abstract | - The Apocrypha of Davio was a great and holy document that was created in the 33rd Millennium in an attempt to list all of the Space Marine Chapters of the Second Founding. It is unknown how many Successor Chapters were created -- some Second Founding Chapters in the past 10,000 years have been destroyed (such as the Dark Angels' Successor Chapter, the Lions Sable), leaving no records of their histories in the often incomplete Imperial archives of the Adeptus Administratum. Other Second Founding Chapters have been lost in more recent times and their names in the records of the fallen heroes of the Imperium are all that remain of them. Some survive to this day, the proud inheritors of their Legions' histories and the traditions of their Primarch. The Grey Knights, the elite Space Marine Chapter that serves as the Chamber Militant of the Ordo Malleus of the Inquisition, was secretly created during the Second Founding. They have the honour of being implanted with gene-seed engineered directly from the genome of the Emperor Himself. It is possible that the Raptors, the Silver Skulls and other Chapters were also established during the Second Founding. Though no comprehensive list has ever been assembled, the current known Chapters of the Second Founding include the following:
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