Malcador initially chose 12 persons of "an inquisitive nature" - four of those would become the founders of the Inquisition but the other eight, all Space Marines of differing Legions and unparalleled psykers in their own right, would become the eight founding members of the Grey Knights - the first Grand Masters of the Chapter. At first working for him in an informal, secretive and ad hoc capacity, with the enemy at the gates of the Imperial Palace he shared his vision with the Emperor and brought before Him twelve beings of unswerving virtue who he had recruited on his master's behalf.īy the time Malcador returned to his Emperor with these chosen men and women, Terra itself was under siege by Horus' Traitor Legions, and only through the most artful of subterfuge were the Sigillite and his recruits able to pass unscathed through the battlelines and come unharmed and unseen before the Emperor. Malcador the Sigillite, the Regent of Terra, a man who had served at the right hand of the Emperor for as long as anybody could remember, had been gathering to him men and women with particular talents since the end of the Great Crusade. So did the Emperor set His hand to plans that would win a wider victory from the ashes of a most personal defeat. The very nature of the Horus Heresy had proven that the Space Marines were not immune to the corruption of Chaos as the Emperor had once hoped. When the perfidy of His most favoured son, the Primarch Horus, was revealed following the events of the Istvaan III Atrocity, the Emperor foresaw that the end of the Horus Heresy would cost Him greatly, so much so that He would no longer be able to take an active hand in Mankind's survival - if He survived at all. According to legend, the Grey Knights first appeared in the middle of the 32nd Millennium after the tumult of the Second Founding in the early 31st Millennium when the nine remaining Loyalist Space Marine Legions were first divided into the present-day organisations known as Chapters.ĭesignated Chapter 666, the Grey Knights were the culmination of a project begun by the Emperor during the final days of the Horus Heresy.
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Few outside the upper echelons of the Inquisition hold any knowledge of the Chapter's Founding, and even these most trusted of men and women are denied the full truth. The Grey Knights Space Marine Chapter is the most mysterious of all the Imperium's myriad organisations. Titan itself is surrounded by the rings of Saturn and the other moons of the gas giant which are all highly-secret Inquisition-controlled worlds, including: Mimas, the prison and execution centre of the Ordo Malleus, Enceladus, the home of the most powerful Inquisitor Lords of the Ordo Malleus and other influential Inquisitors of that Ordo, and several other satellite worlds all dedicated to the highly secret Imperial task of confronting the corruption of Chaos across the galaxy. Even the location of the Grey Knights' fortress-monastery on Titan is known only to the Ordo Malleus and its agents. This is because the Chapter operates in oppressive secrecy, beyond the knowledge of the Adeptus Terra, most of the Adeptus Astartes and even often of the Imperium of Man's ruling High Lords of Terra.Īs a part of the Ordo Malleus, the Grey Knights are answerable only to the Inquisitor Lords of that division of the Inquisition and the Emperor of Mankind Himself. Within the fortress hang pennants, banners and flags commemorating the victories and sacrifices made by the Chapter in their eternal war against the daemons of Chaos, but none other than the Grey Knights would recognise the names of these campaigns. The fortress-monastery of the Grey Knights is based on Titan, and is carved entirely of basalt. Titan is the largest moon of the gas giant Saturn in the Sol System and is wholly controlled by the Grey Knights Chapter of psychically-active Space Marines who serve as the Chamber Militant of the Inquisition's Ordo Malleus.
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