Editing Index Astartes

'''Index Astartes''' is a feature that used to run in the [[White Dwarf]] magazine (back when it was still good).  Each article would focus on some aspect of the [[Space Marines]] -- a [[Space Marine Chapter]] (initially the eighteen known [[First Founding]] legions, and eventually other chapters that were prominent in the setting, like some of the [[Second Founding]] successors and the [[Blood Ravens]]), one of the vehicles they used (e.g. the [[Rhino Transport]], the [[Predator Tank]]), a particular specialized role (e.g. [[Terminators]], [[Techmarine]]s), and so on.  Some of these articles were collected and printed in four bound books.  Similar series of articles were made focusing on [[xenos]], entitled ''Index Xenos'', and on the forces of [[Chaos]], entitled ''Index Malleus''.

With their recent entry into the digital age, [[Games Workshop]] has restarted the Index Astartes series (as well as creating similar series on other topics, like ''Munitorum'' to focus on weapons and ''Index Chaotica'' to focus on [[Chaos]]), selling individual e-books for $5 ''each''.

Some fans who are serious about their own chapters make Index Astartes articles about them.  They tend to follow this format (following the original Index Astartes articles):

# Origins
# Homeworld
# Beliefs
# Combat Doctrine
# Organization
# [[Gene-seed]]
# Battle-Cry

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