Editing Extinct chapters (section)

== Imperial Fists ==
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I know what you're thinking: the Imperial Fists? Sons of Rogal Dorn and the direct continuation of the VIIth Legiones Astartes, wiped out to a man? Well, it's more likely than you'd think. So much so that their Primarch specifically put in place a plan called the "Last Wall protocol" in case this exact scenario ever were to happen: it basically consists of rebuilding the Imperial Fists from their successors, since they have the same [[geneseed]]. Oh and the Legion can formally reunite in case of another [[Horus Heresy]] scale apocalyptic war. That's it. You can tell Dorn made it by how straightforward it is.

When the chapter was destroyed during the [[War of The Beast]], it was secretly replenished with the [[Fists Exemplar]] and other successors thanks to the Last Wall protocol, the Fist Exemplar themselves making up at least a plurality of the rebuilding as they themselves had the dishonor of having the first Astartes to fall to Chaos after the Heresy due to circumstances in the War of The Beast as detailed in their own section and thus the loyalists decided to erase their own records and essentially [[Retcon]]ned their entire loyalist lineage into the Imperial Fists. Chapter Master [[Slaughter Koorland]] managed to activate the protocol before his death, technically making it so that the Chapter wasn't fully extinct. The new command cadre and some of the veterans were Horus Heresy veterans in the Legion as well, notably Fists Examplar Chapter Master and rebuilt Imperial Fists Chapter Master [[Maximus Thane]], meaning that the Chapter never actually went extinct.