Editing Legiones Astartes (Hektor Heresy) (section)

=Detailed information=

==Legions of the Crusade==

{|align=center border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"
|colspan=8 align=center style=background:#FFFFF align=center|'''The Twenty Astartes Legions of the Great Crusade'''
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|style=background:#FFFFF align=center|'''Number'''
|style=background:#FFFFF align=center|'''Name'''
|style=background:#FFFFF align=center|'''Speciality'''
|style=background:#FFFFF align=center|'''Primarch'''
|style=background:#FFFFF align=center|'''Homeworld'''
|style=background:#FFFFF F4F align=center|'''Loyalty'''
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|align=center|'''I'''
|align=center|[[Heralds of Hektor]]
|align=center|Generalists
|align=center|[[Hektor Cincinnatus]]
|align=center|Olmer (destroyed), now based from their fleet within the Eye of Terror
|align=center|Traitor
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|align=center|'''II'''
|align=center|[[War Scribes]]
|align=center|Logistics
|align=center|[[Arelex Orannis]]
|align=center|Whitestone (Destroyed), now Fleet-based in [[the Atalantos Worlds]].
|align=center|Loyal
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|align=center|'''III'''
!colspan="5"|''Missing and deleted from Imperial records''
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|align=center|'''IV'''
|align=center|[[Sons of Fire]]
|align=center|World-Killing and Melee
|align=center|[[Inferox]]
|align=center|Crematoria (destroyed)
|align=center|Traitor
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|align=center|'''V'''
|align=center|[[Void Angels]]
|align=center|Manoeuvre warfare
|align=center|[[Gaspard Lumey]]
|align=center|[[Ciban IV]]
|align=center|Loyal
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|align=center|'''VI'''
|align=center|[[The Entombed]]
|align=center|Heavy Support
|align=center|[[Golgothos]]
|align=center|Sepulchra
|align=center|Loyal
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|-
|align=center|'''VII'''
!colspan="5"|''Missing and deleted from Imperial records''
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|align=center|'''VIII'''
|align=center|[[Mastodontii]]
|align=center|Mechanised Warfare 
|align=center|[[Tollund Ötztal]]
|align=center|Tisenjoch
|align=center|Traitor
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|align=center|'''IX'''
|align=center|[[Lions Rampant]]
|align=center|Armoured Warfare
|align=center|[[Cromwald Walgrun]]
|align=center|Sommesgard
|align=center|Traitor
|-
|align=center|'''X'''
|align=center|[[Steel Marshals]]
|align=center|Siege Warfare
|align=center|[[Roman Albrecht]]
|align=center|Centauri Primus
|align=center|Loyal
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|align=center|'''XI'''
|align=center|[[Thunder Kings]]
|align=center|Furious Melee
|align=center|[[Brennus]]
|align=center|Alessia (destroyed), now multiple worlds
|align=center|Loyal
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|align=center|'''XII'''
|align=center|[[Life Bringers]]
|align=center|Chemical Warfare
|align=center|[[Johannes Vrach]]
|align=center|Rai (destroyed), now Eden (Demon World in the Eye of Terror)
|align=center|Traitor
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|align=center|'''XIII'''
|align=center|[[The Justiciars]]
|align=center|Witch-hunting and surgical strikes
|align=center|[[Uriel Salazar]]
|align=center|Perfidiae V
|align=center|Traitor
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|align=center|'''XIV'''
|align=center|[[Black Augurs]]
|align=center|Sorcery-powered Melee
|align=center|[[The Voidwatcher]]
|align=center|Ostium
|align=center|Traitor
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|align=center|'''XV'''
|align=center|[[Silver Cataphracts]]
|align=center|Combined Arms Warfare
|align=center|[[Alexandri of Rosskar]]
|align=center|[[Rosskar]]
|align=center|Loyal
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|align=center|'''XVI'''
|align=center|[[Eternal Zealots]]
|align=center|Close Quarters Combat
|align=center|[[Aubrey The Grey]]
|align=center|Lazarus
|align=center|Traitor
|-
|align=center|'''XVII'''
|align=center|[[Scale Bearers]]
|align=center|Fast Attack
|align=center|[[Tiran Osoros]]
|align=center|Solnhofen
|align=center|Loyal
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|align=center|'''XVIII'''
|align=center|[[Stone Men]]
|align=center|Defensive Operations
|align=center|[[Onyx the Indestructible]]
|align=center|Neolithus(destroyed)
|align=center|Loyal
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|align=center|'''XIX'''
|align=center|[[Eyes of the Emperor]]
|align=center|Firepower
|align=center|[[Shakya Vardhana]]
|align=center|Marusthali
|align=center|Loyal
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|align=center|'''XX'''
|align=center|[[Iron Rangers]]
|align=center|Asymmetrical Warfare
|align=center|[[Rogerius Merrill]]
|align=center|Profi Tiroedd
|align=center|Traitor
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==Discovery Order of the Primarchs==

1) Hektor Cincinnatus (at start)

2) Arelex Orannis (803.M30)

3) Uriel Salazar (817.M30)

4) Shakya Vardhana (822.M30)

5) Roman Albrecht (831.M30)

6) The Voidwatcher (836.M30)

7) Tollund Ötztal (842.M30)

8) Gaspard Lumey (850.M30)

9) Johannes Vrach (850.M30)

10) Alexandri (855.M30)

11) Tiran Osoros (859.M30)

12) Inferox the Burned King (863.M30)

13) Rogerius Merrill (870.M30)

14) Brennus (892.M30)

15) Golgothos (898.M30)

16) Aubrey The Grey (899.M30)

17) Onyx the Indestructible (908.M30)

18) Cromwald Walgrun (914.M30)

==Doctrine and Reforms==
Much of the discipline and organisation of the early Legions owed greatly to the ancient and proven Terran patterns of strategy, hierarchy and function as laid down in the revered texts of the Principia Belicosa of Roma and Krom's fragmentary New Model that had survived in the hands of the Old Earth tyrants down the blood-stained generations. To these venerable treatises the Emperor and his commanders had added their own genius and created a sturdy but adaptable strategic framework that spoke to the fundamental strengths and superhuman abilities of the Legionaries themselves.

Following the disaster of the Hektor Heresy and the Imperial counter-offensive of the Great Scouring, [[Gaspard Lumey]] and [[Arelex Orannis]] presided over a great reorganisation of the Loyalist Space Marines into smaller rapid strike units of a thousand Astartes. These Successor Chapters to the old Legions would form an integral part of the Reformed Imperium's defences.