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Crimson Crusade

Armorial of the Death Templars Chapter.

The **Crimson Crusade** was a joint-Imperial castigation campaign carried out by both the Death Templars and Star Reapers Chapters against the Nurgle-worshipping forces of the vile Blight-Master Ussalax on the world of Dusk, located in the Golgenna Reach in the Calixis Sector. As the two forces engaged in bloody conflict, they suddenly faced a new threat in the form of an encroaching splinter fleet from an invading Tyranid Hive Fleet. Facing their inevitable destruction, the loyalist Space Marines vowed to fight to the bitter end and were only just saved by a miracle - in the form of the darkly famed Legion of the Damned. These ghostly Astartes began to attack both the heretic forces and the vile xenos bioforms, helping to salvage a resounding victory from an inevitable defeat. The whereabouts of Blight-Master Ussalax following this engagement is unknown, but it is believed he somehow managed to effect his escape from the planet's surface during the intense fighting.

## History

During the joint Crimson Crusade conducted by both the Death Templars and Star Reapers Chapters into the Golgenna Reach within the Calixis Sector, the two Space Marine Chapters found themselves heavily engaged against the large Death Guard traitor warband of Blight-Master Ussalax, upon the inhospitable feral world of Dusk. Ussalax is a vile Chaos Sorcerer that served within the inner circle of the Daemon Primarch Mortarion. Blight-Master Ussalax travels from one warzone to the next, unleashing his vile plagues upon the innocent and harvesting the bodies of the victims. Both Chapters finally managed to run the elusive Chaos Sorcerer to ground upon the world of Dusk. As both sides engaged one another within the swamps that covered the planet, they were set upon by the first elements of a splinter Hive Fleet of Tyranids.

Beset on both sides by the foul Plague Marines of Blight-Master Ussalax, and deadly Tyranid bioforms, both Chapters prepared to sell their lives dearly. With both their forces depleted to their mortis threshold, reports of strange black-armoured Space Marines bearing symbols of death and covered in burning flames began to crop up. Soon, both the enemy forces were beset upon, as squad after squad of black-clad Space Marines emerged from the swamp's rising mists, forming a cordon around the surviving Death Templars and Star Reapers. The relentless pounding of their bolters and the billowing flames of their heavy weapons blasted back the Tyranid bioforms scuttling around them, as well as making short work of the foul forces of Blight-Master Ussalax. The invading swarm and Traitor legionaries were shattered, dispersed and hunted to extinction. The surviving Chapter battle-brothers soon realized they had been saved by none other than the mysterious spectres known as the Legion of the Damned. The whereabouts of Blight-Master Ussalax remains unknown.
Daethos Kordavius

Armorial of the Argent Leviathans.

Lord Magister **Daethos Kordavius** was the first Chapter Master of the Argent Leviathans Space Marine Chapter.

## Background

The original Lord Magister, known for his short temper and disregard of conventional tactics, preferring to charge into battle with his master-crafted Power Spear *Celeri Morte*. Daethos would tend to charge into melee combat with his elite bodyguards, his Kraken Terminators. He was last seen charging into the Great Ocean of Caerule to kill the first and only Revenant Leviathan ever seen after it attacked the capital city, Kar'Morgh. After the ocean went quiet, the corpse of the Revenant Leviathan was found, Daethos was not. The corpse of Kordavius was found inside the dead creature's heart, presumed to have cut his way there after being eaten whole by the creature. The skull of the creature is now found within the great hall of the Chapters Fortress Monastery as a reminder of the great deeds performed by Kordavius.

## Equipment

* **Celeri Morte**
* **Master Crafted MK IV Power Armour**
* **Master Crafted Bolt Pistol**
* **Krak and Frag Grenades**

## Quotes

### By Kordavius

"*Who are we? Who are we?! We are one of many. We are the watchers in the deep. We are the shield protecting humanity from traitors like you. We are the sword in the darkness. We are his chosen. You scum can try and run but we will find you and we will lay His vengeance upon you. We are his Leviathans of Argent, Masters of the Deep, protectors of his holy work, and we are here to end you.*"
— Dae'thos Kordavius after the chapter's very first victory. Said directly before executing the leader of the Cult of the Spiral Tower
Crucible Serpents

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The **Crucible Serpents** are an eccentric and reserved 6th Founding chapter of the Adeptus Astartes descended from the lineage of Vulkan's Salamanders. They were created in order to guard the world of Umbrarma from Chaos threats in the Segmentum Pacificus. They are adamant believers in the Promethean Cult and are very rare among the Astartes in that their aspirants are created by the chapter themselves in gene-forges via artificial insemination and vat-growth. The Crucible Serpents perceive themselves as a manufactured weapon in the same vein as the vat-muscle implanted in an officer or a humble lasgun, albeit they perceive themselves as a vastly more complicated form of this idea, and for this reason, they do not put their lives above those of humans.

## Chapter Recruitment

Rather than directly recruiting aspirants, all Crucible Serpents were originally created from vat-growing an embryo from a gene-line proven to successfully survive the process of gene-seed implantation. This allows for an exceptionally high compatibility rate and intense genetic selection pressure so that with each generation the Crucible Serpents can strive to be more optimized for defending the human populations. This is generally done by taking the germline cells of two potential parents, mass-producing vat-grown offspring and allocating some males to undergo gene-seed implantation, and others to grow to adulthood so their germline cells can be used to create a new generation of aspirants.

It should be noted that this does not allow the chapter to produce aspirants at an accelerated rate as vat-grown humans with accelerated development generally create malformed Astartes or they simply die at a much higher rate. The Crucible Serpents cannot clone these aspirants either as the gene-seed either rejects the clones or clones made from specimens with the gene-seed already implanted will rapidly degrade.

## Chapter Beliefs

One of the strangest idiosyncracies of the chapter is their belief that due to the fact they are vat-grown and that they cannot interbreed with humans after gene-seed implantation, the Astartes of the Crucible Serpents are fundamentally not human beings but were created by the Emperor to defend humanity. This means that unlike the Salamanders the members of the Crucible Serpents chapter due not intermingle with humans. instead, they see humans in some ways as above them, as true beings rather than organic mechanisms of warfare. A Crucible Serpent will gladly lay down his life for even one human civillian if the battle.

## Chapter Appearance

### Chapter Badge

The badge of the Crucible Serpents is a green dragon head rising out of a green anvil and breathing flames on it.

## Relations

### Allies

The Crucible Serpents are allied with the Fratres in Augmentationem

## Notable Quotes

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Carthag

**Carthag** is an Imperial Penal World located in the Orelian Sub-sector of the Uridian Deeps, in the deep south of the Segmentum Pacificus. Arid and barely able to sustain life, Carthag operates as a ship-breaking world for the tech-adepts of the forge-moon of Carthagus Minoris; the final resting place of rediscovered wrecks and decommissioned warships.

In antiquity, Carthag was once the thriving heart of the Imperiums operations not only within the Orelian Salient, but throughout the whole Uridian Deeps, acting as the command and control centre for the Imperium's compliance campaigns throughout the region. Transformed into a verdant garden world, home to the retired men and women of the Excertus Imperialis, Carthag gradually became a beacon of Imperial civilization out on the fringes. Yet such symbols are always the first to be toppled in the throws of war.

One of the first targets in the traitor Uridian Campaign during the Horus Heresy, the successive engagements, battles and campaigns to take control of the strategically valuable world saw it rendered a wasteland, littered with warships and the refuse of war like no other planet in the region. Following the Horus Heresy, the Adeptus Mechanicus established themselves on the ruined world, and from its moon of Carthagus Minoris, transforming it into an enclave of the Machine God, in order to salvage and recover anything and everything of value from the planets surface.
Crusade of Indignation

The **Crusade of Indignation** was a Imperial castigation campaign conducted by the Ebon Knights Space Marine Chapter on the world of Cadizar against the forces of the treacherous Word Bearers Traitor Legion. When Cadizar is enslaved by these Heretic Astartes, they managed to send an Astropathic distress signal requesting for aid. Fortunately, the crusading Ebon Knights received the beleaguered world's request for assistance, and made all haste to the stricken planet. When the arrived in-system, the Ebon Knights Chapter struck as a whole, launching a devastating orbital assault upon the Heretic Astartes and their Chaos Cultists allies. Over a period of three years, the Ebon Knights ruthlessly eradicate the Word Bearers and their followers until their vile taint has been purged from Cadizar.

## History

The Ebon Knights crusade makes planetfall on the enslaved Imperial world of Cadizar, driving out the Word Bearers Chaos Space Marines who had covered the entire surface with blasphemous temples to their gods. The Ebon Knights launch a massive co-ordinated lightning assault, deploying the entirety of their Chapter's strength. They viciously destroy the Traitor Astartes and their Chaos cultists allies wherever they are found in a brutal campaign that lasts for the next three years, cleansing the planet of their foul presence. Once their objectives have been achieved, the Ebon Knights depart as swiftly as they arrived.
Black Sun Crusade

The **Black Sun Crusade** is an Imperial crusade that occured from 832-845.M41. It takes its name from the Black Sun of Medrengard, fortress world of the Iron Warriors' Daemon Primarch Perturabo. It retrospect it seems clear that the incursion in force was the intended first blow of a new Black Crusade. Had Perturabo achieved a full warp transition of Medrengard and established himself in Aliris Sector it would have been possible for Abaddon's forces to avoid the defenses around the Eye of Terror and drive directly for Holy Terra.

## Aliris Sector

Is well known as the location of the Hadronian Wall, a multi-system line of defenses strung along the rimward front of the Sector and anchored by the Fortress worlds of Sarkomand and Malakand. The Hadron System is at the exact center of the line and consists of the twin Fortress planets of Hadron's Sword and Hadron's Shield. Sentinel stations established far forward of the line are known as Hadron's Eyes keep a constant watch for Enemy movement from the Eye. This single minded focus on the rimward front nearly cost both the sector and the Imperium dear.

# The War In the Reach

## Prelude

The Podromos Reach is a haunted section of space between the inner and outer spiral arms, dotted with dead worlds and dangerous secrets, and only sketchily controlled by the Alirian Sector Lords all of which goes a long way towards explaining why the periodic appearances of a 'Black Sun' radiating warp effects shattering human minds and civilizations failed to attract anything like the attention such a phenomenon deserved. At least fourteen sightings with effects ranging from scattered chaos cult break outs to full scale civil wars have been documented by the Arilian Inquisitorial conclave - very much after the fact. At the time however the stories were dismissed by the Administratum on Liriopis as 'Reach tales'. Local authorities, military and civil, were less dismissive but as the alien Sun had invariably vanished well before the first response ships arrived they had no evidence but the hysterical and possibly delusional ravings of the victims and no way to judge the nature of the threat nor did analysis reveal any pattern to the appearances.
Castellum

Departmento Cartographicae pict-file of Castellum, Chapter home world of the Cobalt Consuls.

## Planet

### Class

Fortress World/
Adeptus Astartes Chapter Home World

## Location

### System

Unknown

**Castellum** is an Imperial fortress world that serves as the Chapter home world of the Cobalt Consuls Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes.

## Background

Castellum is an ecumenopolis along the lines of Holy Terra, a city that sprawls across the whole planet. But it's not just any city, it is a great bulwark against the enemies of humanity with the whole world devoted to defending against any and all who would seek to conquer the sector. Every man, woman, and child is mobilized for the monumental undertaking required to protect Castellum. Every block is a fortified bastion with armories in the basement, heavy weapons in the halls, and flak batteries on the roofs. Every street is a killzone, covered by overlapping fields of fire so that the invader may find no shelter from the fury of the defenders.

### Fortress-Monastery

The *Fortress of Bellona* makes the defenses of the rest of Castellum look pitiful, a beautiful melding of form and function that awes the enemy as they are pulverized by battle cannons, shredded by gatling cannons, torn apart by volleys of missiles, slagged by plasma cannons, or vaporized by lascannons. Surrounding the fortress is a dozen square kilometres of flat permacrete, offering scant cover from the defensive guns. Beneath the fortress is a warren of passageways that twist and turn to disorient an attacker and separate him from his fellows to be picked off in detail by the vengeful Astartes.
Carnos V Campaign

The **Carnos V Campaign** was a Chaos castigation campaign fought by the Mourning Wardens Space Marine Chapter against an unnamed Iron Warriors Chaos Warband upon the Imperial world of Carnos V. The fighting was brutal and bloody in the extreme, and even though the Chapter emerged victorious, the sacrifice they made in order to liberate Carnos V saw the death of nearly three whole companies worth of battle-brothers.

## Background

This two years campaign saw the Mourning Wardens confront an Iron Warriors Warband which intended to make Carnos V, a mountainous inhabited world near Occiana, a fortified citadel to encroach on the rest of the nearby systems. Alvaro Suarez managed to crush those hopes in a violent series of siege battle on the world itself. The Wardens, as true Sons of Dorn, endured terrible losses of life, often refusing to concede hardly won ground. In the end, their stubborness prevailed, albeit at the cost of over 300 hundred Brothers and the life of their first High Protector.
Carlara Minor

Carlara Minor is one of the many lifless moon of Carlara Major a Gas Giant in the Carlara-Taritie System and is parked in an unmoving position in its parent orbit. The moon functions as gas mining base for the moons of Carlara Major and itself. A tribal society operates its mining and refenery facilities located around its single settlement a dome located in a crater of even massive size.

## Overview

While most of the other moons are formed out of gases is the moon of Carlara Minor a rocky world with no natural life developing on it. Only a dome serves as home for millions of peoples who hailed from voidsmen operating the massive warships of the Imperium. The inhabitants have organised themself into a single tribe resulting in the misbelieve that the Carlarans would be babaric underdeveloped people. Instead are the Carlarans a cultivated people having access to more of the high-tech of the Imperium thanks to their wealth from the exportation of the rare gases from their moons.

The dome or also called *Sancturary* was built in M33 in a giant crater with industrial facilities surrounding it. Agricultural facilities allow to sustain their need for food mostly. Heavy artillery and flak guns are the main defences of Sanctuary, while the different mining bases serve as outposts and could be if necessary be further fortified, while the Cobra Destroyer Protector of Carlara and two Navy Wings serve as System Defence Force against intruders.

## Mining Outposts

Carlara Minor itself has nearly no ressources disregarding the few mineral deposits. Nearly all gases are mined from the other moons or come from Carlara Major, while the storage and refenery process are located on Carlara Minor which supports the mining outposts with food, equippment and miners.

Mining Outposts
plasma weapons
the industry
administrative capital
 Carlara Zara Mining Base
for void vessels

## Culture

People on Carlara Minor are organised into to single "tribe" - with a generouse definition of the word tribe. In fact the idea of tribalism was only brought up to increase the unity between the settlers who came from different vessels and stations, with some of them coming from a background of early forms of tribalism among the crews from isolated vessels.

Inhabitants of the dome city are located on the upper scale on the technological advancement scale thanks to the importment of modern technology. One of the sought-after imports are gravity simulators for entertainment reasons. Sport and activities in low-g environment are popular recreation activities. While the people love such activities, face long-time workers on the mining bases some sort of mistrust for willingly stay away from the community.
Corruption of Telios

The **Corruption of Telios** was a lamentable Chaos excoriation campaign carried out by the nefarious Bringers of Change Chaos Warband upon the doomed Imperial world of Telios. Following the corruption of several regiments of the planet's local Planetary Defence Forces, the Chaos Warband was able to gain an easy foothold on the Imperial world, bring its unfettered wrath down upon those few remaining Imperial forces that attempted to resist. Fortunately, the daemon-hunting Grey Knights Space Marine Chapter intervened and managed to slay all but eight of the warband's command, who fled into the Immaterium, taking the corrupted PDF forces and several captured Imperial Navy vessels with them. These corrupted units would eventually go on to form the core element of the Disciples of Charon, and present a significant threat to the Imperium at large for several millennia.

## History

The **Corruption of Telios** was an assault by the Bringers of Change that resulted in the Corruption of the PDF forces of the 1st and 2nd Telios Imperial Guard Regiments with the overthrow of the Planetary Governor. Unfortunately, the Grey Knights intervened and killed all but eight of the original Gorgons. They escape into the Warp with the Corrupted units and Imperial Navy Ships. The Telios Units form the core of the Disciples of Charon.
Caelum

Caelum as seen from orbit

**Caelum** is a relatively small hive world on the far eastern outskirts of the Ultima Segmentum. Possessing a radius that places it in a size category a fraction above that of Holy Terra it's population is significantly less. Only two trillion citizens call the planet home, however, the majority of these people call Caelem's towering hive cities home. Packed densely into the hab-blocks tempers run high and many gangs roam the streets.

These gangs are kept in line by the Planetary Defence Force, under the command of Planetary Governor Anahera Kaihautu. An extensive law enforcement organisation is also maintained upon the planet, handling many of the low level crimes that take place daily. However, a lone, sprawling, Precinct Fortress can be located within the planet's crust. This Fortress is the base of operations to one hundred, heavily armed and highly trained, members of the Emperor's Adeptus Arbites. The Arbites act as the law enforcements when the standard officers upon the planet can not handle a situation.

## Physical Characteristics

* **Mass:** 12,003,720,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg (2.01 M🜨)
* **Density:** 17.55 g/cm3
* **Radius:** 1.06 R🜨 (6,753.26 km)
* **Volume:** 1,290,000,000,000 km3 (1.19 Terras)
* **Surface Area:** 573,000,000 km2 (1.12 Terras)
* **Population Density:** 4158.63 per km2

* **Sky Colour:** Light Grey

* **Eccentricity:** 0.11
* **Orbital Period:** 360.09 Terran Days
* **Orbital Speed:** 24.96 m/s
* **Orbital Tilt:** 45° to its orbital plane

* **Escape Velocity:** 15,402 m/s

## Atmospheric Characteristics

* **Atmospheric Pressure:** 1.4 atm
* **Composition:**

* **Molecular Nitrogen 68.12%**
* **Molecular Oxygen 28.46%**
* **Argon 2.3%**
* **Carbon Dioxide 1.02%**
* **Other 0.1%**

## Star

* **Name:** Pirmia
* **Classification:** G Class Yellowish White Subgiant
* **Age:** 8,284,562,817 Terran Years
* **Mass:** 0.89 M☉ (1.7701\*1030 kg)
* **Luminosity:** 0.70 L☉
* **Diameter:** 1,277,633.18 km
* **Surface Temperature:** 5447.78 K
Charybdis Legion

Charybdis Legion armorial and Chapter iconography.

Charybdis Legion Battle-Brother

### **Specialty**

Punitive Actions, Harrowing Actions & Targeted Decimation, Terror Assaults, Psychological Warfare.

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The **Charybdis Legion** are a non-*Codex* compliant Adeptus Astartes Chapter created during the ill-fated 21st 'Cursed' Founding, though their exact lineage is unknown. Their methods of combat are brutal and unorthodox, using psychological warfare and terror tactics as their preferred weapons.

## History

### Origins

The Charybdis Legion was created during the 21st "Cursed" Founding from an unknown lineage, though it is widely believed that they originated from the Blood Angels. If that were true, they do not speak with the Blood Angels, or any of their successor chapters, and were not present during the Devastation Of Baal.

### First Sightings

A notable sighting of the Charybdis Legion was during the Damocles Gulf Crusade, against the Tau Empire. On the Desert World of

Another sighting the Charybdis Legion was during the Second Tyrannic War. A fresh splinter fleet of Hive Fleet Kraken entered the Milky Way Galaxy but was seemingly halted when it arrived. After the end of the war, a Imperial fleet arrived to the location of the splinter fleet, only to find the frozen husks of dead hive ships and destroyed wreckage of Astartes Warships. The warships had symbols similar to that of the ones described during the Damocles Gulf Crusade.

## Notable Quotes

### About the Charybdis Legion

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Curing a Sickness

Armorial of the Dawn Guardians.

**Curing a Sickness** was an Imperial defensive campaign undertaken by the Dawn Guardians, an Ultima Founding Chapter comprised entirely of Primaris Space Marines, to protect the verdant paradise world of Greenglow from the predations of the Death Guard Traitor Legion.

## Background

In 166.M42, a vectorum of the Death Guard Traitor Legion invaded the lush world of Greenglow. However, the Dawn Guardians Chapter happened to be in the nearby vicinity and rushed to the besieged planet's aid. Throughout the campaign, the vectorum employed various daemonic allies and foul magicks.

However, thanks to the supreme efforts and sacrifice of the Dawn Guardians, they proved strong enough to defeat and eradicate the plague-ridden heretic forces.
Chuda Suppression

Armorial of the Mordekaisers Chapter.

The **Chuda Suppression** was a joint-Imperial castigation campaign conducted by both the Mordekaisers and their fellow brother Chapter, the formerly Loyalist Wolves of Retribution Chapter against secessionist forces upon several rebellious worlds in the Chuda System. Despite their overzealousness in the prosecution of their duties, the Mordekaisers fail to see the signs of their fellow Chapter's inevitable fall.

## Background

Sometime during the 39th Millennium, several world of the Imperial Chuda System fell into open insurrection and openly declared their intention to secede from the Imperium of Man. In response, the High Lords of Terra dispatched the Mordekaisers Space Marine Chapter in order to bring the rebellion to a swift conclusion.

Launching a lighning assault the Mordekaisers, alongside the Wolves of Retribution Chapter, crushed the rebellion in the Chuda System. Though Heinrach is concerned at the Wolves' overzealous fury, he thinks nothing more of it.
Contagion War

The **Contagion War** was an Imperial castigation campaign fought against the Forces of Chaos dedicated to the Plague God Nurgle that was fought within the Scarus Sector.

## History

The Contagion War was an Imperial castigation campaign and one of the few fragmented recorded accounts of the Graven Skulls Space Marine Chapter. When the insidious Apostles of Contagion, a warband of Chaos Space Marines drawn from the Death Guard Traitor Legion attacks the Scarus Sector, the Skulls, along with the assistance of the ferocious Bears of the Claw, managed to contain the Apostles of Contagion and its allies within the system. Many Imperial worlds were lost to the vile Plague God Nurgle.
Corrupted Scorpions

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The **Corrupted Scorpions** is a warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to the Blood God Khorne. They originated from the loyalist Penitent Scorpions Chapter and rebelled against their loyalist brethren in 463.M41 after they came under the influence of Khorne. The traitors ravaged world after world as they chased the loyalists to the feudal world of Mezicus where they were defeated after their leader, Sarth Tranar, was killed by Arterion Joron, Chapter Master of the Penitent Scorpions.

The survivors, approximately 400 or so Chaos Space Marines, fled into the Eye of Terror, where they found and claimed the daemon world of Scorza, in the name of Khorne. They would then go on to terrorize the Imperium for the next 600 years and were loathed by their loyalist brethren who took any chance they had to hunt them down.

When the Eye of Terror was birthed, the Corrupted Scorpions were transported back to Mezicus and caught the chapter by surprise as they gathered there to depart for Baal. The battle, known as the Desolation of Mezicus, saw the near extinction of the Penitent Scorpions, but the warband was forced to retreat after the Indomitus Crusade arrived.

They now have allied themselves with Angron, who has returned to realspace to wreak havoc on the Imperium, and they ravage the worlds of mankind as the Indomitus Crusade hopes to hold them back.

## Warband History

### Corruption of Sarth Tranar

The Penitent Scorpions were almost fully recovered from the Siberan Campaign, which saw the deaths of over 600 battle-brothers, including the chapter master, Petrus Danata. Arterion Joron was elevated to the position to fill in the gap and would become the greatest leader of the chapter, and the chapter now numbered some 2,000 Astartes.

Sarth Tranar was the Lord-Captain of the 15th Scorpion Company, a respected leader who had a brash personality, a quick temper, and was very stubborn in the heat of battle. He encouraged his company to embrace the Red Thirst to kill the enemies of the Imperium, which caused him and his company censorship on more than one occasion.

Sarth was an easy candidate for being corrupted by Khorne, and the whispers of blood and death came to Sarth as he slept, and the promise of war and blood was too much to resist, and Sarth made a bloody pact with the Blood God. He began spreading this corruption to the rest of the 15th Scorpions Company, who began secretly practicing dark rituals in the name of Khorne, and soon, Sarth began corrupting other parts of the chapter, and before long, fully half the chapter was under the influence of Khorne.

## Notable Quotes

### About: Corrupted Scorpions

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Crusade for the Brine System

## Scornful Tides

Orbital pict-file depicting the surface of Brine.

"*His Light will shine even in the darkest depths of the deepest oceans. For heretics and Xenos will always seek to endlessly wash our valiant shores with their scornful tides.*"
— High Commander Agamemnon
**Scornful Tides** is the name of an ongoing conflict that has engulfed the military forces of the Imperium of Man to recapture the once-lost world of Brine. What was once considered a relatively simple campaign to eradicate the various xenos and heretic factions that plague this planet, has turned into a monumental undertaking that has stretched into a three-millennia long conflict.

## History

When the Administratum regained contact with the lost hive world of Brine, they were baffled by the discovery that somehow the entire planet had been flooded. Contact was initially lost around M37, and wouldn’t be rediscovered until nearly a thousand years later by a few companies of Blood Angels following a distress call from an unknown space marine chapter. What they found was a waterworld where Hive Cities littered the sea floor, and only the highest of hive spires barely peaked out from the shimmering surface.

What was far more alarming was the massive concentrations of both heretics and xenos covering the planet. This was not a lost world, however, as many of the hive cities continue to operate even with the pressure of the oceans they are submerged in. At first, Imperium officials figured it would be an easy task to land on the world and purge the hordes of unorganized enemy factions so that Brine would once again belong to Mankind. It has been nearly 3,000 years from that point, and this simple operation has morphed into a fight for survival where all warring factions are locked in endless attrition.

To make matters worse, there is consistent evidence pointing towards the existence of a “superweapon” of some kind hidden away on this world that may have caused its great flooding. Some say it is a piece of lost archeotech from the Dark Age of Technology. Others point towards a potential Aeldari "Super-portal" that leads to a once waterlogged, now desert world. In the darkest chambers, some even whisper that it is neither of those things, but instead, a lost chaos god is trapped within the planet itself and that when awoken, even for a moment, she drowned the whole world in her tears. But no one is certain in the end.
Calidus Sepheran

Armorial of the Argent Leviathans.

Altum Dominus **Calidus Sepheran** is the current Chief Librarian of the Argent Leviathans Space Marine Chapter.

## Background

Calidus Sepheran is the current Altum Dominus of the Chapter. He is a high Gamma level Psyker, known for his expertise in the Telekinesis discipline, being able to completely crush a fully armoured Astartes in seconds. He has a large trophy on his left shoulder pad, the skull of a Genestealer Patriarch that had managed to establish a cult on the planet of Oktavius IV, a hive world neighbouring the Chapters homeworld of Caerule.

## By Sepheran

"*Genestealers are … interesting creatures, they attempt to mimic the perfect human form yet they fail so miserably. But, isn't that what all Xenos do? Fail miserably at achieving their own petty goals?*"
— Altum Dominus Calidus Sepheran after cleansing a Genestealer Cult upon Octavius IV
Crusades of Redemption

Armorial of the Void Ravens Chapter.

The **Crusades of Redemption** were the three-century long Penance Crusade undertaken by the Void Ravens Space Marine Chapter in recompense for the lamentable event known as The Infamy, when one of their own turned against the worlds of the Imperium and slaughtered millions of innocent civilians. During this time, they were under the ever-watchful eye of the Inquisition and were not allowed to replenish their ranks despite suffering horrendous casualties. These long penance crusade nearly saw the extinction of the Void Ravens, but in the end, they proved their loyalty to the Imperium and were granted the God-Emperor's forgiveness.

## History

The Crusades of Redemption nearly wiped out the Void Ravens. They took to it with a dedication born from their shame. To have had brothers turning to the service of Chaos was the most atrocious crime that the Chapter had ever committed in the eyes of its members. Uncounted are the worlds where the Void Ravens fought and died during the Crusades of Redemption, from the fringe of the Eye of Terror to the depths of the Exile Sector, the realms of Orks and the planets of Man, they threw themselves against all the horrors of the Galaxy.

For a time, it seemed to the Inquisitors tasked with the surveillance of the Chapter that the Ravens were not so much seeking Redemption and a return to grace, but more a glorious extinction. Yet, the Chapter endured the more than three hundred years of Crusades and when the Siege of Verenos was finally lifted and that the xenos scum which had dared to try to conquer it was routed, after a twenty long years attrition war, the Inquisitors who had remained with the Chapter granted its 111 survivors the right to recruit once more. While the Inquisition hoped that the ways of the Void Ravens would change, the Chapter has returned to its root, but is now more careful and refuse to intervene in political wars on planets unless they have ascertained that Chaos or treason is truly at work.
Compliance of the Goros Spiral

The **Compliance of Goros Spiral** was a joint-Imperial compliance campaign conducted by both the Tempest Knights and Death Templars Space Marine Chapter against the world of Goros Spiral.

## History

This was a joint Imperial Compliance campaign conducted by multiple Adeptus Astartes Chapters, including the Tempest Knights and the Death Templars in a region of space known as the Goros Spiral. The Gorosites were well-versed in the art of building fortresses, and their strongholds were dug deep around narrow passes, remote hilltops and natural barriers in the landscape. Once again, the Tempest Knights were sent to a resistant star system to conduct brutal siege-warfare against formidable fortress-builders. The Gorosites knew their craft well and the campaign to take their world for the Imperium proved both bitter and hostile.
Castigation of Telepo

The **Castigation of Telepo** was an Imperial campaign conducted by the Heb 5th Zealous Light Foot Regiment, "The Omnissiah's Own" against secessionist forces in the Telepo System.

## Background

Following the successful conclusion of the Blue Hand Heresy, the veteran Heb 5th was reinforced with elements of the decimated 8th and 3rd Regiments. The 5th had been declared "The Omnissiah's Own" by the Fabricator-General of Erendan for their heroic action at Node 601 during the relief of Forge Primus. Now at full strength, the unit was transferred out of the Levan Sub-Sector upon the Emperor’s business. After two small actions, the 5th was assigned to an Imperial Guard force enroute to suppress a secessionist movement in the Telepo System.

Colonel Cain Benad, in command of the 5th, had been a street fighter during the Killing Time on Heb. He had risen through the ranks and replaced the 5th's previous commander who died on Craw in one of the last actions of the Blue Hand Heresy. He remembered, personally, the treason of the old aristocracy, how they had sought to flee and leave the people to burn. Lord General David the Count du 'Arringtun was an upspire blue blood with a pedigree longer than his arm. Needless to say, the two got along swimmingly.

Following the initial round of strategic conferences during transit, Benad was the only regimental commander not invited to the second round. The senior Commissar assigned to du 'Aringtun cautioned him not to discount the resources the Departmento Munitorum had granted him. However the Lord General was adamant, he would not entrust combat duties to "an egalitarian rabble".

Instead, the 5th was kept in reserve in orbit, with detachments only allowed planetside to perform manual labor in secured areas. This continued until Count du 'Arringtun was killed during the secessionist counterattack in Hive Heffe. The Count's successor in command immediately deployed the Heb to stanch the bleeding. The Regiment would ultimately be praised for their effectiveness in the close urban combat of the Hive city.
Camoris

Departmento Cartographicae pict-file of Camoris, Chapter recruitment world of the Chalice Heralds Chapter.

## Planet

### Class

Moon/Feral World/Adeptus Astartes Chapter Home World

## Location

### System

Unrecorded

**Camoris** is a feral moon and also the Adeptus Astartes home world of the Chalice Heralds Space Marine Chapter. Here, they make their fortress-monastery of The Herald's Keep, a massive fortress built into the center of a great crater.

## Background

"*It is good to return to our home. It has been too long since I have gazed upon the Beacon and gathered with my brothers.*"
— Gareth the Watcher upon returning to The Heralds Keep for The Gathering.
Camoris is a large moon that orbits the gas giant Angel's Beacon. It is considered to be a tribal world for its inhabitants are barley past what would be considered the stone age of old Terra. It is a barren world were little grows and the only source of water is either deep with the planet or in its frozen seas. The tribes war with one another over the few resources and have to compete with the indigenous fauna. The greatest of these is the Golden Drake, a large, winged lizard creature that is the apex predator of the world who is ritually hunted in the trials to become a member of the chapter. The world is rocky and has no mountains due to the fact it has been pelted with asteroids seine it was been formed. instead it is covered with craters and canyons. The inhabitants of the Camoris live in these craters and canyons where caves keep them safe from the asteroids falling from the sky. They only venture out to hunt or to make war on other tribes.

### Fortress-Monastery

The chapter's Fortress-Monastery is known as The Herald's Keep. It is a fortress built in the center of a great crater and the fortress itself looks like a castle from the middle age of Terra. It is there that the whole chapter meets every two hundred years to share what they have leaned and to gather information on the whereabouts of The Chalice in what is called The Gathering. The Great Hall is where the bodies of all former captains are laid to rest and their personal banners stand vigil over them. The Council Table is were all the senor members of the chapter gather to discuses. It is a round stone table that has its center carved into the shape of the chapter badge. Below the fortress monastery is a network of catacombs that connect to various points trough the monastery. It is there that the dead of the chapter are laid to rest. The whole of the monastery is covered by a domed energy shield that protects it from invasion and environmental hazards. The Herald's Keep is decorated with statues of angels battling with demons, gargoyles, and depictions of the Astaties from Merlios's vision.
Crusade Upon Craven XI

The **Crusade Upon Craven XI** was an Imperial xenocidal castigation campaign carried out by the Rebutors Space Marine Chapter against an invading greenskin force upon the Imperial world of Craven XI.

## Background

"*Once we are through with them, the sand shall be painted green with the bodies of aliens! The Emperor calls for retribution, brothers!*"
— Lightbringer Johannas invigorating his Knights before the battle with the Goffs
The first major Crusade carried out by the Rebutors was on the planet Craven XI in the Uhulis Sector of the Segmentum Tempestus. The planet had recently been overrun by Orks, the mortal enemy of the Chapter. Lead by Lightbringer Johannus Redicar and Reverend Talian Gordon, a large group of Knights and the 5th Diocese stormed the desert planet. The Orks numbered in the millions, proving a formidable force against the might of the Astartes. The greenskins, lead by Warboss Kragg Warbringa of the Goffs, was determined to strip the desert planet of its rich iron and copper deposits. Yet, this was promptly interrupted when the Space Marines invaded the planet, seeking naught but to purge the xenos. Indeed, a massive war ensued between the Rebutors and Warbringa. The 5th Diocese lent support to the crusading knights of the Chapter who stood at the front lines, cleaving the greenskins with power swords, axes and hammers. After days of fighting, Warbringa himself entered into the fray, calling Lightbringer Johannus to engage him. Eventually, Warbringa's head rolled across the battlefield, with Johannus standing victorious upon the body of his foe. Immediately after noticing the death of their boss, the Orks began to flee from the planet. However, the Battle Barge *Praetorian's Shield* stood waiting for the greenskin fleets in low orbit. Not a single Ork escaped the system, all were wiped from the area. Craven XI was then claimed as a Mining World of the Imperium, with the Rebutors as its governing Chapter.
City Turned to Ash

Armorial of the Dawn Stalkers.

The **City Turned to Ash** is the final lamentable battle that was a part of The Second Burning crusade, in which the Dawn Stalkers Chapter played an instrumental role in defending against a large World Eaters invasion force.

## Background

As the months drew on, the sky was soon delved into an eternal view of warp storms, violent and horrifying to behold for no longer did the stars shine in the night sky, and where the sun still shone it was but a pale light amongst the black lightning. Yet even as the clouds turned to storms, blowing up the ash of battle the Dawn Stalkers held on, fortifying not just stone and steel but hearts and minds. The PDF continued to stand alongside them until the final bastions of the world were all that stood left, the 'Rising Sun' and capital cities, Excaliburn being the most major of these strongholds. Where the Fortress-Monastery held against its onslaught with pride and fortitude, letting none breach it's walls, the white city suffered a far worse fate.

The captain of the 4th Captain Heran 'Neckspliter' was given charge to the defence of Excaliburn, seeing to it that his company alongside the 9th were well prepared to receive the oncoming World Eaters force, numbering 1,200 strong. Where the Astartes themselves were outnumbered 7 to 1, the PDF forces alongside them numbered 30,000 men and women, levied and career soldiers both. This alone was not enough to defend the city whole, however, so in his wisdom, Heran distributed his forces amongst multiple locations of importance, including military instillation's, evacuation shelters, primary defensive areas and the local Dawn Stalkers chapter keep built inside the Memorial of the Brave.

For the memorial itself, however, Heran 'Necksplitter' allowed 5 of his companies marines to stand guard alongside a reinforced 100 PDF soldiers merely for tradition's sake, even if it seemed unwise. Of those 5 was Brother Etherion, who at the time was merely a simple tactical marine of the 4th, who would one day rise to become the chapters greatest of heroes. But for that to come to fruition, Anakron had to burn, and burn it did. The walls held for three days before they fell, and as they continued to crumble Astartes and mortals both fought tooth and nail to hold back for however long they could to allow more civilians to evacuate to the shelters.

Many names would be writ into the Memorial of the Brave in later years to honour those upon the now infamous 'Bloodied Rocks' surrounding the city, yet their gamble paid off and many lives were saved, even if for naught. As the World Eaters closed in on key locations defended by the Astartes, Heran sought to consolidate his forces at three primary locations, the two evacuation shelters and the Memorial of the Brave in hopes of shoring up the defences further. In a risky gamble, Heran and his retinue surged forth from the memorial and fought a host of World Eaters head-on, seeking to lure others away from retreating Imperial forces.
Culling of Darkfall

The **Culling of Darkfall** was a planetary-wide purgation campaign carried out by the merciless and unforgiving Murdering Sons Chapter in the latter centuries of M35 against the recalcitrant worlds of the Darkfall System. When an Inquisitor was sent to investigate rumours of supposed atrocities committed by the darkly famed Chapter, the Inquisitor, his vessel and all those aboard, mysteriously disappeared. Conjecture still rages amongst Imperial scholars as who is to blame, but extant records indicate that a lone Murdering Sons vessel was in the area where the Inquisitor's ship disappeared.

## History

An Imperial retribution crusade is launched when the Darkfall System declares against the Imperial creed in favour of an independent principality, free of the Imperium's yoke. From out of the void, the Murdering Sons arrive and proceed to strike like a thunderbolt against the various worlds within the system. The renegades responsible are systematically exterminated, and the secessionist leaders are flayed alive and crucified from the hive capital spires. Soon, multiple reports of the atrocities carried out by the Murdering Sons filters back to the Segmentum's Inquisitorial Conclave, who quickly despatch an Inquisitorial representative to investigate the truth of the Chapter's actions.

The Puritanical Inquisitor Uziel Dredd investigates the worlds that have suffered the Murdering Sons' brutal retribution left in their bloody wake, and is shocked by what he finds. While returning to the seat of his Inquisitorial Conclave, his vessel is beset by an unknown enemy. The last vox broadcast by Dredd's ship are garbled and nearly indecipherable - the sound of bolter fire can be heard in the background. The only Imperial force in the vicinity of his disappearance is the Murdering Sons' Strike Cruiser the Sanguinum Fidelis. They report no sign of the Inquisitor or his vessel. The Darkfall System is brought back under Imperial compliance within less than a year.