The Sable Swords are a Loyalist Codex Astartes-compliant Space Marine Chapter of unknown origin and Founding said to be created in the latter years of the 41st Millennium, making them one of the newest Space Marine Chapters to be raised. There is some conflicting evidence on this in the Imperial records, with some reference to the Chapter being created during the 4th Founding in the middle centuries of the 32nd Millennium, following the disastrous events of the War of the Beast. This was a campaign against the largest Ork WAAAGH! seen since the time of the Great Crusade, led by the mysterious Greenskin Warlord known only as The Beast. The Sable Swords, alongside the newly-founded Halo Brethren and the venerable Imperial Fists Chapters, would later form a Space Marine retribution force to f