Sable Swords - Notable Campaigns: Fury of the Space Marines (626.M32) - In 546.M32, after the departure of Lord Commander of the Imperium Maximus Thane and his Imperial Fists Chapter, the internecine politics of the Imperium took a calamitous turn when the High Lords of Terra were slain to a man on the orders of Drakan Vangorich, the Grand Master of the Officio Assassinorum, and newly-instilled Lord Proctor. This lamentable period of history came to be known as The Beheading, which occurred in 546.M32. Though aware of the events that had occurred within the Senatorum Imperialis, Thane chose to temporarily ignore Vangorich's actions for the time being, and gave him a chance to rule the Imperium effectively, for once. At first, all was well, as the Imperium refortified itself and the 4th Founding successfully took place. But after nearly 80 standard years of rule, the Lord Protector had displayed troubling behaviour and paranoia. Seeing enemies everywhere, he called for unnecessary purges and massacres, which only seemed to grow in number on a daily basis. Receiving troubling reports from abroad, Maximus Thane decided that the Imperial Fists would return to Terra to remove the troublesome Vangorich. When the Crusade finally arrived back at Terra, four hundred Space Marines were dispatched to the capital world's surface. A company each from two of the newly founded Chapters, the Sable Swords and Halo Brethren, as well as two hundred Imperial Fists of the 1st, 4th and 5th Companies would take part in the efforts to remove Vangorich from power. The commander of the strike force, Qublicus Amar, lord of the Sable Swords, was assassinated by a Vindicare Assassin's bullet soon after making planetfall. Seeing no other choice, the remaining Space Marines commenced their attack nevertheless. Assailed by hundreds of Assassins, the Space Marines lost half their number securing the Imperial Palace from the agents of the Officio Assassinorum. Confronting the Inquisitorial Representative, the elderly Wienand, she convinced Maximus Thane of her loyalty, and gave the Chapter Master the necessary intelligence he needed in order to find and remove the mad tyrant Vangorich from power. The Grand Master of Assassins had taken refuge in the Eversor Temple at Terra's North Pole. Moving the retribution force there at once, the Space Marines proceeded with their attack. Within the Eversor Temple, the Space Marines were assailed by a hundred Eversor Assassins. Only Thane managed to survive, to reach the Grand Master and deliver the Emperor's judgement with his Bolt Pistol. In the aftermath of Vangorich's fall, the Imperium would proceed to descend into a period of anarchy for some time.Larical's Folly Campaign and the Defence of Obsidia (Unknown Date.M41) - While the bulk of the Chapter was engaged against the Aeldari Swordwind on the world of Larical's Folly, the Sable Sword's homeworld of Obsidia came under assault from the Twisted Convocation, a massive Chaos warband of mutants. The small group of Sable Swords left on Obsidia valiantly defended their homeworld, but were only saved from destruction by the heroic intervention of the Novamarines Chapter. For rendering aid, the Sable Swords swore a solemn oath of eternal debt, to one day repay the Novamarines when they needed aid.The Fall of Rogue's Spire (954.M41) - WAAAGH! Dethrekka descended upon the sparsely defended planet of Rogue's Spire. Only the courageous fighting retreat conducted by the Sable Swords Chapter allowed the Explorator and Adeptus Mechanicus research teams to escape the Greenskins.Cleansing of Eldritch (998.M41) - Three companies of the Sable Swords carried out an Exterminatus upon the world of Eldritch, which had been discovered to be a Necron Tomb World.Search for Noiran (998.M41) - The Sable Swords' Captain Noiran went missing at some time in the late 41st Millennium in a skirmish with Aeldari pirates in the Augran Nebula. All evidence pointed to his survival, and by 998.M41 Codicier Sundic was still searching for the missing officer.Zeist Campaign (303.999.M41) - Though founded in the latter years of the 41st Millennium, the Sable Swords have swiftly proven themselves the equal of more established Space Marine Chapters with a series of decisive victories over the upstart T'au Empire. The Sable Swords heeded the call of the Ultramarines' Lord Macragge in the Eastern Fringe of the galaxy, and provided Tactical Squads to fight for the liberation of the Tau-occupied world of Augura (a staging point for the Tau forces during their Third Sphere Expansion campaign into Imperial space) during the Zeist Campaign in 999.M41.