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The origins of the Dark angels are shrouded in mystery. There are no records of its beginnings nor any mention of its part in the Emperor's Great Crusade. Any reference in the Imperial histories of its deeds during the accursed times of the Horus Heresy has been deleted. But yet a legend persists that once the Dark Angels teetered on the brink of Chaos, that a terrible betrayal besmirched all of the Chapter's feats of valor and left an enduring stain on the Chapter's honor. Such is their shame that from that time on they have striven for absolution from the sins of millenia past.
The Dark Angels are now considered to be one of the greatest of all the Space Marine Chapters with their Deathwing company being particularly revered. Only the highest ranking members of the Dark Angels Chapter know the terrible, shameful secret of what happened ten thousand years ago - a secret that drives the Dark Angels to search throughout space and time for the final conflict that will bring them redemption or damnation . . .
The Final Secret -
The only people who know about the disastrous events that took place on Caliban all those millenia ago are the Emperor and the Dark Angels themselves. The Dark Angels will never reveal the truth to anyone outside the Chapter for they could not bear others to know the truth of their terrible shame. And all the while, deep within his cell. Luther, the betrayer, speaks of what is to come. Yet even the highest ranking Dark Angels do not know everything, although they may think that they do. Buried even deeper within the Rock, is the final, greatest secret of the Chapter. Only one person in the entire universe knows the truth - the Emperor himself. For hidden inside a secluded, unreachable chamber at the heart of what was once the planet Caliban, Lion El'Jonson lies sleeping, waiting with the Watchers in the Dark for that time when he will be needed once again to defend the Imperium against its enemies.