Alongside the other proto-Legions created by the Emperor of Mankind during the latter days of the Unification Wars on Ancient Terra in the late 30 th Millennium, they were prepared and armed in preparation for the great work ahead, and their initial outfitting and organisation followed closely to the standard patterns set for the Legiones Astartes at the start of the Great Crusade. The martial history of the X Legion is a relatively well-documented one, about which a great deal still survives on record in the present era (in marked contrast with some of the others). Legion History The Hammer and the Storm ' The dimension of mercy is above the warrior's thoughts and has no place in them only cruel necessity and the solaces of victory constitute the warrior's philosphy, whole and entire.' - Ruth'vann Magnar, Warlord of Albia, M.29 The Iron Hands have clung to this ideal even at the expense of being classed as traitors and renegades, but now, after ten thousand years of hiding, their preparations to ascend the human race beyond the frailties of the flesh are nearly complete.

His aim was to create cold, logical intelligences, shorn of the emotions which stirred up the Warp, and housed inside bodies of unyielding metal. On learning of the enormity of the threat posed by the Ruinous Powers, and the insidiously corrupting effect it had upon the body and mind, the Iron Hands Primarch Ferrus Manus decreed that only through mechanization could Chaos be defeated. Throughout their history, the Iron Hands have striven to strengthen humanity by purging the weak, knowing that it is the only way for mankind as a race to survive. The Iron Hands are a formerly Loyalist First Founding Space Marine Legion, renknowned for their pride, cold-hearted brutality and remorselessness in battle, the X Legion was counted amongst the most powerful and famed Space Marine Legions of the Great Cruade. The Emperor did not make us for such mortal concerns as hearth and home, vanity or contemplation we are his engines of war, his hammers, beating out the fabric of existence into a vessel fit for Mankind to inhabit.' - Ferrus Manus, as quoted in Shadow of the Gorgon by the Remembrancer Czel Atternus

Black and Gunmetal Gray ' Rest? We were not made to rest we go on, unflinching, unstoppable, unending in our strength.

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