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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. | 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 [[ | 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. 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. | 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. | ||
Revision as of 19:14, 26 December 2020
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 Chapters of Space Marines 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. He decided (apparently on advice from his cat) that thirty of the Chapters were CORRUPTED (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 worlds. 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 exterminated four hundred planets in the Eye of Terror. Who knows how many the other Chapters got. It's ironic that this whole thing may have been more successful against Chaos than all the Black Crusades were against the Imperium. If a Chaos fleet hadn't been waiting for them, the combined Astartes fleets might have actually purged most of the Eye. This is probably because where Chaos fleets attempt to raid or conquer worlds, the Astartes crusaders were only interested in wiping everything out. Which meant they could just show up and exterminatus and move on. Something Chaos cannot do without crippling its own nourishment from the materium.
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 were gathered in freighters and shot into a nearby sun. Nobody remembers him. The only reason the Abyssal Crusade is important, then, is that it caused the creation of hundreds of new Chaos warbands.