Editing Hive Fleet Behemoth (section)

== Aftermath ==

While the Imperium had achieved a victory on the battlefield, the cost of Hive Fleet Behemoth was severe. An entire world of Ultramar was lost and the Ultramarines First Company with it. Captain [[Severus Agemman]] of the Second Company was promoted to First Captain of the Ultramarines, while Veteran [[Brother-Sergeant|Sergeant]] [[Cato Sicarius]] was promoted to Captain of the Second Company. The losses the Ultramarines suffered were so great that [[Dante]] sent several companies of the [[Blood Angels]] to help the Ultramarines purge the remaining Tyranids from Ultramar.

Nearly a century later, the Ultramarines had still not fully recovered from the losses Hive Fleet Behemoth had inflicted but by that point Macragge was cleansed of Tyranids. Several ships of Behemoth survived, but without the coordination of the [[Hive Mind]] they broke apart into smaller Hive Fleets. The Swarmlord was officially listed as destroyed in action, but its corpse was never located.

Despite all their losses the Ultramarines believed that they had crushed the Xenos threat and another enemy of the Emperor was no more. Such hopes came to haunt them when two and a half centuries later, when [[Hive Fleet Kraken]] assaulted the Imperium's borders...

=== Court of the Nephilim King ===

One of the splinter fleets of Behemoth, these guys were so small at first that they evaded the sensors used by the Ultramarines and escaped before going dormant for a while. Centuries later, they reawakened and attacked the nearby unsuspecting worlds, gaining enough biomass to become a threat. They earned the name "Court of the Nephilim King" when they attacked a world belonging to the [[Imperial Knight]]s of House Raven, who noted that the splinter fleet's preference for monstrous warrior-creatures aided by synapse organisms eerily mirrors a Knight Household's organizations. After a series of crushing defeats against them in which the splinter fleet was able to counter their every tactic, the surviving Knights were forced to retreat and have since sworn vengeance against the Court of the Nephilim King.

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