The 40k wiki guys are at it again and this time taking us through to the Great Crusade! This is a good one to sit back and watch in a time period referred to throughout the background and lore of the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
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As the Warp Storms of the Age of Strife cleared, and Terra and Mars were successfully united under the aegis of the Emperor’s Imperium of Man, the Master of Mankind’s Great Crusade to reunite the human-settled galaxy could begin at last. But none knew what awaited the great fleets in the void beyond Sol.
The purpose of the Great Crusade was to first and foremost forever banish the horrors of Old Night. Civilization was to be restored to the galaxy as it had already been on Terra and Mars. Logic and reason would serve as the foundations of a new golden age.
To this end, the Emperor established a new bureaucracy for the Imperium, embodied in the War Council that directed the course of the crusade with the aid of the reestablished Navigator houses. Any newly conquered worlds were made compliant with the atheistic doctrine known as the Imperial Truth, while all psykers were collected to be returned to Terra on the Black Ships of the Astra Telepathica and any unfriendly xenos species were exterminated outright.
Among the greatest servants of the Great Crusade were the Rogue Traders Militant who served as outriders of the crusade’s many expeditionary fleets. It was a Rogue Trader who rediscovered the Knight Worlds of Humanity’s lost Age of Technology, and restored the power of their Knight walkers to the arsenals of both the Imperium and the Mechanicum.
The Mechanicum was also strengthened enormously by the reestablishment of contact between Mars and the many Forge Worlds it had settled blindly in the void during the millennia of Old Night.
Perhaps the greatest discovery of the Great Crusade’s early decades came on the world of Pentacanaes when a plague of rogue psykers led to the discovery of a group of women with the ability to defeat even the worst entities vomited forth by the Warp – though the price of this power included their own souls.
Finally, the crusade came to the dying mining world of Cthonia, and there discovered an individual who would have a greater impact upon the course of the Great Crusade than even the Emperor. His name was Horus…
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