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===First Incarnation=== The original Sable Swords were a Fourth Founding Chapter, founded in the aftermath of [[The War of The Beast]] (sometime after 546.M32). ====Badass==== The Sable Swords participated in the Crusades to recover the imperial territories lost during The War of The Beast. Just a hundred years later, the Sable Swords were considered worthy enough to be one of the two chapters (the other being the Halo Bretheren) to accompany the [[Imperial Fists]] to Terra and remove the mad [[The Beheading|Vangorich]] from power. As Lord Commander [[Maximus Thane]] believed his personal guilt over Vangorich's rise had compromised his decision making, leadership of the Astartes strike force fell to the Sable Swords chapter master Qublicus Amar. Problematically, Thane found Amar and the Sable Swords Captain Ethratan too deferential. There is a possible hint that the Sable Swords were founded using Imperial Fists geneseed. Thane believed that the Swords would not be as deferential if they knew the present-day Fists were [[The War of The Beast#The Imperium Strikes Back|originally]] Astartes from the Fists successors. However, the deference can also be read as general respect the later foundings had for a 'First Founding' chapter (if not respect for the [[awesome|heroic]] Thane himself). In an anticlimatic turn of events, Amar was the first Astartes to fall in battle (implied to be the work of a [[Vindicare]] assassin) and Thane had to assume leadership of the mission. While Thane was the [[plot armor|lone]] [[grimdark|survivor]] of the hundred Astartes (including the Sable Swords) who assaulted Vangorich at the [[Eversor]] temple, the battle outside was more straightforward. Altogether, a hundred Astartes survived the mission, including presumably members of the Sable Swords. The Sable Swords chapter was eventually lost to the Imperium sometime before 926.M41. Apparently, the old fluff had them losing over eight-hundred marines during the battle, possibly to the point of irreversible decline. In contrast, the new fluff has the Astartes strike force at four hundred marines: two companies of the Fists, and one each from the Sable Swords and the Halo Bretheren. In any case, it is clear that the original chapter was lost by M41.
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