Black Templars - Era Indomitus (M41-M42): Shrine Worlds Crusades (Unknown Date.M42) - Following the opening of the Great Rift, the Black Templars -- now reinforced with Primaris Space Marines given to them by Guilliman during the Indomitus Crusade -- sent forth four Crusade Fleets, tasking each with the same mission: protect the Shrine Worlds of the Ecclesiarchy. So were the Aurilla, Ophelia VII, Dachsus and Orteg III Crusades launched. Confronted with Renegades, Chaos Cultists and daemons beyond count, the Black Templars proved equal to the task despite great losses.War of Beasts (001.-025.M42) - The Black Templars sent a company-strength formation to the strategically located world of Vigilus to protect it from assault by Chaos and xenos forces who wanted to use it to remove one of the only known ways to cross the Great Rift between the Imperium Sanctus and the Imperium Nihilus.Mephistari Crusade (Unknown Date.M42) - The Mephistari Crusade was a crusade of the Black Templars.Assault on Krostein (Unknown Date.M42) - The Black Templars set out to put down the cultist army of a planet-wide rebellion on the Hive World of Krostein. The Renegades' sorcerous leaders escaped the initial strikes and hid themselves in the densely populated hive cities, where they summoned daemonic allies to start the battles afresh. Battling through the narrow manufactoria streets, the Black Templars found their foes replaced as quickly as they could be slain. In a true test of their faith and dedication, the Black Templars were forced to completely exterminate the local population in order to overcome the threat.Rutherian Crusade (Talledus War) (Unknown Date.M42) - The Rutherian Crusade is a Black Templars Crusade that was launched sometime after the birth of the Great Rift during the Era Indomitus. Castellan Dramos led a strike force of the crusade to aid in the defence of the Talledus System, which has been assaulted by the forces of Chaos, including elements of six Traitor Legions led by the Word Bearers Dark Apostle Kor Phaeron. Castellan Dramos led his Gladius strike force to aid the defence of the Fortress World of Ghreddask in the Talledus System alongside a cadre of Imperial Knights from House Mortan, commanded by the dour yet ferocious Sir Dirkwald. After arrival in the system, Dramos scanned the latest tactical cogitations broadcast from Ghreddask's polar citadel known as the Fortress Resolve. The situation was grim. The Iron Warriors were besieging that fortress, pouring daemonic forces against its shield-walls while their siege tanks kept up a relentless bombardment. Yet the true threat, Dramos quickly intuited, was the Soul Harvester Scarax Krond. As long as the Soul Harvester's Daemonforge was operational, the Traitors could replenish their forces indefinitely. Strike Force Dawnhammer deployed in a decisive attack upon the Soul Harvester. The warriors of House Mortan made for the surface of Ghreddask in their fortified bulwark-landers, the heavily armoured vessels shrugging off reams of flak fire. Sir Dirkwald led a frontal assault upon the Scarax Krond. From the parapets of the Soul Harvester, the Iron Warriors poured a stream of fire down upon the advancing Loyalists. While the Knights drew the attention of the Chaos defenders, squads of Inceptors descended upon the Soul Harvester like living comets, burning through the upper atmosphere and locking coordinates upon the pulsing shell of the Scarax Krond. They struck home with shattering force, breaching holes in the fleshmetal carapace with demolition charges, even as they fended off flocks of fire-spitting Heldrakes. Castellan Dramos led the assault into the heart of the Scarax Krond, battling through the innards of the iron monster, alongside a retinue of veteran crusaders. This assault team suffered grievous losses as the Iron Warriors assailed them at every turn, but in an act of self-sacrifice that would mark their names in the honour-scrolls of their order, Dramos and his Command Squad managed to detonate a cyclonic charge at the heart of the structure. The resulting Warp explosion swept through the Soul Harvester, immolating Loyalist and Heretic alike and blasting its assembly halls and charnel-factories to atoms. The Scarax Krond convulsed and thrashed its metal tendrils like a wounded animal, but its daemonic furnaces would not be snuffed out so easily. Dramos' sacrifice had bought the defenders of Ghreddask precious time, but the planet's fate still hung in the balance.