Fallen Angels - The Fallen: In an instant, when Caliban was breaking apart from cataclysmic battle, the Fallen were cast into the Warp. Anywhere from mere moments later to thousands of Terran years in the future, many of the Fallen awoke to find themselves on some far distant and unknown planet.The eddies of the Warp are fickle. As time in the Realm of Chaos does not flow according to any rules, the time in transit for the Fallen might have felt like it was mere seconds, although millennia would have passed. Conversely the individual may have spent ages in the Immaterium experiencing untold torments and long journeys through nightmarish landscapes, only to awake back in realspace within seconds of Caliban's destruction.To this day, there are even some of the Fallen that have not yet been released back into the galaxy. Truly, the Ruinous Powers are cruel; their capricious plans beyond the ken of mortal understanding.Not all of the Dark Angels' Fallen brethren succumbed to the temptations of the Chaos Gods to the same degree. Some individuals were driven completely mad by their exposure to the Warp, others broke only upon their return. After all, to some Fallen, they had only just been plucked from the disintegrating surface of Caliban –- although that deed now lay many millennia in the past.Some of the Fallen, those who most fervently followed Luther, were now nothing less than Chaos Space Marines. These rebels did not gather together as did the Legions that rebelled during the Horus Heresy, such as Angron's World Eaters.Instead, the Fallen were scattered as individuals or small groups across the Imperium. In a flash, they riddled the vast realm of Mankind -- thousands of new canker cells ready to sow further betrayal. From out of these seeds of malignancy spread new tendrils of corruption, for many of the Fallen began to form their own warbands, cults and even armies.Although some of the Fallen had been mere novices-in-training at the destruction of Caliban, most were seasoned Space Marines. Indeed, some were first generation Terran-born troops created in the First Founding, as overseen by the Emperor Himself. These were veteran warriors, many of whom survived multiple actions during the Great Crusade.With their wealth of combat experience and superhuman attributes, these individuals found it easy to carve their own paths to greatness out in the wider galaxy. Some rose to rule over planetary empires while others sought immediate revenge against the Imperium. Across the galaxy the Fallen set planets, systems or even whole sectors ablaze with war.Yet more ominously to the Dark Angels, they raved aloud of those very secrets that the sons of Lion El'Jonson had sworn to keep silent. Those Fallen carried on from the teachings of Luther -– believing the Emperor to be false and thinking that their own superhuman abilities gave them the right to seize what they wanted, and to rule over the weak.The Fallen saw no reason not to fight for themselves. It offered a better fate than acting as enforcers for a thankless and repressive regime.Not all the Fallen were so corrupt. Some, freed from Luther's compelling oratory, became cognisant for the first time of just how far they had been led down paths of betrayal. Once cast back into the galaxy, disgusted by their own corruption, these individuals attempted to blend in amongst Human society. Some did nothing more than hide while others sought out some form of redemption. No few became mercenaries –- masterless men who roamed the galaxy as soldiers of fortune rather than as crusaders fighting for a cause.In the many frontiers of the Imperium, it was easy to disappear. Across the stars were uncounted colonies -– lost communes, deep space mining facilities, lawless spaceports –- all outlying communities that had slipped through the cracks of the monolithic Imperium of Man. But the subsequent actions of the Fallen are irrelevant in the eyes of the Dark Angels, who believe that the only way they can rid themselves totally of their shame, and restore their honour and trust within the Emperor's eyes, is if all the Fallen are found and either made to repent or are slain.This is by no means an easy task. The Fallen are dispersed throughout space and time as either isolated individuals or in small bands, and the Dark Angels can go for standard years without hearing any rumours that might lead them to one or more of the betrayers.Those Fallen that are captured are taken back to the Dark Angels' mobile fortress-monastery, The Rock, where the Dark Angels' Interrogator-Chaplains attempt to make them repent their crimes. Occasionally they do and so die quickly. More often than not, though, the captured Fallen refuse and suffer long, agonising deaths at the hands of those who destroy their bodies in order to save their souls.