Primarch Project In a secret laboratory on earth's luna colony, the emperor begins his most wonderous and potent creations after a lengthy research and development program in the utmost secrecy. It was the Primarch project. Based on his own genetic code, he directs his scientists in the creation of 20 superhuman and highly potent beings, termed the primarchs. Each one was superhuman in physique and psyche but also had individual traits. These were to be the leaders of the human reconquest of the galaxy. The threat posed to the chaos powers by these primarchs was immense. The painstaking creation of each primarch was a very long and arduous process. The first primarch created was tailored to be a grand tactician. Extra-ordinary prcautions were taken. Massive psychic shields and wards were placed by the emperor on Luna to protect the whole project and to keep it a secret from chaos powers. But the depredations of chaos is everywhere, and through the weak willed and self-agrandised minds of one of the scientists on Luna, the cchaos powers learned of the project. Using the mind of the weakling as a gateway the combined chaos powers made a concerted effort to infiltrate and destroy the Luna scientific facility. Warp entitis cannot enter the physical realm directly. They may take over the physical body of a mortal being by enteirng his minds (daemonic possession) or in the presence of a concentrated psychic energy, materialize for short periods of time. The latter needs to be maintained by sacrifice as the warp entities consume souls in order to remain in the material realm. So powerful was the immortal emperor and his psychic wards that the combined powers of Khorne, Nurgle and Tzeentch could not remain on Luna long enough to destroy the nascent primarchs in their incubation capsules. All they managed to do was to thrust the capsules in to the warp, with the aim of subsequently destroing them. The twenty incubation capsules drifted through the warp for decades or even centuries, until finally coming to rest on human-inhabited worlds throughout the galaxy. The capsule of one Primarch, he who was to become known as Lion El'Jonson, Primarch of the Dark Angels, was dropped on an isolated planet on the northern fringe of the Eye of Terror - the death world of Caliban. The Space Marine Legions The emperor realized that time was fast running out. The new chaos god was beginning to stir. Recreating more primarchs would take too much time and he had to get the human civilization ready for their great re-conquest. In his infinite wisdom and foresight he had foreseen the fall of the eldar, the rise of that Daemon God of pleasure and the abating of the warp storms. Thus, using the primarchs' DNA, the emperor began a process of creating spacemarines by a faster method of implanting the gene-seed in to suitable human subjects. The geneseed from the first primarch was used to implant the warriors who had formed his retinue during the conquest of the Solar system. This was the first legion of the Space marines. This first legion was named by the emperor to be the Dark Angels Legion and was to be the Emperor's personal guard during their future battles. Though these spacemarines were nowhere as powerful as the primarchs, they were still superhumans. Twenty legions of spacemarines were created each numbering in the tens of thousands, each legion containing the traits of their founding primarch. Along with the creation of the spacemarine legions, the ships of the Imperial Navy and the massive numbers of the Imperial Guard were also readied. Death of an ancient race & the Great Crusade At this same time the more psychically and technologically advanced Eldar were finally hurtling towards their ultimate doom. Having conquered all aspects of science and technology and outgrown the need for physical labour, as their society provided all that was needed, most Eldar immersed themselves in spurious acts of wanton pleasure. Many gave in to the most hedonistic impulses and cults developed all over their domains focused on arcane knowledge sensual excesses. The majority of the Eldar society became depraved and wanton, sinking deeper and deeper in to their desires for sensual satisfaction. The mirror echoes of their emotions coalesced in the warp, creating another monstrous consciousness. This creature was the image of the depraved and corrupt Eldar desires. As this monstrous entity dreamed in its slumber in the warp, the Eldar were riven with madness as their society crumbled around them and their worlds went up in flames. The fall of the Eldar is said to have happened in a single massive orgy of destruction. Their rabid thoughts, lustful emotions and worship of pleasure finally peaked to such an intensity, that with a mighty roar, the slumbering monster reached divine consciousness. Thus was born Slaanesh, the chaos god of pleasure, drawing all Eldar consciousness to itself and literally draining the minds of the Eldar. The energies of the Eldar passed into the warp, and infused the creature known as Slaanesh, the Power of Chaos given form by the dreams of the Eldar. As Slaanesh cried out in his birthing pain, a psychic implosion of massive proportions tore at the universe. Every Eldar mind within a ten thousand light year radius was torn to shreds and their spirits sucked in to the warp to sate the thirsting Slaanesh. The epicenter of this implosion was at the heart of the Eldar domain.. Slaanesh's violent birth sucked the souls of virtually all eldar from their bodies, the warp energy ripping through their fragile minds and spilling in to real space. The vast majority of the eldar race died that day. The place where they lived and died became known as the eye of terror. Here warp space and real-spce overlap. Many craftworlds were caught in the implosion even as they fled. Thousands of Eldar exodites all over the galaxy also perished that night. A few far-sighted eldar, who had steered their craftworlds away from their civilizations and some exodites in the farthest reaches of the galaxy were all that was left of this once proud and galaxy spanning civilization. The positive consequence of Slaanesh's birth was the sudden and near complete abatement of the warp storms in the galaxy. The warp became gentle and ready for travel just as the Emperor had foreseen. His legions, which had been primed and readied for this day were then unleashed like a massive juggernaut. The largest armada of spaceships and transports left their orbital docks in the solar system in the greatest conquest ever attempted by mankind. At the cutting edge of this massive force were the warriors of the twenty legions. The great crusade had begun with the aim of to restoring the galaxy to human control. World after world and system after system were reached in all directions. Those that did not submit were pacified, purified and brought under imperial rule. Wherever the resistance was greatest, there the Emperor led his warriors personally. And where the Emperor went, there stood by his side, his first legion, his praetorian Guard, the warriors of the Dark Angels legion. END of CHAPTER I |
APOCRYPHA CALIBAN |
This entire section is one attempt to describe the long history of the Dark Angels in a linear form. Every known piece of history and event based on GW publications has been written in my own words and linked together in a reasonably plausible manner by additional fiction. This is in no way the official GW version nor is it in anyway an attempt to infringe on their IP. There are many versions of imperial history buried within the sands of time and this is but just one of them. Read on if you dare! |
CHAPTER ONE THE EARLY YEARS Chronicled By ( Shadow Guard ) |
