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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]

Dark Crusaders
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Founding Chapter: Black Templars
Founding: 3rd Founding
Chapter Master: Lord Vayes Proximo
Homeworld: Arcadia Prime
Fortress-Monastery: Fortress Of Malleus
Colours: Black and Red
Specialty: Close Combat/Siege Warfare
Strength: 10,000 Battle Brothers
Battle Cry "By the will of the Primarch, and the fury of the Emperor, Charge my brothers!"

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]:

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.

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