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The Rock

  
Following the destruction of Caliban, the Dark Angels made the Rock their new home, drilling out a huge network of rooms and halls in the bedrock under their ruined fortress monastery.  In time engines were added, allowing the Rock to travel through the warp as the Chapter continued on its secret mission across the galaxy.

Beneath the shattered ruins of the order's greatest fortress monastery, the Rock hides many dark secrets.  The further anyone gets inside it, the closer they come to the truth.  At the very heart of the gargantuan Rock, is the deepest, darkest and dankest dungeon.  There, kept alive for ten thousand years inside a status field, languishes the broken man who was once Luther.

Because of his link to the warp, during rare moments of lucidity, the Dark Angels are ablr to use Luther as an oracle.  Each Supreme Master in his turn has tried to get the arch-heretic to repent but none has ever been able to get through to him: Luther just continues to rant and rave saying that he does not need to repent because one day Lion El'Jonson will return and forgive him.

The Rock itself does not stay in one place for very long, at most for only a few generations.  As a result the Dark Angels do not recruit from any one planet.  It is for this reason that the order needs such strict levels of admission and rigorous tests of loyalty.  The masters of the order have to ake sure that all those who come to the Cahpter become true Dark Angels.  As the members of the order come from such a mixed variety of backgrounds, the Dark Angels rely on their heritage for their sense of camaraderie.  Once a prospective Space Marine has passed through all the appropriate levels, only then can he be considered a true Dark Angel.  For then he will be driven by the same shame and secret purpose that has Driven all Dark Angels since the death of Caliban; to hunt our every last one of the Fallen and reclaim the honor of the Chapter.