Editing Abyssal Crusade

[[File:The Judged Fleet.jpg|right|350px|thumb|The Fleets of the 30 Judged Chapters on a trip to Hell.]]
The '''Abyssal Crusade''' was a horrible disaster for the [[Imperium]] at the beginning of the [[Age of Redemption]].  Saint [[Basillius the Elder]] had become Ecclesiarch in 321.M37 and immediately started working with the [[Inquisition]] and a bunch of [[Space Marine Chapter|Chapters]] of [[Space Marine]]s to round up witches, heretics, and mutants, and a good time was had by all.

Well, until a massive [[Warp Storm]] named Dionys came to the party. A ton of Chapter homeworlds were covered by warp rifts and many Chapters found their [[gene-seed]] rapidly mutating, which was, of course, [[heresy]]. Saint Basillius ordered all of the hundreds of chapters whose worlds had been affected by the storm to come to [[Terra]] to be judged.  For who knows what reason the Astartes complied instead of telling him to fuck off if his name isn't "Emperor".  He decided (apparently on advice from his cat) that thirty of the Chapters were CORRUPTED ([[Derp|these Chapters would become known as... ]]''the [[Judged]]'') and declared that they could either crusade into the [[Eye of Terror]] or be systematically exterminated. In typical Space Marine fashion, every Chapter chose the former.

To the surprise of nobody (nobody reading Codex: Chaos Space Marines anyway), crusading into the Eye of Terror ended up being an awful, terrible, horrible idea. The thirty Chapters got split up by a Chaos battlefleet almost immediately and landed on all kinds of wonderful [[Daemon world]]s. Most of the Marines either died in horrific ways or were corrupted (for real this time) and became [[Chaos Space Marine]] warbands.

Even so, the Vorpal Swords at the very least [[Awesome|exterminated '''''four hundred planets''''' in the Eye of Terror]].  Who knows how many the other Chapters got? 

Eight hundred years later (real time), a few of the Space Marines staggered out of the Warp under Konvak Lann, [[Chapter Master]] of the [[Vorpal Swords]], and were understandably pissed. They were immediately detained by the Inquisition and questioned for Chaos taint.  When they passed every test, suspicion fell on the one who had judged them in the first place; it turned out that Saint Basillius (who was, inexplicably, still alive, I guess juvenant treatments go a long way) was actually a worshiper of [[Chaos]]. If only the Inquisition had ''done their job'' and checked the chapters for taint themselves...

He was executed and his relics, followers, scriptures and all that stuff [[Awesome|were gathered in freighters and shot into a nearby sun]]. Nobody remembers him. The only reason the Abyssal Crusade is important, then, is that [[Derp|it caused the creation]] of [[Your Dudes|hundreds of new Chaos warbands]].  To be fair, even if he hadn't coordinated this with the Chaos Marines, nothing would have changed.  Thirty entire Chapters charging into the Eye isn't going to be missed by those guys anyway.

This whole thing can be ignored at your leisure, though.  Since it's completely beyond even 40K's standards of bullshit that someone who daily practices religious rituals to the ''freaking '''Anathema''''' wouldn't either end up bursting into flames, being purified, exploding, or just not turn in the first place.

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