Description
The Solar Auxilia were some of the most elite, disciplined and well-equipped fighting forces of the burgeoning Imperium of Man among the myriad regiments and battalions of the Excertus Imperialis, more commonly referred to as the "Imperial Army," during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy in the late 30th and early 31st Millennia.
The Solar Auxilia cohorts and regiments formed the backbone of the Imperium's military forces after the dawning of the Great Crusade. While the Space Marines of the Legiones Astartes were both the standard-bearers of the Great Crusade, and without doubt its principal and unstoppable strength, the Solar Auxilia were often its indispensable pathfinders and its most reliable foot soldiers. And, as the Imperium expanded to encompass thousands of worlds, the Solar Auxilia were its first line of protection against those who would destroy it from without or disturb its peace from within.
