Convent of the Blue Rose

Convent of the Blue Rose or Ultramarines as they are more commonly known are one of the central defensive forces within the central systems of the Imperium of Womankind.

Originally Legion 12 of the original 20 Space Marine Legions the Convent of the Blue Rose was one of the cornerstones of the central plan of the Empress to make Humanity fully more of a sexually freer and more enlightened society.

And enlightened they did become, No other Convent within the ranks of the Adepta had visited, conquered or saved more worlds and in greater time them the Sisters of the Blue Rose. By the end of the Great Crusade the Convent of the Blue Rose had either controlled or converted well over a Billion worlds within over a hundred thousand stellar sectors.

The convents 1st Prioress Rebecca Gulliman was what became later legendarily known as one of the 1st 4 Matriarchs, the central founders of Adepta society and sisterhood. The Ultramarines were one of the central forces during all 3 Tyrannic wars and later were granted the honour of earning a place in the order of Tyrannic and Cross Tyrannic War Veterans.

With a heavy emphasis on heavy munitions and plasma based weapons the Blue Rose sisters are one of the first Convents given imperial missions both within and without the known reaches of Imperium controlled space.

Primary Mission
To serve/act as the Empress's right military hand with the central sectors of Imperium controlled space and to serve as personal handmaids/foster wives for the Empress herself while she is visiting within the Ophilic stellar sectors.

Origins
The first foundations of the Blue Rose convent came in the time of the 2nd age of zealotry as a massive rebellion on Luna 1 on Earths moon had ingnited into the third largest religious based solar system wide civil war within 300 years of seemingly endless religious extremism. Her Serene Highness within who was accidentally trapped on Luna orders one of her handmaidens to send a secret order to her own personal guard of the Blue Rose (known only as the Blue Rose Guard then) to deploy a thousand troops directly into the heart of Luna's capital hab district.

At the time Rebecca Gulliman was a former sister wife of the empress whom had bore her at least 9 proud daughters but they had left on amicable terms after Rebecca had learned that various corrupt factions within the imperium had been using her fellow guardswomen as nothing more then throwaway sex slaves. A proud woman Rebecca while tended faithfully to the Empress's safety and security had not directly spoken to her former lover and friend for several decades.

Nevertheless when word had arrived that her Empress was in growing danger Rebecca heeded the call and sent the 10 heavy arms drop squads on Luna City 9 on 10, 044 this was the beginning of the battle known as the Pacification of Luna one of the first major battles within the Convents legendary history.

Officiation of the Marine company as Convent
The pacification of Luna was no easy feat for the Blue Rose sisters, with every near defeat the Blue Rose guard sent in more and more further sorties of marines troops across not only the moon but soon even Pluto and Uranus felt the march of mechanized imperial boots across one wartorn battlefield after another.

After nearly 400 years of unending battle that first company of 1,000 grew to the tens of thousands to the hundreds of thousands. After the carpet bombing of Celestus 12 colony on Europa the Imperial court could withstand nolonger. This was the catalyst for the pathway to the modernised Space Marine structure as we know it. Her Serene Highness convenes a conclave of the matriarchs of all major guard orders in order to bestow further direct imperial military power upon them.

Rebecca is given martial law authority over the newly discovered habitable world of Ophelia VII to be set up as a central command/control base to further command Earths solar system based military forces. With this newly given power Rebecca makes Ophelia VII into a safe haven for younger marine sisters to avoid