Black Adders

A chapter know for manipulating their foes to fight each other, the Black Adders were a short lived chapter, based on the planet Consett. Their name was in fact taken from one the most successful families on the planet, the Blackadders. A highly unorthodox chapter, the Black Adders were the target of multiple Inquisition investigations, with one report becoming known as the “Adder Document”.

Tragically, the chapter was declared Lost after the Destruction of Somme, an event when their strategies fell back on them spectacularly, resulting in the transformation of the Paradise world into a Dead world. To this day, the Black Adders are remembered as cunning, but also cowardly, servants of the Emperor's wrath.

Family Blackadder
The feudal world of Consett, in the Durham Sector, contained multiple noble families, all of whom were engaged in complex political moving. The most successful family was the Blackadders, who depended on deception, complex plots and downright skulduggery to maintain their power. A perfect example, and arguably their greatest victory, was when the Great Crusade Expedition fleet reached the planet. The first to make contact with the fleet, thanks to ancient vox systems, the Blackadders showed themselves as a struggling bastion of logic and sanity amidst a world of madness and war, lead by other tyrannical families. The Blackadders helpfully pointed out the supposed worst of the bunch, and humbly asked that the fleet brought them to heel.

After the dust cleared, the Blackadders had a 90% control of the planet, and happily lead it to join the Imperium. From then on, the Blackadders’ reach spread beyond Consett, as they slowly expanded their influence across the Imperium. Although the Horus Heresy was a blow to their plans, the Blackadders survived, and by the 38th Millennium they had reached enough influence to achieve their ultimate goal; a Space Marine Chapter, based on Consett, under the control of the Blackadders.

Founding
Despite their wishes, it was impossible to have a chapter completely made of Blackadder family members. Instead, they settled with elevating Edmund Blackadder the 50, son of the family's patriarch, to chapter master. Taking Alnwick Castle as his fortress-monastery, Edmund named his new chapter the Black Adders, and declared them ready for anything the enemies of mankind could throw at them.

Six years later, after refusing to join conflicts due to “lack of ammunition,” “localised warp storms” and “It’ll be over by the time we get there,” the chapter received a message from the High Lords of Terra. According to Edmund, the message could be summed up as “Get involved, or lose your head.” With such delicate prompting, the Black Adders left Consett, and soon arrived on Northumb, a Hive World currently infested by orks.

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