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The '''Legion of the Damned''' are a legendary and mysterious force of [[Adeptus Astartes]]. Pale and gaunt [[Space Marines]] plated in black [[power armour]] adorned with death imagery, they unexpectedly appear from nowhere to help [[Imperial]] forces in times of great need. The truth behind their origin is currently unknown for certain, but [[Inquisitorial]] investigations have drawn a link between them and the lost [[Fire Hawks]] [[Chapter]].{{Fn|2}}
[[Image:LODMarine.jpg|thumb|right|A Damned Legion Marine{{Fn|4}}]]
File:Legion-of-the-damned-full-art.jpg|The Legion of the Damned on [[Certus Minor]], engaging [[Khorne|Khornate]] [[daemons]]
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The '''Legion of the Damned''' are a legendary and mysterious force of [[Adeptus Astartes]]. Pale and gaunt [[Space Marines]] plated in black [[power armour]] adorned with death imagery, they unexpectedly appear from nowhere to help [[Imperial]] forces in times of great need. The truth behind their origin is currently unknown for certain, but [[Inquisitorial]] investigations have drawn a link between them and the lost [[Fire Hawks]] [[Chapter]].{{Fn|2}}
==Background==
The Legion are afflicted by a warp contagion that destroys their sanity; as it progresses their bodies decay, but they grow in supernatural strength. Each Marine is rapidly approaching the moment when he will succumb to the contagion. Combat can initiate the final stages of the disease, in which the Marine reaches a peak in power and enters a berserker state.{{Fn|1a}}
===The Damned Legion===
[[Image:LODMarine.jpg|thumb|right|A Damned Legion Marine{{Fn|4}}]]
In the year 963.[[M41]] the Fire Hawks were sent to the [[Crows World]] [[subsector]] against [[Eldar]] pirates. The entire chapter-fleet, including the chapter's mobile space-fortress [[Raptorus Rex]]{{Fn|1a}}, made a successful warp jump from the Piraeus system 120 light years to Crows World. The five ships, over eight hundred brethren, and two thousand other personnel expected to reach Crows World within no more than 12 hours. They never arrived.{{Fn|1a}}
The Legion has even appeared in the astral docks of [[Luna]], freeing a [[Salamanders]] kill team from the vacuum traps of the renegade Draco Clan. This act allowed the Space Marines to intercept a transfer shuttle that had been wired to detonate upon landing within the Great [[Terra]]n Autoarchive. If the Autoarchive had been lost, the Adeptus Administratum would have suffered a blow that would have compromised their logic engines across the galaxy, and possibly even prevented the Imperium from coordinating its military actions for the
best part of a century.{{cite this}}
[[Image:LoD Marine.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Legion of the Damned Marine{{Fn|5}}]]
====Other Notable Sightings====
*Brother [[Tacitus]] - took part in the Fall of Kanak{{Fn|9}}
==Further imagesImages==<gallery heights="160px" widths="220px" mode="packed" caption="">File:Legion-of-the-damned-full-art.jpg|The Legion of the Damned on [[Certus Minor]], engaging [[Khorne|Khornate]] [[daemons]]</gallery> ===Miniatures===*{{Mainmain|Miniatures: Legion Of The Damned}}
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LOD5th.jpg|Legion of the Damned Miniatures (5th Edition){{Fn|19}}
Wd236US lotd tactical.jpg|Legion of the Damned Miniatures (3rd Edition){{Fn|18}}
</gallery>
==Related ArticlesSee also==
*[[Loyal Space Marine Chapters (List)]]
*[[Space Marine Forces (List)]]
==Sources==
*1: [[White Dwarf 99 (UK)]]:
**{{Endn|1a}}: pgs. 39-42 — ''Index Astartes: Legion of the Damned'', pgs. 39-42
**{{Endn|1b}}: pg. 49
*{{Endn|2}}: [http://web.archive.org/web/20050415090216/uk.games-workshop.com/spacemarines/cursed/2/ Games Workshop Online - Founding 21] ''(accessed 2007.02.19)''
*{{Endn|3}}: [[White Dwarf 195 (UK)]], pgs. 11-15 — ''Legion of the Damned: Veteran Sergeant Centurius''
*4: [[Codex: Legion of the Damned]] (E-Book):
**{{Endn|4a}}: ''The Hunt for the Truth''
*{{Endn|12}}: [[Animus Malorum (Short Story)]]
*{{Endn|13}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (6th Edition)]], pg. 104
*{{Endn|14}}: [[The Devastation of Baal (Novel)]]{{CME}}
*{{Endn|15}}: [https://archive.ph/yLjw0 Games Workshop: The Dark Crusade is upon us - Imperial Servants: Other Chapters: Octavius] (Saved archive page, dated 14 October 2006, last accessed 18 July 2024)
*{{Endn|16}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (6th Edition)]] (E-Book Edition), pg. 69
*{{Endn|17}}: [[Watchers of the Throne: The Emperor's Legion (Novel)]], chChapter. 13
*{{Endn|18}}: [[White Dwarf 236 (US)]], pg. 109
*{{Endn|19}}: [[White Dwarf 362 (UK)]], February 2010, pg. 9
*[[Index Astartes I]] — The Cursed Founding.
*[[Chapter Approved 2003]]
*[[White Dwarf #223 (US)]]
*[[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]], pg. 95
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