![]() The original inhabitants of Caliban are said to have been a proud, martial people similar to the medieval European society of Old Earth, brought up to live and die by the sword. Those forests seethed with mutation and corruption, the baleful influence of the nearby Eye of Terror making Caliban one of the deadliest Death Worlds in the galaxy. he is now free to plague the galaxy once again.Ĭaliban, the ancient homeworld of the Dark Angels, was once a verdant world of dense forests. ![]() ![]() Luther was freed by an assault of Daemons upon The Rock after the opening of the Great Rift. The Rock also held the greatest of the Dark Angels' secrets: the Arch-Traitor, Luther himself, was alive and well in its deepest dungeon, kept alive by a stasis field while he insanely mumbled that he had no need of confession or repentance, for one day Lion El'Jonson will return and forgive him for his sins against the Emperor. The Rock serves as the primary source of imprisonment for every one of the Fallen Angels hunted down by the Dark Angels Chapter and its Unforgiven Successor Chapters, as they believe that they can never restore their honour in the eyes of the Emperor until every single one of the Fallen has been captured and forced to repent before they die. It was outfitted with the most advanced Imperial technology including a Warp-Drive, gravity generators and Void Shields so that it could serve as their mobile headquarters as they sought to hunt down every one of the Fallen. After Caliban was destroyed by a Warp Storm summoned by the Ruinous Powers that tore the world asunder during the rebellion of Luther and the other Fallen Angels, the Dark Angels reshaped the old fortress into a massive mobile fortress-monastery. It was once a part of the Dark Angels' lost homeworld of Caliban upon which sat the fortress-monastery of The Order, the elite monastic order of knights that was led by the Dark Angels' Primarch Lion El'Jonson before he was rediscovered by the Emperor and from which many of the later Astartes recruits for the I st Legion were drawn. The Rock, officially known as the Angelicasta ("Tower of Angels"), is the massive mobile fortress-monastery and home of the Dark Angels Space Marine Chapter. ![]() The Rock, the Dark Angels Chapter's mobile fortress-monastery, and the Chapter's fleet exit the Warp during the Siege of the Fenris System in 999.M41. ![]()
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