Jump 038: Warhammer 40k - Adeptus Astartes

Jump 038: Warhammer 40k - Adeptus Astartes

Era: Indomitus Crusade, Early M42
Identity: Tactical Marine
Drawbacks: [+600] A History Of War, An Uncertain Heritage, A Bile Fascination

[Free]      Walker Of Battlefields
[100/1600]  Special Weapon Specialist
[400/1600]  Strategos
[600/1600]  The Gaze Of The Emperor
[1000/1600] Knowledge Is Power
[1200/1600] Primaris Physiology
[1400/1600] Primaris Officer
[1600/1600] Chapter Master
[1600/2000] Item Stipend (+400)
[Free]      Mark X Power Armor
[Free]      Tacitus Variant
[1650/2000] Gravis Variant
[1700/2000] Stalker Bolt Rifle
[1900/2000] Heavy Plasma Incinerator
[2000/2000] Omni-Scrambler

[Free]  Chapter: Primaris Reinforcements
[Free]  Homeworld: Nomads
[2/20]  Industrial Might
[Free]  Stronghold: Chapter Barque
[Free]  Organization: Non-Codex
[Free]  Ships: Battle Barge (x1), Strike Cruiser (x4), Escort Squadron (x5)
[4/20]  Signature Weapons: Plasma
[Free]  Bolter Marksmanship
[5/20]  Swift As A Coursing River
[7/20]  Force Of A Great Typhoon
[9/20]  Mysterious As The Dark Side Of The Moon
[10/20] The Power Of Knowledge
[11/20] Able Voidsmen
[12/20] I'll Make A Marine Out Of You
[14/20] Tolerant Geneseed
[16/20] Orbitally Dropped Space Marines
[17/20] Recovery Specialists
[20/20] Familiar Faces: II Legion

The Primaris project was something that Belisarius Cawl proposed not long after the Heresy, as a countermeasure against the legions that proved such a threat as to sunder the galaxy. Malcador, Regent and Sigilite, had full knowledge of it as well. And while he had always been very much a ends-justify-the-means type, he also was not overenthusiastic about modification of the Imperium's protectors. Much of the underlying science to create them had been lost, the one person who knew the most was in no position to put everything in his Imperium on hold in order to go into the labs, and there was of course a very valid concern from the High Lords that overshadowing humanity with a warrior race could be disastrous; after all, consider what had happened to the Thunder Warriors when they became unstable.

As fortunes in the Imperium waxed and waned over the millennia, however, the word was given to go ahead. Available resources were minimal considering how much had been lost, but Cawl did the best he could, working with many individuals and groups over dozens of centuries, acquiring technologies for the Primaris marines to use, refining the process so that those who underwent it could not only survive but thrive. But there was still a bit missing, which was only finally available when Cawl was able to wake Guilliman and obtain access to a handful of crucial things that stabilized the process and lent stability to the now-thriving Primaris. Guilliman, now the only loyal primarch on hand that the Imperium had, was once more given the title of Lord Commander of the mankind's forces.

The Bastion abruptly appeared in orbit of Macragge in a flash of un-light a matter of minutes after this had happened, spat uncerimoniously from the Warp some ten thousand years after it had disappeared. Initially feared as an attack of some kind, instead it was found to be a lost chapter of Marines aboard a planetoid the size of a small moon. Yes, definitely just a chapter, as was confirmed via vox before they sent their leader to meet up with Guilliman. Whatever was said between the primarch and their chapter master remained between the two of them, but this forgotten chapter was among the first given the upgrades offered to existing chapters as part of the Ultima Founding. Painful? Yes. But in the end, worthwhile. Especially when the technologies hoarded by Belisarius Cawl could be supplemented with some of the lost technologies that came forward in time from the thirtieth millennium aboard the Bastion... and the genetics lab that was a part of it. Had Cawl not known better, he would have thought it an artifact of the creation of the Primarchs itself, as it had the purest samples he'd ever seen, and of all twenty primarchs for that matter.

But in the end, this was more or less window dressing; the lost chapter took part in the Indomitus Crusade, and disappeared into the history books once again just as it had in the distant past. Just as it had when it had shown up every other time it had begun reappearing, skipping through time thanks to the warp. For while this was the second time that the marine who called himself Clark Kent met Roboute Guilliman, it was not the second time that Roboute had met Clark.

And alone among his brothers, Malcador had permitted Roboute to hold those memories.

(Magnus, on the other hand, had his own ways of preserving the memory. But that's a story for another time.)