Second Founding

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The [[Horus Heresy]] proved that, despite the [[God-Emperor of Mankind|Emperor's]] efforts, the [[Primarch]]s were not perfect; they could easily be led astray and fall to [[Chaos]].

In order to prevent one man from gaining as much power as [[Horus]] had, the branches of the Imperial armed forces were separated, the [[Inquisition]] was founded, and the loyal [[First Founding|Space Marine Legions]] were divided into [[Space Marine Chapter|Chapters]] of roughly one thousand Marines, in accordance with the [[Codex Astartes]].

The Second Founding was not universally accepted; the [[Space Wolves]] and [[Imperial Fists]] in particular objected to dividing their Legions, and the [[Imperium of Man|Imperium]] was nearly torn apart by another civil war. For better or for worse, [[Leman Russ]] and [[Rogal Dorn]] finally relented, although the [[Black Templars]] have since grown their numbers to many more times the usual size. Perfectly legal since the Codex and the law allow "crusading chapters" to ignore the limitations due to the expectation of constant fatalities needing replacement. One must wonder how much less grimdark Warhammer 40K would be if the chapters all realized that they are all technically crusading and even if they weren't the Great Crusade never officially ended, therefore...yeah.

==List of Second Founding Chapters==

===[[Dark Angels]]===
*[[Angels of Absolution]]
*[[Angels of Redemption]]
*[[Angels of Vengeance]]
*[[Lions Sable]] (They were destroyed trying to apprehend several Fallen in what was later revealed to be a massive trap set by [[Cypher]] shortly before [[The Beheading]] and all records of their existence were erased to hide the involvement of the Fallen in their collapse.)
*[[Star Phantoms]] - ''([[A Game of Pretend|maybe]], though this chapter definitely did exist in M31)''
*[[Angels of Vigilance]] - ''(Again, maybe, though this one is more likely)''
*According to ''The Unforgiven'' by Gav Thorpe, there were 11 total Dark Angels successors in this founding.

===[[White Scars]]===
*[[Marauders]]
*[[Rampagers]]
*[[Destroyers]]
*[[Storm Lords]]

===[[Space Wolves]]===
*[[Sons of Russ]]
*[[Wolf Brothers]]

===[[Imperial Fists]]===
*[[Black Templars]]
*[[Crimson Fists]]
*[[Soul Drinkers]] (sort of, it's a long story)
*[[Excoriators]]
*[[Fists Exemplar]] (Who may really be the present day Fist)
*[[Iron Knights]]

===[[Blood Angels]]===
*[[Angels Encarmine]]
*[[Angels Sanguine]]
*[[Angels Vermillion]]
*[[Blood Drinkers]]
*[[Flesh Tearers]]

===[[Iron Hands]]===
*[[Brazen Claws]]
*[[Red Talons]]

===[[Ultramarines]]===
The Apocrypha of Skaros indicates that the Ultramarines sired 23 chapters, but doesn't name them all. The listed second founding chapters are given below:

*[[Aurora Chapter]]
*[[Black Consuls]]
*[[Doom Eagles]]
*[[Eagle Warriors]]
*[[Genesis Chapter]]
*[[Inceptors]]
*[[Iron Snakes]]
*[[Libators]]
*[[Mortifactors]]
*[[Nemesis]]
*[[Novamarines]]
*[[Patriarchs of Ulixis]]
*[[Praetors of Orpheus]]
*[[Silver Eagles]]
*[[Silver Skulls]]
*[[White Consuls]]

The rest of the second founding Ultramarines have been added piecemeal as time goes by.
*[[Scythes of the Emperor]] - not listed with those above, but strongly hinted to be the Ultramarines 199th Company on Sotha
*[[Obsidian Glaives]]

===[[Salamanders]]===
''None, as there weren't enough Salamanders left after the [[Horus Heresy]] to fill one Chapter, let alone two.

===[[Raven Guard]]===
*[[Black Guard]]
*[[Raptors (Chapter)|Raptors]]
*[[Revilers]]

===[[Grey Knights]]===
''The Grey Knights were not created from any of the Space Marine Legions, as their [[gene-seed]] was specially created by the [[God-Emperor of Mankind]] himself and their founding members were hand-picked by [[Malcador the Sigillite]]; many of them were loyalists who had formerly been a part of a [[Chaos Space Marines|Traitor Legion]] (e.g. [[Nathaniel Garro]], [[Garviel Loken]], and [[Iacton Qruze]]). They were founded to supply the newly-formed [[Inquisition]] with a strike force against future [[Chaos]] threats.''

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