>Their dark secret that redirects their current war efforts, abandoning imperial allies is that there was a super secret shameful civil war within the legion
>A legion that avoided the bloodiest battles of the heresy and still ends up with 50% of their legion gone and primarch missing
>Does not immediately arouse suspicion from anyone
Anybody could have put two and two together, whats the big deal? Every legion had traitors
No one would blame you if you said that you had horrific losses after a warp rift leaves all that's left of your planet as a single fortress
I like it how the Fallen are now in the Chaos Codex.
>>53554151
It's a ruse, the DA are the real fallen
>>53553984
but at least they are the most loyal men the emperium has to offer
>>53553984
It's no secret. Everyone knows the DA are closet traitors but everyone agreed to not tell them about it because they actually hurt Chaos more by pretending to be loyalists.
>>53553984
WHAT DO YOU MEAN ANON, EVERYBODY KNOWS THE DARK ANGELS ARE ABSOLUTELY THE MOST LOYAL OF ALL THE EMPEROR'S SONS!
Just speculation, but my guess is that Luther's marines defeated the Lion's bunch. They're the ones with the connection to Caliban, so they were wearing green. The loyalists (in black) attacked them, the traitors asked the powers of Chaos for help, and those powers scattered the loyalists across the galaxy and the ritual blew up the planet. The Lutherites realized that they'd have to face the rest of the Imperium, so they pretended that they had been the good guys all along and have been on a campaign to silence the Fallen ever since, for obvious reasons.
>>53553984
>>A legion that avoided the bloodiest battles of the heresy and still ends up with 50% of their legion gone and primarch missing
>The largest legion from the very start (28k marines when Luna Wolves were at 21k - sauce Inferno Wolves section) up until the 3rd Rangdan Xenocides where they lost about 50k
>in the last years of the Heresy visit destruction on unprecedented scale upon traitor worlds
>entrusted with destroying the vilest enemies even in M41, the Faze V Uprising was against Heretek Omega
Repent, heretic.
>>53556877
Really makes you think
>>53556877
They adopted the green color as a mark of shame. Their honor was stain and so were their armors.
>>53553984
>Lose half of their forces
When will this shit end? They have lost the novices that were in training an the few troops used in their training and guarding the monastery - at most a few thousands. Even if you add those lost on the assault of the monastery you won't go past a few thousands.
>White Scars have a shit ton of their guys siding with Horus.
>Khan just slaps them in the wrist and sends them to suicide missions because well, why not.
>No fucks given after HH
Ching chong throat singing to celebrate not being edgy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rmo3fKeveo
>>53554212
>ABANDONING IMPERIAL ALLIES