Editing Government in MedHammer 40,000 (section)

====Lord Gulliman====

Responsible for the Imperium's greatest bulwark against the many threats of the Galaxy, the Lord Gulliman is the Commander and Chief of all Codex Chapters. All non Legion members of the Adeptus Astartes answer to The Lord Gulliman. The Lord Gulliman in turn represents them to The High Lords of Terra. By design, the Lord Gulliman regularly butts heads with both the Legiarch Horus, and Lord Commander of The Astra Militarum. The Lord Gulliman is responsible for inspecting the capability of the Chapters, mediates inter-chapter disputes, as well as advising the creation or dissolution of chapters as needed.

=====Jura Codices=====

Modeled after The Aurelian Cult's "Ordo Lexicanum" the Jura Codices are codex lawyers similar to the ordo with two crucial differences: First, they answer to Lord Gulliman not to the Ecclesiarchic Council of Espandor, and second, they do are a non-religious order. As such despite being less well developed and significantly smaller, they are often used in inter chapter disputes in which at least one party is uncomfortable with the Aurelian Cult's mediation. Like the Ordo they are mediators for chapter disputes, and like the ordo, ultimately their decisions can be overruled by Jaghatai Khan. The Jura Codices, because of the order's secular nature, there are prominent antiquitae members of the ordo including the Katholean Vashti Bích Avishag, famed for discovering an Alpha Legion plot against the Pleasure Seekers and Excorciators chapter. 

=====Relation with Jaghatai Khan=====

Jaghatai Khan technically oversees the Codex chapters in terms of the laws that govern them, however Lord Gulliman is the one who ultimately has final say over where these chapters are deployed.

=====The Tartarans=====

Very little is known about this mysterious chapter of space marines. Its origin is as old as the First founding, but its genetic legacy is a secret. What is known is that it is a chapter personally commanded by The Lord Gulliman and serves to kill astartes chapters that have fallen to chaos or have gone rogue. This is technically under the jurisdiction of Konrad Curze, but The Lord Gulliman, and the other Chapters Astartes prefer that these disputes are kept in-house.