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The 3rd and 5th Companies, who were engaged in the [[Damocles Crusade]] tasked with bringing the [[Tau]] Commander [[O'Shovah]] to battle, were killed years ago and the Legionnaire kept up regular fake astrotelepathic reports in order to deceive the Chapter. Suddenly the 8th Company, who were two systems away from the Chapter's homeworld of [[Carcharias]] hunting [[Black Legion]] Traitor Marines in the [[Sarcus Reaches]], ceased sending contact altogether.{{Fn|1}}
As the Crimson Consuls slowly lost contact with large parts of their Chapter, [[Chapter Master]] [[Elias Artegall]] realised they were under some sort of insidious attack. He ordered the fortress-monastery secured and fortified. However, within mere moments the compound became compromised from within as Crimson Consuls turned their bolters on each other. Artegall and his officers charged through the chaotic fighting to the secure position of his Tactical Chancelorium. Only to find it already occupied by [[Black Legion ]] Marines. Artegall was taken captive and his surviving officers were immediately executed. A Chaos Marine from Captain [[Quetzal Carthach]] of the Alpha Legion revealed himself and explained how he orchestrated the downfall of the Crimson Consuls. Many years ago he had set their corruption in motion. Their recruits were brainwashed even before induction with psycho-sensitive words written on the walls of Carcharias' underhives, and a mere phrase was all that was needed to turn them against their non-brainwashed brothers. The Crimson Consuls had fallen and their stocks of gene-seed will be pillaged and delivered to [[Abaddon]] as a gift to replenish the numbers of his Black Legion.{{Fn|1}}
His entire Chapter fallen around him, Artegall managed to fight back one last time. He broke free and locked himself in his personal armoury. But despite its apparent safety, he discovered the Chapter Master's [[master-crafted]] boltgun already gone. [[Baldwin]], his best-friend and personal Chamber Castellan, had taken it and was aiming it directly at him. Artegall, the last of the Crimson Consuls, was murdered and the Chapter destroyed.{{Fn|1}}
