a suffocating degree and teeming with voracious predators and carnivorous plants. The atmosphere of the planet was so heavily saturated with moisture that the air was literally suffocating. Previous attempts to terraform the planet by the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] had been abandoned centuries before and to survive an hour on Jemadal was an achievement. The world was also infested with predators and each day the '''Raptors''' came under attack from swarms of carnivorous beasts and bat-winged creatures that could kill an ordinary man with a single bite.
[[Image:Raptors_blue.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Raptors space marine in original color scheme]]
[[File:Raptor_Legion_Circa_Badab_War.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Raptor Legion colours durring during the Badab War from
[[WD101|White Dwarf 101]]]]
==Organization==
The '''Raptors''' follow their progenitors, the [[Raven Guard]], in adhering to the broad organisational patters patterns and provisions laid down in the standard [[Codex Astartes]], but as a [[Chapter]], the Raptors see the Codex as a highly effective and proven set of strategic and operational guidelines rather than inviolable dogma to be obeyed without question. As a result, they maintain a high degree of flexibility in their deployments and structures.<sup>6</sup>
==Notable Raptors Marines==
