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| rdfs:comment | - During an unspoken period of their history (580.M31-632.M32), referred to as the Forgotten Wars, rumours lead the Dark Angels Space Marine Chapter, along with three of their Successor Chapters, the Angels of Vengeance, the Angels of Redemption and the Lions Sable, to embark upon a harrowing campaign to track down multiple Fallen Angels. The clues lead them through the Segmentum Obscurus, deep into the Gothic Sector, and eventually into the Eye of Terror itself. In hindsight it is easy to see that the Ruinous Powers baited the Dark Angels. Only the Dark Angels' irrepressible resolve allowed them to escape, and they paid a high price in casualties. The Lions Sable were completely annihilated. To cover up their immediate losses after their warriors were thought lost to the Warp, the resources
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| Strength | - Dozens of Fallen Angels supported by hundreds of Chaos Space Marines from the Alpha Legion Traitor Legion
- Half the Dark Angels and Angels of Redemption Chapters, three companies of the Angels of Vengeance, and the entire Chapter of the Lions Sable
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| Commander | - Cypher
- Supreme Grand Master Purson
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| theatre | - Cocytus I, Eye of Terror, Segmentum Obscurus
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| Outcome | - Dark Angels Supreme Grand Master slain, the Unforgiven Chapters suffer horrendous losses and the entirety of the Lions Sable Chapter is wiped out. To make matters worse, the infamous Fallen Angel known as Cypher eludes capture and makes good his escape. The Dark Angels proceed to cover-up their strange activities by committing sabotage on their own fortress-monastery to destroy any damning records -- wiping out any trace of their activities in regards to their pursuit of the Fallen and the loss of one of their Successor Chapters.
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| Casualties | - The Forces of Chaos suffer casualties in the hundreds, but Cypher eludes capture and escapes
- Chapters of the Unforgiven suffer casualties in the hundreds, Lions Sable Chapter wiped out
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| abstract | - During an unspoken period of their history (580.M31-632.M32), referred to as the Forgotten Wars, rumours lead the Dark Angels Space Marine Chapter, along with three of their Successor Chapters, the Angels of Vengeance, the Angels of Redemption and the Lions Sable, to embark upon a harrowing campaign to track down multiple Fallen Angels. The clues lead them through the Segmentum Obscurus, deep into the Gothic Sector, and eventually into the Eye of Terror itself. In hindsight it is easy to see that the Ruinous Powers baited the Dark Angels. Only the Dark Angels' irrepressible resolve allowed them to escape, and they paid a high price in casualties. The Lions Sable were completely annihilated. To cover up their immediate losses after their warriors were thought lost to the Warp, the resources of the recruiting world of the Lions Sable –- the ebon orb of Nachwald –- were usurped to replenish the Angels of Vengeance and the Angels of Retribution. The Dark Angels staged a false plasma explosion aboard their fortress-monastery, the The Rock, to explain their loss of records, for it was decided by the Inner Circle of the Chapter to destroy all records relating to the event. Of the Forgotten Wars, the Dark Angels do not speak, nor has it entered into the apocryphal tales told to their Initiates. They have gone to great lengths to ensure all references to that campaign or to the Lions Sable have been stricken from the records available to the Adeptus Terra. Deep in the dungeons of The Rock are secreted the only remaining accounts, and only those of the Inner Circle ever learn of that heroic sacrifice that must forever go untold.
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