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|cellpadding=2 cellspacing=1 style="font-size:95%;font:95%"|'''Sub-Branches'''
|cellpadding=2 cellspacing=1 style="font-size:95%;font:95%"|[[Solar Auxilia]]<br>[[Imperialis Militia]]<br>[[Imperialis Armada]]<br>[[Divisio Aeronautica]]
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|cellpadding=2 cellspacing=1 style="font-size:95%;font:95%"|'''Established'''
|cellpadding=2 cellspacing=1 style="font-size:95%;font:95%"|Post-[[Horus Heresy]]
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The '''Imperial Army''' (also known as the '''Imperialis Auxilia''' in [[High Gothic]]{{Fn|20}}) was the largest military force in the early Imperium, and was founded during the early [[Great Crusade]] to fill the need for more manpower to support the [[Space Marine Legion|Astartes Legions]], and quickly was used to garrison worlds and to perform sieges and mass invasions{{Fn|1}}. The '''[[Imperialis Armada]]''' was the fleet subset of the Imperial Army and was subordinate to it, while its aerial warfare branch was known as the [[Divisio Aeronautica]].{{Fn|2x44}}, and both of them These units were in turn subordinate to the [[Space Marines|Astartes]] command structure{{Fn|1}}. The Imperial Army itself was part of the [[Excertus Imperialis]], constituting one of its many divisions.{{Fn|41a}}
The fighting elite of the Imperial Army was the [[Solar Auxilia]], which comprised about 20-25% of the Army's strength by the end of the Great Crusade.{{Fn|21}} The whole strength of the Imperial Army numbered in the many billions.{{Fn|41b}} The Imperial Army also maintained a force of auxiliaries known as the [[Imperialis Militia]].
*{{Endn|42}}: [[Horus Heresy: Age of Darkness 3rd Edition Rulebook]], pg. 27
*{{Endn|43}}: [[Macragge's Honour (Graphic Novel)]], Dramatis Personae
*{{Endn|44}}: [[Horus Heresy: Aeronautica Imperialis]], pg. 91
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