Solemnus Crusade

Under the command of Marshal Brant, of the Black Templars Space Marine Chapter, the Solemnus Crusade was formed in 999.M41 to answer for the razing of the Black Templars' Chapter Keep on the world of Solemnus by the Ork Warlord Morkrull Grimskar, chieftan of the Blood Scar Ork tribe. The Solemnus Crusade belatedly joined the war effort on the Hive World of Armageddon and deployed in search of the elusive Warlord. However, the Crusade met with disaster when Emperor's Champion Ansgar was captured by the severely injured but not-yet, dead Warlord. Despite an apparent early success, the near-dead Warlord was transformed into a Cybork. Adding insult to injury many of the cybernetic components were salvaged from stolen Black Templars' wargear. Black Tempalars Dreadnought Jarold formed a strikeforce under the designation "Ansgar's Avengers" specifically tasked with locating the captured Emperor's Champion and recovering the revered relics of the Black Sword and Armor of Faith belonging to him. While the strikeforce did not recover Ansgar on its first attempt, Jarolds's forces did uncover the Crimson Fists Venerable Dreadnought Rhodomanus, who had been lost and laid dormant for 50 years in the Dead Lands ice glaciers during the Second War for Armageddon. The strikeforce destroyed an Ork Stompa freshly recovered from the ice that had been originally constructed during this earlier campaign and prevented it from joining the Ork war effort elsewhere. Not yet finished in their task, strikeforce "Ansgar's Avengers" and the Solemnus Crusade continued the campaign on the surface of Armageddon. The Black Templars find out later that Brother Rhodomanus was eventually returned to the Crimson Fists Chapter and his former Company.