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===The Crusade Underway===
In the revised plan the first fleet to see action was ''[[Indomitus Crusade Fleet Tertius|Fleet Tertius]]'' under Fleetmaster [[Cassandra VanLeskus]], which took [[Olmec]]{{Fn|19}} and battled the [[Khornate]] [[Crusade of Slaughter]] in the [[Sol System]]. The fleet continued on into [[Segmentum Pacificus]] and then arced into [[Segmentum Tempestus]].{{Fn|7}} Fleet Secundus set out next, its ranks spearheaded by the [[Battle Sister]]s of the [[Order of the Ebon Chalice]] and the [[Order of Our Martyred Lady]] and engaged the forces of Chaos in [[Segmentum Obscurus]] in a campaign dubbed the [[Road of Martyrs]]. Fleet Primus under Guilliman himself left the Sol System third, taking with it the largest compliment of [[Ultima Founding]] [[Primaris Space Marines]] of the [[Unnumbered Sons|Greyshields]] as well as Belisarus Belisarius Cawl aboard the ''[[Zar Quaesitor]]''. It set out not upon a single heading but instead diverged into several spearheads that further fractured as they spread out from Terra. Wherever the Battlegroups of Fleet Primus surged into the fight they drove back the hordes of heretics and xenos that threatened to overrun Mankind. The first major victory of Fleet Primus would come at the [[Battle of Gathalamor]]. [[Fleet Quintus]] was eventually able to depart, but was beaten to the prize of [[Lessira]] by the lead elements of Fleet Tertius.{{Fn|19}}
Of all the Indomitus Crusade Fleets, Fleet Septimus (the 7th) alone was commanded to gather far from the Sol System. The exact location of its mustering point was kept a heavily guarded secret, known only to Roboute Guilliman himself and his inner circle. How large or small those battlegroups were, what forces were assigned to them, and what Fleet Septimus’ veiled purpose might be, none could be sure. Those assigned to the seventh fleet simply vanished, leaving nothing behind them but dark speculation and persistent rumors of onyx-chased [[servo skull]]s that drifted through the shadows clutching high level-clearance data scrolls in their metallic claws.{{Fn|7}}
