His conclusions became the almost mythic book known as the Codex Astartes, a work so important its contents still form the basis of Space Marine organisation and tactics ten thousand years after it was originally compiled. His first duty was to revise the organisation of the Space Marines and to codify their institutions, doctrines and armorials. The High Lords tasked the Ultramarines Primarch Roboute Guilliman with the job of reordering the Imperial military forces. In most need of reorganising and restructuring were the devastated Space Marine Legions as these great armies had borne the brunt of the treachery done by the Warmaster Horus and his Traitor Legions. In the wake of the Horus Heresy the newly formed ruling council of the Imperium, the High Lords of Terra, set about rebuilding and repairing the damage wrought during this terrible civil war.
Roboute Guilliman, the Avenging Son, Primarch of the Ultramarines.
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" The uniforms of the Imperial Guard are camouflaged in order to protect their wearers by hiding them from sight.