Editing Novamarines (section)

===Founding===
[[Image:Novamarines Mark VI.JPG.jpg‎|200px|thumb|right|The quartered heraldry was used by Corvo's 90th company back in the Great Crusade]]The first [[Chapter Master]] of the Novamarines was Ultramarines [[Brother-Captain|Captain]] [[Lucretius Corvo]], an officer who won great renown fighting the [[Word Bearers]] during the [[Horus Heresy]]. Corvo was decorated by [[Roboute Guilliman]] himself - this decoration is now a sacred relic to the Novamarines, and is kept in the Fortress-Monastery.

At their founding they were assigned the world of Honourum by Guilliman, a world that at one point had marked the farthest point the [[Ultramarines]] had penetrated into the galactic north of Ultima Segmentum during the [[Great Crusade]]. Said world was once a beacon of Imperial civilisation, but was razed by [[Lorgar]] and [[Angron]] as a prelude to their [[Shadow Crusade]]. The world was left in ruins for much of the Horus Heresy and its cities were picked apart by scavengers; its people eventually devolved to a feral state due to the trauma and horrors they had witnessed. Honourum was eventually recaptured by the Ultramarines and re-garrisoned, although the cities were left in their state of ruin.

Because they now recruit from feral societies, the only notable surface difference between a Novamarine and an Ultramarine is that the Novamarines retain the tribal practice of tattooing their skin, incorporating it into their beliefs as an [[Emperor]]-blessed way of armouring their souls, as well as recording their deeds upon their bodies.