Global Crossing: Empire of Stars

The combat experience of these elite Starry Sky Army troops was the most precious asset of all. Whether the army later upgraded its templates and turned these renowned elite troops into specialized super-legions through Gene Evolution, or combined the combat experience of these legions to establish entirely new military units, the Army Department had made a fortune this time.

Lin Zhichen nodded. There were far too many demons and monsters in the Milky Way Galaxy of the Instance World, and the Starry Sky Army's casualties remained high. There was no doubt that those who had carved out a great reputation were elites among the countless billions of soldiers. Their combat power was beyond question.

Seeing that the fighting in the Webway had stabilized, he withdrew his gaze and looked toward a star region in the Milky Way Galaxy: Macragge, the foundation of the Imperium of Man's military might, and the homeworld of the Ultramarines Legion, one of the twenty Astartes legions created through Gene Modification.

To launch the Great Expedition and unite the entire Imperium of Man, the Emperor had once made a dangerous bargain with the Warp's evil gods. In exchange for half of the Primarchs, he obtained a portion of the Warp's essence from them. He used it to create twenty-one Primarchs, then drew on their genes to create Gene-Modified warriors—the Astartes—and establish twenty Astartes Legions.

The Ultramarines Legion was the Thirteenth Legion. Its Primarch, Roboute Guilliman, possessed outstanding political talent. Under his leadership, the entire Ultramarines Legion became renowned throughout the Imperium for its political and administrative abilities. Under the governance of these warriors, five hundred colony worlds became jewels of the Imperium, and this region became the Ultramarines Legion's home.

When the Instance World merged with reality, the only Primarch still living within the Imperium of