Warhammer 40K II

[EverBlue]

Ugh... Chaos marine history is long one.

Tehnically, they used to be most loyal of marines... and one day, imperium found gateway to warp. Warp there is secondary dimension, one so twisted and wicked that no normal human can even gaze upon it and remain sane. 13 marine chapters were sent in eye of terror to end chaos(creatures and gods native to warp) from attacking Imerium. For long time, there was only silence and no reply from those legions... untill one day they descended on imperial worlds... twisted mockery of their former glory, ravaging in slaughter, gore and pain.

I disagree with your history, sir. I love the Space marine history and have a bunch of books about the Horus Heresy.

Horus and his legion, The Sons of Horus, were corrupted by Chaos during the Great Crusade and in turn convinced 8 other legions to join with them and attack the Emperor. Until that point, the Warp was only used for travel (and whatever else the Emperor secretly deemed it used for), Chaos wasn't a wide-known threat (at least not to the space marines), and the Space Marines were split into 20 legions, instead of hundreds of chapters.

Once Horus took care of the loyalists in his legion and the legions that joined him, he set forth to kill the Emperor. But a single ship with a crew of space marines and some civilians managed to escape the main fleet and flee towards Terra. The ship was called the Eisenstein and it contained the only surviving loyalist of the Sons of Horus // Luna Wolves, and some of the.. Death Guard, I believe? They became the first Grey Knights.

To sum it all up, there was a huge battle at Terra, and while Horus' forces outnumbered the defenders of the Emperor, he knew that several legions were on their way to reinforce their allies. So he turned his ships shields off because he knew the Emperor would teleport to his ship to try and kill him. The emperor did, and killed Horus, but in the process was nearly killed himself, which is why he is confined to the Golden Throne. The remaining marines of Horus retreated to the Eye of Terror under the command of Abaddon who had taken over. They fell deeper into chaos and became the twisted visages of their former selves.

The rest of the space marines were split into chapters (Chapters were roughly groups of a little over 1,000, while Legions would range from 1,000, to hundreds of thousands) so that no one leader would have as much power as Horus did.

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