What is it to be a Space Marine?
- It is to be death!
What is it to be death?
- It is to be the destroyer, the end of all things.
What is it to end life?
- It is an honour, to be the executioners of the Emperor.
Why do we fight?
- To protect the Imperium and deliver mankind from the evil of the xenos, the mutant and the heretic!
What is the xenos?
- A blight to be purged!
What is the mutant?
- A cancer to be excised!
What is the heretic?
- A shame to be expunged!
What is the bolter, the flamer, the missile?
- The incarnation of destruction, by which we bring about the death of the Emperor's foes!
What is the armour, the helm and the shield?
- The embodiment of our faith, our determination given form.
Who is the primarch?
- Our father, our guide, our king!
Who is the Chapter Master?
- The primarch's regent, to whom we swore oaths, the voice of the Emperor in the mortal world.
What are our oaths?
- The steel that binds our lives to the Emperor.
What did we swear?
- Our lives are as nought in the vision of the Emperor, save that by them we shall destroy all foes.
What is the fate of all foes?
- To perish in the fire of battle and be cleansed from the galaxy.
Who will prevail against the darkness?
- The Ultramarines!
Who are the swords of the Emperor?
- The Ultramarines!
Who are the sons of Macragge?
- The Ultramarines!
For the Emperor and the primarch! Death! Bring death to our foe!