Editing Roboute Guilliman (section)

==History==
===Early Life===
[[File:Tumblr_p8wow2RRoU1s422e6o1_640.png|300px|right|thumb|[[Dawww]]...[[Tarasha Euten]] AKA [[Konrad Curze|Konrad Curze's]] torment made manifest. Credits to [https://www.deviantart.com/dinahisrael/art/Warhammer-40k-Tarasha-Euten-and-Roboute-Guilliman-745179851 DinahIsrael.] ]]
Much has been made of how "easy" Guilliman's early life was compared to many of his brothers, and how [[Macragge]] was a supposedly great place to live. The reality is that while Macragge was no [[Barbarus]] or [[Nostramo]], life there was far from easy. The primary culture of the planet was very similar to that of ancient Sparta, and weakness was tolerated about as poorly as it was on a planet like [[Medusa (Planet)|Medusa]]. For instance, when children were born, they would be examined to determine if they were weak or strong. If they were weak, they would simply be left out in the wilderness to die. All children who weren't just left to die would be placed in military training academies when they were six, and again, those who were weak would die. So not exactly a paradise world. Guilliman was found by the planet's ruler and some of his retinue while they were on a hunting trip. Konor Guilliman, the man who took him in, was a pretty cool dude who advocated helping the common man and pushed for meritocratic reforms. These were a major influence on Roboute and stayed with him throughout his life. Guilliman loved his father dearly, and was known to have considered Konor to have been his "real" father, while the Emperor had merely been his creator. It also says something that Konor's seneschal, [[Tarasha Euten]] (hereafter referred to as GuilliMom), was effectively Guilliman's surrogate mother, making him the only Primarch to have a conventional family, [[Butthurt|a fact that twisted Konrad Curze's nipples to no end (which goes double when she tells him to go fuck himself)]].

When Roboute was 12, he was sent to war against the Illyrians, Macragge's version of the Gauls (or of the actual Illyrians, whom the Romans conquered long before they took Gaul, probably the latter since at this time Ultramar and later Ultramarines were basically Romanized Gauls in space). During the campaign, Roboute realised that instead of having to [[rip and tear|rip and tear]] through the Illyrians, many of them were willing to negotiate and drop their guns for a place in Konor's dream. When he met with the Illyrian chieftain, Guilliman presented a sacred artifact that the consuls of Macragge had stolen generations ago as a peace offering. This was the second major impact in his life - to try diplomacy first before war.

When he returned, Roboute found his home in disarray. Konor had just become the victim of some political treachery, Ancient Roman-style. His co-ruler, Gallan, was pissed off at all these reforms Konor pushed through, so he sent his army to rape, pillage and burn while lying to the Senate that Konor was behind it. Seeing his once peaceful home burning, with soldiers looting and killing the people they swore to protect, left the third major impact on Roboute and the most likely source of why he was always so [[Butthurt|anal]] about protocol - the alternative in his eyes was total anarchy.

After helplessly watching his father die from a poisoned wound, then finding out that Gallan, who had been pretending to be on his side, was the one behind Konor's assassination, Roboute was about to murder Gallan in front of the Senate before realizing that doing so would set a precedence for infighting while Macragge continued to burn (Gallan was later ceremonial beheaded on a rock, which would later be used by the Ultramarines to execute their traitor brothers in the future. Also, the rock was a reference to [[wikipedia:Tarpeian Rock|Tarpeian Rock]], yet another Roman reference for Guilliman's backstory). This was the fourth major impact on his life: by controlling his emotions and deferring to the Senate's laws, Guilliman ironically won the Senate and enabled his father's dream. By the time the [[Emperor]] reached Macragge, Roboute had ruled for five years and turned the world into a place where you had to earn your place, not just be born into it, exactly how his (adoptive) father would have wanted it. When the Emperor arrived Guilliman had acquired several systems in the sector through diplomacy and was getting ready to annex the others in what would become the start of [[Ultramar]]. He willingly knelt to the Emperor and joined the [[Imperium of Man]], acquiring special status for Ultramar as autonomous from the central government (directly, rather than due to practical reasons), leaving Euten in charge while he went off crusading. Think of Ultramar administratively being to the Imperium what a single world normally would be.

===Great Crusade and Horus Heresy===
Guilliman utilized his skills as a tactician and strategist to fight in his Father's crusade, preferring to form battle plans rather than actually participate in the fighting himself (though he still did his fair share of Xeno-killing). In the hopes of passing down some of his strategic expertise, he worked very hard to turn the Ultramarines into an army of thinkers. His primary rule as a commander was "Information is victory", emphasizing that Space Marines needed theoretical knowledge and practical experience, in other words, a sound understanding of the tactical situation and a means to achieve their objective. Given that battle plans proved to be the first casualty, Guilliman soon realised that he would need to refine his own strategies even as he codified them, lest they fall apart in the chaos of warfare. Additionally, where some legions developed rather useless hobbies like [[White Scars|calligraphy]] or [[Emperor's Children|sculpting]], Guilliman decided that all of his Astartes should be excellent civil administrators. This was because Guilliman knew that the Crusade would eventually come to an end, and suspected that [[World Eaters|a]] [[Death Guard|few]] [[Night Lords|legions]] would probably end up being dispensed with in one way or another. As such, he wanted to make sure his legion was not on the chopping block.

With over 250,000 legionaries, he managed to achieve compliance on the highest number of worlds during the [[Great Crusade]], but was surpassed in ''military'' victories by the [[Luna Wolves]], [[Space Wolves]] and [[Dark Angels]]. Meaning he was either a good diplomat or his crusade encountered more peaceful human societies. Guilliman also made a point to turn conquered planets into model military worlds, and the Ultramarines would not leave until a modern [[Planetary Defence Force]] was established. He really should've been put jointly in charge of administration post-Ullanor, which would've made premature, excessive taxation of newly integrated worlds a lot easier to avoid (and therefore fewer worlds would have joined Horus' rebellion). One counter-accusation by fan critics is that Guilliman didn't change a thing on Nuceria, a feudal world of people enjoying slaves and pit fights (not to say they were fucking responsible for the mess Angron turned into) on the inference that Nuceria was incorporated into his empire - however in Betrayer ch18, Nucerians was noted as isolated, and referred to Ultramar separately as "achingly close-by" forces contrasting their lip-service to being Imperials, which makes it unclear if they were incorporated into Ultramar. It may also have been that as a Legion Homeworld, Guilliman did not have the authority to do things. If he had, it would have been "going over Angron's head" and stepping on his turf. While it would have also made sense to have improved Nuceria, Guilliman may have left that for Angron to do himself. That sort of ineffective courtesy feels about right for Guilliman. Though it should be noted Angron never returned to his homeworld before destroying it and his legion recruited from other worlds.

[[File:Know No Fear huge.jpg|400px|thumb|right|''"Lorgar of Colchis. You may consider the following. One: I entirely withdraw my previous offer of solemn ceasefire. It is cancelled, and will not be made again, to you or to any other of your motherless bastards. Two: you are no longer any brother of mine. I will find you, I will kill you, and I will hurl your toxic corpse into hell’s mouth."'' - Roboute Guilliman, channeling Bryan Mills.]]
When civil war broke out, Guilliman was tricked by Horus into taking most of his Legion to Calth for a joint Ultramarines/[[Word Bearers]] engagement. While most of his Company Captains believed it was just the Warmaster flexing his muscles, Guilliman realised that there was a political angle to it as well: when the Emperor of Mankind rebuked [[Lorgar|Lorgar Aurelian]] for spreading the ''Lectitio Divinatatus'', he ordered the Ultramarines to burn Monarchia, capital city of Khur, as an example of what would happen to those who continued to defy the [[Imperial Truth]]. Guilliman carried out his orders and didn't show Lorgar any sympathy, but privately confided to some of his officers his discomfort in doing so, feeling that the total humiliation would irreparably damage relations between the XIII and XVII Legions. Guilliman saw this as a chance to mend fences and forge friendships the old fashioned way: by getting Space Marines to kill Orks side by side. Unfortunately, Horus and Lorgar used the Calth muster to kill nearly half the Legion in a surprise attack. When he found out Lorgar's treachery he personally declared to hunt Lorgar down and kill him, only to be attacked by some sort of [[Daemon]]ic proxy that blew up the main bridge of his flagship and voided him out. So Guilliman did what any other pissed off Primarch would do: go on a rampage against Word Bearers trying to board the ''Macragge's Honour'' by punching them to death. [[Wat|In near vacuum. Without a helmet.]] [[AWESOME|''For almost twelve hours.'']] ([[Dan Abnett]] is still pretty proud of that scene). Not long after that, [[Kor Phaeron]] tried to recruit him for [[Chaos]]' cause by stabbing him with a corrupted blade like Horus, but Guilliman wanted none of it and punched the Dark Cardinal off him so hard the old man had a heart attack. In the end, though, the Ultramarines managed to wrest control of their defense grid back and shoot any Word Bearer ship not retreating posthaste to smithereens.

===[[Imperium Secundus|That episode he doesn't like to talk about]]===

{{Topquote|Did you fear I’d turned with Horus and become a threat to our father? Have you come to sanction me, like Russ’ wolf pack?"<br>"My dear Roboute, I did not think for a moment that you had turned. I thought you’d done much, much worse. I think we both know you have.|Emprah's [[Lion El'Jonson|First]] and Thirteenth sons have a nice and brotherly chat about the situation on hands.}}

After the Battle of Calth severely hurt his Legion, Guilliman had to contend with the Shadow Crusade as Lorgar and Angron went on a merry joyride through Ultramar, razing 26 worlds with their main fleet and who knows how many with the splinter fleets. Oh, and Guilliman got a severe kick in the bottom from Angron on [[Nuceria]] after trying to beat the everloving shit out of Lorgar. In the end, though, Guilliman [[just as planned|seemingly]] managed to get both the Word Bearers and World Eaters off his lawn. Ultramar was however cut off from the rest of the Imperium by Warp Storms preventing travel and astrotelepathic communication. After seeing off the Shadow Crusade, Guilliman acted on the assumption that due to being unable to know if the greater Imperium or the Emperor survived, he would need to act on the worst-case scenario that they had both fallen.

Consequently, if his father could not be saved at least His ideals would be, and so he set up a new government called [[Imperium Secundus]], a second Imperium of Man which would reject Horus's alliance with Chaos. Although potentially traitorous to an outside observer, Guilliman's motives at least ''were'' sincere, he made a big hoohah about not taking the throne himself since he would look like a Tyrant if he did. Fortunately/Unfortunately, [[Lion El'Jonson|The Lion]] arrived at Macragge and didn't like [[heresy|where it was heading]]. Neither brother trusted the other with the job of ruling the next Imperium, so [[Sanguinius]] got the job only to settle the matter between the two and was declared regent of the Imperium in the Emperor's absence, [[Fail|only for the whole thing to be abandoned when Guilliman learned to his horror that the Emperor wasn't dead and that his whole plan was little more than a pointless waste of time]]. It continues to be a source of shame to him even in the present time that he got [[troll|manoeuvred]] by Lorgar into creating the Imperium Secundus.

It's worth mentioning that there is a bit of historical precedence for it, given the whole "Imperium is Space Rome" thing. What is now known as the Byzantine Empire was the successor to Rome, that split off just before the Western half collapsed. Because of this, they were able to save a lot of the finer points of civilization that went to shit during the Medieval Era such as literacy, education and hygiene. It would take centuries for the rest of Europe to catch back up to them.

Despite his fuckup, Guilliman managed to lead over one hundred thousand Ultramarines to Terra with the [[Dark Angels]] and the [[Space Wolves]], intent on helping the [[Blood Angels]], [[Imperial Fists]], and [[White Scars]] defending Terra. Horus, learning about this and knowing that he could not sustain the assault on the planet anymore once the bulk of the loyalist forces came into the fight, lowered the void shields upon the ''Vengeful Spirit'' in an all-or-nothing gambit to win the war by killing the Emprah in a duel. Alas, Guilliman and his reinforcements arrived too late to stop the traitors (who despite the death of Horus still held space around the planet) from retreating to their ships and fleeing Terra. This and his own feeling that said lateness could have been prevented had he made for Terra sooner only motivated him harder to kick the Scouring off, where those traitors that wouldn't or couldn't make their way to the Eye of Terror were hunted down and cleansed, planet by planet. Guilliman also pushed for his reforms in that time, which led to considerable [[skub|divergences of opinions]]; but in the end everyone seemingly agreed and went "Okay, let's do this Codex thing!" (only for several chapters to begin [[Black Templars| either partially or completely]] [[Space Wolves|ignoring said Codex]] [[Dark Angels|or only giving the idea lip service]] when Guilliman had his attention elsewhere. Not much later, Guilliman [[Battle of Thessala|got himself stabbed in the neck]] by [[Fulgrim]] in an absurdly one-sided duel; the resulting poisoning had him sitting on a stasis throne for the better part of 10,000 years (<s>I know; somehow the poison was more of a big deal than the actual stab wound in his fucking neck</s> neck wounds can be healed even in unaugmented humans, eldritch warp poison can be a lot trickier).

===41st millennium / Gathering Storm===
[[File:16999239_340497286345256_3126583543407667659_n.jpg|400px|right|thumb|Our [[Spiritual Liege]] about to give [[Skarbrand]] a [[Sanguinius]]-style head chopping.]]
{{Topquote|We shall give the humans a demigod. A king reborn with a deathly blade.|Prince [[Yriel]]}}

{{Topquote|Why do I still live? What more do you want from me? I gave everything I had to you, to them. Look what they have made of our dream. This bloated, rotten carcass of an empire is driven not by reason and hope, but by fear, hate and ignorance. Better that we had all burned in the fire of Horus' ambition than lived to see this.|Guilliman, grousing to his father about what the great-great-great-x1,000,000,000,000 etc. grandkids have done with the house while they were out}}

After being poisoned by Fulgrim, Guilliman was put into stasis. A popular rumor was that he was slowly healing, though that would be impossible in stasis. Eventually, after a [[PROMOTIONS|kiss]] from [[Yvraine]] and a nice mechadendrite massage from [[Belisarius Cawl|Cawl]], he got better. He plays a major role in the third Gathering Storm book. That's right; Guilliman is back! And in plastic! Somebody call Fulgrim, he'll be pissed! (Spoiler alert: he is really, really pissed. So is Mortarion. Magnus had a chuckle though. And of course, [[Matt Ward|our Spiritual Liege]] probably [[Faptau|'enjoyed himself']] after hearing this news.)

After Roboute was resurrected, he goes full-blown Saitama and proceeds to wipe out an entire horde of veteran chaos marines [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atxYe-nOa9w with his manly man-fists] without taking a single scratch. He then took command of the local imperial forces and used his [[Tactical genius|tactical genius]] to inspire the combined forces of Chaos to simultaneously shit themselves. Within a month, Guilliman weeds out the entire invading Chaos force on Macragge in a series of battles and heroic duels worthy of any primarch. He then looked to liberate the rest of the Macragge system, this time with help from the Primogenitor Chapters, the [[Dark Angels]], [[Space Wolves]], [[White Scars]], a [[Sisters of Battle]] army, the remaining [[Black Templars]] that fought on Cadia, more [[Imperial Guard|Guardsmen]], a ship containing an entire [[Imperial Knight|Knight Household]], an entire [[Imperial Navy]] battlegroup, and the [[Mechanicus]] with an entire [[Titan|Titan Legion]] backing them. He also declares the independent sovereignty of the [[Ultramar|five hundred worlds]] null and void, assuming direct control over his former territories. [[Rape|There was no kill like overkill.]] One interesting thing to note was that after liberating Ultramar, Guilliman was actually so horrified by the state of the Imperium that he shut himself in his chambers for a few days and proceeded to basically have a mini-breakdown. He even very briefly considered just giving up and leaving; the Imperium was such a shitshow that he didn't even know where to begin trying to fix it. However, ultimately he reminded himself that fixing retarded administrative systems was one of his hobbies, and got over himself.

After Robby G has finished his job in ousting Chaos from Ultramar, the Ynnari bid their farewell, as they have psychic mumbo-jumbo to do elsewhere. Roboute and Yvraine said their goodbyes, Roboute said that he is in debt to Yvraine for bringing him back to life and Yvraine telling Roboute to stay safe. The respect between the two is interesting, because it shows two historically opposed forces allying towards a common goal, showing that Geedubs might be going a bit [[Warhammer Fantasy Battles|old-school]] with this, having the (somewhat) less evil factions uniting against chaos, tempering the Grimderp of the setting with a little pragmatism, and who better to do that than Mr. Practicality and the world's most morally flexible Eldar?

[[File:YvraineXGuilliman.png|300px|left|thumb|[[Extra Heresy|HERESY TO THE EXTREME!]]]]

During his coronation as uber-boss of Ultramar, a fragment of [[Fulgrim]] possessing a planetary governor infiltrated the many, many pilgrims and dignitaries who had shown up to verify the Primarch's resurrection, and offered him a golden wreath to wear. The wreath was cursed to show Guilliman all his potential glories and lead him to the embrace of Slaanesh. When he saw through the deception and ordered the infiltrator slain, Fulgrim promised that Guilliman [[butthurt|would never take any satisfaction from his victories ever again.]] Ironically, this will probably be a good thing. It means that Guilliman will never become a glory hog or so full of hubris he ruins everything again. He won't seek victory for satisfaction, he will seek victory for the goal. [[Not as planned|Exactly as a good leader should.]] Sidenote: this probably also makes him immune to possession by [[Lucius the Eternal]] (or maybe he already was, he is a Primarch after all), ironically enough, also if you think it through till the end he is now the greatest living threat for Lucius' continued survival. [[Not As Planned|Fulgrim didn't think this one through, did he?]]

[[Saint Celestine]] and Inquisitor Greyfax have convinced Roboute to tolerate the [[Ecclesiarchy]] (for now anyway). Suffice to say, [[rage|he was <u>'''NOT'''</u> pleased]] with the whole space Catholicism thing that had been going on while he was asleep, seeing as Lorgar's desire to worship the emperor [[Horus Heresy|ruined]] [[Goge Vandire|everything.]] After learning about the Ecclesiarchy's more level-headed members and realizing its use, Guilliman works the Imperial Faith into one of his speeches even though it leaves a bad taste in his mouth. He is still at the core a defender of the [[Imperial Truth]], however he understands that the Imperium in its current state needs faith to survive.

Later, [[Nurgle]] inflicted a plague on Ultramar called '''The Sorrows/Weeping Plague''' that spread via insects and caused its victims' eyes to rot out. The only known cure for the disease was to be admitted to the presence of Guilliman himself. Realizing that it was a devious trick to play on the Primarch's compassion and contain Guilliman in Ultramar, he declared that he would not repeat the mistake of [[Imperium Secundus|defending his own realm while the rest of the galaxy burned]] and needed to go to Terra for the [[Greater_Good|Greater Good]] of the Imperium, and left his Apothecaries to try and find a cure.

It is known that while heading to Terra on ''Macragge's Honour'', the Thousand Sons transported him into the [[Maelstrom]], where he and his allies were attacked by a warband of [[Red Corsairs]] and daemons led by [[Kairos Fateweaver]]. Kairos managed to "bind Guilliman in chains of his own guilt, anger, and disappointment" (kinky) and tossed him into a cell on a [[Blackstone Fortress]] (clinky), which the Red Corsairs apparently got from Abbadon as a gift in exchange for their <s>arms</s> loyalty. However, his rescue came in the form of none other than '''[[Cypher]]''' who had been led to Guilliman by the [[Harlequins]] and a bunch of [[Khorne|Khornate]] daemons led by [[Skarbrand]] assaulting the Blackstone Fortress when Kairos insisted on keeping Guilliman alive for future plans. Cypher made a deal with Guilliman, freeing him and the crusader army from bondage and offering the [[Fallen Angels]]' support in exchange for a free pass to Terra and the Imperial Throne Room to fulfill his destiny. After fighting their way through an army of daemons and escaping through the webway, they were pursued by the [[Thousand Sons]] but fought their way through to Luna and continued the battle on Terra's doorstep, and eventually Guilliman winds up dueling [[Magnus]] himself. Guilliman' odds of victory were slimming, until the [[Sisters of Silence]], supported by the [[Imperial Fists]] and the [[Adeptus Custodes]], drop in and punt the Thousand Sons' dusty asses back into the warp. When he finally arrived on Terra, Guilliman had a sudden, dreadful epiphany after seeing Cypher's sword. He then reneged on his deal and ordered the Custodian Guard to seize Cypher before he could be granted audience with the Emperor ''(though Cypher, being Cypher, immediately escaped, but is shown to have a particular bad case of [[Not_as_planned|butthurt]], first time in 40k history!)''. Given how honorable Guilliman is, it ''must'' be something bad if he would resort to backing out on his word. The Custodes were also absolutely up in arms about Cypher escaping, which is a bit funny to think about considering how stoic they usually are.

Guilliman then gets an audience with the Emperor behind closed doors. To his pleasant surprise, the Emperor was still alive and able to communicate after ten thousand years (though it was difficult enough for Guilliman to withstand said communication that it's unlikely the Emperor could have communicated with anyone but a Primarch for ten thousand years while the Imperium corroded around him). To his much less pleasant surprise, he found out Big E no longer cared about pretending to be remotely human, and that he, like all his 'brother' Primarchs, were merely tools in His big plan. It is essentially explained as the Emperor simply being too far elevated above humans to have the capacity for individual compassion. It's a bit like a human feeling genuine affection towards each individual ant in an ant colony; you may care about the colony, but the existences of the individual ants are just too far beneath you to really care. The Primarchs were essentially the tools that Big E had build to maintain and expand that colony, and if you lose, say, your favorite rake, it's usually not that big a deal. Or, at least, that's what Guilliman seemed to believe.

What exactly passed between Emps and Bobby only they know, but was presumably along the lines of: "Roboute, I know that [[Imperium Secundus|last time you went Empire Building]] I got really mad at you and all, but uh... I sorta need you to do some Empire Building again." to which Guilliman agreed. When he emerges back out of the throne room, he would only say he got all the enlightenment he needed and then declares himself '''Lord Commander of the Imperium''' ''(his old job)'' before forcibly deposing some [[High Lords of Terra|High Lords]] he doesn't like and replacing them; and ordering them to start getting shit done to restore the Imperium to its once and future glory.

Whilst deposing some of the High Lords may seem unnecessary given the fragile state of the Imperium, do note that Guilliman is a meritocrat and an administrator first and foremost, so if anyone can save the Administratum and the Imperial Senate, it's him. Thus, his reshuffling of the High Lords is perfectly in character as the High Lords have been repeatedly established as largely self-serving individuals, incompetent in administration at best and utterly uninterested in anything other than expanding their personal power at worst - in short, everything Guilliman is not. If anything, it would have been very out of character for Guilliman to look the other way given their (lack of) overall performance. Ironically, when shit hits the fan, the High Lords usually do a very good job of kicking shit's face in in leadership of the Imperium.

Also he may just be DONE with the Emperor after learning that he and the other Primarchs never meant more to him than tools. Unlike [[Lorgar|those]] [[Horus|that]] [[Perturabo|used]] [[Angron|that]] as an excuse to [[Horus Heresy|go rebellious and crazy]], though, Guilliman isn't suddenly going to turn traitor. Instead, he re-committed himself to the '''ideals''' he fought for during the Great Crusade and the people of the Imperium itself.

[[Tl;dr]], Robby came, he saw, and he threw the entire Chaos Space Marines a [[Anal circumference|beating]] like no other.

===42nd millennium===
[[File:Priorities_ba536b_6833904.jpg|450px|right|thumb|Priorities man. Priorities.]]

{{Topquote|God damn it [[Imperial Guard|guardsmen]], listen to me. I didn’t come back from [[Fulgrim]]’s date rape drug trip to come back to a [[Great Rift|new Eye of Terror]] the size of [[Magnus]]’s [[Burning of Prospero|hate boner]] for the [[Space Wolves]], because a [[High Lords of Terra|bunch]] [[Inquisition|of]] [[Ecclesiarchy|clowns]] took my dad’s xenophobic stance and decided that just because the empire was on the brink of total annihilation that humanity didn’t need to worry about allies or mutual interests in not being dead! I WILL NOT RISK HUMANITY’S ONLY ALLY BECAUSE YOU ARE TOO STUPID TO GET THE ”FUCK ME” SIGNALS FROM A WOMAN WHO IS OLDER THAN YOUR FAMILY LINEAGE! DO YOU KNOW WHAT I HAD TO DO TO [[YVRAINE]], THAT CRAZY WOMAN WAS [[Not as planned|DARK AND CRAFTWORLD ELDAR]]! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT IT’S LIKE TO HAVE A BDSM SESSION WITH A NATIVE AMERICAN THEME WHILE YOU CAN’T TAKE OFF YOUR ARMOUR? I DON’T WANT TO HEAR IT, YOU FUCKING COWARD GET YOUR ADAMANTIUM BALLS OUT OF YOUR COMMISSAR’S PURSE AND FUCK THAT ELDAR’S PUSSY BEFORE I SEND YOU ON A ONE WAY TRIP TO [[Plague Wars|THE PLAGUE STARS]]!|The Primarch is adjusting well to Aeldari diplomacy.}}

To stem the tide of traitors, xenos, and Chaos, Roboute Guilliman declared the [[Indomitus Crusade]] against the enemies of the Imperium. In order to accomplish this, he unveiled the [[Primaris Marines]], a project 10,000 years in the making to create a superior Space Marine. Between battles, he's also begun to revise the [[Codex Astartes]] and compose a (relatively) accurate history of the Imperium of Man, founding a [[Logos Historica Verita|new division of the Adeptus Terra to act as historians]] (much to the Inquisition's annoyance - and yes, quite a few Inquisitors would say 'no' to a Primarch even if he is the regent of the Imperium, though the Ordo devoted to preserving history is probably overjoyed and the rest know better than to get in the way of someone the Custodes seemingly obey without question). The Crusade lasted about a century; while it was able to drive the forces of Chaos away from some of their new holdings, Guilliman knew that it was only enough to stabilize the Imperium in its current state. [[Abaddon|Mr. 13 Failures]] might have failed to get to Terra as he planned, but he still got a nasty blow in and Guilliman knows it.

The Dark Imperium novel has portrayed him as having become far more cynical over the events of the Indomitus Crusade, in no small part due to frequently butting heads with the Inquisition and the Administratum, who see Guilliman's push for reforms as a threat to their personal power. While he still believes in the Emperor's ideals, his belief in the [[Imperial Truth]] has also been shaken. He knows the Emperor is not quite human any longer, but noted that even if Emps is a god, someone that cold and ruthlessly callous doesn't deserve worship in the first place. According to Guilliman, when he met with the Emperor, the latter treated him as little more than a favorite tool that had only just been recovered for a highly urgent job, as opposed to the last of his loyal sons. On the flip side, though, even the realization that Emps never loved his "sons" (The ultimate reason [[Horus]] broke and started the whole Heresy clusterfuck) did not break him. E-money might not love him as a son, but that doesn't mean his ideals aren't worth fighting for and Guilliman intends to do it right this time!

As of now, Big Bobby G is splitting his time between his history work, preventing the Imperium's appalling situation from getting worse by pointing a power-armored finger in the right direction, and applying power-armored boot to asses where needed. He's also busy writing the '''Codex Imperialis''' which is basically the [[Codex Astartes]] on civil society and good governance. The compilation of the Imperium's history is just one part of the new Codex, with which he intends to fix the semi-functioning clusterfuck that is Imperial bureaucracy. He hopes that if (or when) he dies for good, his successors will use it for guidance rather than going with the head-up-ass approach they've taken in the past.

Despite his dislike of the Emperor's detachment from humanity, he has also begun to realize that circumstances forced the Emperor to take his autocratic stance - and that he may very well end up becoming a dictator himself too. While for the time being he still hopes to preserve his ideals in the face of the grimdark galaxy he lives in, he has accepted that if push comes to shove he may need to give them up for the sake of humanity's survival.

A fun fact is that he is also quite [[Grimdark|creeped out]] at the whole [[Cherubim|'turn-a-baby-into-a-flying-cyborg' thing]] going around in the AdMech and Ecclesiarchy. He also gave up trying to correct the myths about him and his fellow Primarchs after 80 years or so, because people kept repeating them anyway. According to a techmarine who may or may not have been just fucking with one of Cawl's minions in the novel The Great Work, other lingering elements of people’s religious devotion to his mythologized status includes a disturbing tendency for people to kill themselves after meeting him, because <s>[[Spiritual Liege|they will never be Ultramarines]]</s> they know that they’ll never experience a more significant moment in their lives. This isn’t entirely restricted to mortals—again, allegedly, one techmarine became tongue-tied when meeting the Primarch, and was so ashamed by this lapse that he promptly went down to the machine shop and burned out his own tongue with a plasma cutter.

After the [[Devastation of Baal]], he ordered the Mechanicus to terraform Baal Secundus back into its paradisal state before the long night and appointed Commander [[Dante]] as the Warden of Imperium Nihilus. He's also acquired an original copy of the pre-Heresy ''Lectitio Divinatus'' (signed by [[Lorgar|the original author]]) which he only got by wrestling it from the Inquisition. (You may have noticed that Guilliman and the Inquisition do not get along very well, but the Inquisitorial Representiative is still in support of Guilliman's authority when coup happened.)

During the [[Plague Wars]], Grandpa smurf acquired a quirky Rogue Trader called Yassilli Sulymanya who is both a handpicked historian from the Primarch himself and an [[Heresy|atheist]] whom he saved from a witch-burning. The two kind of [[Love Can Bloom|hit it off when it comes to the standards of relationships of a normal women and a posthuman demi-god]]...as you can imagine, such inclinations combine with the fanfic fuel of [[Extra Heresy|YvraineXGuilliman]] has led /tg/ to declare that GW is now teasing us with [[Waifu|Primarch waifu bait/love triangle/ship wars.]] [[HHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhnnnnnnngggggg-|It doesn't help that Yassilli nicknames our giant blueberry Robu,]] although he made it clear immediately that he didn't appreciate it (there's also the fact that he's like 12ft tall, so attempting to Do The Deed would be like trying to park a '''[[Meme|BIG MAC TRUCK IN A LITTLE GARAGE]]''' <s>Cadillac in a broom closet</s>). Still, that's quite a bit of ladies he staffed in the [[High Lords]]. Other than that, we also see [[Mortarion]] still acting like a petulant bitch after 10,000 years before [[Awesome|Gorillaman himself laid an epic smackdown of burns.]] That's of course, is before Morty (As further expanded in '''Godblight''') stabbed Gman with a syringe filled with literal super-AIDS concocted by [[Ku'Gath]], killing Papa Smurf for the [[Derp|''second time'']]. However, thanks to [[Wat|''literal'']] [[Bullshit|'''Deus ex Machina''']], Bobby G in fact, [[Herp|unkilled himself]] through the help of [[Emprah|E-Money]] himself, thereby confirming that GeeDubs is so inept at writing a story they literally gave Big Blue Wonder [[Bullshit|''canonical'']] [[Plot armor|plot armor]] (though no less than Celestine, daemons, perpetuals, Daemon primarchs, necron overlords etc GW loves canonical plot armor). After that, the Emprah took over Grandpa Smurf and proceeded to shove his [[/d/|golden, flaming power sword right into Papa Nurgle's STD-ridden man-pussy,]] [[Awesome|by literally burning down his garden which '''permanently''' wounded him.]] Making Nurgle the first [[Chaos God]] to actually be harmed in 40k. And you thought [[Star Wars|Rey]] [[Mary Sue|had too many asspulls.]]

Funnily enough the whole scene made Chaos fans taste for once what the rest of the fanbase feels when their fav faction gets screwed due the Chaos Gods pulling their typical Diabolus Ex Machine, finally there is some justice in the universe.

Oh yeah, and Big Blue Wonder is fucking [[Rage|<u>'''LIVID'''</u>]] with what the Ecclesiarchy has done during the conflict (sending a group of Sisters of Battle to free a possible Living Saint against Guilliman's orders and killing several loyalists in the process; granted, it did save Guilliman's life but that doesn't change the fact that their actions were still treasonous, never mind the fact that he was uncertain as to whether or not the Saint was actually being empowered by Tzeentch), and making his handpicked militant-priest to promptly [[Slaanesh|shit/jizz himself in fear/awe at the possibility of being killed by a son of the Emperor.]] He also seems to be becoming more prone to outbursts of rage, something that caught even a Custodes by surprise as such a trait was unexpected from Guilliman, but perhaps it's unsurprising given all the shit he's been through lately.
[[File:A3pq7y9hz9391.jpg|400px|right|thumb|Guilliman's natural default state in the 42nd Millennium. Ruling a galaxy is hard man.]]

Following that little incident and a bout of introspection on his part, he's started to wonder if maybe Lorgar and the Ecclesiarchy were right about the Emperor's divinity, and has chosen to start reading that old copy of [[Lectitio Divinitatus]] to learn whether it might have a grain of truth in it. With the reveal in Godblight again, any fan theories that Robot Gorillaman would be influenced by Lorgar's fan-fic was thrown out of the window. Turns out, Roboute is an actual adult with a functional brain and proceeded to find the evident flaws in Lorgar's tract and then invite a [[Librarian]] and an [[Eldar]] [[Farseer]] by the name of [[Illiyan Nastase]] (YES. [[Lolwut|''That guy''.]] Who somehow [[Retcon|re-retconned himself]] back into existence), to have a legitimately intriguing chat on the nature of godhood and whether or not the Emprah fits the definition of one.

Since waking up Guilliman has now fought more of his brothers than anyone other than Russ. In fact if it really was Omegon then his faced more of his brothers than any other primarch (7 to Russ' 6). Fighting against Lorgar and Angron during the heresy and losing badly, and fighting Curze with the Lion during [[Imperium Secundus|that one episode]] and barely surviving. Then he faced Omegon and Fulgrim after the heresy, (supposedly) killing the former and nearly dying to the latter. Then following his return, he's fought against Magnus and Mortarion, losing to the former and having to be bailed out by his allies in both cases. This actually goes well with his image of a leader of men, Bobby G may not be as strong as most of his brothers; especially the daemon primarchs, but [[Awesome|most 42nd millennium imperials will fight against overwhelming odds heads-on to save the guy who is doing all in his power to bring the Imperium back from the brink, as pointed out in the supplements and novels. Guilliman knows that and that's why he never gives up.]]
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