Originally called the Aurora Knights there were still a relatively young chapter eager to prove themselves in battle, they had been conceived as a fleet based chapter and as they had no permanent home world (and only recruited from the worlds which they had liberated) they had only managed to get up to full chapter strength for approximately 100 years despite this they showed great promise as warrior sons of the Emperor. They had been conspicuous on the battlefield for their ornate red and gold coloured armour and their willingness to be in the thick of the fighting often committing the whole chapter to a campaign and rarely leaving anything in reserve. The origin of their geneseed is an issue which has become a point of contention amongst the scribes and bureaucrats of the Adeptus Ministorum on Terra due to conflicting records, one set of information lists the Blood Angels as their Progenitor another lists the Raven Guard, however the chapter shares none of the genetic traits associated with either chapter.

It was this eagerness and bravado which almost cost the chapter its very existence when after a battle against the forces of Chaos their chapter master, Sepherus Dyeus, intent on obliterating the enemy ordered the chapter fleet to chase a fleeing Alpha Legion war band, pursuing them relentlessly for days, passing through several neighboring star systems. Even after the chase had ended and the foul forces of chaos went to ground on the death world planet of Erebos They doggedly refused to cease their pursuit. Ignoring established protocol the young chapter master made what was to be a fatal error, instead of waiting for support or even fully communicating his situation to the other commanders involved with the previous battle Serpherus Dyeus decided to act. Following the chapters preferred method of battle deployment every single drop pod and Thunderhawk was simultaneously launched at the planet. Too late came the realization that they had been drawn into a trap as the darkness of the supposed death world was ripped apart by salvo after salvo of heavy gunfire which tore through the descending army and decimated their number, almost half the chapter had died before the first pod hit the ground. The remainder of the chapter, the ones that actually made it to the planets surface alive faced numerically superior enemy who was determined to spill the blood of the foolish marines that had so readily fallen into their trap. The pocket of resistance that had gathered around Sepherus Dyeus found like only the sons of the God Emporer can and made a valiant effort to fight back and turn back the tide of hatred that flowed toward them however even this collapsed when the chapter master himself fell in combat with a dreadnought of the Alpha Legion.

By the time reinforcements had arrived on Erebos they found little more than a desecrated tombworld littered with the bodies of the fallen and initially it was thought that the chapter had been destroyed in its entirety and was initially reported back to Terra that the chapter was no more. This however was not the case, and as the support fleet was preparing to leave the chapters last remaining battle cruiser "The Umbra Falx" limped into range and managed to request help. In total 115 souls escaped the massacre on Erebos, lead by a veteran Chaplain Ephraim Nyx. Although the geneseed of those that had died was lost to chaos forever and the majority of their vehicles totally destroyed or abandoned during the withdrawl from the planet the chapter lived on. Determined not to repeat the mistakes made his predecessor Ephraim Nyx redesigned the chapter to make better use of the men left under his control, focusing on stealth and subtlety Nyx lived by the adage that the Emperors Space Marines were a scalpel, a tool of accuracy and precision not a blunt hammer designed to bash the enemy into submission. Gone was the brightly coloured armour of old, replaced with a dark grey and the ceramite plates infused with Cameoline fibres usually seen in scout cloaks to allow the marines to better hide in the shadow which had once been the realm of the enemy.

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