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| - The Skull Templars are a 13th Founding Chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. Their origins are shrouded in mystery and rumor, but this is to be expected of a Dark Founding Chapter. While their earliest records are known only to the Inquisition and to the Chapter itself, they have gained a reputation among many Imperial Agencies as devout worshipers of the Emperor and skilled swordsmen, never lacking in faith or fury. The Skull Templars preside over King's Reach, a feudal world on the edge of Segmentum Ultima, near the border with Segmentum Solar. The planet's moon, Concordance, possesses an inactive portal to the Warp from the Dark Age of Technology, presumably used to experiment with travel between worlds. The old facility used to house the portal was rebuilt and expanded into the Skull Templars Fortress Monastery. From this fortress, known as Templar's Keep, the Skull Templars guard the Portal, keeping it safe from aliens, heretics, and daemons, until the day when it can be safely dismantled or utilized for the benefit of mankind. As of 999.M41, the Skull Templars have evacuated all of King's Reach for the first time in history as the Fourth Siege of King's Reach has begun, this time with a two-pronged attack from the Orks of Waaagh! Snotlah and the chaos marines of the Thanes of Hell, who have come to find the Warp Portal and open it for a much larger chaotic invasion. Alongside the Skull Templars stands the Hunters Errant, Battlefleet Rexus, and the Maccabian Janissaries, each just as ready to sacrifice themselves to keep the portal out of the enemy's hands.
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