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=Legion History=

Dark, dour and wreathed in suspicion, the Entombed were warriors of the dark, and yet they clung to the Emperor’s light when those who once shone brightly fell into the abyss of Chaos forever.

==Origins: Warriors of the Inner Dark==

The history of the Space Marines began with the Sacred Band, twenty squads of ten Astartes each. These warriors were deployed in battle to test their worth and prove the rightness of the Emperor's Space Marine Project. The men who would form Sixth Squad had been recruited from Diffumi, where Judge-Cults dedicated to gods of death had long resisted Imperial rule. Raised from birth to see death as merely a transition-point akin to becoming an adult, the warriors of Diffumi were notorious for their reckless courage - a quality that would be tempered but never entirely eliminated in the Sixth Squad and the Legion that would grow from it. In accordance with their rituals of transition, the ten members of the Sixth Squad disposed of their birth names on completing their training and joining the Emperor's Space Marines. The Sergeant of the Sixth Squad called himself Vinea, and his brothers were Tormenta, Sambuca, Petrary, Onger, Ballstra, Ludgar, Hellepoli, Springalt and Couillard.

The Sixth's coolness in danger, even by the standards of the Space Marines, had impressed [[Hektor Cincinnatus]]. While he did not call on them to spearhead his assaults (saving this duty for the First), Hektor called on the Sixth to carry the fight to Merican warriors holed up in tight quarters, committing them push after push against the desperate defenders of the last few boltholes in the underbelly of both Noveau Yourk and San Angeles Hives.

While won in dirty places, these dirty victories were highly respected. The Sixth tended to be standoffish and preferred their own company, but their record of tackling difficult tasks efficiently and without complaint permitted a certain eccentricity. Only in hindsight would rumors spread that their constant sorties into the dark underhives were an attempt to have the entire squad destroyed, with the darkest of whispers suggesting that the [[San Angelus Incident]] was aimed at the Sixth Squad, not the [[Void Angels|Fifth]].

==Great Crusade: The Hive Breakers==

Due to difficulties in replicating their gene-seed in thralls, the Sixth Legion were among the last to be brought up to Legion Strength, and did not enter the Great Crusade until after it had already cleared the Sol System. (Typically, later accounts accuse Hektor or [[Pallas Eugenesis]] of a plot but this seems to be projecting later crimes backward.) The Legion’s first actions were in the crowded Hive Cities of the systems closest to Solar and the tunnels of ancient Cthonia. The Legion became known as the ‘Hive Breakers’ for they were especially efficient at fighting in the tight confines of a Hive City, from the spires to the underhive. Although the Sixth generally lacked for specialists due to their small numbers, they were still quick to adopt specialised eqiupment for Zone Mortalis operations, such as the MK III "Iron" Armour and the Tactical Dreadnought - ''Terminator'' armour.

As Primarch after Primarch was found, the Sixth continued to go without. Their recruiting grounds were expanded to include the dark colonies of the Kuiper Belt, and although these colonies were thinly populated they were sufficient for the small quantities of gene-seed available. Lack of replacements even the Legion in slow decline towards the end of the first century of the Great Crusade and the Imperium's gene-wrights began to wonder if the Sixth would simply go extinct. Others were more optimistic, pointing to the revival of other Legions after the discovery of their gene-sires and the integration of fresh manpower from the Primarchs' homeworlds. For the Sixth themselves, such worries were abstractions and they crusaded relentlessly under the command of Legion Master Tormenta.

==The Prince of Terra==
{{See also|Golgothos}}
Golgothos, Primarch of the Sixth Legion, was cast upon the Ork-infested planet that he came to name ''Sepulchra''. This world had once been inhabited by an advanced human civilisation, but they had been destroyed in the chaos of Old Night. The Primarch grew up running from the Orks, then turned to waging a private war against them. His liberation from this nightmare by the Emperor was a major turn in the Sixth Legion's fortunes. The Primarch greatly impressed the Emperor's court with his physical presence and quick mind, for though he came to Terra largely ignorant of the civilized arts of war he learned very quickly. Pallas Eugenesis' gene-wrights took fresh genetic samples from the Primarch and were finally able to replicate several batches of new gene-seed, though there was no ready supply of recruits.

Golgothos was undaunted. Unlike those of his brothers who had taken a period of time to rebuild their Legion in a new image, the Sixth's sire led his men straight into battle. In a series of exemplary campaigns in the Segmentum Obscurus, the Sixth Legion razed Ork worlds that had begun to threaten Imperial borders. In so doing, they established contact with a handful of embattled human worlds whose fierce warriors had resisted the Xenos for centuries. Men from these planets were quickly screened for their genetic quality and began to be taken to a new Fortress on Sepulchra where they could hone their skills and undergo the difficult transformation into Space Marines. The Legion also benefited from stocks of ancient technology on Golgothos' homeworld, especially a vast store of walkers suitable for conversion into Dreadnought war machines. The ranks of fallen warriors still fighting under Golgothos' leadership swelled and in their honour the Sixth became known as ''The Endless''.

As the second century of the Great Crusade rolled on, the Sixth reversed their decline and greatly expanded their ranks despite constant and difficult campaigning. Golgothos refocused his Legion on the task of destroying the Xenos strongholds threatening the Imperium. Orks were the main object of his wrath but the Sixth fought many other aliens, counting the destruction of the Eldar Craftworld Kaelor among their victories. At the beginning of the 31st Millenium, the Endless and their master were tasked with the greatest challenge of the Great Crusade: the destruction of the Orkish Empire of Ullanor.