The Blood Scorpions are a loyalist Space Marine Successor Chapter of the bloodline of Sanguinius, created during the 6th Founding, which occurred sometime during the M33 or M34. Throughout their existence, the Blood Scorpions have garnered a brutal reputation for being savage and unrelenting fighters. Created as they were from the Blood Angels' gene-seed, they inherited the genetic flaws of the Red Thirst and the Black Rage, which greatly afflict the Chapter like many of their fellow Successor Chapters founded in later centuries. The Blood Scorpions are notoriously intolerant of all xenos, believing them to be a blight on the galaxy. They adamantly believe that it is Mankind's manifest destiny to vanquish all the vile and wicked alien races, and to take their place as the rightful inherito