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Crimson Legion - Crimson Legion: Crimson LegionSpace MarineChapterBlood AngelsFoundingCreated as they were from the Blood Angels' gene-seed, they carried the genetic flaws inherited from Sanguinius.Like many of their contemporary Successor Chapters founded in later centuries, the Crimson Legion was greatly affected by the genetic flaws of their Blood Angels' heritage, the Black Rage and the Red Thirst.When a Battle-Brother fell to the throes of the Black Rage he was placed within the ranks of the Chapter's Death Company.Unlike their forebears, the Crimson Legion was known to take a much harsher, punitive attitude to their battle-lost brothers, hurling their Death Companies into battle with no concern for their lives and using them as a blunt instrument to break enemy front lines no matter the cost.This Chapter displayed such merciless disregard many times across the span of millennia.
Crimson Legion - Chapter Colours: The Crimson Legion's Chapter colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Crimson Legion - Chapter Badge: The Crimson Legion's Chapter badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Crimson Paladins - Crimson Paladins: This article is about the Crimson Paladins Chapter; for the Blood Angels Legion's Order of the First Sphere active during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy era, see Crimson Paladins (Blood Angels).The Crimson Paladins is a Loyalist Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding.The name of the Chapter's homeworld is Fortress, and its fortress-monastery is known as Honour Hold.Much of this fortress is below ground as added protection against orbital strikes.
Crimson Paladins - Notable Campaigns: Destruction of Cavlock (905.M41) - Inquisitor Valeria discovered the Dimensional Forge in the salt caverns of the world of Cavlock. Before she could recover this wondrous alien artefact, a Daemon-infested space hulk crashed into the world, causing massive destruction and disgorging a horde of screaming Daemons onto the planet's surface. Valeria took command of Cavlock's defence forces, and immediately summoned assistance but, disrupted by the onset of Warp Storms, the Imperial counterattack took time to gather momentum. By the time reinforcements arrived -- a demi-brotherhood of Grey Knights, two companies of Silver Skulls and twelve regiments of Cadian Shock Troopers -- Valeria's forces had been forced to yield the snow-covered plains in favour of reinforcing the hive cities. The Imperial reinforcements took less than a solar day to change the fortunes of war. Acting in concert with the Silver Skulls, the Grey Knights slew many of the Greater Daemons at the head of the horde. Nevertheless, the Daemons remained too numerous to defeat, and further forces were drawn to Cavlock's defence: Astra Militarum regiments from Mordian and Armageddon, Space Marines of the Legion of Night and Crimson Paladins Chapters, and even a small contingent of Asuryani from the Alaitoc craftworld, who were doubtlessly pursuing their own goals under cover of the wider war. After solar weeks of unremitting campaign, the Imperial forces finally began to gain ground against the Daemons. By the time Inquisitor Emil Darkhammer arrived on Cavlock, three solar months after the daemonic incursion had begun, the battle was all but won. Nonetheless, Darkhammer, a staunchly Puritan Inquisitor with a vicious distrust of all things alien, issued the Exterminatus order that reduced Cavlock to a burnt cinder. Of the billions of warriors and civilians sill alive on Cavlock at the time of the bombardment, only a few hundred escaped. One was Inquisitor Valeria, who was thrown aboard the last departing shuttle by a faithful Acolyte. Perceiving that the chief motivation behind Darkhammer's precipitate act had been the destruction of the Dimensional Forge, rather than the cessation of the daemonic incursion, she declared Darkhammer to be Excommunicate Traitoris and swore to bring him to account.
Crimson Paladins - Chapter Colours: The Crimson Paladins primarily wear crimson power armour, which includes the helmet, shoulder plates, torso and groin area. The power pack, shoulder plate trim, arms and legs are red.The white squad specialty symbol -- battleline, close support, fire support, Veteran or command -- is indicated on the right shoulder plate.A black High Gothic numeral centred on the squad specialty symbol indicates squad number. The white High Gothic numeral on the left knee plate indicates company number.
Crimson Paladins - Chapter Badge: The Crimson Paladins' Chapter badge is a large white skull with an ebon Maltese Cross located on its forehead, on a field of crimson.
Crimson Paladins (Blood Angels) - Crimson Paladins (Blood Angels): The Crimson Paladins, also known as the Keruvim, or the "Storm Winds," for the sudden onset of their anger and the lasting fervour of their hate, was an Order of the First Sphere of the Blood Angels Space Marine Legion during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras.They served as the guardians of the primarch's halls and sanctums. At Sanguinius' command, they also at times served in the field as an elite formation of the IXth Legion.Like all of the Orders of the First Sphere, the Crimson Paladins forsook their original names and ranks to assume a new identity that erased all sense of self to better focus on the duties assigned to them.The Crimson Paladins no longer exist within the present-day Blood Angels Chapter or its successors.
Crimson Paladins (Blood Angels) - Notable Crimson Paladins: Barbiel - Barbiel was the leader of the Crimson Paladins at the time of the Battle of Signus Prime. Barbiel defended the wreck of the Blood Angels flagship Red Tear on Signus Prime, his great hammer dripped with the ichor of slain Daemons.Hamonah - Venerable Hamonah once was the Lord of the Storm Winds and Principal of the Crimson Paladins. He participated in the Battle of Signus Prime in the chassis of the mighty Dreadnought Keruvim.Jophial - Jophial was a capable sculptor and continued to work marble even after he was interred in the sarcophagus of a Leviathan Dreadnought. Venerable-Exemplar Jophial was aboard the Red Tear, still engaged with enemy forces in the outer compartments, when that venerable warship slammed into the surface of Signus Prime. It is a testament to the formidable armour of his Dreadnought chassis that Jophial survived the impact of the crash landing, and a tribute to his valour that he was among the first of the survivors to dig himself free and secure the area around the wreck. After serving a vital role in recovery operations, the indomitable Ancient would go on to serve as a linchpin in the defence of the wreck.
Crimson Paladins (Blood Angels) - Unit Composition: 2 Crimson Paladins1 Crimson Exemplar
Crimson Paladins (Blood Angels) - Crimson Paladin: Cataphractii Pattern Terminator ArmourPower Weapon (Any type)Coriolis Pattern Power Shield
Crimson Paladins (Blood Angels) - Optional Wargear: Equinox Power Blade (Sunset Blade)Iliastus Pattern Assault CannonHeavy FlamerPlasma BlasterPower Fist
Crimson Paladins (Blood Angels) - Crimson Exemplar: Cataphractii Pattern Terminator ArmourPower Weapon (Any type)Coriolis Pattern Power ShieldBlade of Perdition (As replacement for Power Weapon and Coriolis Pattern Power Shield)Grenade Harness
Crimson Path - Crimson Path: The Crimson Path is the overall strategic plan of Abaddon the Despoiler, the Warmaster of Chaos and Chaos Lord of the Black Legion, to lead the forces of Chaos from the Eye of Terror all the way to Holy Terra itself in the final days of the 41st Millennium.Abaddon intends to succeed where his predecessor Horus failed, breaking the Imperial Palace wide open and tearing the Emperor's rotting corpse from the Golden Throne. Over the millennia, each of his conquests and Black Crusades has gradually paved the way from the Eye of Terror towards the Sol System, despite this grand design often being oblivious to the Imperium's defenders.Less obvious, however, is that along that path, his actions have gradually weakened the veil between realspace and the Warp, assisting the birth of the Great Rift after the successful conquest of the Fortress World of Cadia during the 13th Black Crusade in ca. 999.M41.It is for this reason that the servants of Chaos now also sometimes refer to the Great Rift itself as the "Crimson Path."
Crimson Raptors - Crimson Raptors: The Crimson Raptors are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of an unknown Founding and genetic origin. Their homeworld is named Bloodpeak.Th Crimson Raptors have been active in many of the conflicts of the Era Indomitus.
Crimson Raptors - Notable Campaigns: War of the Prosperan Rift - Chancyll Suppression (Unknown Date.M42) - After the opening of the Great Rift, the Prosperan Rift became rife with war. Across multiple star systems, forces of Chaos loyal to the Daemon Primarch Magnus the Red and his divine master Tzeentch fought to expand Magnus' psychic haven in realspace centred on Sortiarius which had been moved through the use of a sorcerous ritual from the Eye of Terror to a position above his lost homeworld of Prospero. Populations rose up against their Imperial overlords and the beleaguered soldiery of the Imperium desperately fought back. At the world of Chancyll, the Crimson Raptors deployed 4 demi-companies to support the Adeptus Astartes of the Dragonspears and Knights of Doom, the Sisters of Battle of the Order of the Bloody Rose and the Order of the Blessed Martyr, the Astra Militarum troops of the Chancyllian Cannoneers, Chancyllian Musketry, Chancyllian Lightfoot and Praetorian Hussars regiments, and the Imperial Knights of House Brahmica and House Hawkwood.Pariah Nexus (Unknown Date.M42) - The Crimson Raptors are known to have participated in this campaign.Octarius War (Unknown Date.M42) - The Crimson Raptors were confirmed to have been present in this warzone, although due to the Adeptus Astartes' total operational autonomy it's unclear how long they stayed and how many forces they committed.
Crimson Raptors - Chapter Colours: The Crimson Raptors' Chapter colours are not listed in current Imperial records.
Crimson Raptors - Chapter Badge: The Crimson Raptors' Chapter badge is an eagle's head.
Crimson Sabres - Crimson Sabres: Crimson SabresSpace MarineChapterFounding13th "Dark Founding"The Chapter's reputation was built on ruthless efficiency and fastidious adherence to the Codex Astartes. Soon enough, signs that things were awry appeared in the Chapter's history. These problems culminated with the genocidal war on Umidia.This world proved to be the fulcrum of change for the Crimson Sabres. The fighting there proved so intense that it changed the Chapter, as its battle-brothers found themselves cursed by the Chaos God Khorne, forever haunted by the fell voices of the slain even after the combat had ended. They attempted to cleanse themselves and silence the voices howling in their minds by assaulting their future foes with an almost blatant disregard for honour or mercy.As a result they soon found themselves declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the High Lords of Terra. Determined to sell themselves dearly, the Crimson Sabres turned to the Eye of Terror, where they planned to die fighting the enemies of Mankind and so reclaim their honour.However, the Chapter was wracked by mutation and eventually corrupted into full-fledged Chaos Space Marines during their sojourn in the Eye. Renamed the Crimson Slaughter, the voices which plague them can no longer be silenced except by the most obscene levels of carnage, and wherever they go they are presaged by a bow wave of Warp-spawned horror.
Crimson Sabres - A Growing Estrangement: Even a small stone can cause many ripples. Although outwardly everything was the same after the minor rift that later came to be known to the Crimson Sabres as the Amalgamathian Schism, it set off a chain of events that was to have wider repercussions.Within solar days, the Crimson Sabres stronghold of Decavitum received words of censure from Terra, and most probably from their Founding Chapter as well, although no records remain. This was little more than remonstrance, a lesser rebuke that let it be known that failure to properly acclaim the Dark Angels and Blood Angels had brought the Crimson Sabres dishonour, a tarnish that did not sit well with their gloried predecessors.The leadership of the Crimson Sabres –- the Chapter's High Council of Company Masters and senior officers known as the Sword Council -- ordered a tribunal to investigate the matter. None wished the Crimson Sabres' deeds to be questioned and Chapter Master Nigellus was alarmed to learn that some of the group feared further Imperial censure.Concerned with what he felt was a growing element of unwarranted paranoia, Nigellus was outraged. To his mind, he felt the Crimson Sabres had followed procedure and acted swiftly and correctly in responding to the threat. If there was any misconduct it was not by his Chapter. Furthermore, any perceived slight to the First Founding Chapters' honour was unintentional and petty. They were all serving the same Emperor and fighting the same enemy were they not?Nigellus was determined to shed his Chapter's growing self-doubt and make a statement. In a bold move, he declared the Crimson Sabres would sever all ties to their brother Space Marine Chapters, including their founders. They would be loyal to the tactical guidelines laid out by the Codex Astartes and follow uncompromisingly all orders as issued by the High Lords of Terra.To all others, they would be unanswerable. By Nigellus' straightforward logic this was as it should be -- for their mission of service must not be corrupted by the influence of their comrades. Was it not dogged faithfulness to the Warmaster Horus that had allowed half of the original Space Marine Legions to be led astray? In this action, he sought to free the Crimson Sabres from faulty judgement and therefore all reproach.
Crimson Sabres - Born Again: At first, the Crimson Sabres maintained great pride in their resolve, but slowly, self-doubt began to gnaw at many within the Chapter. Never one to brook dissent, Nigellus banned all further debate on the matter and any mention of the deeds of the Amalgamathian Schism was forbidden. Although the Crimson Sabres remained resolute in their convictions, the break with their primogenitors was far from easy. Much of their Chapter lore had to be reconfigured so that no mention of their founders appeared in their history.Over and over, the Librarians and Chaplains were ordered to scrub clean all evidence of their forebears, and Rhoghon was scoured of statues, heirloom suits of power armour, and any relics of their ancient past that predated the Founding of their Chapter. Amongst the star-faring Chapter fleet, strike cruisers were renamed and the training regimen of the 10th Company was reconstructed anew. In essence, the Crimson Sabres were reborn -- new defenders of the Imperium, unencumbered by any ties to the distant past.Only in the Sanctum of the Sword, the innermost chambers of the tallest tower of Decavitum, their Chapter stronghold and fortress-monastery, was the Chapter's full history locked away. There it was decreed that the truth of the Crimson Sabres' birthright and the full history of their deeds would be kept. The sanctum was accessible only to the Chapter's senior officers -- the captains of each company, along with the senior Chaplains and Librarians.Beneath Nigellus' stern leadership, the Crimson Sabres were zealous in their duty. If any rumour or ill feeling towards the Chapter remained amongst any agents of the Adeptus Terra, this was soon forgotten. The red-armoured Space Marines firmly established a reputation for swift efficiency, being regarded as warriors of unimpeachable conduct.Indeed, their rigorous obedience to the Codex Astartes, for they followed its guidelines to the letter, earned them many commendations for their rapid actions. However, deeper within the Crimson Sabres, something dark was brooding.
Crimson Sabres - A Growing Righteousness: For over a hundred standard years, Nigellus served as Chapter Master. He was uncompromising and quick to action, for he knew well the tenets of the Codex Astartes and followed them to perfection. In the pursuit of faultlessness, Nigellus instilled a new cult of extreme rigour within the Crimson Sabres.It was not enough for each mission to be successful; it had to be faultless, executed more swiftly, and properly detailed and recorded. It was a great loss to the Chapter when Nigellus was slain in action during the Fornstadt Rebellion. Arnoch succeeded Nigellus as Chapter Master of the Crimson Sabres, but the new traditions he had established lived on.If anything, the Chapter became yet more fervent and exacting in its strict adherence to orders. Arnoch became known as "the Intransigent" –- a title that would be used to describe all the Chapter Masters that followed.In one of his first acts, Arnoch the Intransigent sought to further banish their hidden past, wary of how others might judge the Chapter. He made the decision to seal all entrances to the Sanctum of the Sword. Not only did it lock away evidence of a perceived imperfection, but it was also his declaration that the past was over and a new era begun.More eager to prove themselves than ever, the Crimson Sabres conducted operations with undeniable precision. Over many centuries, their battle records were exemplary. They gained particular distinction in the Zobrist Wars, hunting down the piratical Aeldari, and also drew many commendations for leading the spearhead attacks during the Deadstar Battles. In both cases, their allies -- who included many battalions and armoured divisions of Tallarn Desert Raiders along with the Black Templars -- are noted in official documentation as praising the Crimson Sabres.Off the record, however, the truth was rather different. The Crimson Sabres were efficient and trustworthy, yet when the battle was over, they were self-righteous and fastidious. Allied commanders, whether subordinates or many ranks more senior, received post-battle reports of great detail. These inevitably pointed out where allied forces had failed to meet proper standards.For other Space Marines, any deviation from the Codex Astartes brought even longer datascrolls -- long lists of observed compliances that failed to follow the tactical or organisational guidelines set forth by Roboute Guilliman.While their demands for meticulous detail, contingency plans and exact protocol ultimately helped win many battles for the Imperium, it also estranged the Crimson Sabres from those they fought alongside. All of their previous conflicts, however, were precursors to the Chapter's role in the Redemption Crusades.
Crimson Sabres - Whispers in the Dark: The Crimson Sabres had departed Umidia long before the Inquisitorial teams arrived to document the carnage that wholly eliminated its native population. However, the slaughter they had wrought was already beginning to have a strange effect upon the Crimson Sabres. At first, none of the Space Marines mentioned any of their untoward experiences to each other -- each feeling as if, perhaps, he was simply having some sort of post-battle melancholia.Many felt unusual symptoms -- their multiple hearts racing to peak levels for no purpose, or the onset of a growing sense of foreboding, as if some unseen fog was closing in all around them. A rising pressure weighed heavily upon their minds. Even before the mission on Umidia was fully complete and the Crimson Sabres returned to their orbiting fleet, some of their members were already feeling the first effects of what they would later call "the haunting".Individual members of the Chapter found that they could not properly clear their minds. No amount of litanies or meditations seemed to work. Thanks to their gene-seed organ implants and genetic modifications, Space Marines do not sleep as most Humans know it, but enter a comatose state that allows them to recharge their minds, even while their bodies remain alert.Yet the Crimson Sabres failed in attempt after attempt to reach that peaceful state. Rather than being able to relax, they visualised instead the faces of those they had killed, living over and over again their massacre.In an ever growing state of unrest, the most agitated of the Crimson Sabres began to hear voices -- the whispered words of the slain. The voices cajoled, taunted, or pleaded, while others screamed endlessly, or chanted indecipherable words that were painful to hear. No Space Marines yet broke -- for through training and superhuman discipline, their willpower was as impervious as their ceramite power armour.However, as the fleet entered the Warp, travelling towards their next destination, many of the Crimson Sabres felt their sanity slipping away. Hidden from their comrades, they clutched their hands to their heads in a futile effort to stop the voices.Since he had watched the slaughter on Umidia unfold, Chapter Master Sevastus Kranon too felt a growing unease. The Crimson Sabres were, of course, only following procedure -- the Imperium's response to Heretics was necessarily harsh -- but something felt very wrong.
Crimson Sabres - Desperate Course of Action: The Cadian Gate was the most stable route that was large enough to allow the passage of battlefleets into and out of the Eye of Terror. However, even before the fall of Cadia and the birth of the Noctis Aeterna it was neither easy to enter nor to leave that region -- for Imperial cordons surrounded that swirling mass of space, guarding against the raids, horrors, and Black Crusades that sporadically issue forth from its whirling depths.With the correct Imperial clearance codes, the seven-ship warfleet of the Crimson Sabres slipped past several of the layers of that restricted zone, eluding fortress-planets and orbital sentinel stations. But those that guarded the Eye of Terror were on constant alert and could not wholly be avoided. In their final run to enter restricted space, the Crimson Sabres could not avoid a brief clash with an Imperial Fists strike cruiser and supporting destroyer craft that had scrambled to block their entrance.The opposing fleets exchanged distant torpedo and Lance battery fire, and the Crimson Sabres were forced to repel a brief but fierce boarding action from their fellow Adeptus Astartes. This was not a battle that Kranon wished for, but with their heads filled with nightmare visions of slaughter and the horrible accusations of those they had slain, the Crimson Sabres reacted by rote, their training taking over as they simply fought off another foe.With only a single warship, the Red Horizon, damaged enough to trail debris while it listed slightly due to damage to its aetheric rudder, the Crimson Sabres at last left behind their pursuers and entered the most feared region of space in the galaxy.
Crimson Sabres - Renegade Wars: Onwards, into the Eye of Terror the Crimson Sabres steered their course, making all speed. Kranon knew that only by war could the spectral voices be drowned; only when their very armour dripped with gore would the voices cease. They had travelled long and the pent-up madness in their minds threatened to overload and burst forth at any moment.So it was that the Crimson Sabres descended upon the Eye of Terror with the unequalled fury of both the righteous and the psychotically enraged. They brought doom and in their hands they carried death and carnage. The first to feel the unbridled wrath of the Crimson Sabres were the outermost planets, those only partially contained by the swirling maelstrom.These were not full-fledged Daemon Worlds that bathed in the free-flowing powers of the Warp, but rather the refuge of the dispossessed -- the twisted home of mutants and the most successful of the Chaos Cultist rabble that had escaped persecution in the Imperium.These forsaken planets made fine recruiting grounds and hidden lairs for the many Renegade warbands of Chaos Space Marines. There, piratical raiders formed small armies that would launch plundering forays back into the Imperium. Whether witch or Abhuman, mutant or Chaos Space Marine -- all fell before the scythe that was the Crimson Sabres. With bolter and chainsword they unleashed retribution, fighting with a savage joy that, for a time, cleared their minds and souls.
Crimson Sabres - Descent to New Depths: Since the battle on Umidia, not all the Crimson Sabres went along with or accepted the growing corruption of their Chapter. A few of the most aggressive of these individuals were struck down as they attempted to forestall or prevent the massacres perpetrated by their brethren. However, even when filled with the red joy of slaughter, the Crimson Sabres were loath to slay their brothers.In most cases, those who attempted to rein in the rampant bloodshed, or even those who protested too loudly afterwards, were seized and thrown into holding cells aboard the Chapter's warships. One of these was Chapter Master Sevastus Kranon's own biological brother. Several more Crimson Sabres were clamped into irons after they rebelled against their brethren's growing mutations.A former Chaplain buckled as he realised a horrible new truth -- he was starting to enjoy the wanton slaying and he begged his compatriots to put him out of his misery. Chained and isolated, without massed killing to even temporarily drive out the voices that haunted them, most of those unfortunates succumbed to raving insanity. The lower levels of the Chapter's warships rang to the howling ravings of madmen, yet still the Crimson Sabres kept them incarcerated.
Crimson Sabres - Sabres No More: Kranon gathered about him a selection of his most trusted officers and those leaders of the Crimson Sabres who seemed to be coping the best with the onset of their curse. Into that tight circle came Company Masters Rangald and Sherdon and Veteran Sergeant Draznicht, along with the former Chaplain Okrark and Master Librarian Mannon. To them alone Kranon revealed his new frame of mind. He stated he meant to find some way to end the curse and to carve out a life rather than simply finding a way to end it with honour.In many ways, this was a final acceptance of their rebellion -- intentional or not -- from the Imperium. Where Kranon had half-expected to find resentment, anger and confrontation, he found only a feeling of mutual relief. Each of the gathered leaders of the Crimson Sabres had also felt the pang of regret as they prepared to sacrifice their lives in battle. They were following Kranon out of duty and vows, aspects that had controlled their lives fully for many standard years, but now seemed hollow.Each of the officers expressed his own version, justifying that they no longer sought to martyr themselves for the very cause that had so quickly -- and erroneously -- judged them. None of them, not even Kranon, mentioned that the inner voices that tormented each of them had been spewing long diatribes along similar lines for some time now. It was as if each was steeling his mind, willing themselves to believe that the whispered words of enticement had washed over harmlessly, that their decisions were entirely their own.Thus began a new stage, as a growing circle of confidants began planning how best to bring the rest of the Chapter along with them. They also agreed on the best ways to deal with those who insisted upon remaining loyal to their pledges to the Imperium and the Emperor. One way, or another, the Crimson Sabres would be no more.
Crimson Sabres - Crimson Fracture: Not until every aspect of the plot was ripe did Kranon give the command. The Chapter had gone ten long solar days without battle before they were unleashed to maul a rabble enclave they discovered upon a drifting space hulk. So vast was the derelict spacecraft that it took three solar days to clear. As the sated Space Marines returned from their latest butchery, they were immediately summoned once more into the great Sabre Hall upon the flagship, Red Honour.There, squad by squad and company by company, they formed up, waiting for their brethren to arrive, waiting to hear the words of their leader. Despite their gore-slick armour, and the viscera that still dripped from their close combat weapons, each of the red-armoured superhumans was content. Aboard the derelict vessel -- a hulk designated Lost Hope -- had been hundreds of dark pilgrims, worshippers of the Dark Gods lured into the Eye of Terror with false promises of power. Their deaths had drowned out the voices, at least for the time being.Kranon addressed his battle-brothers -- asking them how long had they fought in the Eye of Terror. Once, he had told the Chapter that they had been brave enough to follow him into the most dreadful place in the galaxy. Now he asked them to have the courage to follow him out. Kranon announced that he no longer served the Imperium. Instead, he would seek a cure to halt the madness that had grown in his mind. The Crimson Sabres were dead, he told them, claiming the very name the Imperial agents had pinned upon them for their acts on Umidia and Demetra. From now on, he would lead the Crimson Slaughter.What followed was brief, but bloody. To some score of Space Marines this was a final blow. They heard the words of sedition and, looking around them, saw that which they had foresworn to destroy. Kranon's war council had already earmarked who the likely Loyalists would be and stationed their own supporters nearby, with guns already aimed.Less fought than expected, and the action was swiftly over. Once again, their lives had changed forever. Another line had been crossed, another decision had been taken from which there could be no turning back. So did the Crimson Slaughter step forward and of their own free will choose to stride down the path of damnation.
Crimson Sabres - Chapter Homeworld: The Brakatoa System was first colonised in the early stages of Mankind's Age of Technology. Though distant from Terra, a "drift channel" in the Warp allowed for easy travel to the region. The star system was ideal, for it grouped a dozen inhabitable planets within a compact orbit.During the ever-growing Warp Storms that ushered in the Age of Strife in the 25th Millennium, all contact was lost with the Brakatoa System. It was not until thousands of standard years later, late in the Age of Forging, that the storms cleared sufficiently so that Explorator fleets could once more push into that region, now defined as the galactic south of the Segmentum Tempestus.What the Imperium found was that a few of the planets still had Human populations: the outermost planet Rhoghon with its twin moons, as well as Raamdhon, Drogsh, and Rynn's End. Yet as close as these planets were to each other they had lost touch with all outside worlds.During the long millennia of Old Night, Terra, the birthplace of Humanity, had become but rumour and legend. All three planets had regressed and were ruled by feudal warlords -- brutal, but fair men, who fought bravely to fight off Orks and other xenos raiders. Anxious to reclaim the mineral-rich Brakatoa System, the Imperium sent out vast colonisation expeditions. The outermost planet, Rhoghon, was a "Shield World" -- so called because its orbit protected the rest of the inhabitable worlds.
Crimson Sabres - Fortress-Monastery: It was on Rhoghon that the newly founded Crimson Sabres built their stronghold -- the fortress-monastery of cerusion iron known as Decavitum, or "ten victories" in the native language.Built into the side of a mountain, its ten towers soared even higher than the snow-capped peak. Upon Rhoghon's moons the Crimson Sabres established a pair of naval bases, including the orbital docks required for their sizeable fleet.
Crimson Sabres - Fall of Rhoghon: During the Age of Redemption, a time marked by many Imperial Crusades, the Imperium launched countless campaigns in an effort to purge away the sins of the previous Age of Apostasy. Many long-lost worlds and new star systems were added to the Imperium's control during the Redemption Crusades.It was while the majority of the Crimson Sabres were on campaign near the Veiled Region that word reached them that the Brakatoa System had fallen into near-collapse. It is believed by the Ordo Malleus that the Brakatoa eruption began with the emergence of the supercluster space hulk codenamed The Misery. Its long-awaited appearance in realspace was the sign for Chaos Cultists to rise up across the system.Dating back to when the Explorator fleets first rediscovered the star system, the region was rife with cults. Although the Ecclesiarchy had done their best -- erecting several great cathedrals dedicated to the Emperor -- they had never fully succeeded in wiping out such organisations as the Cult of the Carmine Truth or the Mist-druids.Upon Rhoghon, many of the feudal keeps from which the Crimson Sabres drew recruits housed secret factions. These rose up, seizing control of many of the great strongholds. Through their sudden wars and foul rituals, portals to the Warp were opened and Daemons poured forth across all of Brakatoa. With their fleet many sectors distant, there was little the Crimson Sabres could do to halt The Misery.Soon the massive space hulk was orbiting Rhoghon, the Warp-pilgrims ferrying to the planet to bolster the rising cult armies. An army of half-trained Scouts, Veterans recovering from wounds, and Dreadnoughts too slow to awaken when the Crimson Sabres left en masse were all that was left to confront the cultist hordes.Were it not for the Daemons, the makeshift Space Marine forces might have held out long enough. As it was, the end was cruel for those Crimson Sabres that were caught. With their requests for aid denied, the master of the 10th Company succeeded in detonating the ancient reactors leading to a cataclysmic rad-explosion that scoured the world. All records of the Crimson Sabres' past and the truth of their origins were lost, buried beneath their ruined stronghold.
Crimson Sabres - Rise and Doom of Drogsh: The Crimson Sabres re-established themselves upon the neighboring Brakatoa System world of Drogsh to re-build their numbers. For the next millennium the Crimson Sabres continued to do their duty. But following their fateful campaigns on Umidia and Demetra Librarians brought Chapter Master Sevastus Kranon messages intercepted from the High Lords of Terra that the Crimson Sabres had been declared Excommunicate Traitoris.Kranon knew that his fleet would never bring warning to Drogsh before the Imperial forces reached it. Kranon debated not sending a warning to his Chapter's doomed homeworld, for he knew the Imperium would reach it before he could, and the inevitable ruthless extermination campaign that would surely follow.Kranon ordered his Librarians to send an astropathic message warning his fellow brethren to flee before the wrath of the Imperium, for the Crimson Sabres would now be hunted without mercy. Whether they escaped or some other fate befell them, Kranon never knew.In truth, the Crimson Sabres' homeworld of Drogsh was seized by the Imperium and everyone connected to the Chapter slain by the agents of the Inquisition. Only a handful of Scouts, under the command of the master of the 10th Company, Murdok, escaped.
Crimson Sabres - Return to Rhoghon: Following their excommunication after the genocide committed on Demetra, Chapter Master Kranon ordered his Chapter to set course for the Eye of Terror in a suicidal campaign to seek glorious martyrdom. When Kranon changed his mind years later and abandoned their cause, Captain Dzarton, master of the 4th Company, departed, taking with him many of the warriors of his former company and the warship Pride of Rhoghon.He swore that if they ever met their Traitor brethren again they would do so as foes. Captain Dzarton and his fifty-nine followers of the 4th Company re-established a secret base upon their old homeworld of Rhoghon. It was still rad-contaminated, but it was Dzarton's hope to restore the Loyalist Crimson Sabres upon it.
Crimson Sabres - The Lost Hope: While within the Eye of Terror, the newly-renamed Crimson Slaughter warband discovered a massive floating space hulk, designated the Lost Hope by the Imperium, and they turned the drifting colossus into a new base of operations. With help from Fabius Bile, great laboratories have been set up aboard the Lost Hope. Row after row of chem-vats grow the organs that will be transplanted into aspirants to transform them into initiates.Following multiple raids into the realms of the Imperium and their confrontation with the hated Dark Angels Chapter, the Crimson Slaughter returned to their base and found that the space hulk had further transformed. It was now the size of a large moon and more nightmarish than ever, an amalgamation of contorted shipwrecks and twisted spires.Sane attackers would quail before the Lost Hope, for it was bedecked with gun towers and protruding spikes, thorny clusters on which Boarding Torpedoes would skewer themselves. Protruding from the structure were tendrils, although whether the grasping tentacles were mechanical or belonged to daemonic or mutant beasts attached to the hull was unknown. None of the Crimson Slaughter wished to drift close enough to find out.The bulk of the Crimson Slaughter had been gone for less than a Terran year, but solar decades had passed within the Eye of Terror. The Techmarines who had remained aboard the space hulk had left behind the limiting technology of the Omnissiah and embraced the blending of machine with the energies of the Immaterium. They were Warpsmiths now, and they had laboured long on the Lost Hope.Some, like Brother Grankus, were more metal than flesh; their bodies covered with fused mechanoid elements that had minds of their own. A few, like Brother Sartok, gave themselves wholly to the Lost Hope, becoming living flesh engines bound into the conglomerate hulk.Worse things still haunted the lower decks, for they had become the hunting grounds for strange mutated beasts and Warp-born monsters. These creatures served their purpose, however; only those recruits that survived against such terrors would be allowed to continue their initiation.
Crimson Sabres - Chapter Fleet: Red Honour (Battle Barge) - Former Chapter Flagship of the Crimson Sabres Chapter.Pride of Rhoghon (Strike Cruiser) - Remaining vessel of the Loyalist 4th Company of the Crimson Sabres.Red Horizon (Strike Cruiser)
Crimson Sabres - Chapter Colours: The Crimson Sabres' power armour was crimson-red with white shoulder plates and backpack. It is known that the Crimson Sabres closely followed the recommendations of the Codex Astartes in their choice of insignia and squad markings; however, exact details are now hard to ascertain.Since their fall from service to the Emperor, the millennia-old heraldry of the Crimson Sabres has largely been eradicated and is now for the most part wholly forgotten.Led by the Inquisition, all records of the now-excommunicated Space Marine Chapter have been erased by an Edict of Obliteration, the deliberate destruction of icons and other symbols or monuments pertaining to an offending individual or organisation that has been declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the High Lords of Terra. In many ways it is as if they never existed.There have been scattered reports that cite witnesses seeing the uniform and heraldry of the Crimson Sabres still in service. Though it is widely unknown, the 4th Company of the Crimson Sabres split from the newly fallen Crimson Slaughter and, operating in strict transmission silence, have attempted to secretly re-establish their Chapter in service to the Imperium.Although they were lost in the Warp for some period of time, they have since secretly returned to their Chapter's original homeworld, the rad-poisoned planet of Rhoghon in the Brakatoa System.
Crimson Sabres - Chapter Badge: The Crimson Sabres Chapter badge is a pair of crossed crimson sabres beneath a small crimson skull. This is centred on a field of white.
Crimson Scions - Crimson Scions: The Crimson Scionsis a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origins and Founding. Virtually nothing is known about this obscure Chapter within the official Imperial archives, except that it is located near the Imperial Hive World of Minea within the Segmentum Ultima.
Crimson Scions - Chapter Colours: The Crimson Scions wear primarily crimson Power Armour, which includes the power pack, torso, arms, groin and legs. The shoulder plates and helmet are red. The shoulder plate trim is black. The black squad specialty symbol -- Tactical, Assault, Devastator or Veteran -- is indicated on the right shoulder plate. A white Roman numeral centred on the squad specialty symbol indicates squad number. The colour of the wings of the Aquila or Imperialis on the chest indicates company number in accordance with the Codex -- i.e. White (1st Company), Yellow (2nd Company), Red (3rd Company), etc.
Crimson Scions - Chapter Badge: The Crimson Scions' Chapter badge is an ebon cross patonce, with a large, white human skull sitting at its centre, on a field of red.
Crimson Scions - Sources: Adeptus Astartes: Successor Chapters (Limited Release Booklet), pg. 27Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook (5th Edition), pg. 115
Crimson Scythes - Crimson Scythes: The Crimson Scythes is one of the Loyalist Space Marine Chapters founded as part of the Astartes Praeses -- one of the 20 Chapters of Astartes mentioned in the ancient tome known as the Mythos Angelica Mortis that was created to defend the regions surrounding the Eye of Terror in the Segmentum Obscurus from the Forces of Chaos. The Crimson Scythes are of an unknown Founding and origin.
Crimson Scythes - Chapter Colours: The Crimson Scythes' Chapter colours are not recorded in current Imperial records.
Crimson Scythes - Chapter Badge: The Crimson Scythes' Chapter badge is not recorded in current Imperial records.
Crimson Shades - Crimson Shades: The Crimson Shades is a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding.The Librarians of the Crimson Shades, like their counterparts of the Space Wolves and the White Scars, are one of the noteworthy examples that take exception to the doctrines of the Codex Astartes.Though the role of this Chapter's Librarians is not so different from the traditional role found for Librarians in more orthodox Chapters, it is in the methods they employ that they differ significantly from the majority of the Adeptus Astartes.Exactly what this difference is has not yet been recorded.
Crimson Shades - Notable Crimson Shades: Apothecary Herodytes - Herodytes is an Apothecary of the Crimson Shades Chapter.
Crimson Shades - Chapter Colours: The Crimson Shades primarily wear red Power Armour, which includes the helmet, torso, groin and legs. The power pack, shoulder plates and arms are white.The open-faced, red squad specialty symbol -- battleline, close support, fire support, Veteran or command -- is indicated on the right shoulder plate.A red Low Gothic numeral centred on the squad specialty symbol indicates squad number.The colour of the wings of the Aquila or Imperialis on the chest indicates company number in accordance with the Codex -- i.e. White (1st Company), Yellow (2nd Company), Red (3rd Company), etc.
Crimson Shades - Chapter Badge: The Crimson Shades' Chapter badge is a large, red human skull in the centre of a red, open-faced roundlet, surrounded by four lightning bolts, on a field of white.
Crimson Slaughter - Crimson Slaughter: The Crimson Slaughter is a Renegade warband of Chaos Space Marines dedicated to Chaos Undivided. Originally they were known as the Crimson Sabres, a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter that may have belonged to the mysterious 13th Founding, also known as the "Dark Founding," which occurred sometime between the 35th and 36th Millennia.Their Chapter's reputation was built on ruthless efficiency and fastidious adherence to the Codex Astartes. Soon enough, signs that things were awry appeared in their Chapter history. These problems culminated with the genocidal war against the jungle cults on Umidia.This Jungle World proved to be the fulcrum of change for the Crimson Sabres. The fighting there against the Balethu Cults proved so intense that it changed the Chapter, as they found themselves cursed by the Chaos God Khorne, forever haunted by the fell voices of the slain even after the combat had ended.They attempted to cleanse themselves and silence the voices howling in their minds by assaulting their future foes with an almost blatant disregard for honour or mercy. As a result they soon found themselves declared Excommunicate Traitoris by the High Lords of Terra.Determined to sell themselves dearly, the Crimson Sabres turned to the Eye of Terror, where they planned to die fighting the enemies of Mankind and so reclaim their honour. However, the Chapter was wracked by mutation and eventually corrupted into full-fledged Chaos Space Marines during their sojourn in the Eye.Renamed the Crimson Slaughter, the voices which plague them can no longer be silenced except by the most obscene levels of carnage, and wherever they go they are presaged by a bow wave of Warp-spawned horror.
Crimson Slaughter - Tide of Slaughter: Of all the Renegade Space Marine Chapters that have abandoned the Emperor's cause, none are more feared than the Crimson Slaughter. The mere mention of their name brings a shudder to even the most stalwart of Imperial defenders, for it is linked to betrayal and bloodshed, a title synonymous with the blackest deeds of carnage and horrors unimaginable.The Crimson Slaughter entered the current 41st Millennium as a Chapter of Space Marines -- the ultimate defenders of Mankind. Through fate or the baleful influence of the supernatural, they have turned from the light of the Emperor. Their own paranoid insanity, or perhaps just their own weak will, has driven them down the path of damnation -- a road from which there is no turning back.Only through butchery and genocide can the Crimson Slaughter gain even momentary peace from the inner voices that goad them. Such is their cursed existence. So has an entire Chapter of the Emperor's Finest left behind the dogma of the Imperium, choosing instead to embrace the Dark Gods.The Crimson Slaughter seek to wash away their sins in a tide of blood, joining the Long War to bring down the regime they once willingly served. Genetically designed for warfare and killing, the Space Marines of the Crimson Slaughter have at last thrown off the Imperial shackles, loosing themselves from restraint. Now, with allegiance only to themselves, the renegades blaze a trail of death across the galaxy, fully immersing themselves in wanton destruction.The Imperium has attempted to suppress rumours that an entire Chapter of their Space Marines has been corrupted -- for the Chaos Space Marines are fearsome foes. They possess all of a Space Marine's abilities and skills, and his matchless gear of war. In addition to this, such enemies also wield the corrupting powers of the Dark Gods and their insidious gifts.These Traitors command arcane powers, infernal weaponry and daemonically-possessed machines that are akin to nightmarish monsters. They will stop at nothing to achieve their self-serving aims. Try as they might, however, the Imperium cannot conceal the truth about the Crimson Slaughter.Their deeds are too heinous, the scale of their bloodshed too enormous. Since turning their backs upon the Imperium they swore to protect, the Crimson Slaughter have carved bloody paths of destruction back and forth across the galaxy. In their wake they leave behind massacre sites so repulsive in their excess, so extreme in their savagery, that even hardened veterans must look away. Since their betrayal, the Crimson Slaughter have destroyed armies, massacred entire populations and despoiled swathes of the Imperium.