The Wolves of Caliban

It was the middle of the 37th Millenium and the 23rd Founding of the Space Marine Chapters when 2 new Dark Angels Chapters were formed, the Star Phantoms and the Wolves of Caliban.  Each Chapter was assigned a sector of space to take and hold against various Xenos influences.  The Wolves of Caliban were assigned to guard and recruit from the local peoples of the Cantiaci sector, with their home world and the sector capital known as Cantiacorum.

The Wolves headed out and arrived just in time to meet the arrival of an Ork Waaagh at Cantiacorum.  The fighting was hard and very bloody with the chapter supported by only a few regiments of PDF and none of Astra Militarum.  Whilst the Ork’s were defeated the cost to the Wolves of Caliban was high, the entirety of the Chapter command was lost along with the whole of the 1st Company.  With it was lost most of the information about the true missions of the Unforgiven and their hunt for the Fallen.  Unfortunately, before the chapter could contact the Imperium for reinforcements and assistance from their founding chapter a huge warpstorm settled in place around the sector of Cantiaci and cut it off from all contact.  The Chapter managed to find new recruits, some amongst the very PDF regiments that had stood with them, some from other worlds in the sector and rebuilt although not to full size.  The Captain of the third company one Segovax, took charge and became Chapter Master, elected as such by his peers.

One Chapter on its own without any Astra Militarium could not hope to stem the flow of Xenos in this area of space and so Segovax stepped up the training of the PDF units to turn them into Guard.  They trained alongside the chapter and sergeants of the chapter ran the Guard training and looked out for potential candidates to join the Wolves of Caliban.

It was several decades later when a chaos cult rose amongst the people of Regulbium.  The chapter dispatched a battle company ready to stamp down on this behaviour.  The company arrived with support from an Astra Militarium regiment.  This small uprising was much bigger than originally thought and was supported by the arrival of demons of Slanesh.  The battle company fought hard but having lost their supporting regiment things were looking bleak for them.  Suddenly a company of Space Marines appeared, seemingly out of nowhere and engaged the demon spawn.  These marines wore armour that had not been seen for centuries, coloured in Black and Silver with markings in red.  They were led by a mysterious stranger in flowing robes and armed with two plasma pistols.  With the battle won he introduced himself as Cypher and his brothers as loyal members of the First Legion, the Dark Angels.

The newly arrived marines and Cypher travelled back to Cantiacorum to the fortress of the Wolves of Caliban.  Cypher headed into a meeting with Segovax and Carvilius, who had led the Battle Company to Regulbium.  After days of talking Segovax headed out and addressed the entire Chapter.  Cypher had told him the “truth” of the battle of Caliban and the loyal marines of the first legion would be welcomed as brothers and fight alongside the Wolves of Caliban.

Over the next few millennium, the Wolves of Caliban continued to fight for the freedom of the peoples of the Cantiaci sector, with members of the First Legion and the highly trained 66th Cantiacorum Rangers alongside them.  During that time Standard Templates were received from Cypher to ensure that the Rangers and the Marines were well-equipped.  New Brothers of the First Legion were found in the sector or escorted by Cypher, but each had to swear fealty to the Imperium and the Emperor before being allowed into the fortress.  The Warp Storm dropped at some point and the sector returned to the Imperium with the Wolves keeping Cypher’s secret.  The rest of the Unforgiven tried to contact them, but found the chapter was not willing to listen or help out and with the threat of the Inquisition the Dark Angels elected not to squash their successor chapter.  However, if they ever find out about Cypher and the brothers of the First Legion then that is likely to change.

With the return of Roboute Guilliman and the Indomitus Crusade the Wolves of Caliban were honoured with reinforcements or Primaris Space Marines.  Whilst the number of 1^st Legion warriors had grown the chapter was running short of Firstborn marines and the reinforcements were welcomed with opened arms and secrets well hidden.  The existence of Cypher and the true Dark Angels couldn’t be told to the new Primaris, until their loyalty had been tested and so rather than being spread through the chapter they were kept together, part of the chapter and yet not.  The Primaris formed three companies of the Wolves of Caliban, the 3^rd Battle Company, the 5^th Vanguard Company and the 7^th Assault Company.

Organisation of the Wolves of Caliban.

Unlike other successor chapters of the Dark Angels, the Wolves of Caliban do not follow their founding chapter in formation.  The Companies of the Wolves of Caliban are formed together as individual units capable of achieving particular goals so that any one company can deploy to complete a mission.  The companies are as follows: