Legiones Astartes (Hektor Heresy)

This page details people, events, and organisations from The /tg/ Heresy, a fan re-working of the Warhammer 40,000 Universe.

Summary for newfags

This page is the hub for developing the Space Marine Legions of an alternate 30k 'verse, and most of the sub-pages have details about what becomes of the grand Legions and the Primarchs. Where a developer has been marked as a probable drop-out, feel free to put your hand up on /tg/ to take over developing the Legion.

Loyalists

The Crusaders

Do you enjoy endless Crusades, heavy armour, and Thunder Hammers? These guys draw a lot from European crusading orders (yep, not a trick name) and end up getting a lot of the Imperial Fist's jobs. They and their Successors are fairly Codex-approved, though, and they don't really have issues with psykers.

Developer status: active but busy

The Entombed

Spookiest of the Loyalists, these dudes have a tragic gene-seed flaw which sees them go entirely extinct. On the way, they cause a lot of ruckus with their Terminators, Dreadnoughts, and unshakeable faith that humanity is a race of gods destined to inherit the universe.

Developer status: active but spooky busy

Eyes of the Emperor

What if a Space Marine Legion did know fear? The Eyes have a proud history but their one big flaw sees them struck from the history books. Officially disbanded, their descendants carry on doing the Empire's work.

Developer status: absent, expected to return

Knights of Justice

We do have a lot of knightly legions, but the KoJ epitomize the Space Marine as knight-errant and justicar, the peerless bastion of truth, honour, and leaping out of a helicopter. If you like that, these are the guys for you. If you hate that, you can enjoy it when their Primarch goes down like a bitch on Isstvan V.

Developer status: long-term absent, probably dropped out

Sand Keepers

Loyalist psyker legion ahoy! Little bit underdeveloped, but these guys are meant to be the foundation of the Librarium.

Developer status: absent, possibly dropped out

Scale Bearers

Do you like Space Marines? Do you like Dinosaurs? Do you think guys in power armour riding literal dinosaurs would be a bit silly? Don't worry - the dinosaur theme goes to the look of their bikes, not their trusty steeds. They also have giant lizard companions ("Sors"), at least in the early days.

Developer status: active

Scions of Europa

Meet the stubbornmarines. The Scions pride themselves on never retreating except in the most dire of circumstances. This is really great during the Siege of Terra, not so great later on.

Developer status: we see him around but he hasn't done much with his guys

Silver Cataphracts

AAAAAAHH, MOTHERLAND!!! Hailing from Space Russia and led by a Primarch who combines the "best" features of Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, the Cataphracts are probably the most fatalistic of the Astartes.

Developer status: frighteningly active

Steel Marshals

The inevitable loyalist siege legion. Surprisingly laid back and chill guys, for a group of super-soldiers who spend their time fighting their enemies eye-to-eye.

Developer status: active but busy

Stone Men

The Stone Men are a throwback to the gonzo days of Rogue Trader. It's great terrible awe-inspiring beyond description!

Developer status: active

Thunder Kings

Based on a world of clannish Celtic primitives, the Thunder Kings split apart in the Heresy and spend the next centuries killing each other. They're a bit like a cheerier version of the Dark Angels with a less obscure gay culture reference.

Developer status: probably gone, second time these guys have been abandoned

Void Angels

HONHONHON, ve are ze Space Marines Français! The Void Angels are a smug bunch but they do get shit done. Combine enlightenment ideals with revolutionary terror (remembering that the French Empire included Indochina and parts of sub-Saharan Africa) and you'll have a good idea of what they're about.

Developer status: worryingly active

War Scribes

These are the geeks who can punch your head off. They get involved in a lot of weird shit in the Galactic Core.

Developer status: active

Detailed information

The Thirty Astartes Legions of the Great Crusade
Number	Name	Speciality	Primarch	Homeworld	Loyalty
I	Knights of Justice	Air Assault and Superiority	Bohemond	Hydegate	Loyal
II	War Scribes	Logistics	Arelex Orannis	Whitestone (Destroyed), now Fleet-based in the Atalantos Worlds.	Loyal
III	Missing and deleted from Imperial records
IV	Sons of Fire	World-Killing and Melee	Inferox "The Burned King"	Crematoria (destroyed)	Traitor
V	Winged Victory/Void Angels	Terror Tactics	Gaspard Lumey	Ciban IV	Loyal
VI	The Entombed	Heavy Support	Golgothos	Sepulchra	Loyal
VII	Scions of Europa	Generalists	Kleisthenes	Europa, Segmentum Obscurus	Loyal
VIII	Missing and deleted from Imperial records
IX	Lions Rampant	Fast Attack	Cromwald Walgrun	Sommesgard	Traitor
X	The Crusaders	Zealous Assault	Thomas Gaudin	Terra	Loyal
XI	Wolves of Dawn/Heralds of Hektor	Generalists	Hektor Cincinnatus	Olmer (destroyed), now based from their fleet within the Eye of Terror	Traitor
XII	Life Bringers	Chemical Warfare	Johannes Vrach	Rai (destroyed), now Eden (Demon World in the Eye of Terror)	Traitor
XIII	Children of Armok	Information and Infiltration	Uriel Starikov	Perfidiae V	Traitor
XIV	Black Augurs	Sorcery-powered Melee	The Voidwatcher	Ostium	Traitor
XV	Missing and deleted from Imperial records
XVI	Eternal Zealots	Chaos Generalists	Aubrey The Grey	Lazarus	Traitor
XVII	Gorgers	Bloody Melee	Nathanog	Thorond-ul	Traitor
XVIII	Sand Keepers	Divination and Psykery	Darius Cyaxares	Simurgh	Loyal
XIX	Eyes of the Emperor	Generalists	Octullus Tyran	Illobian	Loyal
XX	Iron Rangers	Asymmetrical Warfare	Merrill	Profi Tiroedd	Traitor
XXI	Iron Assembly	Generalists	Thoren Grimm	Titan	Traitor
XXII	Thunder Kings	Furious Melee	Brennus	Alessia (destroyed), now multiple worlds	Loyal
XXIII	Silver Cataphracts	Attrition Warfare	Alexandri	Rosskar	Loyal
XXIV	Mastodontii	Armored Warfare	Tollund Ötztal	Tisenjoch (purged)	Traitor
XXV	Scale Bearers	Fast Attack	Tiran Osoros	Solnhofen	Loyal
XXVI	Steel Marshals	Siege Warfare	Roman Albrecht	Centauri Primus	Loyal
XXVII	Stone Men	Defensive Operations	Onyx the Indestructible	Neolithus(destroyed)	Loyal
XXVIII	the Bulwark	Fortification and Defense	Sebastian Rex	Arelon	Traitor
XXIX	Horns of Ruin	Demolitions	Kranios the Destroyer	Satares	Traitor
XXX	Missing and deleted from Imperial records

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.

Arelex Orannis would later refine these methods. His first work, the Strategemata, was an encyclopaedia of battle reports drawn from the records of the Loyalist Legions and carefully screened information from less reputable sources. The War Scribes Primarch then assessed the organisational solutions put to him by the victors of the Heresy and attempted to determine what combination of them was most suitable as a general method of warfare. The result was the Epitoma institutorum rei Adeptus Astartes - better known as the Institutorum Astartes - that laid the basis for the Space Marine Chapters of the reformed Imperium.

Resources for editors

Miscellaneous

Remaining issues, including proposals for Legions, sorting out the Primarch discovery order, and defining Legion specialities and numbers, can be raised on the Talk page. At the moment there are four "missing" Legions, akin to the two missing Legions of the original universe.

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