Facts about Warhammer 40,000
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Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines, remained entombed in stasis for nearly ten thousand years before awakening in 999.M41 to find his Imperium fragmented and decaying beyond recognition.
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Thousand Sons legion Space Marines possess psychic abilities and knowledge-seeking nature inherited from their Primarch Magnus the Red, making them unique among the Emperor's genetically-engineered superhuman warriors.
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Nurgle, the Chaos god of disease and decay, grants his followers immortality through endless mutation and infection, making his servants nearly impossible to kill permanently in Warhammer 40,000.
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Blood Angels Chapter Space Marines possess a genetic flaw called the Black Rage that drives them into berserk fury during combat, originating from their Primarch Sanguinius's death at the hands of Warmaster Horus.
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Grim Darkness novels depict a 41st millennium where humanity's Imperium spans one million worlds yet faces extinction across a galaxy spanning one hundred thousand light-years.
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Magnus the Red, Primarch of the Thousand Sons legion, accidentally shattered the Golden Throne's protective wards during the Horus Heresy while attempting to warn the Emperor of Horus's betrayal through psychic projection.
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Slaanesh, the Chaos god of excess and sensation, was birthed into existence during the Fall of the Eldar around M30, fundamentally altering the fabric of reality and creating the Eye of Terror warp rift in Warhammer 40,000.
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Imperial Guard regiments field conscripted soldiers equipped with lasguns that require centuries of technological degradation before reaching their current state of unreliability in Warhammer 40,000.
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Tzeentch, the Chaos god of change and knowledge, constantly shifts his plans and motivations across Warhammer 40,000, making him unpredictable even to his own followers and daemon servants.
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Sister of Battle convents field all-female military orders called the Adepta Sororitas who wield faith-empowered weapons and serve as the armed wing of the Ecclesiarchy within Warhammer 40,000.
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Adeptus Mechanicus tech-priests venerate the Omnissiah and believe all technology contains spiritual essence, leading them to repair machines through ritual and superstition rather than scientific understanding in Warhammer 40,000.
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Khorne, the Chaos god of violence and war, grows stronger whenever bloodshed occurs across the galaxy, making his influence paradoxically difficult to combat in Warhammer 40,000.
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Ten thousand years of continuous psychic sacrifice by psykers powers the Astronomican beacon that enables Warp travel for the entire Imperium of Mankind in Warhammer 40,000.
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Approximately one thousand Space Marine chapters exist across Warhammer 40,000, each maintaining independent command structures while nominally serving the Imperium of Man.
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Eldar craftworlds travel through the Webway, an ancient portal network built by their extinct precursor civilization to traverse the galaxy while avoiding Chaos-corrupted real space.
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Necron warriors were once organic beings called the Necrontyr who transferred their consciousness into immortal metal bodies roughly sixty-five million years before the current Warhammer 40,000 timeline.
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Orks in Warhammer 40,000 involuntarily generate a psychic field called the Waaagh that makes their ramshackle weapons function through collective belief rather than proper engineering.
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Tyranid hive fleets consume entire star systems to biomass, with individual creatures ranging from six-meter-tall Warriors to planet-sized Hive Ships spanning kilometers in Warhammer 40,000.
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Cadia, the fortress world guarding the Cadian Gate against Chaos incursions, was destroyed in 999.M41 when Abaddon the Despoiler breached its defenses during the thirteenth Black Crusade in Warhammer 40,000 lore.
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Games Workshop's Space Marines measure exactly 28 millimeters in height from foot to eye level, establishing the standard scale for Warhammer 40,000 miniatures across all factions.
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The Emperor of Mankind has sat motionless on the Golden Throne for over ten thousand years, sustaining the Astronomican that allows faster-than-light travel across the Warhammer 40,000 galaxy.