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==Founding History and the Beginning of the Great Crusade==
The V<sup>th</sup> Legion, commonly referred to at the time as the Greenboots, was one of the Emperor's twenty Founding Legions. Much like their peers, they were largely Terran-born in the beginning, primarily culled from the low orbitals that clung tenaciously to survival through the horros of Old Night. However in contrast to their largely land-born cousins, they performed poorly prior to the discovery of their [[Primarch]]. This was due to two fundamental causes: A far slower-than-average uptake of the [[geneseed]] and related organs, and a subtle but damning flaw that made most Marines unable to fully absorb hypno-indoctrination once the trans-human process was completed. The V<sup>th</sup> suffered greatly in the early days of the crusade due to these flaws, as they resulted in the Marines keeping much of their pre-Astartes personas and predilections, and thus taking up the Space Marine's skill-set far slower than in comparison to other legions' recruits. 

The then-Legion Master, Raddicus Bronzwyn, was eager to contribute to the Crusade and was unwilling to hold his men back until they had achieved the same level of competence as those of other Legions. As a result, the Greenboots were pushed into combat with little more training than the average Imperial conscript, and had to lean heavily on their implants to carry the burden of warfare. Because of this, the V<sup>th</sup> quickly gained a reputation for poor discipline and black luck, with some of their cousin Legions claiming the battlefields they took to were inevitably haunted by the keening souls of fallen Greenboots. Imperial Command soon settled on the opinion that the loss of one of these trans-humans was akin to losing a handful of conscripts and thus it did not represent as significant a tactical loss as a fully-trained marine from another more-capable legion.

This founding reputation led to the legion being usually regulated to reinforce their more successful cousins in their endeavors. A reserve role that resulted in the legion filling in lines where more successful legions began to flag, this commonly due to campaigns that had bogged down to higher-than-expected levels in intensity of combat. The result of this, and Browzwyn's ever-more-desperate efforts to have his legion prove their worth as Space Marines, was the legion being thrown into combat in piecemeal units as supporting elements and rarely as a coordinated force of its own. With little opportunity to develop at a legion, ostracism by their cousins due to their skill gap and discipline issue, and the constant attrition of the few marines to survive and learn from combat due to their usage as stopgap materiel, the legion rapidly lost morale, resulting in a downward spiral in terms of legion identity and capability levels.