Warhammer 40k, Thunder Warriors

Alas, for them, the warriors of caged thunder and with whom lightning smote, they have burned the brightest in glory, but burned The Thunder Warriors, also sometimes referred to in ancient records as the Thunder Legion and the Thunder Regiments, and known in High Gothic as the Legio Cataegis, were the 20 regiments or legions of geneticallyengineered, superhuman warriors of Terra created by the design of the Emperor of Mankind through alchemical augmentation, somatic genesculpting and musclegrafting techniques. Their purpose was to unite the homeworld of humanity beneath the Emperor s rule during the Unification Wars on Terra in the late 29th and 30th Millenniums. They were the first geneenhanced warriors created by the Emperor and served as the precursors to the presentday Space Marines, though they were created from adult male supporters of the Emperor rather than adolescents. The Thunder Warriors legions were commanded by geneticallyidentical Cat