Legiones Astartes (Hektor Heresy)

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.

The Legiones Astartes or Space Marine Legions were the primary armed forces of the Imperium during the Great Crusade. Their core forces were bodies of augmented soldiers, the products of the Emperor of Mankind's genetic experimentation on old Terra. But there were also ordinary men and women who supported the Space Marines or even fought beside them in the Auxilia formations of the Imperial Army.

Detailed information

Legions of the Crusade

The Twenty Astartes Legions of the Great Crusade
Number	Name	Speciality	Primarch	Homeworld	Loyalty
I	Heralds of Hektor	Generalists	Hektor Cincinnatus	Olmer (destroyed), now based from their fleet within the Eye of Terror	Traitor
II	War Scribes	Logistics	Arelex Orannis	Whitestone (Destroyed), now Fleet-based in the Atalantos Worlds.	Loyal
III	Missing and deleted from Imperial records
IV	Sons of Fire	World-Killing and Melee	Inferox "The Burned King"	Crematoria (destroyed)	Traitor
V	Winged Victory/Void Angels	Manoeuvre warfare	Gaspard Lumey	Ciban IV	Loyal
VI	The Entombed	Heavy Support	Golgothos	Sepulchra	Loyal
VII	Crimson Teeth	Aerial combat and Jump Assault	Camaxtli	Chalchihuitl	Traitor
VIII	Missing and deleted from Imperial records
IX	Lions Rampant	Armoured Warfare	Cromwald Walgrun	Sommesgard	Traitor
X	Steel Marshals	Siege Warfare	Roman Albrecht	Centauri Primus	Loyal
XI	Thunder Kings	Furious Melee	Brennus	Alessia (destroyed), now multiple worlds	Loyal
XII	Life Bringers	Chemical Warfare	Johannes Vrach	Rai (destroyed), now Eden (Demon World in the Eye of Terror)	Traitor
XIII	Children of Astarot	Information and Infiltration	Uriel Starikov	Perfidiae V	Traitor
XIV	Black Augurs	Sorcery-powered Melee	The Voidwatcher	Ostium	Traitor
XV	Silver Cataphracts	Combined Arms Warfare	Alexandri of Rosskar	Rosskar	Loyal
XVI	Eternal Zealots	Chaos Generalists	Aubrey The Grey	Lazarus	Traitor
XVII	Scale Bearers	Fast Attack	Tiran Osoros	Solnhofen	Loyal
XVIII	Stone Men	Defensive Operations	Onyx the Indestructible	Neolithus(destroyed)	Loyal
XIX	Eyes of the Emperor	Firepower	Shakya Vardhana	Illobian	Loyal
XX	Iron Rangers	Asymmetrical Warfare	Rogerius Merrill	Profi Tiroedd	Traitor

Discovery Order of the Primarchs

1) Hektor Cincinnatus (at start)

2) Arelex Orannis (803.M30)

3) Uriel Starikov (817.M30)

4) Darius Cyaxares (822.M30)

5) Roman Albrecht (831.M30)

6) The Voidwatcher (836.M30)

7) Gaspard Lumey (850.M30)

8) Johannes Vrach (850.M30)

9) Alexandri (855.M30)

10) Tiran Osoros (859.M30)

11) Inferox the Burned King (863.M30)

12) Rogerius Merrill (870.M30)

13) Camaxtli (872.M30)

14) Brennus (892.M30)

15) Golgothos (898.M30)

16) Aubrey The Grey (901.M30)

17) Onyx the Indestructible (908.M30)

18) Cromwald Walgrun (914.M30)

Doctrine and Reforms

Much of the discipline and organisation of the early Legions owed greatly to the ancient and proven Terran patterns of strategy, hierarchy and function as laid down in the revered texts of the Principia Belicosa of Roma and Krom's fragmentary New Model that had survived in the hands of the Old Earth tyrants down the blood-stained generations. To these venerable treatises the Emperor and his commanders had added their own genius and created a sturdy but adaptable strategic framework that spoke to the fundamental strengths and superhuman abilities of the Legionaries themselves.

Following the disaster of the Hektor Heresy and the Imperial counter-offensive of the Great Scouring, Darius Cyaxares persuaded his brother Primarchs to lay down their Legions and break up these mighty armies, so that no one man would again lead the terrible might that Hektor had turned against the Imperium. In reforming the Space Marine Legions into smaller units, the wisdom of the Primarchs was combined. Thomas Gaudin, the Emperor's Praetorian, laid out the ethics of the Space Marines as unyielding loyalty, honour, and good faith. Gaspard Lumey, who stood at the fore of the greatest Legion, explained his tactical and organisational doctrine. Darius himself gave the instructions to govern Space Marine Librarians. The result was the Epitoma institutorum rei Adeptus Astartes - better known as the Institutorum Astartes - that laid the basis for the Space Marine Chapters of the reformed Imperium.

Project information

This page is the hub for developing the Space Marine Legions of an alternate 30k 'verse, and most of the sub-pages have details about what becomes of the grand Legions and the Primarchs. Where a developer has been marked as a probable drop-out, feel free to put your hand up on /tg/ to take over developing the Legion.

Rules

• Skirmish level (Warhammer 40k using the Forge World "Horus Heresy" material): This is the base game for the AU. All of the Legions above can be assumed to use the Legiones Astartes Crusade list, with modifications and special characters covered on the individual pages.

• Naval warfare (Battlefleet Gothic): We like Battlefleet Gothic a lot, and have sketched out some rules for playing Hektor Heresy in SPACE!

Resources for editors

Miscellaneous

Remaining issues, including proposals for Legions, ironing out issues with the Primarch discovery order, defining Legion specialities and numbers, etc. can be raised on the Talk page.

Graphical Templates

Here are some easily painted templates to make illustrating the Legion pages a simpler task.

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The Loyalist Legions			The Traitor Legions
Name	Summary	Developer Status	Name	Summary	Developer Status
The Entombed	Spookiest of the Loyalists, these dudes have a tragic gene-seed flaw which sees them go entirely extinct. On the way, they cause a lot of ruckus with their Terminators, Dreadnoughts, and unshakeable faith that humanity is a race of gods destined to inherit the universe.	inactive	Black Augurs	Moustache-twirling villains with more horrific sorcerous rituals than the Emprah's had hot dinners.	Eeeevilly active
Eyes of the Emperor	A strange hybrid of the contemplative life and moar dakka, the Eyes go to war in saffron armour and monk's robes.	supervised by long-standing contributor	Children of Astarot	Tzeentchian spies and special forces. If you like just as planned, you'll love these guys.	active and always watching
Scale Bearers	Do you like Space Marines? Do you like Dinosaurs? Do you think guys in power armour riding literal dinosaurs would be a bit silly? Don't worry - the dinosaur theme goes to the look of their bikes, not their trusty steeds. They also have giant lizard companions ("Sors"), at least in the early days.	Under the supervision of a longstanding contributor	Crimson Teeth	Flying murder happy ritualistic jungle cannibals, these psychos enforce the Emperor's will and eat their enemies.	Active
Silver Cataphracts	AAAAAAHH, MOTHERLAND!!! Hailing from Space Russia and led by a Primarch who combines the "best" features of Stalin and Ivan the Terrible, the Cataphracts are probably the most fatalistic of the Astartes.	frighteningly active	Eternal Zealots	What if you wanted to heal the galaxy, but the galaxy was the fucked up place of 30k and you were working for the growing Imperium? Yeah, you'd go crazy and leap into the arms of Chaos, too.	active
Steel Marshals	The inevitable loyalist siege legion. Surprisingly laid back and chill guys, for a group of super-soldiers who spend their time fighting their enemies eye-to-eye.	active but busy	Heralds of Hektor	Hey, hey, it's the Warmaster! They're led by Hektor who is a kind of tragic Greek Hero/Macedonian warlord in SPAAAAACE!	under the supervision of a long-standing contributor
Stone Men	The Stone Men are a throwback to the gonzo days of Rogue Trader. It's great terrible awe-inspiring beyond description!	off his meds and in the community	Iron Rangers	I sure hope you like ruthless assassins and stealth. Because if you don't, the Iron Rangers are going to sneak into your tent and cut your throat. Heck, they might do it anyway. Don't say you weren't warned!	Actively behind you
Thunder Kings	Based on a world of clannish Celtic primitives, the Thunder Kings split apart in the Heresy and spend the next centuries killing each other. They're a bit like a cheerier version of the Dark Angels with a less obscure gay culture reference.	Taken over again, third time's the charm, seems to be sticking around	Life Bringers	Biological nightmare Legion, goes over to Nurgle. They have the bare bones of the idea sketched out really nicely, but need detail.	Active
Void Angels	HONHONHON, ve are ze Space Marines Français! The Void Angels are a smug bunch but they do get shit done. Combine enlightenment ideals with revolutionary terror (remembering that the French Empire included Indochina and parts of sub-Saharan Africa) and you'll have a good idea of what they're about.	Back and bad.	Lions Rampant	Victorian English hypocrites, avowing restraint and gentlemanliness but belonging entirely to Slaanesh.	active sporadically
War Scribes	The "big picture" Legion who consider the consequences. These are the geeks who can punch your head off. They get involved in a lot of weird shit in the Galactic Core.	active	Sons of Fire	Remember how Khorne is all about KILL! MAIM! BURN!? Like that, but heavy on the BUURRRRN!!!	Under the supervision of a longstanding contributor.