Editing MidHammer 40,000 (section)

==Loyalists==
===Corvus Corax===
[[Corvus Corax]] is The Emperor's Huntsman. With the Emperor’s Executioner and Terror Weapon both falling to Chaos, [Corvus Corax might also take over both roles, becoming the dagger in the dark that terrifies into submission those Vulkan cannot convince. Obviously he wouldn’t take it to Curze’s extreme, though. Probably causes a lot fewer body parts of loved ones to be found in mailboxes. Instead, eloquently worded death threats, ultimatums, and warnings signed in suspicious red liquid. And sometimes all it takes is for petulant lords and nobles to see eyes in the dark and the gleam of mighty claws one night and they change their tune real fast. Problematic Xenos leaders, in particular [[Ork]] [[Warboss|warbosses]], are also on Corax' list of heads that need displacement.

===Ferrus Manus===
[[Ferrus Manus]] is currently traveling throughout the stars, attempting to repair worlds that have been left in dissarray after great wars and battles, particularly those which have seen Traitor Marine raids. The Raven Guard and Dark Angels both have a company specifically assigned to travel with Ferrus Manus to inspect such sightings, and to subsequently track the traitors if at all possible.

===Fulgrim===
A GOOD BOY. Keeps the masses loyal through flawless works of Imperial art, spreading the [[Imperial Truth]] to new worlds, etc.. Or maybe something halfway between the Imperial Truth and worship of Big E, hopefully. Since [[atheism]] just cripples any [[spiritual]] defenses and makes the reveal easily convert people to [[Chaos]]. Answering people saying "[[God]] created everything including science, so cannot be disproven" with a [[BLAM|bolt to the face]] doesn't encourage loyalty or trust, to say the least.

===Jaghatai Khan===
Ferrying rapidly back and forth between Terra, as well as protecting messengers and shipping lanes and acting as rapid response troops, the [[White Scars]] are a welcome sight throughout the Imperium. [[Jaghatai Khan]] is probably a decent guy, if a bit of a less patient person.

The Emperor's Chicken-Cooking Bitchslap, more like. Racing up and down the galaxy, the Khan and his White Scars sear a path of destruction and ass-kicking upon the enemies of the Imperium. Making jumps constantly to be on every battlefront they can manage, determined with an absurd fervour to defend humanity and make all who would oppress or hurt them pay dearly. This level of hyper-[[Warpjumping]] is possible through the God-Emperor's direct psychic assistance in every jump the White Scars attempt, ensuring they end up as close in time and space to their target with as little incident as possible.

===Lion El'Johnson===
Besides Traitor-focused counter-intelligence, [[Lion El'Johnson]] has proven to be one of the scariest motherfuckers for any [[Chaos warband]] to so much as hear about. During the [[Horus Heresy]], El'Johnson gave [[Konrad Curze]] such a vicious beating that the Traitor Primarch was first to flee for the [[Eye Of Terror]], taking such flight that he left most of his Legion to be routed and leaving him with the smallest [[Chaos Space Marine]] Legion in the current day. The Lion is said to still be tracking Konrad to this day, and subsequently Konrad is ''still running scared.'' The Lion's stoic, ruthless badassery has reached positively legendary status. He is an absolutely terrifying entity to Chaos Space Marines. 'Tis only the Traitor Primarchs who have the gall to insult him to his face... except, of course, Konrad Curze.

===Magnus the Red===
Magnus the Red has overseen the training and study of many Imperial psykers, making him a sort of father to many of them, as he has by and large been the only individual within the Imperial hierarchy to treat them as anything more than tools. Due to this Magnus has taken it upon himself to try and train all of them to the best of his ability, but due to the high death count and low survival rate of psykers living to become old, Magnus has become somewhat cold and distant towards his Primarch brothers, dedicating his time to trying to save as many of his “children” as he can with little time set aside for anything else.  In these duties include him and his legion launching campaigns to teach the common Imperial citizen about the psykers, and the running of the black ships(need a new name for it)(the gray vessels, the gray havens, silver sanctuaries something like that sound good?).  Along with Magnus' duty of keeping the Golden Throne running when the Emperor needs to go and do something (like use the bathroom) Magnus has very little time to do much else.

He could also have become the administrator and leader of the Ordo Malleus of the Inquisition, being the most senior living authority on the subject of the Warp and how it works, being very sobered to the deviousness of it and the true threats it poses to those who dive too deep into it without looking first after seeing the Daemonic tide on Istvaan V and the corruption, both physiological and mental, that occurred with both his traitor brothers and some of his own Thousand Sons Astartes as the Letdown went down.

===Roboute Guilliman===
Roboute Guilliman and the [[Ultramarines]] have become the go-to force for minor insurrections and problems around the Imperium's eastern fringes. Due to their facilities and many recruiting worlds they are the largest of the Astartes forces, but due to Guilliman having to work through literal mountains of paperwork and council often with the Warmaster, the King Of [[Macragge]] had to write the Codex Ultra, a Chapter-specific guide to how the Ultramarines should be run whenever their Primarch was unavailable, although he has made several thousand addenda and changes to it since he first wrote it just a few centuries after the [[Horus Heresy]].

Guilliman brought overwhelming force against the T'au, which they barely countered with clever tactics and highly-advanced technology. When he then brought the full weight of [[Ultramar]] against them, they realized that no tactics were clever enough and no technology advanced enough to allow them to stand against the Imperium indefinitely. Thus, they became reluctant Imperial vassals. Guilliman is seeking ways to integrate T'au technology into the Imperium.  He knows that he must tread very carefully in this endeavor and does not expect it to achieve any significant success for centuries:  The Ethereals are resistant to accepting humans as their superiors.

===Vulkan===
[[Vulkan]] would go out to the masses and rouse their support for the Imperium. Bro of everyone. Prepare to be friended. Of course, if you piss him off...

In the last few milennia, the [[Salamanders]] and Vulkan have been on the absolute forefront of every reported [[Tyranid]] incursion along with specialists within the [[Ordo Xenos]], and have become supreme experts at combating the teeming hordes that descend from the heavens like a biblical plague. The Salamanders handle the open warfare, fending off the teeming invasion horde and torching capillary towers, while the [[Inquisitors]] scour the Imperial worlds, rooting out [[Genestealer]] cults. While the Tyranids have displayed a notable frustration, manifesting as comparatively short-sighted and short-lived invasions and sudden, violent psychic attacks, the 'Nids have not been stopped anywhere-near completely, and distant worlds not yet returned to the Imperium during the Great Crusade continue to be wholly consumed to feed the hive.