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.
| The Loyalist Legions | ||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Stone Men | The Stone Men are a throwback to the gonzo days of Rogue Trader. It's |
off his meds and in the community |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. | active |
Traitors
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.
Graphical Templates
Here are some easily painted templates to make illustrating the Legion pages a simpler task.
