Ruby Crescents
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The Ruby Crescents are a Blood Angels Successor Chapter.[1c]
History
They once had an outpost on the Imperial world Camarth, which contained a garrison of the Chapter's forces. They resided in the fortress Redmoon Keep, from where the Crescents watched over the people of Camarth, who in turn greatly honoured the Chapter[1b]. However disaster struck, when the Great Rift's creation, isolated Camarth within the Imperium Nihilus. Now cut off from the wider Imperium, the world was preyed upon by the Ten Thousand Eyes Warband, who launched a devastating invasion. Despite the efforts of the Crescents' garrison on the world, Camarth was brought to ruin.[1a]
However the Warband had specially targeted Camarth, because of the Ruby Crescents' isolated garrison. The Ten Thousand Eyes' master, Seraphax, wanted to use the Crescents as research material for his experiment known as the Bloodrage Project, which sought to find ways to unleash the mindless ferocity that was hidden within all of the Primarch Sanguinius' sons. During the invasion, nine of the Crescents were captured at great cost[1d] and were then imprisoned in one of the Redmoon Keeps cells. After being chained to the cell's walls together, the captives' blood began to be drained into a giant vat beneath its floor, where it was somehow turned into a glowing liquid.[1c]
The imprisoned Crescents were later discovered by the Dark Angels' returned Primarch Lion El'Jonson, who was accompanied by the Fallen Angel Zabriel. The two had begun working towards reclaiming Camarth for the Imperium and the Keep was their first target. When they found the captive Crescents, however, the Space Marines were enthralled to the Red Thirst and tried to attack the Primarch. Not realizing they were suffering from one of Sanguinius' Gene-seed curses, El-Jonson assumed the Crescents had been corrupted by the Ten Thousand Eyes and he granted them all a quick death. The two then rigged the Redmoon Keep to explode, which destroyed the Crescents' blood that had been gathered by the Warband.[1c]
