Editing Alternate Heresy (section)

===The Roboutian Heresy===
The true heresy has begun: Papa Smurf takes the place of Horus and fucks over the Imperium. Much shedding of blood, sweat and tears ensues, with generous helpings of manliness on the side. It's pretty [[awesome]].

Inspired by the above mentioned Dornian Heresy, circumstances happen that lead to the Primarchs who turned traitor in canon to stay loyal and the loyalists to turn traitor. For this Heresy's loyalists this ranges from having a small point that causes a major divergent in their lives, like Konrad and Angron, to having completely different lives like Lorgar. The Traitors all at a certain point have a moment that led them towards Chaos, some better done than others, even the fic's writer admits El'Jonhson's could have been done better, but the rest bring much tragedy and sorrow, though a bit less so with Vulkan (his moment of divergence ''is'' absolutely horrifying, but it isn't as sad because of how awful Vulkan and the Salamanders are in this timeline). However, even Vulkan and the Salamander's horrors pale in comparison to that of Corvus Corax and the Raven Guard.

Of the traitors, Vulkan was raised- then killed by, a female [[Dragon|fire drake]], causing him to realize his immortality early on and gain a god-complex. This wish came true when he, hating the 4 chaos gods but believing SO HARD in his own superiority, actually [[Awesome|turned himself into the chaos god of greed and pride!]] I.e., a giant chaos version of [[The Hobbit|Smaug]]. Rogal Dorn fell to [[Khorne]] due to a massive ork fleet almost destroying the Inquit System and destroying the Phalanx, leading to him never using his [[TTS|magic pain glove]] to temper his anger. Lion El'Jonson spent too long in the warp-tainted wilds of Caliban and became corrupted by [[Tzeentch]]. Sanguinius grew up with an even greater fear of mutants and deviation, causing enough doubts and fear that, when [[Slaanesh]] came knocking, he gave himself and his legion up willingly. They then turned into full-on horny space-[[vampire]]s who get off on drinking blood. For being the archtraitor, Rowboat himself had a pretty lazy bog-standard "hometown and parents were destroyed and became more brutal because of it" backstory as well as being manipulated by Be'lakor, [[Archaon|meaning he's a once great hero who turned evil through a combination of losing loved ones and Be'lakor playing him like a fiddle]]. Jaghatai grew up with chaos worshippers and Russ lost his pet wolves, Geri and Freki, while executing the [[Lost legions]]. Ferrus became an utter social darwinist and got infected by [[Nurgle]] when he tried to blow up a daemon world. Then there's Corvus Corax, who was in the care of the mad scientists of Kiavahr and, seeing his immense scientific potential, proceeded to [[Grimdark|slice him up, poison him, disembowl him, tear off and reattach his limbs, and countless other horrific tortures]] in the name of 'science.' It only gets worse, as he himself became a mad scientist, created horrific astartes clones called ''Spawn Marines,'' and became an avatar of a previously unknown chaos god of emptiness and the void (Malal?)

For the loyalists, Konrad had a loving mother who helped develop his moral compass into less of a Punisher and more like Batman. When Horus first met his father, their meeting was more cordial and he saw that Big E was just a tired, old man who wanted the best for humanity, under all the glitz and glamour. Magnus fought a titanic psychneuein on Prospero, learning to use his muscles instead of his powers when the creature was immune. When Tzeentch offered to save his sons from the Flesh Change, Magnus said no and basically cured it himself. Now much more cautious, he sent [[Ahriman]] to help Horus during the crusade, allowing them to heal Horus and thus the Warmaster never fell. Peturabo, as new Preatorian of Terra, performed a far better job than Dorn did in the Horus Heresy, making a stellar defense for Terra and even [[Reasonable Marines|constructing huge rings of planetary fortresses around the Eye of Terror and Ruinstorm to keep chaos caged up]] after the Heresy, called the Iron Cages. By killing his Witchlord foster father, Mortarion learned how to [[get shit done]] as he took up the role as Big E's executioner, killing/banishing both Jaghatai and Vulkan singlehandedly before his demise in two separate moments of [[Awesome]]. Lorgar and Angron had loving parents and used their psychic charisma to lead revolts against their cruel planetary governments, with Angron never getting the Butcher's Nails, and Lorgar slaying [[Kor Phaeron]] when he saw the horrors the cults of chaos were capable of. Fulgrim having a few librarians with him meant he never took up the daemon sword of Slaanesh... buuuut the [[Eldar]] didn't know that, so [[Eldrad]] convinced the Dark Eldar to kidnap him and subjected him to [[grimdark|decades of disgustingly extreme torture]] so Slaanesh couldn't have him, on the pretense of a faulty prophecy. '''Thanks Eldrad!''' Finally, Alpharius Omegon had their pragmatic and ruthless ways tempered by Konrad, so they turned out to be one of the single most valuable chapters of astartes the Imperium has. The Alpha Legion also became buddies with the [[Rogue Traders]], which is pretty cool. 

Notably, Fabius Bile is still evil, but a little less so here given that here he has a reason for being evil that his main version lacks, and even he is ''horrified'' by the sheer awfulness of the corrupted Raven Guard. 

[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/the-roboutian-heresy-a-warhammer-40k-alternate-universe.440554/ Can be read here (also contains sidestories and word of god)].

[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/if-the-emperor-watched-tts-extras-thread.508247/page-2#post-33704905 Can also be read here] (see threadmarks) for reactions from the primarchs and the Emperor himself.