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In the fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe the Horus Heresy was a galaxy-spanning civil war that marked the end of the 'Great Crusade'. It is also the title of a collectible card game produced by Sabertooth Games and an out of print Games Workshop game, with both games being based on the events which occurred in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.

The Great Crusade

When the warp storms that had cut off Terra subsided, and the Age of Strife came to an end, the Emperor deemed it time to begin his Great Crusade, a massive galactic campaign by which he and his armies would free human worlds from oppression, and unite the human race under one banner once again. Much of this can be read elsewhere, but suffice to say that to execute this grand plan he concieved of the Primarchs, but at their infancy, their were taken away from the Imperial Palace. Debate still rages about the cause of this; some argue that the Emperor sent the Primarchs away so that they could learn on their own way, others argue that Chaos outwitted the Emperor, and by snatching the Primarchs away, Chaos was able to corrupt them, thus leading to the Horus Heresy.

During the Great Crusade, the Emperor encountered each of the Primarchs in turn. A Space Marine legion had been made from each of the Primarchs' genetic material, and so the Emperor deemed it fitting that each Primarch should lead their Legion. However, this would prove a critical mistake, for after time many in the Legions who had been recruited after the Primarch's arrival began to follow their Primarch more than the Emperor.

After 200 years of hard conflict, over 2 million worlds had been reclaimed in the name of humanity. Beside him stood Horus, who had fought beside the Emperor for most of the Great Crusade as his only rediscovered son. The long times of conflict had forged a strong bond between them, and they were truly like father and son. But now the Emperor had an Imperium to manage, and the next phase of his Grand Plan to undertake. This required that he be on Terra, and so after a magnificent victory for Horus and his Legion, the Emperor chose to rename Horus' Legion from the Lunar Wolves to the Sons of Horus. Never before had such an honour been bestowed. But the Emperor also declared Horus Warmaster over all the Imperium's armies, and declared that he would lead the other Primarchs and their Legions through the remainder of the Great Crusade while the Emperor returned to Terra. At this announcement there was much shock and outrage. Many didn't understand why the Emperor was leaving them, and worse still why Horus should have command over them. Horus was grateful for the honour bestowed upon him, but he was secretly disappointed that the Emperor was leaving him.

The Corruption of the Legions

During the Great Crusade, it became apparent that the Primarchs were far from the perfect beings they were designed to be. Although each Primarch was physically and mentally a God, they were spiritually weak. The Primarchs turned out to have all too human a soul. During their upbringing on their respective homeworlds, the Primarchs had to learn humanity from others, for they didn't have the Emperor to teach them. This would prove fatal for half of the Primarchs.

Horus took over command of the Great Crusade, and began the preperations with earnest. However there was much dissention in the ranks of the Primarchs. Only the Primarchs Angron, Fulgrim, and Mortarion seemed to be steadfast beside him during this period of dissention. More and more Horus began to resent the Emperor for leaving him with this mess.

Meanwhile, the Emperor was on Terra organising the infrastructure for his Imperium to function. He created the Council of Terra, a body of beauracrats that would create and administer to the Imperial Tithe and matters of law. The Emperor then took a force of Adeptus Custodes, Sisters of Silence, engineers, scientists, tech-adepts, and workers into the dungeons of the Imperial Palace so that the Emperor could begin the next phase of his plan. Unknown to perhaps all save the Emperor, his mission was to save humanity from itself. The incidence of psyker mutation among the human populace was increasing, and if these emerging psykers were left unguarded and untrained, they would be a monumental danger to the human race, allowing uncounted armies of daemons and other warp creatures to enter Imperial worlds, enslaving humanity, and thus bringing humanity to the eternal service and slavery of Chaos. The Emperor was the first and most powerful of this new race of psykers, the New Man, but it would take many thousands or millions of years before the human race evolved into the New Man, a more capable, intelligent race, resistant to the attentions of Chaos. But this new race was still weak, fragile, and so the Emperor began the construction of huge engines capable of searching out latent psyker genes within the populace so that these latent psykers could be trained and purified. The Emperor seemed unwilling to disclose what he was doing to others.

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