Emperor's Children
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| Battle Cry | "Children of the Emperor! Death to your foes!" | |
| Number | III | |
| Original Homeworld | Chemos | |
| Current Homeworld | Pleasure Planet, which they can't find. | |
| Primarch | Fulgrim | |
| Champion | Lucius the Eternal, Fabius Bile | |
| Strength | Less than 600 | |
| Specialty | Sonic Weaponry, tactical superiority (pre-heresy), being on drugs (post-heresy) | |
| Allegiance | Slaanesh | |
| Colours | Pink, black, gold | |
The Emperor's Children are a Chaos Space Marine Legion. They worship Slaanesh, wear pink and black, and were part of the original First Founding legions. They are the weird fat girl who has rape fantasies that no one will ever talk to because she's far too weird. There's always the temptation to be nice to that fat girl because you know she's desperate enough for attention to, if asked, do some pretty freaky stuff. The things that normal girls would dump you for even asking about. (And let's face it, most of the fa/tg/guys experience of sexing come from this kind of woman due to neckbeards, body odor and an unhealthy obsession with miniatures, which is partially why every channer thinks their weird-ass fetish is actually not THAT weird)
In other words, the Emperor's Children are the army that some fa/tg/uys would... consider joining based on the fact that this Legion revolves around sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. Except they are not all about that: Games Workshop retconned most of the sexual imagery out of Slaanesh in order to not offend Little Johnny's parents and keep a PG-13 rating. Though in the Heresy Novels it depicts a Slaanesh-inspired orgy and the Space Marines just started a killing spree. Yeah, they get off on combat, not sex... remind you of someone? Add to the fact that Slaanesh is the god(des?) /tg/ associates with furries and other things best left unsaid, makes most anons reluctant to join the cul/tg/ratification.
The Red Scorpions may or may not be a loyalist offshoot.
NOT REALLY CHILDREN OF THE EMPEROR.
History
They were unswervingly loyal way back then, which is how they got their name, and now they just use the name as a form of mockery to troll the loyalists. Their Primarch, Fulgrim, was best buds with Horus, so when Horus did his heresy thing, Fulgrim went straight to Horus and said "Dude; what the fuck? For reals." Horus knew that Fulgrim was a perfectionist with mild OCD and, straight out of an 80's afterschool special, Horus convinced Fulgrim that he could get that perfection if he tried some of these diet pills... and meth... and speed... and crystal... and by the time Fulgrim was on cocaine he did a 180 turn and devoted himself and his legion to Slaanesh.
Before their fall to Chaos, the Emperor's Children were exemplars of what it meant to be an Astartes and were initially drawn from the Terran noble families rather than the chaff of the hive cities. They were noble, strong, excelled in all matters and above all were loyal to the core. They weren't experts in any sort of warfare (if there was an especially tough fortress to crack the Lords of Terra would bring in the Iron Warriors not the Emperor's Children for example) but could do everything very well. and constantly drove themselves to learn as much as they could. So basically a good comparison would be those Asian students that cram 14 hours of study in a day.
Unfortunately in the early Great Crusade their gene-seed suffered a form of Space-Cancer that caused their organs to develop tumours and shut down their bodies, it's uncertain how this came about, but is suspected to have been some sort of infection introduced via a renegade plot, since not all of the gene-seed was initially infected. In an effort to stem the tide they "mercifully" executed those who suffered to condition and destroyed them, by the time Fulgrim was discovered there was only a few hundred Astartes left in the "Legion". Also, Fulgrim's return did not actually cure the problem, but merely sidestepped the issue by allowing untainted new gene-seed to be produced, it's quite possible that Fabius Bile is the only sufferer remaining but he likely gets around the symptoms through advanced medical sciences.
After finding Fulgrim, it is probably safe to assume that they were friends with the people of the Imperium and popular with other Legions. Firstly Fulgrim had a lot of friends among the primarchs, most namely Ferrus Manus of the Iron Hands and Horus himself (The Emperor's Children are also battle-brothers with the Salamanders, but Vulkan is friends with everyone). In addition the Legion was noble in conduct and aspect, a shining example to other Legions. Starting off from this high place, perhaps it is not a surprise that pride began to poison the noble heart of the Emperor's Children.
The Emperor's Children were not so much known for their number of victories (especially since they got sort of a late start because of the while gene-seed thing) but for the way they were won. Other Legions would take their mode of war and apply it in every situation. The Emperor's Children did everything, and were good at everything. In addition no other Legion could claim as many individual unit and Astartes honors as the Emperor's Children. In their waging of war was a perfection that perhaps echoed their fall.
A good example of the Third Legion's style of war was a battle known as the Defence of tranquility. Basically there was a nebula that had a series of (probably eldar) gates. The Imperium came to claim them, and the Emperor's Children still only 500 strong at the time were ordered to defend the poisonous crystal world of Tranquility, the Imperium's forward base of operations. All was pretty quiet until lo and behold a xenos fleet emerged from the warp portal hanging above Tranquility North Pole. The xenos were crystalline and emitted powerful beam rays that could cut ceramite. They dropped from their ships in their thousands, and the Third Legion was ready for them. Every Legionary had studied and memorized the surface of the planet, and as the aliens came, the Emperor's Children knew exactly where to lure them in, where to run, and where to prepare kill zones. The aliens soon began to lose so many troops they were forced to direct their ships weapons onto the planet, which gave the Imperial Navy ships also in orbit a chance to get close and destroy the fragile vessels. Praetor Abisare of the Third is noted as having said it was not a battle but "an execution of considered intent." For the Emperor's Children war was an art, a craft to be honed and practiced.
As time went on, though, the Legion's pursuit of perfection started to take a bit of a wrong turn, at least to outsiders. During the Murder campaign the Luna Wolves found that Lord Eidolon had opted to take his entire force into a warzone which had already swallowed up a bunch of Blood Angels and Imperial Army troops. Eidolon then threw some weak insults at Torik Targaddon and took credit for his subordinates' achievements. Unsurprisingly, Torgaddon started fretting that egotistical arseholes like Eidolon might indicate something unhealthy in the EC's legion culture.
Anyways even before they were getting genuinely chaotic, they were already doing weird ass shit in the pursuit of 'perfection', like genetic enhancements and what not, and that's a big no-no for space marines, even if it is a bit hypocritical for the genetically engineered super-duper-awesome-power-humans to get all shitty about a few enhancements on top of that. But, shitty they were. If you're going to get more awesome, then you have to chop bits off and replace them with robot like everyone else. Anywho they did it anyway because they wanted to be perfect THAT hard. Aaaaand that's where Fabius Bile came in. He was the apothecary that was fucking with everyone's genes to turn them "perfect". While not generally focused on, Slaanesh is also the god/ess of perfection, in addition to excess. Therefore, the Space Marines that are obsessed with perfection turn to Slaanesh. And don't forget that Fulgrim's mind was eaten by a demon. So yeah, they are Slaaneshi now.
During the siege on Terra, the Emperor's Children got bored, broke off and went pillaging the civilians. Most of the innocents they found were ground up and distilled into drugs, anyone left over was raped to death. After the Siege, they dragged a shittonne of slaves with them back into the Eye of Terror. After norting / smoking / raping / defenestrating / dogwielding them all up, they started stealing slaves from the other Legions, which started all the in-fighting. They did manage to steal Horus's corpse, and made at least one evil clone, which Abaddon raped to death later (non-sexually). However, Abbaddon in a rare moment of awesomeness assembled various marines from his legion and others, launched an attack on their throne world, and won by having one of his sidekicks hurl a warship at the capital in a massive colony drop before killing a fully grown clone of Horus. It's implied that a bunch of Emperor's Children went over to Abaddon and make up the nucleus of the Children of Torment (the BL's Slaaneshi contingent) worshippers, as the EC views them at traitors to Fulgrim.
Marines of the Emperor's Children legions are always looking for the next high, and eschew tranqs and depressants (like booze) for hallucinogens and stimulants (like cocaine). It started out as a quest for perfection with performance-enhancing drugs, but now that they're full-blown corrupted by Slaanesh it's about peak experiences. Also have an obsession with noise, furry porn, tentacles, and gettin' high. Hey, who's the bastard who forgot about their chronic masturbation problem?
The Pre-Heresy paint scheme for their minis are purple and gold, while the Post-Heresy paint scheme is pink and black. (Or pink and any clashing pastel colours.) They are the Legion that created the original Noise Marines, and are still the go-to Legion for expertise in Sonic Weaponry.
Among the most infamous members of their Legion are Lucius the Eternal, Fulgrim and Trap Marine. Fabius Bile was once part of the Emperor's children, but went renegade. He's still labeled as a champion here, though.
It is speculated that the Pretty Marines' unknown Primarch was actually an Emperor's Children Captain that remained loyal to the Emperor during the Horus Heresy and convinced the High Lords of Terra to allow him to re-create the example of human flawlessness using his own gene-seed.
Gallery
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Emperor's Children's primarch Fulgrim. Despite common belief, they do LSD too.
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The Emperor's Children in a nutshell.
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The Slaaneshi noise marine, the real reason why Rock is banned in the Imperium.
