Editing Iron Hearts Legion (section)

==The Monolith Men==
The Iron Hearts Legion is an army of cyborgs, their faulty gene-seed bolstered and in many ways improved by the usage of esoteric Golden Age technology. The process of implanting this mystical archeotech into a human body is not fully understood by even the Legion itself, and full of peril; it does not always produce a true Astartes, and in many cases results in a braindead being barely fit for servitorhood. Those that survive the implantation process are split into four distinct categories based on their adaptation to the ancient technology. It is important to note that there is the Iron Hearts themselves do not scorn those with lesser tolerance for these implants - Rubinek's sons are closely-knit and highly communal, bonded by their natures as outcasts and offscourings.

===Bronzeborn===
Most initiates that survive the bonding process are Bronzeborn. Though enhanced in many ways beyond any standard human, the Bronzeborn are by no means true Astartes; a crucial error in their metabolization of the Monolith's technology causes a nullification of many Space Marine traits. They are strong and enduring, but not nearly to the extent of a true Space Marine, and they usually lack most of the supplementary organs and abilities that define an Astartes. Pale and lean, they tend to be highly vulnerable to infection, and spend much of their time in sealed environments or suits. They serve a support and auxiliary role within the Legion, more than a match for any Guardsman though not nearly of the same caliber as a true Space Marine.

===Ironborn=== 
These are true Space Marines, gaining the full range of Astartes abilities plus a few extra gifts provided by the Monolith technology. Ironborn Marines are extraordinarily durable and strong even by Astartes standards, boasting skeletons of tempered plasteel and a baffling network of internal redundancies that keep them moving through injuries that would cripple or outright kill a normal Space Marine.

===Steelborn===
A rare blessing, Steelborn are those to whom the ancient technology of the Monolith adheres with extraordinary ease. More archeotech than Astartes, these Marines are immediately identifiable as something utterly removed from their brothers. Their skin is a sheath of regenerating plasteel, their joints reinforced with adamantine servo-thrusters. Metallic reinforcement cords twine through their muscles, granting them extraordinary strength, and internal targeting systems worked into their irises constantly feed tactical information into their brains. In some cases, the Steelborn even develop more advanced adaptations - personal forcefield emitters, palm-mounted energy weapons, and clandestine monomolecular blades have all been reported among Steelborn Marines. In a few exceptionally rare cases, some have been blessed with the ability to project a searing Volkite pulse from their eyes.

===The Aurelian===
Less than one-in-a-thousand godsends, the Aurelians achieve perfect synthesis of man and machine, arising from the implantation as metallic demigods. Their skin a radiant hue of electrum, these enhanced Astartes stride through the thickest and most punishing volumes of firepower, laying their foes low with retinal blasts of searing Volkite energy and crumpling Terminator armour bare-handed. Treasured beyond measure, these chosen few are revered as the greatest sons of Rubinek, and only they may sit at council with his holy spirit in the halls of the Great Monolith.