

The Imperial Fists were usually used to strike a decisive blow against the enemies He confronted during that time. Part of the Imperial Fists' duties during the Great Crusade were to function as the Emperor's "personal praetorians," accompanying Him everywhere. They maintain recruitment-chapels on various worlds spread throughout the Imperium.

Instead, the Imperial Fists rely on their 10,000-year-old mobile space fortress, Phalanx, to serve as their fortress-monastery. The Imperial Fists stand out from other Space Marine Chapters since they possess no fixed homeworld, although they are most frequently based on Terra. The Imperial Fists are one of the First Founding Chapters of the Space Marines and were originally the VII thLegion of the Legiones Astartes raised by the Emperor Himself from across Terra during the Unification Wars.
