The Primarchs Project.
At the end of the 30th millennium, the Emperor of Mankind had finished his dream of the Unification War of Terra. His thoughts were focused on the future and the next path he envisioned for humanity. This vision required the creation of genetically engineered transhuman generals, given Archeotech gifted abilities, along with warpcraft and the Emperor's own genetic material. These beings were to be his sons and lead not just humanity into the next age but also legions crafted from their genetic material, created in their own image. The dream that would become the Primarch Project actually started before the Unification War, but had to be stalled until Terra was in the Emperor's grasp. Twenty individual genetic templates were crafted in the Himalazian mountains (Himalayan) deep under the imperial palace.
Even though the lab was guarded and under the strictest protections the Emperor could create, the Ruinous Powers somehow managed to scatter the nascent superhumans across the universe. Dismayed but not broken, the Emperor settled on a new plan. He would create the Space Marine Legions from the Primarchs' remaining DNA, and they would set out on the Great Crusade to find them. The worlds the Primarchs landed on would shape them for good or ill. Later research from imperial savants would postulate that the intervention of Chaos in the Primarchs' development was where the Heresy taint would take root.
The Emperors gene-crafted sons were created with a multitude of abilities and gifts, ready for their intended tasks and responsibilities. Their superhuman physiology enabled them to be larger, faster, and stronger, with a mind that could process data in larger quantities than could ever be truly quantified. They could survive toxins and poisons to an extreme level. Their regenerative healing could bring them back from the most extreme of injuries, with more focus and time needed for near-fatal injuries to regenerate. Once outside their gestation capsules, they aged to maturity rapidly within a few years, functionally immortal, with aging stalled once there. The biological makeup involved with these beings is so complex that it probably will never be understood by anyone other than the enthroned Emperor. Within their minds, masses of information were loaded, instinctual understandings of combat strategy, a multitude of languages, and many complex subjects already known. Using these gifts, the majority of the Primarchs managed to revitalise or bring brand new ideas into being within the worlds they crashed into.
A connection to the Warp was within every member of this brotherhood; some say this was because the Warp was used in their creation. Varying levels of this are present within them, from having latent empathic abilities to having omega level psyker powers. They had an aura that, surrounded them nicknamed imaginatively the Primarch aura, which allowed them to inspire immediate loyalty. Some were even able to disappear from sight, avoiding attention from anything biological from viewing them or hiding their nature from people.
The Primarchs and their legions were as follows -
- Lion El 'Johnson - Dark Angels
- Redacted - all information destroyed
- Fulgrim - The Emperor's Children
- Perturabo - Iron Warriors
- Jaghatai Khan - White Scars
- Leman Russ - Space Wolves
- Rogal Dorn - Imperial Fists
- Konrad Curze - Night Lords
- Sanguinius - Blood Angels
- Ferrus Mannus - Iron Hands
- Redacted- all information destroyed
- Angron - World Eaters
- Raboute Guilliman - Ultramarines
- Mortarion - Death Guard
- Magnus the Red - Thousand Sons
- Horus - Sons of Horus
- Lorgar - Word Bearers
- Vulkan - Salamanders
- Corvus Corax - Raven Guard
- Alpharius Omegon (twins) - Alpha Legion
bottom image book cover of the version used in the review
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