Founding Chapter:UNKNOWN
Founding: 13th Dark Founding
Chapter Master: Vohst Ashkeladd
Homeworld: Vostkadd's Cradle
Fortress-Monastery: Materholm, a fortress wrought from the original ship that made landfall on the planet that would become Vostkadd's Cradle.
Colours: Straw yellow, chrome trim, umber arms.
Specialty: Marksmanship/Sabotage

Void Strength Present:
The Coming Rain, a bloated strike cruiser that is home to the 4th Grand Caravan Company. Grafted with some of the technology from the original colony ship that seeded Vostkadd's Cradle with human life before the times of Long Night, the old beast is armoured thick and can lay down a rain of orbital cannonfire and drop pods in a class all its own by sacrificing Lance and torpedo capabilities.

Sanguinem Ore - Nova Class Frigate

Shield of Fools - Hunter Class Destroyer

Arm of the Cradle - Gladius Class Frigate

The Grand Caravan - A flotilla of largely unarmed freighters that house stores of high quality rations, replacement tools, manufactured arms and armour, and the ability to deploy them to surviving PDF or Astra Militarum forces on the battlefield.

Ground Strength Present:
4th Grand Caravan
Cornucopiad Command Squad
Captain Huldran Grosse

Draugen Grosse, Librarian of the 4th Grand Caravan

Ancient Vassik, Standard-bearer

Garde Manger Fossagrim, Chaplain and Apothecary both

Trailmaster Vespic Krawl

Lieutenants Vosk-Firstborn and Currio-Primaris

Primaris Techmarine "Smidyr" Helstadt

15x Firstborn Tactical marines
20x Primaris Intercessors
10x Primaris Hellblasters w/ Assault Plasma Incinerators
5x Man Devastator Squad, Las Cannons
5x Reivers
10x Scouts
5x Scout bikes
2x Invader ATV
1x Armoured Supply Crawler
1x Venerable Dreadnought "Brother Barkus"

The Pilgrim Horde - Mobs of trained militias and death Cult zealots supported by the crusaders armed by Pontifex Astra Kristantin, a hanger on to the roving 4th Grand Caravan. Instead of joining the front lines the Pilgrim hordes tend to be deployed around places of importance to the Imperial Creed. Legally contentious with “Formal” Admunitorum creeds.

History: As a chapter of the 13th Dark Founding any fact of their origin is hidden under a Bull Absolute from the Inquisition and they aren't very forthcoming with that knowledge. What is known is that very soon after their deployment to the Segmentum Tempestus in the later years of M35 all contact was lost until a minor Rogue Trader house broke through into their space at the tail end of M38. At some point in their past the Battle Barge that housed the whole chapter was forced to land on the agriworld of Vostkadd's Cradle where they would stay, losing their original history and heraldry to a combination of death, invasion, and ion storms ravaging datastacks.

Forever changed by their closeness with the peasantry, when the rogue trader came only the oldest Librarian could even speak in something that resembled High Gothic and after a time pacts were made, materials traded, and maps exchanged. After several decades of repair the Sons of the Harvest were ready to return to the galactic fold while the Rogue Trader was free to establish their Dynasty along the untapped potential of the frontiers.

In the millenia that passed the Sons of the Harvest have made a name for themselves not amongst their Astartes peers or the aristocrats of the Imperium, but the Astra Militarum and peasantry they so often come to the rescue of.

Recruitment & Training: By necessity the Grand Caravans of the Sons of the Harvest travel on crusade, either cherry picking from the orphan peasantry of the world's they visit or drawn up from the enforcer clans of the Caravan. Scouts are taught to cultivate situational awareness and marksmanship above all else, to find weaknesses in supply lines and exploit them or eliminate an officer with a single shot. Separating the wheat so that the chaff smash themselves against the ceramite wall of their Battle-Brothers.

When these lessons are perfected and a Scout ascends to the rank of Astartes they eventually get sorted into one of two parts, “The Brash” who stand shoulder to shoulder with each other, barking war cries and thumping chests at the vanguard of peasant holdouts while the “The Reaping” center their aim on the heads of officers and the weak points of warmachines, removing them from the equation.

Notable Relics:
Vorpal Orizon - Artificer Astartes sniper rifle not matching known mass produced models, wielded by Trailmaster Krawl to devastating effect.

Battle Standard of the 4th - A large adamantine pole affixed with a tapestry showing a large Son of the Harvest strangling the life out of an unrecorded Xenos species in one hand while offering a full cornucopia to small, outreaching hands in the other. An integrated vox system built into the standard ensure that Ancient Vassik's wrath is heard above the din of battle.

Svartre - A large staff made of an unknown xeno hardwood with exotic, psychoactive metals studding its length. A potent force weapon passed from one Librarian to the other since before the forgotten time.

Leuan's Cauldron - No more a simple cauldron than a Thermal Lance is a metal stick. The exact origins of this biochemical crucible are lost in the fables of the Chapters history, a tale of hunger so great that the Astartes turned to boiling metals and rubbers to soften them for mortal consumption. What is known is that it is capable of rendering down biomatter into nutritious slurry, refining combat drugs out of organs, and the more mundane utility of crafting high quality meals to impress delegates or celebrate holidays.

Notable Members:
Librarian Draugen Grosse: Librarian, blood brother of Captain Huldran Grosse, and the first Son of the Harvest to cross the Rubicon Primaris. Draugen is trying to drag the Sons of the Harvest into the modern day, much to the consternation of his Chapter Master who sees no benefit to shedding their isolationism or accepting the Primaris into the ranks. Undeterred, Draugen has leveraged his relationship with the Captain to strike deep into Imperial space to prove his theories right and hopefully show the Chapter there is more they could do besides minding the border.

Brothers Bou and Lukan - Driver and Gunner of the Invader ATV “Eludo Fragor”, the pair were children when the Horus Heresy ravaged the stars and stole The Emperor's dream. Prone to seemingly insane acts of vehicular carnage.

Pontifex Astra Graivus Kristantin V - The current descendant of the original Kristantin who joined the 4th Caravan when they saved the Forgotten world of Devos 3 from Ork invasion. The family has served the 4th for over a millennium, accounting the movement, storage, and manufacture of supplies while cultivating death cults, training crusaders, and whipping toothless fools into well drilled militias ready to defend the holy places of the Emperor.