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==Overview==
The Emperor had already been fighting on [[Terra]] with [[Thunder Warriors|genetically modified warriors]], but in the end they proved hyper-violent and short-lived. This project would be his greatest attempt to create generals to lead these warriors, second only to himself in skill, ability, and sheer power. It was begun in [[M29]] with the aim to create 20 cloned 'children' of the Emperor. The facility to create these [[Primarch]]s was constructed on [[Terra]] and the Emperor alongside the [[Perpetual]] [[Erda]]{{Fn|7}} . [[Biotechnical Division]] Director [[Amar Astarte]]{{Fn|6}} oversaw the project, having them grown in accelerated gene culturing chambers. His scientists watched over the growing fetuses in their chambers, afraid of what would happen if anything went wrong.{{cite this}}
According to [[Ingethel|Ingethel the Ascended]], the Primarchs were created by the Emperor with the aid of forbidden sciences and arcane lore derived from the [[Warp]].{{Fn|1}} [[Eldrad Ulthran]] also states that the Emperor utilized dark powers to construct the Primarchs.{{Fn|2}} It is speculated the Primarchs were imbued with energies and knowledge that the Emperor gained in a Warp Portal on [[Molech]].{{Fn|3}} The [[Perpetual]] [[Erda]] was used as the "mother" of the Primarchs, combining her genetic material with that of the Emperor's.{{Fn|7}} However, the [[Gods of Chaos]] somehow managed to spirit them away just prior to their maturation with a great [[Warp]] vortex{{Fn|4}} and it is speculated that they also managed to tamper with the infant Primarchs. The scattering of the Primarchs may have been the result of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causal_loop Causal Loop] created when [[Argel Tal]] and his men were sent back in time inside the [[Eye of Terror]] to the Emperor's laboratory, as they were convinced by [[Ingethel the Ascended]] to destroy the [[Gellar Field]]s protecting the infants from the touch of the Chaos Gods. Almost immediately after the Gellar Field generators were disabled, the Primarchs were sucked into a Warp vortex.{{Fn|1}} According to Erda, she was responsible for scattering the Primarchs in order to save her children from the fate the Emperor intended.{{Fn|7}} Several Primarchs including [[Konrad Curze]], [[Roboute Guilliman]], and even [[Sanguinius]] all came to believe that the scattering of the Primarchs and their upbringing on distant worlds had all been engineered by the Emperor.{{Fn|5}}