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*[[''The Harbinger'']] - [[Apocalypse Battleship]], Flagship of the Armada and personal Flagship of Lord Admiral Young. | *[[''The Harbinger'']] - [[Apocalypse Battleship]], Flagship of the Armada and personal Flagship of Lord Admiral Young. | ||
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Revision as of 18:09, 28 October 2012
The Dark Crusaders are a 3rd Founding chapter that derived from the Black Templars Chapter. Since their founding, the Dark Crusaders have taken watch over Segmentum Tempestus.[1]
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Homeworld
The Dark Crusaders are unlike most Chapters in the fact that they not only hold dominion over their Fortress world, but over twelve worlds. Their locations are unknown to the Imperium, thereby making the Dark Crusaders the only ones who know of their existence and their only source of protection from Ork warbands. Since each of the twelve worlds show their loyalty first to the Dark Crusaders, instead of the Imperium that forgot them long ago, each world pays tithes to Arcadia Prime, keeping the Dark Crusaders well supplied with everything from field rations to Retribution Class Battleships.
Arcadia Prime is just one of the twelve worlds in the domain of the Dark Crusaders. The others are[1c]:
- HelsReach: Industrial World
- Acropolis: Industrial World
- Solics: Industrial World
- Ferrum: Industrial World
- Terminus: Feudal World
- Eterna: Feudal World
- Hyperion: Agri-World
- Mercy: Agri-World
- Theron: Mining World
- Carolus: Mining World
- Rammstein: Mining World
Organisation
The Dark Crusaders are organised like most other Chapters, only on a larger scale due to their abnormal size. The Crusaders are formed into 100-Marine Battle Companies. The majority of the Chapter stay on Arcadia or with the Armada when there is not an Operation planned, but there is a garrison of 8 Companies per world in the Dark Crusaders' realm of the galaxy.
The Armada
Thou many Space Marine Chapters have a small fleet, say a few Battle Barge's and Strike Cruisers, the Dark Crusaders do not. The Dark Crusaders have their own Armada of ships. Every known model of ship is within the massive fleet. Everything from an Apocalypse Battleship to an Ironclad. Within the Armada are several fleets, each of which have their own duties and responsibilities within the Crusader Realm. Either patrolling the space between the mineral rich worlds and known Ork territory, or performing rapid strikes against Chaos or Ork fleets within Segmentum Tempestus. The most distinguished fleet within the Armada is the Vanguard.
The Vanguard is the biggest, and the most powerful of all the fleets within the Armada. Within the Vanguard is one Apocalypse Battleship, six Retribution Battleships, a dozen Overlord Class Battlecruisers, two dozen Lunar Class Cruisers, and several squadrons of escort craft.
Known Vessels
- ''The Harbinger'' - Apocalypse Battleship, Flagship of the Armada and personal Flagship of Lord Admiral Young.
- Endurance - Retribution Battleship
- Dorn's Hammer - Retribution Battleship
Related Articles
Source
- 1: Codex: Space Marines (3rd Edition), pg. 20 (painted by Alan Merrett).
- 2: The Crusade by Josh Firestone