Carcharodons

The Carcharodons are a chapter who participated in the latter stages of the Badab War. They are a fleet-based chapter. They were initially deployed to the Endymion Cluster, home to the Mantis Warriors chapter, rather than the Badab Sector itself. They systematically annihilated worlds known to have harboured the Mantis Warriors to force the Mantis Warriors to come to their aid, sparing the Carcharodons from having to pursue them on worlds where their foes held the advantage of support and local knowledge. In the final battle of the Badab War, on Badab itself they sabotaged the ancient atomic and geo-thermal reactors which powered the hiaves and fed the hungry planetary defence batteries with energy. This resulted in a planetary techtonic upheaval, with entire hive sectors collapsing into yawning chasms that opened up in the ground beneath them,replaced by seas if lava.