History does not clearly record the details of the world on which the infant Dorn was cast when the Primarchs were scattered to the corners of the galaxy. The Imperial Fists are the inheritors of the proud traditions of their Primarch Rogal Dorn, his name venerated by countless trillions across the Imperium. The role of the Emperor's bodyguards since he was mortally wounded during the Horus Heresy and interred within the Golden Throne at the heart of the Imperial Palace on Terra has now been entirely taken over by the Adeptus Custodes.īut the Emperor's ancient trust remains a potent honour for the Imperial Fists and their Successor Chapters in the present day. The Imperial Fists were usually used to strike a decisive blow against the enemies He confronted during that time. Part of the Imperial Fists' duties during the Great Crusade were to function as the Emperor's 'personal praetorians,' accompanying Him everywhere. They maintain recruitment-chapels on various worlds spread throughout the Imperium. Instead, the Imperial Fists rely on their 10,000-year-old mobile space fortress, Phalanx, to serve as their fortress-monastery. The Imperial Fists stand out from other Space Marine Chapters since they possess no fixed homeworld, although they are most frequently based on Terra.

The Imperial Fists are one of the First Founding Chapters of the Space Marines and were originally the VII thLegion of the Legiones Astartes raised by the Emperor Himself from across Terra during the Unification Wars.

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