Other informal titles included The Emperor's Executioners Other informal titles included the Pioneers, Vanguard, Blood Debt, Grey Ghosts The Twenty Space Marine Legions of the Great Crusade This reasoning would be proven to be mistaken as half of the known Legions revolted during the Horus Heresy. The Emperor saw no problems with this development the loyalty of the Primarchs to him was believed to be unshakable. However upon rediscovering their Primarch the Legion would take his homeworld as their own, gain a name instead of just being known by their number, and change their Power Armour from grey to one consisting of a combination of battle honours and their Primarch's own tastes. Originally, each Legion was known simply by its number (i.e., the Dark Angels were originally known as I Legion) and had plain grey armour. Due to the varying sizes of each Legion, there was no fixed number of how many Chapters, Battalions, Companies, and Squads a Legion would contain. The Company, itself divided into a number of Squads, was the basic military division of the Legio Astartes. Each Chapter in turn was divided into a number of Battalions, each of which was further divided into Companies. Below this were the Chapters of the Legion, each of which was commanded by a Chapter Commander. At the head of the Legion was its Primarch Commander who oversaw the Legion's headquarters. The Legio Astartes, being far larger than current Space Marine Chapters, were organized along drastically different lines. The Space Marine Legions effectively ceased to exist after this act, succeeded by hundreds of new Chapters. The remaining loyalist Legions were broken up by Roboute Guilliman as per the new Codex Astartes. After the Battle of Terra, these fled into the Eye of Terror where many fragmented into disparate warbands that continue to plague the Imperium to this day. In the Horus Heresy, nine of the eighteen remaining Legions sided with Warmaster Horus against the Emperor. However some point during the Great Crusade, two of the legions were erased from all records for unknown reasons. Gradually, the twenty lost Primarchs were reunified with their respective Legion and led them to further glories, where they would begin to establish unique identities for themselves. ĭuring the subsequent Great Crusade, the twenty Legiones Astartes were the tip of the Emperor's spear in his conquest of much of the galaxy. However while the Gene-Seed was created by the Emperor, it was perfected and mass-produced by the Gene-Cults of Luna after they were pacified by the early Astartes. Each of the twenty Legions were created from gene-seed derived from a single Primarch, which were themselves maturing deep under the Himalayan Mountains before they were stolen away from the Forces of Chaos. The new Astartes had superior lifespans and discipline to the Thunder Warriors, and were intended by the Emperor to spearhead his coming Great Crusade. The Legiones Astartes were originally created by the Emperor and his gene-wrights in the closing days of the Unification Wars and the extinction of their predecessors, the Thunder Warriors.
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