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| − | The Chapter of the Profaned Menhir are a long standing formation within the Word Bearers, dating back to the Crusade, Imperial Herald era. Named for a constellation in the skies of Colchis thought to be an ill omen or associated with bad luck, the Chapter was relatively small, consisting of only six companies and was primarily equipped as an mass infantry assault force, although they did possess limited quantities of specialist equipment. | + | The Chapter of the Profaned Menhir are a long standing formation within the Word Bearers, dating back to the Crusade, Imperial Herald era. Named for a constellation in the skies of Colchis thought to be an ill omen or associated with bad luck, the Chapter was relatively small, consisting of only six companies and was primarily equipped as an mass infantry assault force, although they did possess limited quantities of specialist equipment. |
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| + | Throughout the Great Crusade the Chapter earned a solid, if not outstanding reputation as part of the 712th Expeditionary Force. Their actions are notable in the frequency of unforeseeable complications they encountered.[Examples] This almost always resulted in a higher than anticipated casualty rate among the Chapter's companies. Legion command however, aware of the importance of the 712th's work readily replaced these losses so the Chapter was rarely significantly understrength for any length of time. | ||
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| + | The continued ill luck however was thought by many of the Colchisians accompanying the Expeditionary Force to be a related to the naming of the Chapter after such an ominous constellation. However, little did the humans see the larger picture of the events involving the Profaned; many of the dark clouds had a silver lining. An unforeseeable tectonic shift swallows half of the 3rd Company, but reveals an ancient, forgotten forge from the Age of Enlig | ||
| + | unheralded Eldar incursion caused many casualties, but lead to the capture of | ||
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first came to Imperial awareness on Calth where they operated alongside the Chapters of the Unspeaking and The Graven Star. The Profaned participated in the Battle of Ithraca where they supported the Calaq War Host after their true intentions were revealed, and rampaged through Ithraca city participating in the wholesale, indiscriminant slaughter of both loyalist forces and citizenry. combwithdrew from the surface before culmination of the poisoning of the Veridian star. | first came to Imperial awareness on Calth where they operated alongside the Chapters of the Unspeaking and The Graven Star. The Profaned participated in the Battle of Ithraca where they supported the Calaq War Host after their true intentions were revealed, and rampaged through Ithraca city participating in the wholesale, indiscriminant slaughter of both loyalist forces and citizenry. combwithdrew from the surface before culmination of the poisoning of the Veridian star. | ||
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History
The Chapter of the Profaned Menhir are a long standing formation within the Word Bearers, dating back to the Crusade, Imperial Herald era. Named for a constellation in the skies of Colchis thought to be an ill omen or associated with bad luck, the Chapter was relatively small, consisting of only six companies and was primarily equipped as an mass infantry assault force, although they did possess limited quantities of specialist equipment.
Throughout the Great Crusade the Chapter earned a solid, if not outstanding reputation as part of the 712th Expeditionary Force. Their actions are notable in the frequency of unforeseeable complications they encountered.[Examples] This almost always resulted in a higher than anticipated casualty rate among the Chapter's companies. Legion command however, aware of the importance of the 712th's work readily replaced these losses so the Chapter was rarely significantly understrength for any length of time.
The continued ill luck however was thought by many of the Colchisians accompanying the Expeditionary Force to be a related to the naming of the Chapter after such an ominous constellation. However, little did the humans see the larger picture of the events involving the Profaned; many of the dark clouds had a silver lining. An unforeseeable tectonic shift swallows half of the 3rd Company, but reveals an ancient, forgotten forge from the Age of Enlig unheralded Eldar incursion caused many casualties, but lead to the capture of
first came to Imperial awareness on Calth where they operated alongside the Chapters of the Unspeaking and The Graven Star. The Profaned participated in the Battle of Ithraca where they supported the Calaq War Host after their true intentions were revealed, and rampaged through Ithraca city participating in the wholesale, indiscriminant slaughter of both loyalist forces and citizenry. combwithdrew from the surface before culmination of the poisoning of the Veridian star.
Detachments of the Chapter have often been sighted accompanying Erebus and other central command staff of the legion. This may be related to Chapter leadership, as Dark Apostle
Combat Reports for L-XVII-6935
Campaigns
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047.007.M31 | Inferno | Unresolved | ||
| The Second Golloch War | |||||
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Prelude to WarThe Golloch Cluster is a nebulous region of space containing thousands of ..→ | ||||
Battles
| Battle Name | Date | Planet | Battle Outcome | Battle Summary |
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| The Second Golloch War~Assault on Star Port EN-BE551N | 164.009.M31 | Gaul | Draw |
March - Geno Five Two At the onset of the Heresy the Techno-archivists took full advantage of the emerging civil war. Delegations from Mechanicum agents loyal to the Warmaster had been ..→ |
| The Second Golloch War~The Death of Paterswold | 088.009.M31 | Paters World | Loyalist |
February - Eye of Horus Horus' great betrayal hit the rulers of Paterswold simultaneously with the news that a group of twenty industrialised worlds in the cluster's galactic north had sworn ..→ |
| The Second Golloch War~The Taking of Sevastopol Station | 249.009.M31 | Sevastopol Station | Traitor |
April - Covenant of Fire Sevastopol Station is the collective name for a system of docking stations, defense platforms, and weapon batteries defending Mandeville point TK-421, better known as ..→ |
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