Seeking to reclaim the former glory of the guilded age of the Imperium, the High Lords of Terra hatched a brilliant and terrifying plan... The High Lords would create a new set of Primarches, to lead the armies of the Imperium, and bring back the Golden Age of the Imperium, when the Emperor and his Primarches walked among the stars...
Deep in the Imperial Palace, in a chamber behind the Golden Throne, lies all the research the Emperor used to create his 20 superhuman Primarches... The High Lords believed they could duplicate the work, they believed they could play god... The High Lords of Terra set about the task, The Fabricator General gave the orders to begin construction on the laboratory that would be the birthplace of the new Primarches...
The site selected for the spawning was the ancient site of the spawning of the first Primarches... Since the birthplace of the First Primarchs was and is a holy place to the children of the Imperium, the Cardinal of the Holy Synod of the Imperium decreed that the no one, not even the high clerics of the synod would be allowed to worship till the work was complete... In the interest of secrecy, and because the act of recreation would be viewed by the General Populace as an act of sacrilege, the populace were told that the shrines would be closed for restoration due to damage sustained at the hands of an accident...
The best scientific minds of the Adeptus Custodies were set to work interpreting the research... It was ten years before the these minds finally began to gain the understanding needed to accomplish the task set before them... Still they were kept in the dark of the true goal of the project which they worked on... Before the real work of creation could begin however, A sample of the genetic material of the Emperor would have to be gleaned... For it was from his own genetic material that the Emperor created his twenty Superhuman Primarchs...
This task was relegated to the Officio Assassinorum for only they had the skills necessary to accomplish this task... The honor and shame of sacrilege fell to the Grandmaster of Assassins to glean the genetic sample from which the work would proceed... Since only the High Lords and, custodians and guards had access to the Golden Throne, the Grandmaster would complete this task himself... The act took only a moment to accomplish, in the blink of an eye, the probe slipped through the ozone laden energy that surrounded the golden throne and pierced the skin of the Emperor... And then it was over...
With the genetic material in hand the High Lords could proceed... Once the scientists had the genetic material, its molecules were separated out one by one, twenty strands of the DNA of the Emperor were isolated... Along with help from the Fraternal Order of Navigators who next to the Emperor knew the most about warpspace, the DNA strands were combined with warp energy, refashioned into the separate beings they would become... The Primarchs grew quickly, and at every stage of development, they were checked for impurities, and the taint of chaos... Into their genetic codes were sown the seeds of the Imperium, all the knowledge and fighting prowess that is the vastness of the Imperium... Because they were the product of the Emperor and of the warp, they all had inherent psychic potential though some more than others due to the way they were combined with warpspace....
Similarly, some would have more prowess with fighting and some with building etc.... But like the first founding of the Primarchs, this founding of Primarchs did not go unnoticed by the Chaos Gods either... Once again they were threatened with the thought that these superhumans posed a great threat to them... so once again, they hatched a plot to rid themselves of the primarchs... This time they would not simply cast these threats to the warp, they would see them destroyed by physical means... The Chaos Gods were not the only ones aware of the project... Through all the centuries of time that had passed since his battle with Horus, the Emperor stood vigil and in turmoil with the warp... He knew that if unleashed the Primarches could be tainted by Chaos once again, and without him, humanity may not be able to survive... So he would put an end to this endeavor... He reached out with his vast mind, and lifted the veil of deception within the scientists minds... With the knowledge of the sacrilege they were committing, some of the scientists killed themselves unable to face what they had done... yet still others sought out to destroy the work before it could be completed, thus attaining absolution for their crimes...
These few devised the plan to destroy the Primarchs... They would destroy the lab, and the incubation chambers in which the foetal superhumans were maturing... But at the last moment, the Emperor who was standing vigil over the superhumans to ensure their destruction, could not see his offspring totally destroyed, opened a rift in warpspace and carried the superhumans into the warp with him... Knowing that they would not be safe there, he cast them to another time and place... Where they could take up the struggle against chaos... To hide his intent and the new home of these Primarchs, the Emperor set the Warp into a storm the likes of which even the chaos gods could not imagine...
For the next seven centuries, the warpstorm raged, cutting off one part of the galaxy from the other... As his last act before returning to the turmoil of the warp, he enlightened several members of the Inquisition Conclave as to the true plans of the High Lords... One Assassin was activated, and the High Lords responsible for the defilement of the Emperor died quietly and without fanfare... The Scientists and everyone remotely involved with the project were subjected to the Exterminatus... All records of the High Lords their scientists, anyone involved, along with all research involving the creation of the Primarchs was purged from imperial record... Anyone who knew anyone involved with the project had the memory of those people purged from their mind... Thus there is no knowledge of the second founding of Primarchs...
The new Primarchs were sent to a feral planet known as Sosaria where they were taken as the orphan children, and raised by the inhabitants of that planet... They grew up, and in the brutality of that feral planet, they thrived... But this planet was more than a match for these superhumans... For it was a planet that existed near enough to warpspace that magic walked strongly upon its face... Creatured born of the warp could exist here, and thrive as well... The Primarchs struggled in this land, and some found each other... It is said that two of them fought, shattering the world of Sosaria into thousands of shards each of which held a perfect duplicate of the world, and the Primarchs were again scattered among these shards...
The Primarchs scattered as they were, made homes within these shards, and had children... The Primarchs eventually faded from the world of Sosaria, there only legacy the children they left behind... It is whispered that perhaps the Emperor called his children home to fight along side his other children in the Warp against the forces of Chaos... Thus we who are of their blood, take their name to remember them, and try to achieve their ideals... We tell their saga to remind us who we are, and why we are here in this land of Britannia...
-Marcalla... Primarch , Avenger...Adeptus Astaries...
