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The Heralds of Light are a Third Founding Chapter, which patrol the Halo Stars region in the Segmentum Obscurus, though recently they have been trapped in the Dark Imperium, battling the forces of Chaos wherever they go.

History
The Heralds of Light started their history as a Chapter nameless, from the disillusioned Veteran of the Ultramarines, Vendis Frach. Vendis for a long time has pleaded with the current Chapter Master of the Ultramarines to venture forth and expand the Imperium, to bring lost worlds back to the Light of the Emperor and Humanity, much like during the Great Crusade, in which he took part of during the later stages. However, he was constantly denied in his requests to do so, citing that such actions are unneeded. Despite this, he remained a respectable member of the Ultramarines First Company, notable in his zeal for expanding the worlds of Ultramar adn Imperium. So, for nearly a thousand years, Vendis continued this task, but when the time came for a new Founding to happen around M32.001, he was chosen to lead a Chapter of Ultramarines' successors.

Gifted a sacred Battle Barge, a relic Falchion, later named Godslayer, and gene stock as well as warriors, Vendis took his fledgling Chapter to crusade against any threat the Imperium may face. They grew decently in time, a full five hundred marines to boast as well as a small navy, composed mostly of escorts and 2 Strike cruisers they acquired from the Admech in assistance of some Forge Worlds. The Chapter was looking up, but soon it would be tested in a far dark time, one which nearly broke the Imperium much like the Death of Hope, as the Horus Heresy was called within the Chapter.

War of the Beast: M32.544 to 546
The fledgling Heralds of Light, barely half strength at the time, were utterly unprepared for the overwhelming force of the Ork Beast. The Chapter held their own, but barely. For every victory, there was defeat. For every thousand ork fallen, a dozen or more Brothers had fallen to them. It was at the climax of the War, that Vendis Frach, nearly 1,500 years old, fell when he slayed an Ork Warboss. Perhaps if the war continued, the Chapter would have perished at the greenskins hands, but it was the sudden victory at Ullanor that saved them, just in time.

However, Vendis Frach, having been interred within a Relic Contemptor Chasis, order the pursuit of the Ork Warband remenant that felled him. Already half way across the galaxy, the Heralds pursed this warband, which had quickly chosen a new Warboss, unusual for the Orks. Then again, so was the Beast. However, the Heralds of Light chased the Orks to a place where few tread. Spoken in whispers about what dwells there, what evil beings lie in the dark between worlds. For the Heralds of Light had chased the Orks to the Halo Stars, one of the most dangerous places in the galaxy.

The Halo Stars: M32.547 to M41.899
There are many stories that can be told during this this period of rampant slaughter and carnage, like the elimination of the Ork Warband the Heralds of Light chased down, or the now forgotten xenos Empire they shattered, but what truely happened is kept secret by the Heralds of Light. All that is known is the Heralds established a field base near a system of planets, where they would launch raids into the Halo Stars until M41.999, and that they raided a run down Pre-Heresy cargo ship full of unknown xenos, who had taken the contents of the ship to bare against the Heralds. The fighting was rough, with many brothers killed in the action, but it was considered worth it, as they were able to secure priceless relics, amongst them being rare Volkite weaponry, suits of Tactical Dreadnought Armor, Mark IV and older marks of armor, and a broken down Fellblade, which they named "Relentless."

With the setting up of the forward base, the Heralds of Light were free to launch mini crusades into the Halo Stars, achieving small objectives, whether it be bringing a lost human world back into the light of the Imperium, searching for the location of an STC, or more. These crusades would usually take a century or two, with more than two thirds of the Chapter participating, while the rest stay behind and secure their forward bases, so that when the Crusade Force came back, they could rapidly rebuild their forces and prepare to dive back into the Halo Stars.

Notable Crusades within the Halo Stars

 * The Altumurino Crusade, [REDACTED]: Notable for the fact that this crusade was the deepest the Heralds of Light had ever gone into the Halo Stars. Five hundred Marines went into the Halo Stars, and barely One hundred Marines came out, struck with horror at what they witnessed withing the maddening depths of the Halo Stars. Void creatures the size of small moons, time being played like an instrument by unknown forces, an xeno Empire that was both in and out of realspace. There is more, but few were willing to speak of it, and those that did were the most harden Veterans of the Chapter, and even then, they rarely spoke of it. It was noted that the Marines had thought they were fighting for centuries, even millennia, when at most they had been gone for no more than a century. Most of the Marine's that particpated within the Crusade were granted the Emperor's Peace, the rest going on to become haunted, but valuable, members of the First Company.
 * The Rankid Crusade, 234.M37: Rumors of an STC being located in the Rankid System spurs a Crusade by the Heralds of Light, fighting alongside Adeptus Mechanicus allies sent to help recover the valuable relic. With Skitarii and a Titan Legion at their backs, over four hundred Heralds of Light fought their way to the Rankid system, smashing anything that stood in their way. When the Imperial forces finally converged on the system, they found it infested with Orks. Fighting towards their supposed goal, they only found disappointment. The lead Warboss, in it's strange, alien mindset, destroyed the STC to make, in it's words before it was executed by angry Imperials, "Moar flashy bitz for me' armor." Thus, the Imperials, bitter and bloodied, slayed the last of the Ork forces in the Rankid system and quickly made their way out of the Halo Stars, the Adeptus Mechanicus forces mourning the loss of such a valued artifact.
 * The Grevious Crusade, 984.M38: A large crusade under took by the Heralds of Light and other Imperial Forces to take downt the growing

Culture
(how they think & work) (their chapter cult) (recruitment) (treatment/status of the serfs) (what makes them different otherwise)

Notable Heralds of Light
Chapter Master Dervos Anctila - Declared Renegade in secret, and exiled from the chapter. Was said to be KIA to cover up his exile, which would have been a moral loss to the chapter after the civil war.

Chapter Master Hector Ultreir - Current Chapter Master of the Heralds of Light.

Ancient Vendis Frach -

Reliquary

 * Remembrance -
 * Lux Repentia -

Chapter Colours
Colors, honours, armor types, etc.

Chapter Fleet
Bringer of His Light - Ramilies Class Star Fortress, serving as the Chapter's Fortress Monastary. Home to the Chapter's Vehicle Armory and the Stasis Vault, where the Chapter's Relics are kept safe from unwanted hands.

1 x Battle Barge

3 x Strike Cruisers

21 x Frigates

Allies
Some Good Guys Some Cool Guys

Enemies
Some Bad guys!

By the Heralds of Light
"Rust and ashes. That is all that will remain of your heretical world."

- Lord Commander Dervos to the Fabricator General of the Forge World Keltia.

"Many brave men have paused at the prospect of entering the Halo Stars, spoken in fear throughout the galaxy. Yet we are not normal men, but Astartes, His divine warriors. It is we who dive into the abyss, fighting it's dark malefic talons with His Light and our blade and bolter. It is we who herald the coming of His Light to the darkness of the Halo Stars, and in time, the darkest of abysses may be glowing in His Light, no matter the means."

- - Ancient Vendis Frach, Heralds of Light. Feel free to add your own

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