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| - The White Scars are a Loyalist Space Marine Chapter and one of the First Founding Legions of the Adeptus Astartes. Known and feared throughout the Imperium of Man for their highly mobile way of war, the White Scars are considered the masters of the lightning strike and hit-and-run attack and are particularly adapted to the use of the Astartes Assault Bike as their mechanical steeds and their forces contain an unusually large number of Bike Squads compared to other Chapters. Bearing the ritual scars of bravery, these fierce warriors fight with all the tribal savagery that define the fierce steppe nomads of their homeworld Mundus Planus, known to them as Chogoris, bringing swift death to all of the enemies of the Imperium. The fierce, honour-scarred Battle-Brothers of the White Scars Chapter are the inheritors of the Vth Space Marine Legion. Recruited from the most savage nomad tribes of the Feral World of Chogoris, the White Scars fight in the manner of the nomaid warriors of the steppes. Mounting lightning assaults utilising the fastest of vehicles, the White Scars descend upon their foes in an unstoppable torrent, their hearts filled with savage joy and the battle cry "For the Emperor and the Khan!" on their lips. The Primarch of the White Scars was the mighty Jaghatai Khan, the first and only warrior to have risen to such power that he could unite every one of the wild tribes of the Chogorian steppes into a single body. He achieved all this before the time when the Great Crusade reached Chogoris and the Primarch was re-united with his father. The young Jaghatai rose quickly to command the tribe that had adopted him, and by the strength of his rhetoric as well as his arm, he united the clans against their murderous city-dwelling oppressors. The steppes are said to have run red with blood as warriors united under Jaghatai’s black horsehair banner and avenged every wrong ever done to them. The cities were destroyed and their armies set to the sword, until finally, all of Chogoris belonged to the tribes of the steppes. Mere solar months later, the Great Crusade reached Jaghatai's new-won kingdom, and upon setting eyes upon his father he knew that here was a man who shared his vision of human unity. Jaghatai understood that a far greater prize than any he could have imagined lay before him -- the reunification of the entirety of Mankind. The ranks of the Vth Legion were swelled by the intake of warriors inducted from Jaghatai Khan's fierce army, the Legion inheriting the traditions of the Chogorian steppes nomads. Soon, the savagery of the tribes had bred itself into the Legion's gene-seed too, but it was tempered by the fierce sense of honour and justice embodied so perfectly by the Legion's Primarch. The White Scars fought with valour and determination throughout the Great Crusade, though the years immediately preceding the Horus Heresy were spent mired in a campaign against an Ork empire centred on the Chondax System. It was at the climax of this gruelling war that word arrived of the Warmaster Horus' treachery, and Rogal Dorn bade his brother Jaghatai to join with the Space Wolves of Leman Russ and return to Terra in preparation for the Traitors' assault. Anticipating such a move, the Warmaster despatched the Alpha Legion to engage the Space Wolves. Jaghatai was faced with the dilemma of aiding his brother Russ or answering Dorn's request. Forced to choose between his duty to his brother and duty to the Imperium, Jaghatai chose the latter, though the choice was far from easily made. The White Scars arrived at Terra in time to stand before the Traitors, though countless of their number gave their lives to thwart he who would undo the great work of the Father of Mankind. History recorded little of the Great Khan's actions during the Battle of Terra, but it is known that his Legion ranged the once-proud thoroughfares of Terra engaging the Traitors in punishing hit-and-run strikes, and that when the end finally came, the White Scars emerged from the fires of the galactic civil war bloodied, but alive. They must surely have been at the forefront of the Legions that pursued the defeated Traitors to the Eye of Terror during the Great Scouring that followed the Heresy, for to this day the White Scars rarely allow a defeated foe to slip away once their blood is up.
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