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==Notable Battles==

The youth of the Chapter, and the fact that they must hoard the majority of their strength to repel the Glasian Migrations, means they do not have lengthy battle honors or rolls of ancient glory as do their Predecessor Chapters.  That does mean that they are idle.  Like nearly all of the Loyalist Chapters, the Blue Daggers regularly test their mettle against foes who threaten the integrity and the safety of the Imperium of Man, and its remit to bring all human souls to its light and the firm hand of its laws.  Here listed are the first three campaigns they went on outside of their own territory in which the Chapter took significant casualties.  All three of the Blue Dagger forces listed here answered to the most experienced member of the Chapter, Lord Gwinnet Eiger, in his role of Master of the Ships and third-in-command of the Chapter.

===The Siege of Sarenaak===
This massive conflict in early M41.805 constituted the largest mobilization of the Chapter up to that point.  The entirety of the Battle Companies and two hundred Marines from other Companies engaged in direct combat against the forces of the Pustulent Heaven-sent warband of Nurgle in the Naxos Sector.  The conflict began when the Pustulent Heaven-sent, led by Death Guard Terminator Andal the Corpulent, besieged the fortified Hive city of Halsstead on the planet Chyrox, just outside the Inquisitorial demarcation of the Pox Ring Containment Zone.  The Celestial Knights, engaging the Nurglites on two other fronts, were unable to dispatch aid.  Thus, the Blue Daggers took up the call.  Although their numbers were diminished by the losses they had suffered in the recent Fifth Glasian Migration, the Chapter still mustered over seven hundred Marines, nearly the full strength of the Chapter.  The Blue Daggers fell on the planet in a great surge, supported by orbital fire from their flagship, the ''Sharp Edge''.  The Nurglites were able to withstand the sudden arrival of the Imperial forces by forcing a breach in the city and occupying it from the inside.  The influx of Warp-spawned toxins there turned many of the residents into savage, mutated beasts, their bodies ripped to pieces by Nurgle’s own plagues, and the Nurglites sent them into the oncoming Daggers to weaken their resolve.  Undeterred, the Daggers retaliated with the fullest force of their Land Raider and Thunderhawk contingent, bringing Astartes arms to bear on the mostly-mortal Nurgle cult.  Within a month of intense combat, the infected population and the cult that had ruined them were dead, and Chyrox was left to rebuild.

===Apex Point Skirmish===
Prior to this date, the space fleet of the Chapter had not been tested in battle against forces that could match it.  In M41.856, a force was en route to the Gothic Sector to participate in an Inquisitorial task force there when it was abruptly assaulted by a fleet of pirates while exiting the Warp to re-ascertain Navigation bearing.  The fleet was forced into rapid defensive combat, against a contingent of pirate vessels that technically outnumbered them, which were looking to steal rare Astartes vessels and gear for themselves at the Apex Point Warp Nexus.  Four Astartes ships were boarded, although the pirates were unable to make much headway against the bondsmen and serfs of the ship crews.  Eventually, the pirates were driven off, but the damage was done.  The ships of the Blue Daggers had lost fifteen percent of their manpower and significant ordinance in the conflict; enough had been lost that their ability to participate in the conflict was diminished greatly.  The flotilla quickly patched their hulls and flew to the rendezvous point, but took only a rear-line role in the ensuing conflict.

===War for Castinug===
A small colony on the edge of the Drumnos Sector in M41.945, the planet Castinug had been a long-form colony experiment by the Adeptus Mechanicus.  Using terraformation technology and techniques thought lost during the purge of the Librarius Omnis but rediscovered near the end of the millennium, the Mechanicus was attempting to transform the arid rock into a mining and farming planet to feed the insatiable Drumnos Sector’s desire for resources.  When early warning satellites at the edge of the system reported a surge of Warp emergences, the Mechanicus sallied forth its few Basilikon Astra ships to repel the unknown arrival.  However, when the emergent forces revealed themselves as a force of Orkish raiders, the badly outgunned Mechanicus forces immediately sent for aid.  The Daggers answered, and dispatched two hundred Marines to respond to the threat.  By the time the Blue Daggers had arrived at the Castinug colony site, however, the Orks were already on the ground.  The Marines pushed groundside and engaged, driving off the Orks and saving the last of the Techpriests there, as well as the precious terraformation technology.