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Every battle brother has to serve as a Coadjutor in the years after rising from the rank of neophyte. A selection of veterans are also chosen to act as Proconsuls; becoming a Proconsul is a necessary prerequisite to becoming a [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] or [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]].{{Fn|5a}} Proconsuls have led local troops of Sabatine or their vassal worlds into battle, granting them some knowledge on the [[Imperial Guard]].{{Fn|6}}
During the [[12th Black Crusade]] was the Exorcists one of the three chapters – together with the [[Exorcistsand Exorcists]] and [[Red Talons]] – that entered the [[Gothic Sector]] after the [[Warp storm]] that had isolated the sector ended and fought in the [[Gothic War]].{{Fn|22a}}{{Fn|22b}}
When the [[Thirteenth Black Crusade]] started, the White Counsuls answered to call of [[Cadia]] by sending all of their Companies, except the Fourth, who were left as a skeletal guard of the planet [[Celestine (Planet)|Celestine]].{{Fn|14a}}
