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The Bane of Daemons
1. The Bane of Daemons — Article by Simon Grant
2. Burn and Purge!
In the tumultuous years that led up to
3. The Scions of Titan
the invasion of Terra at the climax of
the Horus Heresy, the Emperor
foresaw the need to prepare humanity
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for the years to come should the
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decisive battle go ill. The Master of
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Mankind deemed the implementation
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of this new and secret organisation to
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be of such grave import that he
entrusted its founding to none other
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necessity for such an institution to
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exist. And so, the creation of the Grey
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Knights Chapter was to be the
Emperor's final gift to Mankind before
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humanity from the malevolent
Daemons of the Warp.

Designated Chapter 666, the Grey

Knights first emerged in the
calamitous wake of the Horus Heresy and immediately set about the grim task of purging the daemonic taint that remained on
many Imperial worlds in the aftermath of the bitter conflict. Whenever the Grey Knights appeared, the Daemons of the Warp
were annihilated and the beleaguered Imperial forces saved. Such was the secretive nature of the silver-armoured warriors,
that few of the populations they saved were even aware of their deliverance until the mysterious absence of their daemonic
assailants became apparent. But the Grey Knights had already moved on, their mission accomplished, but their sworn duty
never complete.

The Grey Knights are, first and foremost, a Space Marine Chapter, but there are surprisingly few similarities between them and
the other Adeptus Astartes. First among equals, the Grey Knights utilise the very finest equipment that the Mechanicum of
Mars have to offer, vehicles and weaponry so esoteric and rare that they are reserved exclusively for their use. It is rumoured
that the Grey Knights share a genetic heritage with the Emperor himself in the same way as other Adeptus Astartes do with
their Primarch. If this were indeed true, then it would go some way to explain how the Grey Knights can face the Daemons of
the Warp and remain pure and untainted; in their ten-thousand year history, not a single Grey Knight has fallen to Chaos.

Forewarned of a daemonic presence by the prescience of the Chapter's Prognosticars, a task force of Grey Knights will set out
from their secret citadel on Titan, Saturn's largest moon, aboard a sleek, silver spacecraft of the finest quality. With but a
thousand Grey Knights to protect the million worlds within the Imperium's fold, such a detachment will rarely consist of an
entire Brotherhood, the equivalent of a standard Chapter company, as there are simply not enough Grey Knights to deploy in
force except under the most dire circumstances. But despite the overwhelming odds they inevitably face in battle, the Grey
Knights are never found wanting, such is their skill, determination and valour.

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Steven Kamai Tuesday, March 8, 2011 11:23:01 PM HST 00:25:bc:e2:34:1e