Novamarines

Novamarines armorial with Legion iconography.

Novamarines Tactical Legionary of the 2nd Chapter, 4th Tactical Squad.

The **Novamarines** is the XIVth Legion of the Legiones Astartes in the Imperium of Man. Its Primarch is Marteau Carul. Part of the Anti-Corward Campaigns of the Great Crusade, the legion reunited with its Primarch relatively quickly, and was reorganized to focus on Caerul's "Guerre de Maneouvre" doctrine. In the 41st Millennium it is stationed in the Segmentum Tempestus on Alpinie, where the Fortress Monastery Saint Rouge is located.

## Legion History

### Early Great Crusade

The XIVth Legion saw its first conflict during the Battle of Castra Ferrata during the Titanic War. It performed well in combined arms operations throughout the Solar Crusade, and utilizing Auxiliary units with Astarte regiments extremely effectively.

## Legion Homeworld

### Fortress-Monastery

The Saint Rouge is located offshore away from Alpinie's planetary capital of Melange. Designed by Caerul, it's not designed to fair well against any direct attack.

The outside is designed for aesthetic purposes so that it can serve as an effective propaganda piece, with a large stadium outside where heroes give speeches to boost support for the war effort. Surrounding the Bellerose Stadium are several film studios. The films made are meant to reinforce the ideologies of Caerul and the Emperor, even when they conflict. The psychic powers of the astropaths are ineffective when sending terabytes of nonessential visual data, so a small fleet sends the films to Imperial worlds within 100 lightyears of Alpinie.

The Saint Rouge also houses a massive Administratum presence, so as to make sure Caerul's domain is managed effectively. The Novamarines sponsor a school for citizens looking to join the Administratum, a great university that draws in the young and talented from 1000 stars to rule in the style of Marteau.

In theory, the Saint Rouge also houses Marteau Caerul's personal office, however Caerul is almost always away on campaign, or politicking on Terra. His empty office is nothing much to behold, only looking different from the standard ones due to its large furniture designed to fit the large Primarch. Staff make sure that information is up to date, and the President of the Council of the Syndicates performs routine bureaucracy in his stead.

## Legion Appearance

### Legion Colours

The Novamarines Legion wears a bold quartered livery consisting of ultramarine blue and bone white. The Legion's rare use of a quartered livery is base upon their Primarch's personal heraldry, further setting their gene-sire's stamp upon the XIV Legion. The Aquila or Imperialis on the plastron (chest guard) is black. A black coloured open-faced squad specialty icon is stenciled upon the right armorial inset; this more discrete iconography best displays the Legion's quartered heraldry. This icon indicates a Legionary's assigned squad specialty (Devastator, Destroyer, Assault, Tactical, Veteran or Command). A black coloured High Gothic numeral is stenciled in the center of this icon, indicating a battle-brother's assigned squad. A larger black coloured roman numeral stenciled upon the left poleyn (knee guard) indicates a legionary's assigned Chapter.

### Legion Badge

The Novamarines' Legion badge takes the form of a large white coloured skull centered upon a field of ultramarine blue. This central symbol is surrounded by a white stylised star that resembles an Iron Halo.

## Notable Quotes

### By the Novamarines

"*Before a conflict begins, a wise commander will have already layed out concrete goals, the methods with which he seeks to achieve those goals, and how he intends to maintain the political situation he desires.*"
— Francois Bellerose, *On The Stars*
"*We are not gods brother, simply men who have been born in extraordinary circumstances. It is this idolatry that we see amongst the Xenos we despise, this blind faith which is ultimately their undoing. Do not bring mankind down that path.*"
— Primarch Marteau Caerul to Ascalon Troyes

## Gallery

Legio XIV Novamarines chart.A Novamarines Veteran Legionary arrayed in formidable Cataphractii pattern Terminator Armour.