The Space Marines are a playable army for the table-top miniature wargame Warhammer 40,000. Space Marines account for the largest percent of model armies used by players.
Within the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe, the Emperor of Mankind created twenty Primarchs, superhumans akin to gods in their power. They were created to lead genetically-enhanced super-soldiers known as Space Marines in the Great Crusade to reunite the worlds of Man. The process of their creation was disrupted by the Chaos Gods, who cast the Primarchs' incubation chambers through time and space, each landing on different worlds.
As the Great Crusade progressed, the Emperor discovers each Primarch in turn. Each has grown to be a hero on their home planet. In other Games Workshop publications, two of the Primarchs are listed as having been ; further explanation has not yet been officially given for their absence from the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Each of the remaining 18 Primarchs is appointed to command the Space Marine Legion which is created from his particular gene-seed.
In novels and comic books the Space Marines are given a superhuman appearance. Their abilities, skills, and durability in these stories would make a single Space Marine squad capable of defeating a much larger force of almost any other group in Warhammer 40,000. Space Marines have an awe-inspiring presence when amongst the people of the Imperium, even the Imperial Guard, derived from their sheer size, armour, weaponry and their place as the God-Emperor's chosen warriors.
Towards the end of the Crusade, a Primarch known as Horus - widely regarded as the Emperor's favored son and made Warmaster upon the Emperor's return to Earth - succumbs to the temptations of the Chaos Gods, sparking an event known as the Horus Heresy. 9 of the 18 Space Marine Legions (together with fully half of the Imperial Army and associated forces) turn against the Imperium of Man.
After a series of vicious and bloody encounters, Horus lays siege to the Imperial Palace on Earth and is defeated in single combat by the Emperor, though the Emperor himself is mortally wounded. With the Emperor effectively dead and Horus' rebellion broken, the Primarch of the Ultramarines, Roboute Guilliman, pushes for the adoption of his personal battle doctrine (known in-game as the Codex Astartes) to organise the remaining loyal Space Marine Legions, where the 9 loyalist legions are split into chapters, each consisting of 10 companies of, customarily, 100 Marines.
As their Primarch did during his campaign to unite the steppes, recruits from different tribes are mixed together in squads. Each squad becomes part of a Brotherhood, roughly equivalent to a standard Company. Nine legions side with Horus and the forces of Chaos during the Horus Heresy. After their defeat they flee into the Eye of Terror, becoming the Chaos Space Marines. Fictional works also depict two additional unnamed and undescribed First Founding Legions, Legions II and XI. In some literature the missing Primarchs and their Legions are listed as being "Deleted from Imperial records". In The First Heretic Magnus rebukes Lorgar for even attempting to bring them up in conversation, reminding him that they [the Emperor and brother Primarchs] had all taken an oath not to discuss what happened. The only information Games Workshop has ever released that directly addresses them can be found in False Gods, Mechanicum, The First Heretic and The Lightning Tower (Dan Abnett).
Within the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe, the Emperor of Mankind created twenty Primarchs, superhumans akin to gods in their power. They were created to lead genetically-enhanced super-soldiers known as Space Marines in the Great Crusade to reunite the worlds of Man. The process of their creation was disrupted by the Chaos Gods, who cast the Primarchs' incubation chambers through time and space, each landing on different worlds.
As the Great Crusade progressed, the Emperor discovers each Primarch in turn. Each has grown to be a hero on their home planet. In other Games Workshop publications, two of the Primarchs are listed as having been ; further explanation has not yet been officially given for their absence from the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Each of the remaining 18 Primarchs is appointed to command the Space Marine Legion which is created from his particular gene-seed.
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After a series of vicious and bloody encounters, Horus lays siege to the Imperial Palace on Earth and is defeated in single combat by the Emperor, though the Emperor himself is mortally wounded. With the Emperor effectively dead and Horus' rebellion broken, the Primarch of the Ultramarines, Roboute Guilliman, pushes for the adoption of his personal battle doctrine (known in-game as the Codex Astartes) to organise the remaining loyal Space Marine Legions, where the 9 loyalist legions are split into chapters, each consisting of 10 companies of, customarily, 100 Marines.
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