It is believed that the first Company Champions were to be found in the ranks of the Space Marine Legions as they fought in the Emperor's Great Crusade during the late 30th Millennium. Although most records from this time were lost during the dark days of the Horus Heresy and the strife that followed, there are fragmentary reports of heroes armed with shining blades and clad in the mightiest suits of Power Armour who protected their liege lords, the Primarchs and Praetors of the Legions, on the field of battle. What is known is that when the Ultramarines Primarch, Roboute Guilliman, came to break up the Legions and wrote the Codex Astartes in the early 31st Millennium –- the tenets of which still guide the organisation of the Adeptus Astartes ten millennia later – Company Champions were fi