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. See the /tg/ Heresy Timeline and Galaxy pages for more information on the Alternate Universe.

The Legiones Astartes or Space Marine Legions were the primary armed forces of the Imperium during the Great Crusade. Their core forces were bodies of augmented soldiers, the products of the Emperor of Mankind's genetic experimentation on old Terra. But there were also ordinary men and women who supported the Space Marines or even fought beside them in the Auxilia formations of the Imperial Army.

Detailed information

Legions of the Crusade

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	Sturmundrang	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	Rogerius 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 of Rosskar	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

Discovery Order of the Primarchs

1) Hektor Cincinnatus (at start)

2) Arelex Orannis (803.M30)

3) Thomas Gaudin (809.M30)

4) Kranios the Destroyer (811.M30)

5) Uriel Starikov (817.M30)

6) Darius Cyaxares (822.M30)

7) Thoren Grimm (826.M30)

8) Bohemond (828.M30)

9) Roman Albrecht (831.M30)

10) Kleisthenes (833.M30)

11) The Voidwatcher (836.M30)

12) Tollund Ötztal (842.M30)

13) Gaspard Lumey (850.M30)

14) Johannes Vrach (850.M30)

15) Alexandri (855.M30)

16) Tiran Osoros (859.M30)

17) Inferox the Burned King (863.M30)

18) Rogerius Merrill (870.M30)

19) Nathanog (872.M30)

20) Sebastian Rex (877.M30)

21) Ocullus Tyran (890.M30)

22) Brennus (892.M30)

23) Golgothos (898.M30)

24) Aubrey The Grey (901.M30)

25) Onyx the Indestructible (908.M30)

26) 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, Darius Cyaxares persuaded his brother Primarchs to lay down their Legions and break up these mighty armies, so that no one man would again lead the terrible might that Hektor had turned against the Imperium. In reforming the Space Marine Legions into smaller units, the wisdom of the Primarchs was combined. Thomas Gaudin, the Emperor's Praetorian, laid out the ethics of the Space Marines as unyielding loyalty, honour, and good faith. Gaspard Lumey, who stood at the fore of the greatest Legion, explained his tactical and organisational doctrine. Darius himself gave the instructions to govern Space Marine Librarians. 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.

Project information

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.

The Loyalist Legions			The Traitor Legions
Name	Summary	Developer Status	Name	Summary	Developer Status
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.	active but busy	Black Augurs	Moustache-twirling villains with more horrific sorcerous rituals than the Emprah's had hot dinners.	Eeeevilly active
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.	active but spooky busy	The Bulwark	Got abandoned for a long time but are now being rebuilt. Which is ironic, 'cause these guys are the fortification experts who went off to build their own model Imperium.	temporarily(?) absent
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.	absent, expected to return	Children of Armok	Tzeentchian spies and special forces. If you like just as planned, you'll love these guys.	active and always watching
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.	long-term absent, probably dropped out	Eternal Zealots	What if you wanted to heal the galaxy, but the galaxy was the fucked up place of 30k and you were working for the growing Imperium? Yeah, you'd go crazy and leap into the arms of Chaos, too.	active
Sand Keepers	Loyalist psyker legion ahoy! Little bit underdeveloped, but these guys are meant to be the foundation of the Librarium.	absent, possibly dropped out	Gorgers	OMNOMNOMNOM - oh, OK, serious summary. They're the huntsman cannibal marines. That's how you learn if you're one of the Adeptus Astartes, right?	absent
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.	active	Horns of Ruin	ASTARTES SMASH!!! These guys could be cool but they're a bit one note at the moment.	absent, probably gone
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.	we see him around but he hasn't done much with his guys	Iron Assembly	Lego-marines? Actually, I really don't know where these guys are going. They were undeveloped for ever because their original developer left and promised to come back, but didn't. A new guy has taken them on, but we're still waiting to see what he's doing beyond LOUD NOISES.	active
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.	frighteningly active	Iron Rangers	I sure hope you like ruthless assassins and stealth. Because if you don't, the Iron Rangers are going to sneak into your tent and cut your throat. Heck, they might do it anyway. Don't say you weren't warned!	absent, probably gone
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.	active but busy	Life Bringers	Biological nightmare Legion, goes over to Nurgle. They have the bare bones of the idea sketched out really nicely, but need detail.	Re-active
Stone Men	The Stone Men are a throwback to the gonzo days of Rogue Trader. It's great terrible awe-inspiring beyond description!	off his meds and in the community	Lions Rampant	Victorian English hypocrites, avowing restraint and gentlemanliness but belonging entirely to Slaanesh.	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.	probably gone, second time these guys have been abandoned	Mastodontii	Siberian/Inuit Marines with HUEG tanks. Do you really need anything else?	active
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.	worryingly active	Sons of Fire	Remember how Khorne is all about KILL! MAIM! BURN!? Like that, but heavy on the BUURRRRN!!!	Gone
War Scribes	The "big picture" Legion who consider the consequences. These are the geeks who can punch your head off. They get involved in a lot of weird shit in the Galactic Core.	active	Wolves of Dawn/Heralds of Hektor	Hey, hey, it's the Warmaster! They're led by Hektor who is a kind of tragic Greek Hero/Macedonian warlord in SPAAAAACE!	gone, became a community contribution legion

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Miscellaneous

Remaining issues, including proposals for Legions, ironing out issues with the Primarch discovery order, defining Legion specialities and numbers, etc. 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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