Editing The Beheading (section)

==Clash of the Canon==
One of the Chapters who fought against the Assassins was the Sable Swords. The Chapter currently known as the Sable Swords was formed to replace the remnants of the [[Astral Knights]], nearly wiped out during their siege of [[The World Engine]]... in 926.M41. ''9380 years later.'' It is possible that were refounded after their destruction (like with the [[Minotaurs]]), but this is not being hinted in what is known about them like with the Minotaurs. Official canon lists the Sable Swords as losing over 800 Marines in the fighting, so they were most likely massacred and re-built.

The Imperium is really big; the only way to communicate is via psychic mind pictures and the only way to travel occasionally hurls you through time, and Chapters are almost always split up across multiple warzones. With that in mind, it's somewhat miraculous that this is as mixed up as things get. Given there's only around a thousand loyalist Chapters and they're kinda just a teeeensy bit important, you'd think even the Administratum would do its utmost to keep track of every little thing related to the Adeptus Astartes, ''especially'' after a certain infamous [[Horus Heresy|temper tantrum]]. But apparently this wouldn't even be the first time they've accidentally given two Chapters the same name and heraldry.

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