Ataulf Sachs

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.

Ataulf Sachs was the highest ranking Terran Genewright of the early Imperium. Widely considered to be the Emperor's right hand in the matters that concerned geneurgy, he was one of the founding fathers of the Adeptus Astartes project, although his feelings on the Space Marines could be described as sceptical at best. As one of the Emperor's closest associates, he was appointed to the High Council of Terra after the Scouring and left a profound mark on the young Imperium's culture. In particular, he is chiefly responsible for institutionalising the xenophobia and genetic purism that permeate the Imperium nowadays. In the famous formula "Burn the heretic, Kill the mutant, Purge the unclean," the part about killing mutants is widely attributed to Sachs. At his orders, internment camps were set up on many worlds populated by mutants that either corrected the population's genetic flaws via extensive eugenics, or, if the mutations were found to be too radical, exterminated the current population, freeing up space for genetically pure colonists from other Imperial worlds. Although his methods were highly controversial back in his day, he is universally revered in the Imperium of today for freeing it from the detestable abhumans. He was also the father of Wilmut Sachs, one of the first traitors amongst the Space Marines, but their relations were always extremely strained, and Ataulf repeatedly disowned his son even prior to the Heresy.