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The '''Great Companies''' are unique to the [[Space Wolves]] [[Chapter]] of [[Space Marines]]. Where most Chapters are organized into ten [[Company|Companies]] of 100 warriors, the Space Wolves are grouped into twelve Great Companies of about 120 warriors, each having different iconography and banner symbols. Each Great Company is responsible for its own recruitment, maintenance, and running, each acting as a seperate force altogether, each lead by a [[Wolf Lord]] in a semi-feudal system. When working with multiple Great Companies on a large crusade, they would use the iconography of the first Great Company, Which is the Chapter's 'Standard' colours to avoid confusion on the battlefield. There was once a [[13th Great Company]], which has several rumors to its dissapearance . Some state that they disappeared into the [[Warp]] shortly during the attack on the traitorous [[Thousand Sons]] homeworld, other rumors claim they disappeared after the Space Wolf primarch [[Leman Russ (primarch)|Leman Russ]] disappearedhimself went missing. Regardless, there are currently hardly any information concerning the company in the Imperial records.
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