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You forgot one last, yet most awesome detail. Battle barge hulk became monument in space, in honour of Astral Knights chapter. And each chapter, that participated in that operation, now sends their marines on honorary guard duty at that monument.
Fun fact: In the most recent Cain novel, Amberly Vail says (in a footnote) that the 30 remaining Astral Knights were actually integrated into the Sable Swords and served as a cadre of mentors to the new marines.
Time difference. The Astral Knights were destroyed in 926 M41. Primaris marines were introduced in 999 M41. That's a 73 year gap where planets who would have otherwise relied on the Astral Knights... well, couldn't. As for the option of natural rebuilding? Couldn't be done- They got back only a single body from the World Engine. No gene seed.
The old lore was that they were kicked out and told to spend themselves honorably as they could never rebuild. New lore is they just got rolled into the new chapter that took over their planet
Oh, about that. Not discounting their badass sacrifice but apparently, their weird quirk was that their chapter fostered a culture where senior officers would sometime maintain alligence to their noble lineage and leverage their exploits as astartes to engage in politicking with rival noble houses, such as the former chapter master who tricked the inquisition into believing his family's aristocratic rivals were infiltrated by genestealers so that they would assist in their extermination. 'Noble souls' indeed. 😂
Meh, they served the Emperor well and with bravery, I could care less if they had some shady operations on the side. 🤣 Thanks for the information, though, I was unaware of that.
they were a secret Space marine chapter that Emps made and didn't tell anyone and somehow forgotten about them until Kitten reminded Emps on what they did
@@akshatmandody5484read World Engine. The remaining 30 leave on a crusade, basically expected to die with honor. But as mentioned, we don't know what happened to them yet
Since starting a new chapter usually involves (or at least used to require) a group of veterans and leadership from the same geneseed, that core of those vets might have outnumbered the Astral Knights that were remaining. That would make sense then to start a new legacy and retire the old name.
The other thing is those other 30 astral knights were probably not present at the battle, and Space Marines are All About Honor. Their brothers all died in that battle - how could they possibly take credit for such a sacrifice when they were spared by being elsewhere?
It wasn't, when the Astral Knights were on it's surface they saw a holo projection (or it's necron equivalent) with the course of the World Engine, it was going to Mars
@payneman Oh shit. Really? Clearly, the knights made the best call, then. Obvious issues of a necron world engine in the Sol system aside, the Void dragon was clearly the real goal. I don't even want to think what would have happened had it gotten there.
Hope the battle barge was named the Astral Rammer or the Astral Buster or something. I think we as a community can retcon that into being the case if we work together.
The fact that the astral knight woudn’t get a €&@“- load of new geneseed& recruits and a battle barge, is a huge mistake… they replaced them with another chapter as reward…
I swear the chapter was the void hunters or something like that. Still one of my favorite Space Marine stories. Heroic sacrifice against a seemingly unbeatable foe is always a good trope in 40k.
The Space Marine Battles book of this was superb to read. So the Sable Swords took over the Astral Knights fortress. But can somebody tell me what happened to the 30 surviving Astral Knights and sole Dreadnought? Did they merge with the Sable Swords?
The Sable Swords did not in fact join with the remaining Astrals. Instead the 30, led by their dreadnought went off to die in some battle. They had no homeworld anymore. No way to properly rebuild, for all their sacrifices they really were left with only one choice.
Kind of like the dark throne in battle fleet Gothic 2 except it was raven guard that landed on the station instead of Astral knights and the imperial fleet above was constantly dropping reinforcements to points designated by the Raven guard, before detonating a vortex bomb crippling it
These Dudes Are Respected So Much Throught The Imperium That On The World Of SafeHold There Is A Shrine That Consists Of 772 Statures, One For Each Battle Brother That Fell Stopping The World Engine, Multiple Chapters Most Notable The Blood Angels Always Have Marines From Their Chapter To Watch Over The Shrine And Safeguard It.
The Scary thing is that the Necrons have more. One appears in Gothic Armada 2 and is known as the Dark Throne. But if we look at the Necron ending their combat purpose was likely to fight Warp entities as it closed the Eye of Terror and probably be a mobile bastion. Saddening that the Dark Throne didn't get the close the Eye of Terror before being destroyed.
The core of the world engine housed a shard of the Molder of Worlds, who may have helped destroy its prison before fucking off into intergalactic space.
This story is the kind of thing we need in warhammer games. Imagine a coop mission in which you are sent to destroy this and you see a whole chapter ram it and swarm it with hundred of marines
After checking the lexicanum wiki, it's from a novel called 'The World Engine' (2015) by Ben Counter and the Codex: Space Marines (5th edition). From what I gather, what happens with the chapter can be read in the short story Obsidian (2013) by Graham McNeill - which can be found in the 'Space Marines: Angels of death' anthology (2013). An honourable mention is in the 'Codex: Blood Angels' (5th edition).
You know what's a funny thought. The fact that Space Marines live for a few thousandish years, Custodes (if they're in close proximity to the Emperor) are near immortal, Primarchs are almost immortal (especially Vulkan being the first perpetual Primarch). And all these people probably experience time on the scale of years, compared to the average Guardsman or regular non altered human who experiences time in minutes and days.
I wouldn´t know exactly how the tombworld´s quantum shields collapsed upon themselves when a single barge rammed the thing. they are literally made to be more effective the stronger the impact is.
When you say replaced, do you mean rebranded themselves and started increasing their numbers or a new chapter completely replaced them added the 30 knights and dreadnoughts to their own ranks?
Why are Necrons always portrayed as so insanely powerful that they can annihilate whole worlds in seconds and yet on the tabletop, their weapons barely have any teeth.
Nope, the Sable Swords were huge assholes towards the dready who in turn also did not respect them in any way. The remaining Knights see the Swords as usurpers of their planet and despise them.
@@Wolfrage76 Basically kicked off their own planet and sent off to find an honourable death. Because apparently the reward for your chapter's heroism is getting sent on basically a penitent crusade with your homeworld being given to some strangers.
Was the necron not able to shoot the battle barge to smithereens before it reached them? Honestly I don’t know how necrons don’t just steamroll most things in the setting- apart from writers shitting on them
Well, one thing is that the Necrons weren’t supposed to wake up the time they did. They were set to wake up much earlier, but something went wrong with their stasis. Right now, the Necrons and the tech they have that is waking up is very much damaged and corroded, only really functioning at like ten to 50 percent mostly, so they could be something.
