Known in Low Gothic as the Space Sharks, the Carcharodons Astra are among the most secretive Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes. Their founding is unrecorded and their gene-line unconfirmed, though many scholars suspect a lineage descended from the Raven Guard. For ten thousand years they have prowled the galaxy's edge, serving a figure they name only the Void Father.
Unlike most Chapters, the Carcharodons follow the rare Nomad-Predation pattern of existence, roaming the outer dark aboard their fleet for generations without ever making planetfall upon a home world. This endless exile has marked them: pallid of skin, black-eyed and utterly without warmth, they fall upon their prey with a feral savagery that unsettles even hardened Imperial commanders.
They are best remembered for their bloody intervention in the closing stages of the Badab War, when they surged out of the void to punish those judged traitors to the Emperor and departed as swiftly as they had come. Their warriors bear grey plate marked with shark-tooth motifs and tallies of the slain, and their lords, foremost among them Tyberos the Red Wake, wage war with a ferocity that has earned the Chapter a reputation closer to that of predators than protectors.
Order of battle
The Carcharodons Astra field the units of the Space Marines, a detachment from the roster:
Other Space Marines formations
Angels VermillionSecretive to the edge of paranoia, the Angels Vermillion are a Blood Angels successor who bear their bloodline's curse in bleak isolation, shunning their brother Chapters and guarding their darkest secrets with quiet menace.
Angels of AbsolutionThe Angels of Absolution are a Second Founding successor of the Dark Angels who wear their gene-sire's shame more lightly than any of their kin. Armoured in stark bone-white, they hold the singular conviction that their sins were washed clean in the fires of Caliban's fall, and so they have set aside the very name of the Unforgiven. Serene where other successors are haunted, they nonetheless ride to the secret war with undimmed resolve, hunting the Fallen not to purchase their own salvation but because justice demands the guilty answer for their crimes.
Angels of VengeanceThe Angels of Vengeance are among the grimmest of the Unforgiven, a Second Founding successor of the Dark Angels who wage the secret hunt for the Fallen with a cold, unrelenting fury. Clad in armour of funereal black, they are austere even by the standards of their tormented lineage, speaking little and forgiving nothing. Where their parent Chapter cloaks its shame in ritual, the Angels of Vengeance carry theirs like a drawn blade, and they will cross any gulf and shatter any oath of secrecy to see a single Fallen dragged before the Inner Circle.
Black TemplarsZealous crusaders without a true homeworld, the Black Templars roam the stars in vast fleets, purging heresy and xenos wherever they are found. Sworn to unending crusade in the name of the Emperor, they answer doubt with faith and the sword, the most relentless holy warriors of the Adeptus Astartes.
Blood AngelsNoble and haunted, the Blood Angels wage constant war against the twin genetic curses of thirst and rage inherited from their martyred primarch Sanguinius. From the blasted world of Baal they answer the Imperium's darkest calls, warriors of aching beauty forever poised on the edge of the abyss within.
Crimson FistsBattered but unbroken, the Crimson Fists rose from the ashes of near-extinction to become a byword for defiance. Sons of Dorn, they fight on when all hope is spent.
Dark AngelsThe secretive First Legion, the Dark Angels wage two wars at once: one for the Imperium, and a hidden one to hunt down the traitors of their own broken past. Knightly, disciplined, and consumed by ancient guilt, they pursue the Fallen across ten thousand years, guarding a shame no outsider must ever learn.
Flesh TearersCursed with the worst of Sanguinius's flaws, the Flesh Tearers wage war on the knife's edge of madness. They are the most savage of the Blood Angels' sons, forever fighting their own extinction.
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