The Ruby Crescents are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter of an unknown Founding and of the Blood Angels' genetic lineage. A detachment of the Ruby Crescents garrisoning the fortress of Redmoon Keep on the Jungle World of Camarth in the Imperium Nihilus were captured by the Heretic Astartes of the Ten Thousand Eyes warhost and used as part of the corrupt experiments of the Fallen Angel Sorcerer Lord Seraphax. Seraphax sought to find a way to use the Blood Angels' genetic Flaw to turn them to the service of Chaos.
The Ruby Crescents of Camarth, fallen into the grip of the Red Thirst due to the experiments done to them by Seraphax, were ultimately granted the Emperor's Peace by the awakened Dark Angels Primarch Lion El'Jonson when they mindlessly attacked him as he sought to free them after the Lion came to that world during one of his journeys through the Immaterium's realm of Mirror-Caliban.
Chapter History[]
The Ruby Crescents maintained a fortified outpost known as Redmoon Keep on the Jungle World of Camarth during the Era Indomitus. The garrison of the keep was left there to watch over the people of that world, who greatly respected and honoured the Adeptus Astartes who walked among them. But when the Great Rift was born, the Ruby Crescents of Carmath found themselves cut off from the rest of their Chapter as Carmath was located in the Imperium Nihilus. During the Era Indomitus, Camarth was assaulted by the Ten Thousand Eyes, a warhost of Heretic Astartes commanded by the Fallen Angel and Sorcerer Lord Seraphax. The Chaos forces overwhelmed the now-isolated garrison at Redmoon Keep and claimed the world for their own.
In truth, Seraphax had deliberately targetted the Ruby Crescents because they were so isolated and easily overcome. Seraphax wished to use Space Marines of the Blood Angels' genetic lineage as fodder for a research endeavour he termed the "Bloodrage Project." This was an attempt to turn the Flaw in the gene-seed of all the sons of Sanguinius against them so that the mindless ferocity of the Black Rage and the Red Thirst would become all-consuming, transforming all the Astartes of the Sanguinary Brotherhood into weapons to be used against the Imperium.
The Ten Thousand Eyes took control of Redmoon Keep and imprisoned nine of the surviving Ruby Crescents who had been captured at high cost to the warband in one of the fortress' cells. The Captives' blood was drained from them into a giant vat placed before them, where it was transformed by Seraphax's Chaos sorcery into a glowing liquid that he hoped could be used to initiate the Flaw in any of Sanguinius' scions.
The imprisoned Ruby Crescents were later discovered by the Dark Angels Primarch Lion El'Jonson, who had found his way to Camarth through the Immaterium's sub-realm of Mirror-Caliban after his awakening beneath The Rock, and the redeemed Fallen Zabriel, now one of The Risen who had been forgiven by their primarch after being encountered on Camarth. The two sought to redeem Camarth for the Imperium, and had sought to expel the Ten Thousand Eyes from Redmoon Keep when they discovered the secret research being conducted in its dungeons.
The Lion and Zabriel tried to free the Ruby Crescents, but each of the Space Marines had fallen to the Red Thirst and tried to attack their rescuers. Unaware of the nature of the Red Thirst which afflicted his brother Sanguinius' gene-sons, the Lion simply assumed they had already been corrupted by Chaos and granted them the Emperor's Peace.
Then the Lion and Zabriel sabotaged the generatorium of Redmoon Keep and destroyed it in a great explosion, which brought to an end the Bloodrage Project.
Chapter Appearance[]
Chapter Colours[]
The Ruby Crescents' colour scheme is not listed in current Imperial records.
Chapter Badge[]
The Ruby Crescents' Chapter badge is not listed in current Imperial records.
Sources[]
- The Lion: Son of the Forest (Novel) by Mike Brooks, Chs. 6-7, 10, 13