"Astartes, to arms!" (Part I)

It really has been a while since I last posted anything of much interest on this blog. Heck, I have my own blog and even that I don't update as much as I would like to. So I've decided to drag myself to the dashboard and start typing woohooo =P

I've been reading lots of Warhammer 40K books of late, and the storyline of this particular series, The Horus Heresy, basically appeals to me:

1. Tells us that the path of man's good intentions always lead to doom or something like that as the saying goes(I forgot the exact saying).

2. Betrayal (I mean COME ONE, the word Heresy is a dead giveaway riight?)

3. Immaculate descriptions of everything; from war to the five senses of the human body, from planets to landscapes. Use the phrases if you wanna blow your English teacher away to Mars or something.

4. How eugenics is being used and its effects on the human race.

5. MORE BLOOD AND GORE!

6. You're Mom. Whoops, just kidding (;

So here's the story in a nutshell.

It's the year We have the Imperium of Man, which is of course the humans la dey. Their leader is the Emperor of Mankind (fancy title) and after winning control of Terra (that's Earth for us), he's on a Grand Crusade to conquer the outer reaches o the universe to bring glory to Mankind because hey, they just needed a reason to go about killing stuff ^^

Even the Emperor could not be everywhere at the same time, and accordingly he created twenty Primarchs using his own DNA. Primarchs, genetically modified superhuman beings who are second only to him in skill, ability and sheer power and most importantly, completely loyal and devoted to him.

Let's pick up the pace. However while the foetal Primarchs where still maturating inside of womb-vats, the Chaos Gods (bear with me here) somehow managed to spirit them away. Unable to destroy them, they still were able to scatter the Primarchs throughout the galaxy. However not everything was lost, and using samples collected previously from the Primarchs the Emperor was able to create Space Marines. In the creation of a particular legion he only used the material of a single Primarch. This created twenty distinct Space Marines Legions which he led into the Great Crusade. Note, a Space Marine, or commonly known as Astartes, were to a Primarch as the Primarchs were to the Emperor.

So the Emperor of course continued with his Crusade nonetheless, perhaps after watching Meet The Robinsons (the joke is in the context and the moral of the story in the movie =D). But one by one, he stumbled upon his Primarch sons in the worlds that he conquered. The first one to be found, was Horus Lupercal. Yeah, Horus Heresy is about Horus' betrayal of the Emperor. So how did he do it?

I'm too lazy to continue now, and also because it might get a bit too long for just one post, so stay tuned for part 2 (;