Afterwards (A what if story about what the Primarchs do after the great crusade ends)

It is a time of legend.

Mighty heroes have battled for the right to rule the galaxy and succeeded. The vast armies of the Emperor of Earth have conquered the galaxy in a Great Crusade - the myriad of alien races have been smashed by the Emperor's elite warriors and wiped from the face of history.

The dawn of a new age of supremacy for humanity has begun.

Gleaming citadels of marble and gold continue to celebrate the many victories of the Emperor. Triumphs are raised on a million worlds to record the epic deeds of his most powerful and deadly warriors.

First and foremost amongst these are the Primarchs, super-heroic beings who have led the Emperor's armies of Space Marines in victory after victory. They are magnificent, the pinnacle of the Emperor's genetic experimentation. The Space Marines are the mightiest human warriors the galaxy has ever known, each capable of besting a hundred normal men or more in combat.

Organized into vast armies of tens of thousands called Legions, the Space Marines and their Primarch leaders have conquered the galaxy in the name of the Emperor and humanity.

But now, they rest.