The founder and ruler of the Imperium is the god-like Emperor of Mankind, the most powerful Human psyker ever born. However, there are other humanoid species classified as Imperial citizens, mainly mutant offshoots of genetic base-line Humans who are known as Abhumans and include such Human sub-species as the Ogryns, Ratlings and Squats. It is ruled by the living god who is known as the Emperor of Mankind. 'Be swift and silent - as the breeze that cross the dunes without stirring a grain of sand.The Imperium of Man, also called simply the Imperium, is a galaxy-spanning, interstellar Human empire, the ultimate authority for the majority of the Human species in the Milky Way Galaxy in the 41st Millennium A.D. These men are steel-eyed, cold-blodded killers and I'd as soon have a platoon of them in my force as I would a company of other troops' Ghran O'Hen on the Mordian Iron Guard 'They may spend every off-duty minute polishing their shiny boots and marching up and down the parade ground in perfect formation, but don't let that fool you. Emperor help me, I love this place - it's just like home!' Captain Rock commenting on Varestus Prime Three men dies from Eyerot last week and I've sweated enough to fill a lake. ' We've run into scoprions the size of battle tanks. 'Any Cadian who can't field-strip his own lasgun by age ten was born on the wrogn planet' anon That is the meaning of victory' Lord Solar Macharius

'The meaning of victory is not to merely defeat your enemy but to destroy him, to completely eradicate him from living memory, to leave no remnant of his endeavors, to crush him utterly in his achievement and remove from all record his every trace of existance. Rejoice for yourselves, for my faith is bottomless! Forward, for the Emperor!' Commissar Krieglust 'Weep for him, for his faith was not sufficient. 'What I cannot crush with words I will crush with the tanks of the Imperial Guard!' Lord Solar Macharius Over half a million fighting men and thirty thousand tanks and artillery pieces are mine to command.Įmperor show mercy to the fool who stands against me, for I shall not' Warmaster Demetrius Fifty regimebnts, including specialised drop troops, stealthers, mechanised formations, armoured companies and mobile artillery. 'I have at my command an entire battlegroup of the Imperial Guard. 'Peace? There cannot be peace in these times' Lord Solar Macharius The Quotes of the Imperial Guard (normally said, or coined by an Officer)

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