Editing White Scars (section)

==Organization==
They are known for their sweet mustaches and the Scars they make on their faces upon induction into the Chapter. They are '''also''' known for the Scars they make on the enemies of the Emprah's faces '''after''' induction into the Chapter. Which is introduced into the chapter after Jaghatai was reunited with the 5th Legion, (i.e. his legion) as he had recently united the fierce tribes of the Talksar tribesmen. Never mind that many Talskar did join the legion due to their loyalty to Jaghatai. Also, they only recruit from Jaghatai's adopted homeworld: Mundus Planus (known as Chogoris to the natives). Up until the Horus Heresy, there was a mix of Terran and Chogorian legionaries, and quite likely many legionaries from other diverse planets across galaxy prior to their reunion with Jaghatai.

[[File:3d0a524229f9c180bcf4689948e874e6.jpg|thumb|600px|left|For those of us who want to play barbarous Marines but aren’t into [[Space Wolves|Vikings]] or [[Chaos Space Marine|worshipping Satan]].]]

The White Scars are led by a Great Khan and several Brotherhoods' (Company) Khans (Captains). They abhor Dreadnoughts as they find it a distasteful treatment for their fellow warriors [[What|though they do allow it]]. And of course the whole biker thing makes slower moving tanks (stripped down to go faster) and troops (like Devastators) rare; in their place they have a large amount of drop pods, Land Speeders and Rhinos and also aerial vehicles like Storm Talons, Nephilim Jetfighters. Plus bikes, lots and lots of bikes. Space bikes.

They have an incredibly deep, abiding rivalry with the [[Raven Guard]] because of their conflicting general tactical doctrines - according to Deathwatch, a failure to cooperate in an old war campaign destroyed any chances of fostering ties they might've had. While the Raven Guard prefers to lie in wait and plan out their attacks down to the letter to ensure the most efficient results are achieved when they finally start their attacks, the White Scars pretty much does the opposite and just rush in chainswords drawn, using their fast-attack specialty to overwhelm their opponents with sheer speed and force. Despite the animosity, the two forces have fought alongside one another on multiple occasions, and it's worth noting it's more of a competitive rivalry in any case. Plus lately the Ravens rode shotgun on a Great Hunt, which made for a great bonding exercise.

Despite their savage image, much like their main inspiration, they're actually one of the most cultured legions (and by far one of the best-groomed) in the current Imperium, with aspirants having to take up pursuits like poetry, painting and calligraphy (often about their battles), and wearing silks in their downtime. As a result, they don't like hanging around with the [[Space Wolves|mad drunk Vikings who treat the whole barbarian thing like a badge of honour]]. The only cultural traits they share are hunting (though it's hinted at that the Scars are more into falconry) and really enjoying their job, frequently admonishing recruits to laugh and smile when fighting. Hey, if you can channel the myriad of emotions, good, bad, and ugly the battlefield brings into sheer thrill then you've found the only glory (and perhaps psychopathy) there is in war. Unfortunately, they don't hang out with anyone apart from their successors, so the rest of the Imperium has kept this misconception for millennia. Their Primarch and Legion were also perhaps the only ones besides Guilliman and Lion to realize that they are, in fact, living weapons and not really more than that. Unlike certain losers who realized this and went all grimderp, the White Scars embraced this and were totally fine with. It was their purpose, simple as that. Everyone likes knowing their purpose (except people who spent centuries deluding themselves).

They used to get on well with the Luna Wolves - particularly the Terran portion of the Legion, many of whose members had aspired to join the other Legion only to find themselves seconded to the Scars (the Scars seem to have ranked just below the Space Wolves and World Eaters as the Legion aspirants most dreaded being assigned to, though this might have been due to the indignity of being part of a Legion of strange outriders who earned little renown while flying in the face of the glorious military doctrines aspirants were raised on as opposed to being part of a brutal close-quarters assignment likely to end in death). As a result of this, the Terran Khans tended to favour a mix of White Scars and Luna Wolves organisation and doctrine, to the point that they resented Jaghatai's leadership for being "flighty" compared to Horus' fully committed, crushing attacks. Their relationship with the sons of Horus brought the Warrior Lodges into the White Scars. This was fairly harmless at first, and might have helped bring the Terran and Chogorian Astartes together in time.

But then the Horus Heresy happened. The Lodge members were duped into rebelling against their Primarch and trying to force the Scars into declaring for Horus. They were kept in the dark about the whole Chaos and rebellion thing - as far as they were aware the only act of rebellion was the Space Wolves' smashing the Thousand Sons. Unlike the <s>[[Fallen]]</s> :{{Blam|+++FOUL TRAITORS COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO THE FIRST LEGION+++}}, these traitors were overwhelmed, eventually realized Horus was messing with some [[Warp|seriously fucked up shit]] and surrendered to the loyalists. [[Irony|Ironically]], it was a ''Terran-born'' Noyan-Khan who stood up to the uprising, against one of the Khagan's oldest comrades who fought by his side even before becoming a Space Marine. Jaghatai executed the ringleaders and assigned all others to the Sagyar Mazan, where they performed suicide missions in [[Zone Mortalis]] missions to redeem themselves.

The Chogorian portion of the legion, on the other hand, used to be big bros with the [[Thousand Sons]], having Chogorian artistic culture colliding perfectly with the Prosperian knowledge-seeking and nerdity, not to mention the high positions psykers had in both legions. The fact that the Space Furries (though they were manipulated) pretty much forced TS into turning to Chaos does not play well with Scars even to this day, which stacks with their dislike of Wolves' "barbarian and proud of it" shtick (which is ironic considering modern-day Mongolia has a drinking culture that makes Russians look like sissy lightweights).

On the subject of the [[Thousand Sons|nerds who wear blue better than the Ultramarines]], the White Scars also created a Librarius and ignored the [[Council of Nikaea|Edict of Nikaea]]. Their Librarians, who are also their Chaplains, are known as ''[[Stormseer]]s''; a call back to the title of the [[Rune Priest|shamans]] of Jaghatai's tribe and are also responsible for recruitment. They also have another Chaplaincy, the [[TTS|Head Chaplaincy, dedicated to the collection of heads]], they do supposedly collect enemy skulls from the Hunt.

One might imagine the Imperium being on high alert against the Scars, seeing as only two legions they ever got along with went traitor, but surprisingly it's not the case. May have something to do with them being the heroes of the Siege of Terra.

Their current [[Chapter Master]], or rather, 'Great Khan' is Jubal Khan, whose namesake once kicked [[Sigismund]] in the face. Legends are told of his sweet mustache across the entire length and breadth of the Imperium, which the mustache also spans. The Khan's bodyguard, the Keshig, are the only White Scars known to use Terminator Armour - presumably they wait until he's stuck in and teleport down onto the field, since it's hard to imagine Jubal letting things as insignificant as 'common sense' or 'letting your bodyguards do their job' get in the way of charging the enemy at mach 1.5.

They probably get along well with the [[Attilan Rough Riders]]. If they'd been the first to encounter the Interex instead of the Luna Wolves, the two factions would have probably got along pretty well except for the [[Interex]]'s implied issues about psykers. Also, the Scars would've dug that cyber-centaur armour.