It is a time of legend.
Mighty heroes battle for the right to rule the galaxy. The vast armies of the Emperor of Earth have conquered the galaxy in a Great Crusade - the myriad of alien races have been smashed by the Emperor's elite warriors and wiped from the face of history.
The dawn of a new age of supremacy for humanity beckons.
Gleaming citadels of marble and gold celebrate the many victories of the Emperor. Triumphs are raised on a million worlds to record the epic deeds of his most powerful and deadly warriors.
First and foremost amongst these are the Primarchs, super-heroic beings who have led the Emperor's armies of Space Marines in victory after victory. They are magnificent, the pinnacle of the Emperor's genetic experimentation. The Space Marines are the mightiest human warriors the galaxy has ever known, each capable of besting a hundred normal men or more in combat.
Organized into vast armies of tens of thousands called Legions, the Space Marines and their Primarch leaders conquer the galaxy in the name of the Emperor and humanity.
It is the 31st Millennium and Humanity has spread across the stars! A million worlds forming the bastions of Humanity across the blackness of the void. A million suns bathing all manner of worlds and their inhabitants in their light. Unified under the rule of the Emperor of Mankind. For two hundred years the Emperor, joined by his Twenty Gene-Forged Primarchs and their Space Marine Legions, has waged the most monumental of Human endeavors! The Great Crusade has spread from Sol to the fringes of the Galaxy. Liberating, conquering, and discovering the numerous lost colonies after five millennia of darkness and superstition. Pushing back the blackness of the abyss and purging the Xenos from the rightful dominions of Mankind. Two centuries of progress, advancement, improvement, and construction of the greatest empire to span the Galaxy. And victory is at hand...
The Ullanor Crusade broke the back of the largest Greenskin Empire and last significant bastion of Xenos resistance in the Galaxy. The Emperor, joined by four of his Primarch scions and their Legions, with millions of Imperial Army soldiers and thousands of vessels from the Imperial Armada fought a brutal campaign across the Ullanor Empire's territory. Scouring it clean of Ork life and there in the presence of many the Emperor announced that he would be leaving the Great Crusade. Returning to Terra to begin his next Great Project and leaving the progress of the Crusade in the hands of his Primarchs. Crowning one of which as Warmaster of the Imperium.
But all was not well...
Bitter rivalry, feuds that went back years if not decades, and maybe even the whispers of jealousy plagued the Primarchs. Siblings in all but name, the Primarchs share comradery and loathing for each other in variable measure. While, circling are the dark denizens of the Warp, seeking to undo all that the Emperor has created and sojourn the Galaxy to their ruinous whims...
You will play as a Primarch or high ranking Imperial official in the 200th Year of the Great Crusade. The fate of the Galaxy is in the collective hands of the players; as individuals choose sides, or none at all and seek to forge their own empires perhaps, either way...Let the Galaxy Burn!
You are expected to know and or be able to do some light research into the 40k Universe. The Operators of the RP or any other Admins are not your personal fact finders. We will gladly assist but do not expect us to recant the entirety of the lore to you at every beck and call. Especially, if it is the same repetitive set of answers, which will garner a point in the right direction and the rest if up to you.
Rules
1) No Godmodding or Meta-Gaming
2) No flaming or otherwise rude behavior
3) No steamrolling other players just because you can. Players are instead expected to communicate effectively to other players to prevent and/or resolve disputes.
4) No canon Primarchs
5) Rules subject to change
6) Respect the Operators and Admins. If they have to weigh a ruling it is final.
7) Applications are subject to Operator Team changes and any member of the team may exercise final rulings and necessary changes. This is to ensure quality in not only application and applicant, but also to be sure no one is applying for something claimed by others.