Quartus Imperium

## Military

### Military

170 trillion PDF, 17 trillion Guardsmen, 100 Titan Legions, 4 Legions of Trueborn Astartes (several million)

### Extraordinary assets

4 Primarchs (Vulkan, Russ, Corax, Khan), Fenris

## Known Relations

### Allies

Empire of Ashes (Allies), Grand Conclave (Founding Member)

### Enemies

Pirate Empire (War of Annihilation), Orks (War), Black Imperium (Bitter Enemies)

The Quartus Imperium may be the youngest of the major human powers but it has been in the making since the Death of the Emperor, or perhaps even longer. It is known that the area was one of the locations where the Emperor blessed a Living Saint before his death, said Saint having done much work to stabilise it while alive. It is also known that Vulkan was found on Nocturne shortly after the Death of the Emperor and was soon met by Corax, who filled him in on what had been happening for the last ten thousand years. Between the two of them they came up with a plan to create a powerful Imperial Successor state that could weather the dangers to come.

Given the number of enemies that any polity commanded by one of the Loyalist Primarchs would find themselves facing it was decided to arrange matters so that when they revealed themselves a powerful polity could be formed immediately. To carry this out Corax and the Raven Guard would work with allies that he had made over the years to ensure that none of the major players would intervene in the selected area while diverting major threats, and Vulkan and the Salamanders would quietly make themselves into regional heroes while working to strengthen the region, and its fortifications. As time went by certain worlds were let into the plan and assisted with the preparations. Finally, the Primarchs took advantage of the Black Imperium's distraction dealing with an Ork Conflagration to reveal their presence and form the Quartus Imperium.

The Quartus Imperium is the largest of the human remnants, containing almost a hundred and fifty sectors and still growing. It stretches from Noctrone to Ryza and includes legendary worlds such as Catachan, Chogoris and many of the Imperium's most prosperous worlds. These worlds have been made even more prosperous by the technology that the primarchs have provided, which includes both much of the technology lost by the Imperium over the years as well as some created or found by the Primarchs.

Like most human polities Quartus Imperium is feudal, with each world, sector, oversector having their own leaders with their own rights and responsibilities. Unlike many polities these leaders do not command the local forces, though they are required to supply them. While the authority of the Primarchs and their subordinates is absolute they most often work though the system that they have set up rather then overriding it, barring times of disaster.

While the four Primarchs are considered equal they each have their own set of responsibilities and military forces. First is Vulkan, who oversees the administration of the Quartus Imperium and commands the Salamander Legions, who are the defensive specialists. As well as the PDF forces that are stationed in every world this fore includes more elite units that are used to reinforce worlds that are either attacked or likely to be attacked. Next is Corax, who is both the spymaster of the Quartus Imperium and the commander of the Raven Legions, the covert operatives of the Quartus Imperium. It is these forces that sabotage enemy forces, set one foe upon each other and hunt down hostile agents. Then comes Russ, who commands the Wolf Legions, the heavy forces of the Quartus Imperium. The Wolf Legions are a handful of powerful forces that are prepared for war on a grand scale. It is them who are expected to meet Black Crusades, Ork Conflagrations and other overwhelming forces head on and achieve victory. Finally there is Jaghatai Khan who commands the Hawk Legions, the skirmishes of the Quartus Imperium. The Hawk Legions are the forces which prosecute the countless small wars that plague the borders of the Quartus Imperium, and act to slow the progress of larger attack while a Wolf Legion is moved to meet it.

Despite being newly founded Quartus Imperium is one of a handful of bastions of sanity in this dark era, and is expected to continue to grow. Unlike the other human powers it has been acting on a galactic scale since the Death of the Emperor, with the Raven Guard being a presence in countless sectors of the galaxy. Exactly how they are pulling off this mobility in this age is unknown, but an alliance with the Eldar is suspected. Now that it is know the Quartus Imperium will be considered to the the true successors of the Imperium due to the Primarchs that lead it, both giving it both a great deal of influence with the surviving Imperial Remnants and making it one of the primary targets of Abbadon's Black Imperium, which is well over ten times its size.

While it has not really acted on the galactic scale other then surviving rumors of its existence have spread far and wide, leading to many Mechanicus Domains and other human survivors to send refugees towards it when they fall.

The forces of the Quartus Imperium are in many ways similar to those of the Great Crusade, with the exception of the Trueborn Astartes. The Trueborn Astartes are an improvement to the normal Astartes creation method that Corax has created over the millennia since his disappearance, based on the Raptors that he created during the Great Crusade. These Astartes use additional material from their Primarch and are superior in almost every way to their counterparts. Interesting enough they are also take far more after their progenitor, with traits such as Shadow-Walking becoming almost commonplace.

As of the Fourth Grand Conclave, The Imperium Quartus remains the most powerful of the Human Remnants. It controls seven hundred sectors, many densely populated, and has no immediate threats. This has allowed them to send various expeditionary fleets to aid their allies, with the Wolf legions of the Quartus Imperium playing a major part of the Deceiver War while the Hawk Legions are working closely with the Thousand Points of Light.