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{{Heresy}}
'''This is a fan AU/re-write of the [[Warhammer 40,000]] Universe, focusing on the events of an alternate [[Horus Heresy]].'''


'''This is a fan AU/re-write of the [[Warhammer 40,000]] Universe.'''
The Hektor Heresy began with a "make your own Primarch" thread, but gradually shifted tone from "tell us about your guys" to "re-write the 40k-verse".  Writing is mainly archived here at 1d4chan.  This main page serves as an index for the project.  Some "problem pages" have been generated in the process of developing the Hektor Heresy, but most of them are now under the jurisdiction of the Ordo Editant.


One fine evening on /tg/, a bunch of creatively-minded anons got together to come up with their very own Primarch and Astartes Legion. This proved very popular, and it wasn't long before [[/tg/ gets shit done|/tg/ decided]] to take everyone's fluff, put it together into their own self-contained alternate universe, and tell the age-old story of the [[Horus Heresy]].
The project is [https://1d4chan.org/index.php?namespace=&tagfilter=&target=The+%2Ftg%2F+Heresy&showlinkedto=1&title=Special%3ARecentChangesLinked on hiatus] as of early 2018.  If you'd like to get involved, contacting [[User:Lumey|Lumey]] on his Talk page is probably the best option.


Hence, The /tg/ Heresy.
=TL;DR=


The much neglected GoogleDoc for this can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TAl_Rh3q0UR3cqX6Pbn-4TnB87BS-GrFrax-ErtOL2E/edit
The storyline diverges shortly before the creation of the Primarchs.  Rather than the original 18/20, we have an all-new collective of [[Primarchs (Hektor Heresy)|Primarchs]], each with their own [[Legiones Astartes (Hektor Heresy)|Space Marine Legion]]. These guys wage their own [[Great Crusade (Hektor Heresy)|Great Crusade]], with [[Hektor Cincinnatus]] emerging as the Warmaster at the end of it all. Hektor throws the Empire into the flames and starts the Heresy.
Sup/tg/ links can be found within the Googledoc.


Okay guys, be excellent to one another and don’t fuck this up
Aside from the beakie stuff, there's changes to [[Mars (Hektor Heresy)|Mars]], a re-imagining of the [[Komra|Squat]], the blood-sucking [[Vetrovnak]], and a good lick of [[Imperial Army (Hektor Heresy)|Imperial Armymen]] besides.


=The Saga of the Hektor Heresy=
=Fitting it together=
{{Main|/tg/_Heresy_Timeline}}
 
==The Saga of the Hektor Heresy==
{{Main|/tg/ Heresy Timeline}}


Writing the timeline has proven to be one of the more difficult tasks, mainly because it requires a lot of [[rage|herding cats]] to get anons to agree on what happens when Legions interact.  (We also had a [[FAIL|bit of a problem]] when the guy who proposed Hektor ''slowly'' dropped out.)  It's getting there.
Writing the timeline has proven to be one of the more difficult tasks, mainly because it requires a lot of [[rage|herding cats]] to get anons to agree on what happens when Legions interact.  (We also had a [[FAIL|bit of a problem]] when the guy who proposed Hektor ''slowly'' dropped out.)  It's getting there.


IMPORTANT: The Great Crusade keeps to more or less the same timetable as the OU. This is because the Thirty Legions of the AU have the same Early Crusade manpower and material constraints the the Twenty in [[Games Workshop|GW's]] 'verse. (i.e. more lines of gene-seed doesn't mean more high-quality recruits and sophisticated weaponry)  In the middle Crusade, the Imperium makes slower progress, because the <s>[[squat]]</s> Core Worlds don't join peacefully, but in the last decades of the Crusade the extra gene-seed in the AU allows it to make up lost ground and get on track for Ullanor and everything after on schedule.
IMPORTANT: [[Great Crusade (Hektor Heresy)|The Great Crusade]] keeps to more or less the same timetable as the OU. In the middle Crusade, the Imperium makes slower progress, because the <s>[[squat]]</s> [[Core Worlds Campaign|Core Worlds]] don't join peacefully, but in the last decades of the Crusade the extra gene-seed in the AU allows it to make up lost ground and get on track for [[/tg/ Heresy Timeline#994.M30 to 000.M31: The Ullanor War|Ullanor]] and everything after on schedule.


=Atlas of the Hektor Heresy=
==Atlas of the Hektor Heresy==
Sorting out ''where'' various factions are based seems to be an on-going problem.  It would also help if important planets got their own [[Template:Infobox_40k_Planet|Infobox]] to beautify pages and give important details at a glance.
{{Main|Galaxy (Hektor Heresy)}}
For those who want to understand how things fit together in space as well as time.  If you're adding new dudes, please make sure to work out where they hang out.


==Segmentum Solar==
=The Imperials=
This is Earth and pals.


'''Legiones Astartes based in this Segmentum'''
[[File:Aquila by Hidet1001.jpg|200px|right]]
*[[The Crusaders]] (probably)
Right now we're looking at the forces of the Great Crusade: that means Space Marine Legions, Titan Legions and Imperial Army.  Making those gives quite a few clues about the Space Marine Chapters and the Imperial Guard, so some progress has been made there.  Rogue Traders start in the 30Ks, so they can come too.  The Inquisition starts at the end of the Heresy, but because it was set up by Malcador that event is "hands off" - you can assume that Inquisitors will exist and be as powerful and idiosyncratic as in the OU.  We also expect to see [[Rule 63|Sisters of Battle]] in due course, but we haven't got up to establishing their context (how the Imperial Cult becomes the Ecclesiarchy and what happens next) yet.
*[[Wolves of Dawn/Heralds of Hektor]]
*[[War Scribes]] (initially)


==Segmentum Obscurus==
This is the bit up North with the Eye of Terror


'''Legiones Astartes based in this Segmentum'''
==Space Marine Legions==
*[[Black Augurs]]
[[File:Mahrine by joazzz2-dax65ky.jpg|right|240px]]
*[[Children of Armok]]
{{Main|Legiones Astartes (Hektor Heresy)}}
*[[Horns of Ruin]] (not detailed)
*[[The Entombed]]


==Segmentum Pacificus==
The /tg/ Heresy project has created eighteen new Legions led by eighteen new [[Primarchs (Hektor Heresy)|Primarchs]] and assumes that two [[Blam|"went missing"]] due to their heretical actions early in the [[Great Crusade (Hektor Heresy)|The Great Crusade]].  Each of the Primarchs created in the project is intended to be an original creation (or at least an original mixture!), rather than a "what-if?" based on a character from the OU.
This is the bit out to the West.


'''Legiones Astartes based in this Segmentum'''
'''Successor Chapters'''
*[[Mastodontii]]
{{Main|Space Marine Chapters (Hektor Heresy)}}
*[[Silver Cataphracts]]
*[[Void Angels]]


'''Other Imperials in this Segmentum'''
We're still working to flesh out the SPEHSS MEHREEN side of the AU with more Successors.  You can help!
*[[The Markian Pact]]


'''Enemies of the Imperium in this Segmentum'''
''Want to add your own? Here's a [[/tg/ Heresy Successor Template|template for Successor Chapters]]''
*[[Harakien Eldar Empire‎]]


==Segmentum Tempestus==
==Imperial Army==
This is the southern bit, where the OU Ecclesiarchy hangs out.
{{Main|Imperial Army (Hektor Heresy)}}
A few things to remember about the Imperial Army:


'''Legiones Astartes based in this Segmentum'''
* Firstly, it's way crazier than the Imperial Guard.  The Great Crusade picked up whatever crazy dudes it found and sucked them off their homeworlds so that they could make trouble on the Imperium's behalf, rather than in newly-Pacified territories.  IA units could be armed with anything from cold steel to high-tech pseudo-power armour and genehancements.
*[[The Bulwark]] (not detailed)
*[[Iron Assembly]] (not detailed)
*[[Knights of Justice]] (not detailed)
*[[Scale Bearers]]
*[[Steel Marshals]]


==Ultima Segmentum==
* A lot of the established "Imperial Guard" equipment isn't used.  Not only is there no standardisation, but the mighty flashlight hasn't come into common use.  (The "default" option is the autogun, but don't feel bound by that!)
This is the freaking huge chunk in the East.


'''Legiones Astartes based in this Segmentum'''
*The only real "rule" for the Imperial Army is that regiments ought to be about three thousand men, because this is the standard transport capacity during the Great Crusade.
*[[Eyes of the Emperor]]
*[[Gorgers]] (not detailed)
*[[Life Bringers]] (not detailed)
*[[Sand Keepers]] (not detailed)
*[[Sons of Fire]] (not detailed)
*[[Stone Men]]


'''Other Imperials based in this Segmentum'''
* Have [[Fun]]!
*Chelob Hammerers


'''Enemies of the Imperium based in this Segementum'''
{{/tg/-Heresy-IA}}
*Core Worlds Confederation


=The Space Marine Legions=
==The Mechanicum==


{{Main|Legiones Astartes (Hektor Heresy)}}
The tech priests of the AU have a different, but still tragic, trajectory.  The fanatical Fabricator-General [[Kalkas Tygian]] devotes himself utterly to the Emperor and Orthodoxy, but gripping the Mechanicum so tightly causes many to slip through his fingers!  Of course, [[Mars (Hektor Heresy)|Mars]] still has giant stompy walkers:


The /tg/ Heresy project has created twenty-six new Legions and assumes that four [[Blam|"went missing"]] due to their heretical actions early in the Great Crusade.  Each of the Primarchs created in the project is intended to be an original creation (or at least an original mixture!), rather than a "what-if?" based on a character from the OU.


{{Template:/tg/-Heresy-Legions}}
'''Titan Legions'''


=Notable Successor Chapters and Warbands=
[[File:Giantwalker by joazzz2-d797a03.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Imperator Titan]]


We're still working to flesh out the SPESS MAHREEN side of the AU with more Successors.  At the moment, most of those mentioned only get a few lines, but here are the better developed ones:  
The Titan Legions were second only to the Space Marines in the [[Great Crusade (Hektor Heresy)|Great Crusade]], and that largely because these immense war engines lacked the Astartes' mobility.  The greatest Legions were the three pillars of the so-called ''Triad Ferrum Morgulus'', based on [[Mars (Hektor Heresy)|Mars]]:


[[Void_Angels#Angels_Imperious|Angels Imperious]] Loyalist Successors of the Void Angels and wardens of [[the Markian Pact]].
*'''Legio Ignatum''', the Fire Wasps, who fought for Kalkas Tygian in the war on Mars and lost many of their god-machines to the corrupting touch of Vilyon Luthier.


[[Sand_Keepers#Brazen_Wings|Brazen Wings]] Loyalist Successors of the Sand Keepers.  They attempt to make up for their lack of psykers with careful planning.
*'''Legio Mortis''', the Death's Heads, battle-brothers to the Entombed and firm Loyalists.


[[War_Scribes#Brothers_Itinerant| Brothers Itinerant]], Renegade Successors of the War Scribes, responsible for many acts of piracy.
*'''Legio Tempestus''', the Storm Lords, who throw in with the Traitors.


[[War_Scribes#Knights_Draconian| Knights Draconian]], Loyalist Successors of the War Scribes, embittered by their parent Legion's tragic past.
But there were many Titan Legions native to other Forge Worlds:


[[The_Crusaders#Nova_Defenders|Nova Defenders]], Loyalist Successors of The Crusaders, guardians of an ancient relic.
*'''[[Legio Antsar]]''', "The Conquerors" are based on the Forge World [[Al-Sherar]].  They played a major role in the Great Crusade across the Segmentum Pacificus.


[[Void_Angels#The_Mercurials|The Mercurials]], Loyalist Successors of the Void Angels, experts in lightning war
*'''[[Legio Canem]]''', "The Pit Hounds" hail from [[Cairéal]], near to the [[Thunder Kings]]' homeworld of [[Alessia]].  Their destiny was long entwined with that of the sons of Brennus.


[[The_Crusaders#Thousand_Swords|Thousand Swords]], Loyalist Successors of The Crusaders, never stopped Crusading.
*'''[[Legio Cataegis]]''' "The Hurricane Legion" are native to the Forge World [[Ghalhal]].  Made up mostly of smaller Titans, Legio Cataegis was surprisingly nimble in the field.


[[The_Bulwark#The_Ramparts|The Ramparts]], Renegade Successors of The Bulwark, salvagers of a former empire.
*'''[[Legio Cauteris]]''' "The Iron" were once the noble defenders of the Forge World [[Massalia]].  They were corrupted by [[Aubrey The Grey]] in the early days of the Heresy and committed a great many atrocities against the defenders of the Imperium.


[[Knights_of_Justice#Crusading_Exiled|The Crusading Exiled]], Loyalist Successors of the Knights of Justice, a coalition of Chapters battered with misfortune.
*'''[[Legio Igneus]]''' Also known as the "Iron Mountain" legion are native to the Forge World of [[Olympia]]. Though they officially only have 8 Titans under their control, only they know of secret underground manufactorums from which they break free of the oppression of the Adeptus Mechanicus and let their minds wander free as they create new and more destructive variants to the Avatars of the Machine God.


''Want to add your own? Here's a [[/tg/ Heresy Successor Template|template for Successor Chapters]]''
* '''[[Legio Nova]]''' "The Doomed Stars" are the legion and rulers of the forge world [[Ferrax]]. Their two chief principes reign as kings over a planet devoted to serving the titan-lords in a repressive hierarchy. Since Al-Sherar first began building its realm, Legio Nova has held a grudge against the hegemony established; an animosity unleashed in the Hektor Heresy.


=Other Notable Imperial formations=
*'''[[Legio Picus]]''' "The Woodpeckers" hail from [[Werkerde]] in the Ultima Segmentum.
Right now we're looking at Imperial Army, mostly, because it's not clear how the Imperial Cult will differ from the OU.  Of course, we do expect to see [[Rule 63|Sisters of Battle]] in due course, just that we haven't got to establishing their context yet.


==Imperial Army==
*'''[[Legio Unceliga]]''' "The Giants of the Deep" come from the mighty ship-building Forgeworld of [[Chakaris]] in the Elume Elish region close to Terra.
{{Main|Imperial Army (Hektor Heresy)}}
A few things to remember about the Imperial Army:


* Firstly, it's way crazier than the Imperial Guard.  The Great Crusade picked up whatever crazy dudes it found and sucked them off their homeworlds so that they could make trouble on the Imperium's behalf, rather than in newly-Pacified territories.  IA units could be armed with anything from cold steel to high-tech pseudo-power armour and genehancements.
*'''[[Legio Maleficarum]]''' "The Hammer of the Witches" are the dreaded psi-titans of the lost world Tyche, who bring to bear the powers of the Warp against Chaos.


* A lot of the established "Imperial Guard" equipment isn't used.  Not only is there no standardisation, but the mighty flashlight hasn't come into common use.  (The "default" option is the autogun, but don't feel bound by that!)


* Have [[Fun]]!
'''Knight Houses'''
{{Main|Knight Houses (Hektor Heresy)}}


==Knight Houses==
Knights are feudal mecha warriors.  What else do you want?  Get in there!


===House Accolon===
==Imperial Agents==
[[File:1456552561580.jpg|220px|thumb|right|Inquisitor Vera Vinter.  She masterminded Imperial counter-measures during the [[Second Vetrovnak Incursion]].]]
'''Rogue Traders'''


''‘As he stood upon the battlefield, axe-blade raised high,''
{{Main|Rogue Traders (Hektor Heresy)}}


''Behind the aegis of his shield roared defiance to the sky.''
Rogue Traders were quite an important part of the Great Crusade, charging out ahead of the Expedition Fleets and <s>fleecing the locals</s> preparing the way for Compliance actions. If you fancy writing some cool rebel who plays by their own rules and mucks around with xeno tech, Komra mercenaries and all the rest of that stuff the Imperium won't let you have, Rogue Trading is the game for you!


''Tell thy brothers, near and far, of the blood and fire of war,''
'''Inquisitors'''
Not quite in the story as yet, but don't let that hold you back.  You can take it that the OU Malcador origin applies, but things diverge as the timeline moves onwards.


''That on this day did Byrhtnoth’s fate, by the shield bore.’''
* [[Ankorial Telesius]] of the Ordo Xenos, particularly notable for his actions against WAAAGH! The Beast.


(Laid of Dux Byrhtnoth ‘The Shieldbearer’, Knight of Accolon.)
=Chaos=
{{Main|Hektor Heresy Chaos Forces}}
[[File:Chaos symbol by xlegendariumx-d5sfxc5.jpg|200px|right]]
There's plenty of scope for weird and whacky traitors: traitor Army, Dark Mechanicus, traitor Knights, traitor Titan Legions, etc.


The Knights of House Accolon have a long and hallowed history among the ranks of the Knight Households of the Imperium. They fought in the Siege of the Throneworld, and their King and Liege Lord entered the halls of Legend for her part in the Siege, being granted the eternal title 'The Sabre of Terra', by the hand of the Emperor's Praetorian and becoming a saint in the Imperial Cult. Loyalty is everything to the Lords of Accolon: loyalty to each other, to their liege lords, to their house, to their ancestors, to the memory of their King and the Throne of Terra she died to defend. That loyalty has endured everything a cruel galaxy can throw at it, and it merely grows stronger the more adversity threatens.
{{/tg/-Chaos Forces}}


====The Cold Heaths of Cattegirn====
=Other Human Factions=
 
Cattegirn is an old world, trapped in a time well before man left Terra. The planet is far from its blue star, and much of it is bound up in great ice caps. The habitable lands between the northern ice cap and the equatorial sea are covered in great windswept moors and mighty forests. Life is hard and short, which suits the lords of Accolon. They refused any improvements to the lives they life from the Mechanicum, for the ways of the past preserved them through old night and were the ways their King once fought to defend, and make them a formidable foe to face.
 
The vast areas of uninhabited forests, heaths and fells are home to many creatures, from the great Wyrms that prey on the shaggy Elkens the people of Cattegirn farm, to the mighty Corvens of the icy seas, all of which provide many foes for the Knights to kill.
 
The people of Cattegirn are known as the Seaxe, named after the long daggers they use. Their culture is harsh, based on the blood feud and punishment by ordeal. Some feuds have lasted centuries, being passed down generation by generation. The plunder from this is the glue of loyalty, and loyalty means everything to the Seaxe.
 
Many separate petty kingdoms exist on Cattegirn, jostling for land and wealth. The once-true Kingdom of all Cattegirn fell apart after the Heresy when the King died, and the surviving Dux of Accolon left things the way they were. This endless conflict keeps the nobles of Accolon sharp and skilled for when they must leave Cattegirn to ride beyond the stars. All of these wars and conflicts are fight in the ancient matter of pre-industrial Terra, with sword, axe and round shield.
 
The community of Cattegirn is a rural one, where primarily all classes of society live on the land. At the top of the social system are the royal houses of each of the Kingdoms. Very few of the Kings are also Knights, though many of their sons are, and they are mindful of the call from the Great Hall of Accolon. Below the kings are the eoldermen, the ruling nobility who provide most of the Knights. All Knights are sworn to their House before any King or Lord, and when the muster to war comes, all other pursuits are abandoned. It is known for entire wars to suddenly cease as nobles from across the kingdoms leave Cattegirn to ride in the stars.
 
====Livery Of House Accolon====


The overcast, rain-sodden skies of Cattegirn only rarely clear to reveal the bright blue colour that the Knights have taken as their own. This blue is trimmed with gold, the colour of the rare sunlight that reaches the surface and white, the colour of the breeze-pushed clouds.
==Komra==


Each individual Knight of Accolon will add personal marking to his Knight, including campaign markings, army badges, Space Marine Chapter symbols and other such emblems as a sign of the many battles that Knight has fought and the loyalty shown to the allies that a Knight has fought alongside. The more markings a Knight has, the greater their standing is and the more they are respected.
{{Main|Komra}}


The Dux Bellorum of the Household, in addition to his own heraldry bears the markings of the hallowed once and future king of Cattegirn, Arturia Eld, to show that he is the chosen castellan who will guide the Household in her absence until her return at the end times.
Known to the scribes of the Administratum as ''Homo Sapiens Robustus'', the Komra are a distant branch of the human race that settled in the Galactic Core more than twenty thousand years before the Great Crusade. The hostile environments of their homeworlds have given them stocky frames and thick bones, while their departure from Terra before the development of the Standard Template Construct saw their technology move in a different direction that of the Imperium of Mankind.
 
===House Kazak===
[[File:Kazak_Paladin.jpg|250px|]]
 
==Titan Legions==
 
=Other Notable Chaos Formations=
There's plenty of scope for weird and whacky traitors: traitor Army, Dark Mechanicus, traitor Knights, traitor Titan Legions, etc.
 
==Knight House Castus==
{{Main|House Castus}}
House Castus is a band of renegades, formerly Imperial Knights, that worship Khorne.  They are based in the Eye of Terror under the command of Chaos Lord Teutates.
 
=Other Human Factions=


==Vetrovnak Human Protectorate==
==Vetrovnak Human Protectorate==
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{{Main|Vetrovnak}}
{{Main|Vetrovnak}}


The Adeptus Astartes are not the only engineered super soldier in the galaxy, just the most prolific and successful. Hailing from the Hvar cluster that sits roughly 7,000 lightyears above the galactic plane hovering over a point where the Ultima Segmentum melts into the Eastern Fringe, the vetrovnak another such breed of super soldiers designed to resist the ruinous touch of the warp. Created in M27 the vetrovnak were born from the wedding of genetic engineering to enhance humans to withstand the rigors of future intergalactic travel and xeno-nanotechnology. Faster, stronger, and far more enduring than regular humanity the vetrovnak also have been programmed at the genetic level to protect humanity and abhor the touch of the warp.
The [[Legiones Astartes (Hektor Heresy)|Adeptus Astartes]] are not the only engineered super soldier in the galaxy, just the most prolific and successful. Hailing from the Hvar cluster that sits roughly 7,000 lightyears above the galactic plane hovering over a point where the [[Atlas of the Hektor Heresy#Ultima Segmentum|Ultima Segmentum]] melts into the Eastern Fringe, the vetrovnak are another such breed of super soldiers designed to resist the ruinous touch of the warp. Created in M27 the vetrovnak were born from the wedding of genetic engineering to enhance humans to withstand the rigors of future intergalactic travel and xeno-nanotechnology. Faster, stronger, and far more enduring than regular humanity the vetrovnak also have been programmed at the genetic level to protect humanity and abhor the touch of the warp.


They were not made as vampires; that was the result of a brief civil war in the Hvar cluster when the vetrovnak sought to slip the tight noose of their creators. Most died at the hands of a nanomechanical virus their masters released upon them but those survived it found themselves thirsting for blood. The society of the Hvar cluster changed forever after that as the vetrovnak became the masters. Forged from the paradox caused by the genetic imperative to protect humanity and their diet they had to invent a society that would keep their “wards” content and docile enough to see offering up the very essence of their souls to their stewards as an easy price to pay. Their distant paradise is not without trouble, as the vetrovnak are born rather than made as the astartes are their ever growing and undying population will inevitably outpace the growth of their pampered human cattle. Thus in M31 they returned the to the galaxy at large, looking for new blood - human or xeno.
They were not made as vampires; that was the result of a brief civil war in the Hvar cluster when the vetrovnak sought to slip the tight noose of their creators. Most died at the hands of a nanomechanical virus their masters released upon them but those survived it found themselves thirsting for blood. The society of the Hvar cluster changed forever after that as the vetrovnak became the masters. Forged from the paradox caused by the genetic imperative to protect humanity and their diet they had to invent a society that would keep their “wards” content and docile enough to see offering up the very essence of their souls to their stewards as an easy price to pay. Their distant paradise is not without trouble as more vetrovnak are born, rather than made as the astartes are, their ever growing and undying population will inevitably outpace the growth of their pampered human cattle. Thus in M31 they returned the to the galaxy at large, looking for new blood - human or xeno.


=Xenos=
=Xenos=
{{Main|Xenos of the Hektor Heresy}}


Due to the small amount of Xeno content in the project to date, we're housing contributions on the main page at the moment.
We got all kinds of crazy Xenos and room for plenty more.  Whether you want to fluff up a Craftworld, a WAAAGH!, or a homebrew, grab your keyboard and get writing!


==WAAAGH! Sarkus==
{{Template:/tg/-Heresy-Xenos}}


The Ork Warboss known as Sarkus had small beginnings, starting out as a Feral Ork sometime in M27. By about 436.M29, however, he had become the effective ruler of the small Age of Strife civilization that inhabited his planet, the primitive local humans cowering in fear before the Orks and their newest technological acquisitions. It is possible that at least some of this knowledge was "looted" from an earlier, unsuccessful human attempt to reunite the scattered civilizations of the galaxy, and it is clear that whatever the case, the area now known as Segmentum Tempestus was due for a reckoning. Some time after Sarkus first campaigned off-world, an as-yet unidentified Eldar Craftworld passed through the area, only to come into conflict with the swelling power of Sarkus' WAAAGH. Sarkus had laid utter waste to fifty worlds and conquered some two hundred and fourty more, including two human and some five minor Xenos civilizations. Some thirty of these worlds had been set aside for the express purpose of producing untold numbers of Squiggoths, and pieces of "looted" war materiel included a number of sonic and pressure-based weapons, likely made by the minor xenos trampled beneath the Orkish heel. The Eldar, however, knew one thing Sarkus did not - that the Emperor's Great Crusade would arrive in but a few centuries. The path was long, and the method of guidance tiring, but the results were clear - on the dead world of Meteon, a WAAAGH that utterly dwarfed the Scale Bearers Legion had just finished picking through a number of ancient Xenos ruins when they noted Imperial craft in the skies above. Tiran Osoros had arrived, and the stage was set for a rivalry the likes of which neither had known before.
''Want to add your own? Here's a [[Hektor Heresy Xenos|template for Xenos species]]''
 
=31k-40k Dump=
{{Main|/tg/ Heresy 31k-40k Dump|page}}
Our current primary concern is the Heresy, but naturally some consequences of The /tg/ Heresy on the 40k universe need to be discussed.


=Writefaggotry=
=Writefaggotry=
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This project has attracted a reasonable amount of attention from write-fags.  We welcome further contributions.  Especially from edit-fags.  (Not so much from vandals.)
This project has attracted a reasonable amount of attention from write-fags.  We welcome further contributions.  Especially from edit-fags.  (Not so much from vandals.)


=Art Gallery=
=Portrait Gallery=
We encourage drawfags (or otherfags who wheedle artwork from them) to contribute portraits of major characters.
We encourage drawfags (or otherfags who wheedle artwork from them) to contribute portraits of major characters.
[[File:Emperor of mankind by esoluna-d307owr.jpg|thumb|right|400px|The Emperor of Mankind]]
'''The Primarchs'''
<gallery>
File:Hektor the Warmaster.jpg|[[Hektor Cincinnatus]]
File:Arelex_orannis.jpg|[[Arelex Orannis]]
File:Inferox_the_Burned_King.jpg|[[Inferox]] "The Burned King"
File:Lumey.jpg|[[Gaspard Lumey]]
File:Golgothos.jpg|[[Golgothos]] the Fervent
File:Tollund_Ötztal.jpg|[[Tollund Ötztal]]
File:Cromwald.jpg|[[Cromwald Walgrun]]
File:Roman.jpg|[[Roman Albrecht]]
File:Brennus.jpg|[[Brennus]], the High King
File:Johannes Vrach.jpg|[[Johannes Vrach]]
File:Uriel_starikov.jpg|[[Uriel Salazar]]
File:Voidwatcher2.jpg|[[The Voidwatcher]]
File:AlexandriOfTheSilverCataphracts.jpg|[[Alexandri of Rosskar]]
File:AubreyTheGrey.jpg|[[Aubrey The Grey]]
File:Tiran Osoros.jpg|[[Tiran Osoros]]
File:OnyxPrimarch.jpg|[[Onyx the Indestructible]]
File:Darius Cyaxares.jpg|[[Shakya Vardhana]]
File:Rogerius.jpg|[[Rogerius Merrill]]
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'''Warriors of the Adeptus Astartes'''


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File:AlexandriOfTheSilverCataphracts.jpg|Alexandri of Rosskar
File:Balotin_A.jpg|Arkady Balotin
File:AubreyTheGrey.jpg|Aubrey the Grey
File:Antoineantonelle.jpg|Antoine Antonelle, Equerry of the Void Angels
File:Arelex_orannis.jpg|Arelex Orannis
File:Fabricediallo.jpg|Fabrice Diallo, Chapter Master of the Angels Imperious
File:Fabricediallo.jpg|Fabrice Diallo, Chapter Master of the Angels Imperious
File:Golgothos.jpg|Golgothos the Fervent
File:Kleisthenes.jpg|Kleisthenes, the Scion of Europa
File:Hektor the Warmaster.jpg|Hektor Cincinnatus, the Warmaster
File:Kranios the Destroyer.jpg|Kranios
File:Inferox_the_Burned_King.jpg|Inferox the Burned King
File:Nathanog.jpg|Nathanog
File:Johannes Vrach.jpg|Johannes Vrach
File:octullus.jpg|Phirun Soun, Chief Librarian of the Eyes of the Emperor
File:Kleisthenes.jpg|Kleisthenes the Champion
File:Rook_North_of_the_Nova_Defenders.jpg|Rook North
File:Nathanog.jpg|Nathanog the Hunter
File:Sebastion.jpg|Sebastion Rex, Chapter Master in the Heralds of Hektor
File:OnyxPrimarch.jpg|Onyx the Indestructible
File:Gaudin.jpg|Thomas Gaudin
File:Rook_North_of_the_Nova_Defenders.jpg|Rook North, Chapter Master of the Nova Defenders
File:Ulidreier.jpg|Uli Dreier
File:Tiran Osoros.jpg|Tiran Osoros, the Rider
File:Ure.jpg|Urehikau Kauaeroa
File:Tollund_Ötztal.jpg|Tollund Ötztal
File:Uriel_starikov.jpg|Uriel Starikov
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[[Category:The /tg/ Heresy]]
 
==Links==
* [https://hektor-heresy.forumotion.co.uk/ A forum dedicated to the /tg/ heresy, very dead]
 
[[Category:Homebrew Settings]]
[[Category:Warhammer 40,000]]

Latest revision as of 14:02, 23 June 2023

This is a fan AU/re-write of the Warhammer 40,000 Universe, focusing on the events of an alternate Horus Heresy.

The Hektor Heresy began with a "make your own Primarch" thread, but gradually shifted tone from "tell us about your guys" to "re-write the 40k-verse". Writing is mainly archived here at 1d4chan. This main page serves as an index for the project. Some "problem pages" have been generated in the process of developing the Hektor Heresy, but most of them are now under the jurisdiction of the Ordo Editant.

The project is on hiatus as of early 2018. If you'd like to get involved, contacting Lumey on his Talk page is probably the best option.

TL;DR[edit | edit source]

The storyline diverges shortly before the creation of the Primarchs. Rather than the original 18/20, we have an all-new collective of Primarchs, each with their own Space Marine Legion. These guys wage their own Great Crusade, with Hektor Cincinnatus emerging as the Warmaster at the end of it all. Hektor throws the Empire into the flames and starts the Heresy.

Aside from the beakie stuff, there's changes to Mars, a re-imagining of the Squat, the blood-sucking Vetrovnak, and a good lick of Imperial Armymen besides.

Fitting it together[edit | edit source]

The Saga of the Hektor Heresy[edit | edit source]

Main article: /tg/ Heresy Timeline

Writing the timeline has proven to be one of the more difficult tasks, mainly because it requires a lot of herding cats to get anons to agree on what happens when Legions interact. (We also had a bit of a problem when the guy who proposed Hektor slowly dropped out.) It's getting there.

IMPORTANT: The Great Crusade keeps to more or less the same timetable as the OU. In the middle Crusade, the Imperium makes slower progress, because the squat Core Worlds don't join peacefully, but in the last decades of the Crusade the extra gene-seed in the AU allows it to make up lost ground and get on track for Ullanor and everything after on schedule.

Atlas of the Hektor Heresy[edit | edit source]

Main article: Galaxy (Hektor Heresy)

For those who want to understand how things fit together in space as well as time. If you're adding new dudes, please make sure to work out where they hang out.

The Imperials[edit | edit source]

Right now we're looking at the forces of the Great Crusade: that means Space Marine Legions, Titan Legions and Imperial Army. Making those gives quite a few clues about the Space Marine Chapters and the Imperial Guard, so some progress has been made there. Rogue Traders start in the 30Ks, so they can come too. The Inquisition starts at the end of the Heresy, but because it was set up by Malcador that event is "hands off" - you can assume that Inquisitors will exist and be as powerful and idiosyncratic as in the OU. We also expect to see Sisters of Battle in due course, but we haven't got up to establishing their context (how the Imperial Cult becomes the Ecclesiarchy and what happens next) yet.


Space Marine Legions[edit | edit source]

Main article: Legiones Astartes (Hektor Heresy)

The /tg/ Heresy project has created eighteen new Legions led by eighteen new Primarchs and assumes that two "went missing" due to their heretical actions early in the The Great Crusade. Each of the Primarchs created in the project is intended to be an original creation (or at least an original mixture!), rather than a "what-if?" based on a character from the OU.

Successor Chapters

Main article: Space Marine Chapters (Hektor Heresy)

We're still working to flesh out the SPEHSS MEHREEN side of the AU with more Successors. You can help!

Want to add your own? Here's a template for Successor Chapters

Imperial Army[edit | edit source]

Main article: Imperial Army (Hektor Heresy)

A few things to remember about the Imperial Army:

  • Firstly, it's way crazier than the Imperial Guard. The Great Crusade picked up whatever crazy dudes it found and sucked them off their homeworlds so that they could make trouble on the Imperium's behalf, rather than in newly-Pacified territories. IA units could be armed with anything from cold steel to high-tech pseudo-power armour and genehancements.
  • A lot of the established "Imperial Guard" equipment isn't used. Not only is there no standardisation, but the mighty flashlight hasn't come into common use. (The "default" option is the autogun, but don't feel bound by that!)
  • The only real "rule" for the Imperial Army is that regiments ought to be about three thousand men, because this is the standard transport capacity during the Great Crusade.
Imperial Army Formations of the /tg/ Heresy
Ardito Highwatch - Auron Infantries - Carlisian Shock Troops - Chelob Hammerers
Ciban Chasseurs - Dolsene Rifles - Elsinor Favored Sons - Exirans - Fischetti Numeri
Gethsemane Regiments - Glasgan Fatalis - Haeltoth Starguard - Kondrus Aeroguard
Markian Corps - Motroit Enforcers - Narakan "Scumdogs" - Rosskan Strelky
Skoptsi Redeemers - Vaartes Fated

The Mechanicum[edit | edit source]

The tech priests of the AU have a different, but still tragic, trajectory. The fanatical Fabricator-General Kalkas Tygian devotes himself utterly to the Emperor and Orthodoxy, but gripping the Mechanicum so tightly causes many to slip through his fingers! Of course, Mars still has giant stompy walkers:


Titan Legions

Imperator Titan

The Titan Legions were second only to the Space Marines in the Great Crusade, and that largely because these immense war engines lacked the Astartes' mobility. The greatest Legions were the three pillars of the so-called Triad Ferrum Morgulus, based on Mars:

  • Legio Ignatum, the Fire Wasps, who fought for Kalkas Tygian in the war on Mars and lost many of their god-machines to the corrupting touch of Vilyon Luthier.
  • Legio Mortis, the Death's Heads, battle-brothers to the Entombed and firm Loyalists.
  • Legio Tempestus, the Storm Lords, who throw in with the Traitors.

But there were many Titan Legions native to other Forge Worlds:

  • Legio Antsar, "The Conquerors" are based on the Forge World Al-Sherar. They played a major role in the Great Crusade across the Segmentum Pacificus.
  • Legio Cataegis "The Hurricane Legion" are native to the Forge World Ghalhal. Made up mostly of smaller Titans, Legio Cataegis was surprisingly nimble in the field.
  • Legio Cauteris "The Iron" were once the noble defenders of the Forge World Massalia. They were corrupted by Aubrey The Grey in the early days of the Heresy and committed a great many atrocities against the defenders of the Imperium.
  • Legio Igneus Also known as the "Iron Mountain" legion are native to the Forge World of Olympia. Though they officially only have 8 Titans under their control, only they know of secret underground manufactorums from which they break free of the oppression of the Adeptus Mechanicus and let their minds wander free as they create new and more destructive variants to the Avatars of the Machine God.
  • Legio Nova "The Doomed Stars" are the legion and rulers of the forge world Ferrax. Their two chief principes reign as kings over a planet devoted to serving the titan-lords in a repressive hierarchy. Since Al-Sherar first began building its realm, Legio Nova has held a grudge against the hegemony established; an animosity unleashed in the Hektor Heresy.
  • Legio Unceliga "The Giants of the Deep" come from the mighty ship-building Forgeworld of Chakaris in the Elume Elish region close to Terra.
  • Legio Maleficarum "The Hammer of the Witches" are the dreaded psi-titans of the lost world Tyche, who bring to bear the powers of the Warp against Chaos.


Knight Houses

Main article: Knight Houses (Hektor Heresy)

Knights are feudal mecha warriors. What else do you want? Get in there!

Imperial Agents[edit | edit source]

Inquisitor Vera Vinter. She masterminded Imperial counter-measures during the Second Vetrovnak Incursion.

Rogue Traders

Main article: Rogue Traders (Hektor Heresy)

Rogue Traders were quite an important part of the Great Crusade, charging out ahead of the Expedition Fleets and fleecing the locals preparing the way for Compliance actions. If you fancy writing some cool rebel who plays by their own rules and mucks around with xeno tech, Komra mercenaries and all the rest of that stuff the Imperium won't let you have, Rogue Trading is the game for you!

Inquisitors Not quite in the story as yet, but don't let that hold you back. You can take it that the OU Malcador origin applies, but things diverge as the timeline moves onwards.

  • Ankorial Telesius of the Ordo Xenos, particularly notable for his actions against WAAAGH! The Beast.

Chaos[edit | edit source]

Main article: Hektor Heresy Chaos Forces

There's plenty of scope for weird and whacky traitors: traitor Army, Dark Mechanicus, traitor Knights, traitor Titan Legions, etc.

Notable Chaos Formations of the /tg/ Heresy
Traitor Guard Sveran Ravagers - Deiumaran Dragoons - Velschierre Troopers
Traitor Titan Legions Legio Olitiau 'Fell Bats' - Legio Yache
Traitor Knight Houses House Castus - House Drăcul

Other Human Factions[edit | edit source]

Komra[edit | edit source]

Main article: Komra

Known to the scribes of the Administratum as Homo Sapiens Robustus, the Komra are a distant branch of the human race that settled in the Galactic Core more than twenty thousand years before the Great Crusade. The hostile environments of their homeworlds have given them stocky frames and thick bones, while their departure from Terra before the development of the Standard Template Construct saw their technology move in a different direction that of the Imperium of Mankind.

Vetrovnak Human Protectorate[edit | edit source]

Main article: Vetrovnak

The Adeptus Astartes are not the only engineered super soldier in the galaxy, just the most prolific and successful. Hailing from the Hvar cluster that sits roughly 7,000 lightyears above the galactic plane hovering over a point where the Ultima Segmentum melts into the Eastern Fringe, the vetrovnak are another such breed of super soldiers designed to resist the ruinous touch of the warp. Created in M27 the vetrovnak were born from the wedding of genetic engineering to enhance humans to withstand the rigors of future intergalactic travel and xeno-nanotechnology. Faster, stronger, and far more enduring than regular humanity the vetrovnak also have been programmed at the genetic level to protect humanity and abhor the touch of the warp.

They were not made as vampires; that was the result of a brief civil war in the Hvar cluster when the vetrovnak sought to slip the tight noose of their creators. Most died at the hands of a nanomechanical virus their masters released upon them but those survived it found themselves thirsting for blood. The society of the Hvar cluster changed forever after that as the vetrovnak became the masters. Forged from the paradox caused by the genetic imperative to protect humanity and their diet they had to invent a society that would keep their “wards” content and docile enough to see offering up the very essence of their souls to their stewards as an easy price to pay. Their distant paradise is not without trouble as more vetrovnak are born, rather than made as the astartes are, their ever growing and undying population will inevitably outpace the growth of their pampered human cattle. Thus in M31 they returned the to the galaxy at large, looking for new blood - human or xeno.

Xenos[edit | edit source]

Main article: Xenos of the Hektor Heresy

We got all kinds of crazy Xenos and room for plenty more. Whether you want to fluff up a Craftworld, a WAAAGH!, or a homebrew, grab your keyboard and get writing!

Xenos of the /tg/ Heresy
Orks Da Merc - Kaptain Blackjawzz - Khork
WAAAGH! Mongo Mork - WAAAGH! Sarkus
Eldar Craftworld Eldar - Harakien Empire
Webway Lords & Dark Eldar
Compact of Free
Galactic Interchange		 Ellonoi - Metabasil - Slaugth - Tau - Vespid
Other Dangerous Aliens Anatik - Cyfecti - Morkai - Strixoros - Yaotl

Want to add your own? Here's a template for Xenos species

31k-40k Dump[edit | edit source]

Main article: /tg/ Heresy 31k-40k Dump

Our current primary concern is the Heresy, but naturally some consequences of The /tg/ Heresy on the 40k universe need to be discussed.

Writefaggotry[edit | edit source]

Main article: /tg/ Heresy Writefaggotry

This project has attracted a reasonable amount of attention from write-fags. We welcome further contributions. Especially from edit-fags. (Not so much from vandals.)

Portrait Gallery[edit | edit source]

We encourage drawfags (or otherfags who wheedle artwork from them) to contribute portraits of major characters.

The Emperor of Mankind

The Primarchs

Warriors of the Adeptus Astartes

  • Arkady Balotin
    Arkady Balotin
  • Antoine Antonelle, Equerry of the Void Angels
    Antoine Antonelle, Equerry of the Void Angels
  • Fabrice Diallo, Chapter Master of the Angels Imperious
    Fabrice Diallo, Chapter Master of the Angels Imperious
  • Kleisthenes, the Scion of Europa
    Kleisthenes, the Scion of Europa
  • Kranios
    Kranios
  • Nathanog
    Nathanog
  • Phirun Soun, Chief Librarian of the Eyes of the Emperor
    Phirun Soun, Chief Librarian of the Eyes of the Emperor
  • Rook North
    Rook North
  • Sebastion Rex, Chapter Master in the Heralds of Hektor
    Sebastion Rex, Chapter Master in the Heralds of Hektor
  • Thomas Gaudin
    Thomas Gaudin
  • Uli Dreier
    Uli Dreier
  • Urehikau Kauaeroa
    Urehikau Kauaeroa

Links[edit | edit source]

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