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{{ambig|subject=Space Marine Founding|disambiguation=Founding}}
A '''Founding''' is an occasion when several new [[Space Marine Chapter]]s are created. {{Fn|11c}} A Founding does not occur at any set interval, but is ordered when it is deemed necessary. As Chapters are occasionally completely [[Lost Chapter|destroyed]], Foundings are often meant to ensure that a thousand Chapters exist at a time. This also means that many Chapters are created during unstable times of strife and rebellions that have caused many Chapters to lose the knowledge of their Founding or even the millennia of that Founding.{{Fn|11d}} This is especially common to Chapters created before or during [[Age of Apostasy]] as during the [[Reign of Blood]] many Imperial records were shamelessly destroyed forever.{{Fn|11c}}
Space Marine Chapters have been created outside of official Foundings, however. Exceptions to Foundings include the creation of the [[Grey Knights]] who were created before the [[Second Founding]] by order of the [[Emperor]] Himself during the [[Horus Heresy]]{{Fn|10}}, the [[Sons of Medusa]], who were ratified by unprecedented edict in 011.[[M37]],{{Fn|3c}} and the [[Red Seraphs]] as well as [[Angels Numinous]] which represent splinter factions of the [[Blood Eagles]].{{Fn|66}}
