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==History==
[[Image:CarchArt.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Carcharodon Space Marines battle [[Night Lords]] ]]
The Chapter named '''Carcharodon Astra''' — translated into Low Gothic as the '''Space Sharks''', but known more widely as the '''Carcharodons''' — is a Space Marine Chapter of unknown provenance that has relatively recently carved for itself a dark and brutal legend in the bloody wake of the [[Badab War]]. Much of the information surrounding its history is shrouded in myth or allegory, but fragmented pieces of data point to it already being in existence as early as late [[M32]], during the [[Astropath Wars]]. The Chapter's ancient history speaks of a "Day of Exile", a time when the Wandering Ancestors had been banished from their home world and ordered out beyond the Galaxy's edge.{{Fn|7b}} One thing is for certain, however: that the Chapter was given a sacred duty to travel the empty spaces beyond the [[Imperium]]'s borders, seemingly forever, to seek out and destroy the enemies of Mankind.{{Fn|3d}}
The title '''Shade Lord''', only known to have been used by exiled [[Raven Guard]] Commander [[Arkhas Fal]] during the [[Great Crusade]], is used by [[Chapter Master|Lord]] [[Tyberos]] of the [[Carcharodons]], indicating that Arkhas Fal may have gone on to be the [[List of Founders|founder]] of that [[Chapter]] known as '''the Forgotten One'''.{{Fn|7a}}
*{{Endn|7}}: [[Carcharodons: Red Tithe (Novel)]]{{Cite this}}
**{{Endn|7a}}: Chapter 1
**{{Endn|7b}}: Chapter 6
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Carcharodons: Outer Dark (Novel)]]
**{{Endn|8a}}: Chapter 3