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“The Horus Heresy is one of the foundational myths of the 40k universe. It’s where everything went bad. It’s viewed as a moment of great optimism. It was a golden age of humanity’s expansion to the edge of the galaxy and Manifest Destiny and all that good stuff, for the Imperium at least – and then unfortunately, half the Imperium turned on the Emperor. And it was a huge galactic-wide Civil War. The Emperor’s sons, the Primarchs, led by Horus, turned on their brothers and ignited the galaxy in this huge war that ultimately broke the Imperium… beyond all repair? – to be determined… And that led to the slow decline and stagnation that ultimately leads to the Imperium, 10,000 years in the Future. So it’s the creation myth, essentially, a time of legend, of Gods walking amongst men and great deeds bestriding worlds, that sort of thing.” Read more...
