Founding Chapter: UNK
Founding: UNK
Chapter Master: Uzar Acoraren
Homeworld: UNK
Fortress-Monastery: Luminor Karos Impres, Battle-Barge
Colours: Slate blue, white trim, brick red helm
Specialty: Rapid assault

Founding Chapter: Imperial Fists
Founding: Second Founding
Chapter Master: High Marshal Helbrecht
Homeworld: N/A (Fleet-based)
Fortress-Monastery: Gloriana-class Battleship Eternal Crusader
Colours: Black with white
Specialty: Close-quarters shock assault

Void Strength Present:
Tenacity of Sigismund: Strike Cruiser
Graftus: Hunter-class Destroyer
Reductor: Hunter-class Destroyer
Tempest Lance: Gladius-class Frigate

Ground Strength Present:
Total strength: 45 Firstborn, 20 Primaris, 20 Neophytes, 1 Dreadnought
Marshal Hartmut Otmar
Castellan Reinhardt
Apothecary x2
Chaplain x2
Techmarine x3
Sword Brethren Assault Terminators x10
Sword Brethren x10
Crusader Squad (5 Firstborn, 5 Neophytes) x2
Primaris Crusader Squad (5 Primaris, 5 Neophytes) x2
Assault Intercessors w/ Jump Packs x10
Bike Squads x2
Predator Annihilator x2
Dreadnought
Rhino x4
Land Raider Crusader x2

History:
Hastily assembled from the remnants of a previous crusade that had taken heavy losses in its victory, the Karia Crusade hurtles at full speed towards the system. As the commander of the previous campaign, Marshal Hartmut leads a contingent of Black Templars in Karia's defense. While the crusade has received a small influx of Primaris Marines in an attempt to shore up its numbers, it is not nearly enough to replace the casualties inflicted against it previously during its campaign against a Khornate invasion.

Additionally, while the Karia Crusade has been entrusted with one of the Chapter's Black Swords and the Armor of Faith, the previous Emperor's Champion fell in combat at the conclusion of its last campaign, and no new Champion has arisen as of yet.

Recruitment & Training:
As usual for a Black Templars contingent, aspirants are recruited from Chapter Keeps on various worlds that the Templars have touched down upon. When roughly two dozen Neophytes are available at a Chapter Keep and have been approved by the keep's Castellan and the Chapter's Apothecaries and Chaplains, they are dispatched to a crusade fleet for the next stage of their induction.

Under Marshal Hartmut's force organization, the Karia Crusade has a higher proportion of mechanization in its ranks, as it had not lost as much materiel compared to battle-brothers in previous engagements. This contingent focuses heavily on mechanized assault, with virtually no Marines on foot without transport of some kind.

Notable Relics:
The Indomitable March: Artificer Armor based on the Mk. III "Iron" pattern, worn by Marshal Hartmut.
Aquila Favonia: Eviscerator chainsword, wielded by Sword Brother Geraldus.
Champion's Wargear: The Black Sword and Armor of Faith carried into battle by the Emperor's Champion. Currently lie unused.

Notable Members:
Castellan Reinhardt:
Leads the Assault Terminators into battle. Led a heroic defense of Hive Tertius in campaigns past. Armed with Terminator armor, Thunder Hammer, and Storm Shield.

Sword Brother Geraldus:
Leader of Assault Squad Geraldus. Notable for having beheld Rogal Dorn in the flesh before he was selected for the Primaris project. Armed with the Aquila Favonia and a Jump Pack.

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

10x Firstborn Tactical marines, chainswords, missed launcher, combi-flamer
20x Primaris Intercessors, stalker bolt rifles
5x Primaris Hellblasters w/ Assault Plasma Incinerators
5x Man Devastator Squad, Heavy Bolters
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.