Black Consuls - Chapter History: The Black Consuls is a Primogenitor Successor Chapter of the Ultramarines. The Black Consuls was originally the 77th Chapter of the Ultramarines Legion, and it was founded by their first Chapter Master Arrias Cordos, also known as the "Bane of Lorgar."As true sons of Roboute Guilliman, they have appeared numerous times throughout the long history of the Imperium, ever ready to stand in defiance of the enemies of the Emperor.The battle-brothers of this Chapter were known to have made regular pilgrimages to the Shrine of the Primarch on Macragge before Guilliman's resurrection, and several past Black Consuls Chapter Masters were counted amongst the most valued counselors to the Master of Macragge.The Black Consuls fought alongside their Progenitor Chapter on hundreds of occasions as well as other Ultramarines Primogenitor Chapters and many other Space Marine units.The Black Consuls was originally a fleet-based Chapter whose space-borne fortress-monastery, the Noctis Obscurum, was destroyed nearly a millennium ago in the 40th Millennium by Drukhari saboteurs.With the destruction of their star fort, the Black Consuls relocated groundside to the planet Cyclopia in the Calixis Sector of the Segmentum Obscurus and avenged their dishonour in a 300-standard-year xenocidal purge that spanned fifteen star systems and collapsed an entire sub-dimension of the Webway.The Black Consuls' last recorded action before their supposed destruction was during the Siege of Goddeth Hive in 455.M41, where the Chapter was believed to have been annihilated when Chaos Space Marines of the Iron Warriors Traitor Legion detonated the hive's nucleonic stacks and vaporised much of the northern continent.A definitive account of the Chapter's disappearance has yet to be chronicled, although the White Consuls suspected their brother Chapter might have been entirely wiped out by a substantial force of Word Bearers Traitor Marines. Even if the bulk of the Black Consuls were annihilated, some of the Chapter's battle-brothers undoubtedly survived, scattered across the width and breadth of the Imperium while assigned to various detached duties.Imperial records show that a small force of Black Consuls were operating within the Jericho Reach following the launch of the Achilus Crusade in 777.M41. Due to the vagaries of Warp travel and communication, it took several solar decades for word of the Chapter's reported demise to reach those of its Astartes serving in this isolated sector of the galaxy's Eastern Fringe.Upon hearing the foreboding news, the remaining Black Consuls took council and every battle-brother was allowed to speak. When they concluded the gathering they agreed that a single Astartes of their number would be despatched to investigate the truth of the Chapter's fate and bring back word to his brothers.The remainder of the Black Consuls would continue to fight on, fulfilling their binding oaths to serve the crusade until the messenger returned. Nearly 250 standard years have passed, and still no word had reached the remaining Black Consuls as to the true fate of their Chapter in the early 9th century of the 41st Millennium.The Black Consuls continued to fight the enemies of Mankind within the Jericho Reach as part of the Achilus Crusade, even as their numbers dwindled due to attrition.While they had yet to learn of their Chapter's true fate, many battle-brothers of the Black Consuls were resigned to the fact that they might very well be the last of their Chapter. These warriors continued to fight to the death, determined that the history of their Chapter would be one that ended in glorious battle.But since the events that occurred centuries ago during the Siege of Goddeth Hive, there were several unconfirmed reports of Black Consul's strike cruisers launching sudden, deadly interventions across the Segmentum Pacificus that had been filtering back to Terra.