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The '''Sons of Malice''' [[Space Marine Chapter]] turned [[Renegade Space Marine|renegade]] some time prior to the [[Thirteenth Black Crusade]].
==Chapter Combat Doctrine==
==Notable Vessels==
*''[[Bronze Minos]]'' — [[Strike Cruiser]]
*''[[The Labyrinth]]'' — [[Battlebarge]]
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The '''Sons of Malice''' [[Space Marine Chapter]] turned [[Renegade Space Marine|renegade]] some time prior to the [[13th Black Crusade]].
==History==
After the [[Fall of Cadia]], the Sons of Malice attacked surviving Cadian Imperial Guard forces, in the [[Battle of Faith's Anchorage]], as revenge for their part in the attack on Scelus.{{Fn|4}}
==Chapter Organisation& Doctrine==
In comparison to the other Traitor Legions and Renegade Chapters of Chaos Space Marines, the general organisation of the Sons of Malice is not that far from the norm outlined in the [[Codex Astartes]], though they maintain 11 companies of Astartes rather than the standard 10, as 11 is believed to be the sacred number of Malice.{{Cite this}}
The Sons of Malice are vicious, brutal and bloodthirsty in the extreme. Perhaps the Chapter's most eerie quality is that the Sons of Malice reportedly fight in utter silence, and those who have fought against them cite this as the prime source of the deeply disturbing aura surrounding them.{{Fn|1b}} They also capture living foes and civilians for their rituals and to feed upon, whether these captures are human or xenos is of little concern to them.{{Fn|3}}
==Chapter Beliefs==
As followers of the [[Chaos God]] [[Malice (Chaos God)|Malice]], the Chapter hold the number 11 as sacred. Even before being declared traitors, the chapter would hold a cannibalistic sacrificial ritual on their homeworld of Scelus every 11 years.{{Fn|1a}}{{Fn|4}}
After their exile, they started a ritual of returning to their former capital ship, the ''[[Labyrinth]]'', every 100 years. Here, a ritual of cannibalistic feasting would take place using 1,000 humans and xenos captured across the galaxy. A volunteer team of Sons of Malice Astartes would then be tasked with surviving an expedition through the ship's long abandoned interior, using only what they can scavenge to fight off hordes of warp-mutants (secretly former Astartes who had failed this trial previously). The survivors would be deemed worthy to join the ranks of their elite "Doomed Ones". In this ritual, the Astarting, . However, no matter how many of the team survived, once the first of them walked through the teleportarium gate at the end of the ship, the gate would shut down leaving the rest of the team to become more of the horde for future rituals. The single survivor would then be sacrificed as a "Doomed One" as part of a ritual to summon Malice to the Materium. Once 11 Doomed Ones were sacrificed, Malice could be summoned.{{Fn|3}}
==Known Engagements==
*[[Battle of Faith's Anchorage]]
==Warband Elements=====Notable Vessels===*''[[Labyrinth]]'' — Derelict [[battleship]] and base of operations.{{Fn|3}}*''[[Bronze Minos]]'' — [[Strike Cruiser]] ===Notable Members===
*[[Kathal]] — Leader
*[[Kanath]] — Chaos Lord
*[[Invictus (Sons of Malice)|Invictus]] — The 11th "Doomed One".{{Fn|3}}
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