
This was due to the massive Warp Storms that swept the galaxy as the Immaterium was roiled by the millennia-long gestation of the Chaos God Slaanesh and the turbulence that marked the decay of the Aeldari Empire before the Fall.ĭuring this dark time, Terra sometimes held sway over the Sol System, while at other times the rulers of Mars or Luna were dominant. " And in that time the Great Beasts shall walk the earth,īeneath their tread shall cities become as dustīy their burning breath shall civilisations be as ash,ĭuring the turbulent era known as the Age of Strife or " Old Night," the Sol System and the nearby star systems that had been colonised by Humanity during the Age of Technology were effectively cut off from interstellar travel or communication with each other. 16 Great Scouring and the Time of Rebirth.4 Corruption of the Space Marine Legions.When the effects of the deification of the Emperor, the theological needs of the Adeptus Ministorum and the outright deletions and fabrications of Imperial history carried out by the Inquisition are added into the equation, the truth of the events surrounding the Horus Heresy could prove very shocking indeed to the people of the Imperium. The Horus Heresy occurred over ten thousand Terran years ago, a nearly unimaginable span of time as a result, it has become nothing more than a collection of often distorted or misunderstood legends and mythology to the average Imperial citizen. While the below account is highly detailed, it should be noted that much of this information would be completely unknown to the average inhabitant of the Imperium of Man in the 41st Millennium. The Heresy was directly responsible for the birth of the present-day structure of the Space Marine Chapters following the Second Founding and the reorganisation of the Imperium by the Ultramarines' Primarch Roboute Guilliman as lord commander of the Imperium and Imperial Regent during the Time of Rebirth in the 31st Millennium. The Heresy concluded with the death of the traitorous Warmaster Horus, the internment of the Emperor in the Golden Throne and the exile into the Eye of Terror of the Heretic Astartes Traitor Legions. The conflict was fought across the Milky Way Galaxy early in the first century of the 31st Millennium and resulted in more than 2.3 trillion dead, 4.6 trillion if one includes the planetary populations purged by the Imperium after the Heresy due to the taint of Chaos corruption. Over 9 Terran years the war raged, 7 of them consumed by Horus' drive on the Throneworld, until coming to a final cataclysm on Terra itself where Horus was slain and the Emperor mortally wounded, His dreams of creating a brighter future for Mankind forever broken. Horus convinced half of the other primarchs and Space Marine Legions, as well as large swathes of the Imperial Army and the forces of the ancient Mechanicum, to turn Traitor alongside him and unleash a cataclysmic attempt to conquer the galaxy in his name. The Chaos Gods fed Horus' innate ambition and sense of betrayal by the Emperor until he turned upon his father and sought to claim the Imperium of Man for his own. The civil war began following the corruption by the Ruinous Powers of Chaos of the Imperial Warmaster Horus Lupercal, the primarch of the Sons of Horus Legion and the most beloved genetic son of the Emperor. The Horus Heresy is in many ways the founding event of the Imperium of Man as it now exists. Its outbreak marked the end of the Emperor of Mankind's Great Crusade to reunite the scattered colony worlds of Humanity in the Milky Way Galaxy under a single government and the beginning of the current Age of the Imperium. The Horus Heresy, sometimes referred to poetically as the " Age of Darkness", was a galaxy-spanning civil war that consumed the worlds of Mankind for 9 Terran years. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.Emperor of Mankind mortally wounded and placed within the Golden Throne Horus slain by the Emperor Traitor Legions broken and flee towards the Eye of Terror true beginning of the Age of the Imperium Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0ĭecisions - Kevin MacLeod () Kantor Blue, Caledor Sky, Teclis blue, Rakarth flesh, Palid witch flesh, White scar, Khorne red, Wazdakka red, Wild rider Red, Mournfang Brown, deathclaw brown, Bugman's glow, Cadian Flesh tone, Kislev Flesh, Vallejo model color black, Eshin grey, Celestra grey, Ulthuan grey, Balthazar gold, Gehena's gold, p3 Cold Steel, p3 quicksilver, Nuln oil, Agrax earthshade, Drakenhof nightshade, Reikland flesh shade, Blood for the blood god.
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