Editing Black Crusade (section)

==Abaddon's Black Crusades==
[[Abaddon|Ezekyle Abaddon]] is the galactic champion of launching failed assaults on the Imperium. Despite having titan legions, traitor legions, neckbeard legions, daemon legions, and the backing of four literal gods, Abaddon has managed to accomplish nothing but get his shit wrecked for millennia. Eventually he throws a tantrum so hard that he just drops a [[Blackstone Fortress]] on Cadia, destroying what might well have been the last weapon that was capable of hurting some of Chaos' [[C'tan|most dangerous foes]]; [[skub|arguably]] their [[War in Heaven|progenitors]] in fact, so in casting aside that particular weapon, Team Chaos might do well to [[meme|prepare for unforeseen consequences]]. Incidentally, that's also why Abby's arms fell off and why he will look mad forever.
===A new perspective===
These constant failures have not escaped the eyes of the fanbase, and so Games Workshop (read: [[Aaron Dembski-Bowden]]) has rewritten the first twelve Black Crusades, now explaining that the first twelve were not for the purpose of conquering Cadia or Terra: they were simply aimed at gathering various superweapons, undermining the Imperium, and generally preparing for the "main event" of the thirteenth. Regardless, /tg/ tends to continue to mock Abaddon and his "failures", because memes are fun and/or everything Games Workshop does is to be mocked. Conversely in the fluff, a [[Racial Holy War|White Crusade]] is an Imperial led equivalent against Chaos, although it never really caught on.

A full list of what he actually did is as follows:

*{{anchor|1st Black Crusade}}'''1st Black Crusade''': Abaddon cemented the dominance of the [[Black Legion]] - and his rule over it - by defeating his chief rival Thagus Daravek, a [[Death Guard]] Sorcerer Lord commanding the Legion Host, and then scouring hundreds of worlds in Segmentum Obscurus. Even though his fleet eventually had to retreat, it took [[Sigismund]]'s and (allegedly) [[Rogal Dorn]]'s life to stop the crusade; the status of the former is confirmed, while the latter is frankly more of a placeholder as any offscreen death of a named character should be regarded more as a "for now", especially if it's a primarch, and ESPECIALLY especially one so [[Games Workshop|marketable]]. Douchebaddon also acquired [[Drach'nyen]] from the Tower of Silence on Uralan, apparently being directed there by what's implied to be the Deceiver. The Legion Host disintegrating after Daravek's death also spawned some of the first organized Warbands independently worshipping the Dark Gods and first raiding the Segmentum Obscurus. These were quickly joined by other Warbands.
*{{anchor|2nd Black Crusade}}'''2nd Black Crusade''': Also known as Black Crusade 2: Electric Boogaloo. Abaddon destroyed an Imperial Navy base and the shipyards on Belis Corona and cursed the planet's moon to unleash a mutagenic plague upon the planet's inhabitants in the future. Later sacked the Inquisitorial vaults on Nemesis Tessera – butchering the Imperials and freeing all the Daemons imprisoned in the fortress.
*{{anchor|3rd Black Crusade}}'''3rd Black Crusade''': The [[Daemon Prince]] Tallomin is unleashed on the Cadian Gate. [[Tallomin]] is banished by a dozen Chapters of Astartes, after slaughtering many millions of Imperial soldiers. [[DISTRACTION CARNIFEX|It was all a distraction]], as Abaddon could now desecrate the tomb of Saint Gersthal on the shrine world of the same name without any resistance, [[Just as planned|thereby preventing a prophecy of ultimate Imperial victory from coming true]].
*{{anchor|4th Black Crusade}}'''4th Black Crusade''': Abaddon assaulted the world of El'Phanor, a stronghold of the Cadian Gate. The planet was left a dead wasteland, leaving Cadia vulnerable to later attack.
*{{anchor|5th Black Crusade}}'''5th Black Crusade''': The one where Abaddon summoned [[Doombreed]].
*{{anchor|6th Black Crusade}}'''6th Black Crusade''': Acting on a tip-off from [[Be'lakor]] (yes, the same guy from Fantasy), Abaddon allies with the Sons of the Eye, a splinter faction that had broken off from the [[Sons of Horus]] shortly after the [[Siege of Terra]]. After annihilating a Forge World with their help, Abaddon executes the Sons' warlord and forces him to watch his men pledge their loyalty to the [[Black Legion]] as he dies.
*{{anchor|7th Black Crusade}}'''7th Black Crusade''': Circa 811.M37, also known as "The Ghost War". Abaddon steals some Eldar artifacts from the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] of all people, and leaves before the Imperium can muster a response. The Blood Angels respond at chapter strength on the planet of Mackan but even with the [[Rampagers]] giving them back up they're outgunned and outmanned by many magnitudes. In a dickish parody of the final battle between [[Horus]] and [[Sanguinius]], Abaddon rips Captain [[Acrion]] of the Blood Angels completely apart with the talon of Horus, and the Ravagers 7th company was completely slaughtered. In a surprising turn of events, Reclusiarch [[Thalastian Jorus]] of the Blood Angels decided to be [[awesome]] that day. The Blood Angels [[Death Company]], now bloated from the rage induced from their loss, plagued the Black legion for weeks on end, before their [[Creed|gambit]] payed off. The lines of the Black legion were over-stretched and left them easy prey for the Death Company. The Blood Angels [[Rip and Tear|murdered]] their way through the Black Legionnaires until eventually the Death Company and the [[Bringers of Despair]] themselves locked blades. In the midst of the fray Reclusiarch Jorus fought the Despoiler in single combat to avenge his nearly extinct chapter. Almost the entirety of the Bringers of Despair honour guard had been destroyed and Abaddon himself had been gravely wounded - presumably including the loss of his arms - by the Reclusiarch. [[Lheorvine Ukris]], one of the Legion's founding members, was mortally wounded, most likely during this fight. Still, the numbers were terminally against the Blood Angels; the Black Legion eventually rallied and finished off the surviving Death Company and the Despoiler's wounded form was spirited away as Jorus was butchered--presumably with the smuggest of all grins on his face. In the aftermath, the [[Carcharodons]] burst from the warp with the Imperial Navy and the remnant of the Blood Angels--itching for a rematch. After mopping up the stragglers they were only greeted with a whole heaping helping of nothing as Abaddon the Despoiler had quit the field already and high-tailed it back to the Eye. All they found on the planet were the ruined corpses of the Blood Angel's who fell on Mackan, all of their progenoids ruined beyond all recognition--except for the Reclusiarch and the Death Company brethren. They were whole (save for the wounds the slew them of course)--their progenoids were untouched. To add to the unmitigated awesome of this entire story, Abaddon had taken the corpses and power armour of the slain honour guard and Black Legionaires and made a throne and dais for each and every one of the fallen Death Company. Reclusiarch Jorus was enthroned above them all for achieving the honour of leaving the Warmaster of Chaos scars he wears even to this day; a claim that [[Sigismund|very]] [[Saint Celestine|few]] [[Eldrad|can]] [[Garviel Loken|boast]].
tl;dr a cool retelling from the new index astartes that really makes everyone look fuckawesome, and adds a bit of much-needed character to ol' Abby.
*{{anchor|8th Black Crusade}}'''8th Black Crusade''': The Black Legion engages in a ritual sacrifice known as the Skullgather. They slaughter specific numbers of people on specific worlds, and arrange the dead in specific patterns. Hundreds of adepts of the [[Inquisition]] are driven insane in trying to break the cipher, while Imperial forces are too busy pursuing Abaddon's fleet to realize what he's doing. It ends with the council of Tech-Magi being sacrificed in the gears of the Forge World Rithcarn, completing the sequence of death and pleasing Tzeentch. Unbeknownst to anyone else, he also destroys several planets that were part of the [[Necron]] pylon network [[Cadia]] was a part of, and this was by far the most serious blow - something which wouldn't be discovered until the 13th Black Crusade.
*{{anchor|9th Black Crusade}}'''9th Black Crusade''': Abaddon musters several Traitor Legions for the purpose of strangling the power of Cancephalus, a naval fortress that acted as a base for Imperial ships patrolling the Eye of Terror for any activity. Abaddon proceeds to massacre and mutate the people of Antecanis, a heavily populated world that provided most recruits and officers for Cancephalus. The Traitors depart after having annihilated the response fleet from Cancephalus, thereby crippling the Imperial Navy's power and opening up new routes for Chaos Space Marines to exit the Eye of Terror.
*{{anchor|10th Black Crusade}}'''10th Black Crusade''': Abaddon assaults the Helica Subsector (of [[Eisenhorn]] fame) with the aid of the [[Iron Warriors]], sending out some of his minor warlords as a distraction while he and [[Perturabo]] attack the [[Iron Hands]]' homeworld of [[Medusa]]. The Iron Hands barely hold on, and Abaddon and Perturabo leave after they are satisfied with what they have learned about Medusa's defenses. While technically victorious, the Iron Hands have suffered severe casualties and many of the worlds in their system have been destroyed.
*{{anchor|11th Black Crusade}}'''11th Black Crusade''': After binding a Daemon of Tzeentch within the oculus of his vessel in the hope that it may find new routes through the Warp storms, Abaddon gets caught in a warp storm and ends up in orbit over the planet Relorria. There the Traitor Marines encounter Orks, and a three-sided war breaks out. Abaddon takes many Orks as prisoners, after which he departs and [[Dick|leaves the humans of Relorria to deal with the remaining Xenos]]. He later discovers their connection to the warp and begins experimenting with them to create Ork-Daemon hybrids (Cute, Abby, but [[Mortarion|Morty]] did it first in M36).
*{{anchor|12th Black Crusade}}'''12th Black Crusade''': The one where he got the [[Blackstone Fortress]]es. See the [[Gothic War]], also covered in [[Battlefleet Gothic]].
*{{anchor|13th Black Crusade}}'''13th Black Crusade''': The [[The 13th Black Crusade|latest Black Crusade]], launched at the closing years of the 41st Millennium. For the longest time, this was where the timeline literally ''stopped'', and remained the case for several editions. Until, that is, ''The [[Gathering Storm]]'' happened.