Alessio Cortez

Alessio Cortez is a Captain of the Crimson Fists Space Marine Chapter, recorded in the defence of Rynn’s World against the Ork warlord Snagrod. The Crimson Fists are a Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes descended from the Imperial Fists, and their home world of Rynn’s World, in the Rynnstar system, serves as both recruiting ground and fortress. Cortez is counted among the senior battle-brothers of the Chapter in the era of the Imperium’s long decline, when the Chapter’s fortunes are defined by the events of the invasion of Rynn’s World.

Cortez’s service is bound to the Chapter’s greatest trial in the forty-first millennium. In 999.M41 the Ork warlord Snagrod launched a Waaagh! against Rynn’s World, and a missile strike on the Chapter’s fortress-monastery killed a large part of its Astartes. Accounts place Cortez among the officers who continued the fight in the aftermath, serving under the Chapter Master, Pedro Kantor, alongside the surviving battle-brothers and the planetary defence forces of the world. The details of his individual command and actions differ between accounts, and are best read within the wider course of the war.

Cortez’s standing rests on his part in the survival of the Crimson Fists as a functioning Chapter. His story is tied to Rynn’s World and to the Chapter’s efforts to rebuild its strength after the invasion, with Pedro Kantor as his principal contemporary and superior. He is regarded as an active officer of the Chapter in the present era, and his career is best placed on the timeline at the war for Rynn’s World, in the closing years of the forty-first millennium. Readers may follow the graph links to the Crimson Fists, Pedro Kantor and Rynn’s World for the surrounding events.