Pallas Eugenesis
| Pallas Eugenesis | |
|---|---|
| |
| Title/Honours |
Mother of Heresy, Eclipse Queen of Luna, Self-proclaimed Gene-Empress of Mankind |
| Discovered (world) |
Luna |
| Discovered (period) |
late 8th Century, Thirtieth Millenium |
| Legion | |
| Great Crusade Command |
Advisor to Hektor Cincinnatus |
| Heraldry/Sigil |
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| Distinguishing Traits |
Brilliant gene-wright |
| Flaws |
Vain, superficial |
| Horus Heresy role |
Pledges her aid to Hektor |
| Disposition |
Abandons the Siege of Terra and flees to the Eye of Terror |
This page details people, events, and organisations from the /tg/ Heresy, a fan re-working of the Warhammer 40,000 Universe. See the /tg/ Heresy Timeline and Galaxy pages for more information on the Alternate Universe.
You are the moon to my sun. Our union was foreshadowed by all of man's struggles to date; the long rise from a bestial state, the crafting of the first tools, the founding of what previously passed for golden ages. Now that we are finally together, humanity's true day can begin - and we shall be the heralds of its dawn!
- excerpt from Hektor Cincinnatus' wedding vows
Pallas is poison.
- Gaspard Lumey, private correspondence
Pallas Eugenesis was a genetically-engineered super-being who swore loyalty to the Imperium toward the end of the Unification Wars.
Early Life
To many of Luna's gene-wrights, Pallas Eugenesis was the pinnacle of their art. She embodied centuries of experimentation. As she matured, many of the gene-cultists pledged their lives to Pallas Eugenesis, seeing her as a living goddess. However, fractious Luna could not be united peacefully, and the Eclipse Queen (as she would be styled) would spend decades leading her armies against rival cults.
The stalemate broke with the emergence of the Emperor of Mankind as the unifier of Terra. Luna's warring factions did not mistake the implications: once the Emperor had finished on earth, he meant to claim the rest of the Solar System one way or another. In response, the Lunans set aside their differences and allied against the off-worlder. Initially, however, the Emperor sent only envoys, seeking to make a pact with Luna in the name of uniting the human race. Like the other gene-lords, Pallas Eugenesis rejected subordination to the Terran upstart. However, she was intrigued by an off-hand mention of the Emperor's genetically-created son and general, Hektor Cincinnatus.
Dispatching one of her agents to Terra was not easy, but Pallas was accustomed to having her will served. The crafty shape-shifting assassin Delphana delivered a message signalling the Eclipse Queen's willingness to negotiate with Hektor Cincinnatus personally. The Primarch left Pallas waiting for a short time, but it cannot be said that he disappointed her. On first sight of Hektor, Pallas was awed by the gene-craft that had wrought him. She understood immediately that to harm such a perfected creature would be blasphemous and abandoned the cause of Luna on the spot. The rest of the interview between the Primarch and the Eclipse Queen could hardly be called an interview. Both spoke expansively about their lives and found in the other a complement to their own glorious isolation. A pact was made. Pallas Eugenesis and her followers would swear their loyalty to the Imperium and assist the conquest of Luna. In return, she would be established as the Emperor's vassal and governor of Luna. Hektor and Pallas pledged to seal their pact with a political marriage.
With the gates of Luna opened, Hektor's Space Marines quickly conquered the satellite. The Primarch's own First Legion secured Pallas's own territories, protecting her vassals from the vengeance of the other Lunan rulers, while the Seventh Legion and Tenth Legion deployed and attacked. Though some of the defenders held out stoically, the matter had already decided. Pallas Eugenesis travelled to Terra to be crowned as the sole ruler of Luna by her father-in-law and master, the Emperor of Mankind.
Sun and Moon
Following her coronation, Pallas returned to her domain and set to work organising Luna's genetic laboratories for the production of Space Marine gene-seed.