Editing Hektor Heresy (section)

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<center>'''THE APOTHEOSIS OF URIEL'''</center>
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While his gene-sons trailed the Entombed, Uriel Salazar remained on Caria. For weeks, the Primarch walked among the fallen sons of Golgothos, meditating on the paths of fate that had led to this point. He had knelt before Aubrey and accepted the benedictions of his strange Xenos allies for the sake of pursuing the Great Truth of the galaxy, and joined his forces to Hektor's in exchange for further wisdom. Yet for all this time, Uriel had thought himself his own man, an agent that acted apart from fate. Doubts about his role now emerged. He had tried to negotiate with Golgothos and avoid using Johannes Vrach's bio-weapon, but it seemed that his warnings had only invited the Entombed to land and be devastated. Was this the hand of the "Architect of Fate" spoken of in Xenos texts?  What, then, was the feeling of free will that he experienced?  Uriel pondered the question deeply and finally saw into the heart of the illusion. The Architect's plans were inescapable and bound all beings to the web of fate. But the Changer of Ways gave mortals the freedom to ''understand'' their place in the universe and match their wills to His, becoming spiders on that web rather than mere feebly-struggling insects. Exultant, Uriel shed his limitations and became Tzeentch's Chosen.
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''My old life is at an end.  No more shall I fight for pride or greed, no more shall I serve an impure master.  Today I am born again, a rock in the great Bulwark against barbarism.''

- Oath of the Bulwark

After their fateful attack on Caria, the remains of the Entombed returned to Sepulchra to plan their next move. While they had lost the body of the Legion, the remaining warriors were Terminator-clad veterans and ancients interred in mighty Dreadnoughts. If they could link up with other Loyalist forces to cover their flanks, Golgothos's force could still make an impact. To the Primarch's distress, his warriors would face another sneak attack as they approached their homeworld. Cardinal Obitus had seized power on Sepulchra and turned the planet's defence batteries on his gene-father's ships as they approached. The reasons for this betrayal are lost to history, but Obitus probably became embroiled in Aubrey the Grey's conspiracy at Olmer. Golgothos, already half-mad with grief from the losses on Caria, became completely irrational and screamed orders at his warriors to destroy Obitus and his followers. The Entombed needed little encouragement. Their ships braved Sepulchra's defences and the sons of Golgothos assaulted their homeworld with a silent fury. Whatever reward Obitus had been promised for his treachery, he did not survive to receive it.

After putting down Obitus, the Entombed went on the warpath. No more thoughts of linking up with other Loyalists. No more plan to turn the tide of war. The Legion now lived - or perhaps more accurately, refused to die - only to seek out the strongholds of the Traitors and destroy them. Their rampage south across the Segmentum Obscurus showed little discrimination and many worlds that had declared for neither side in the confusion of the Heresy were attacked. In the wake of the Entombed came the Justiciars, presenting themselves as saviours to terrified Imperial citizens. From this frightened mass Uriel's sons gathered many new recruits for the ranks of their auxilia. Although the Entombed crossed the border of the Segmentum Solar as a small band of elite warriors, the Justiciars followed them as a mighty Legion.

Segmentum Pacificus also suffered the ravages of Space Marines gone rogue. Unlike the berserk Entombed, the sadistic Mastodontii moved systematically and revelled in the fear of their victims.  With the Void Angels still missing and the Silver Cataphracts encamped at Terra, Tollund Ötztal's marines were almost unopposed. The only centre of power with the strength to hold off the Mastodontii was the mighty Forge World [[Al-Sherar]]. Sheltered behind the long walls of her defensive satellites, Al-Sherar dispatched warships to protect her colonies and allies, affirming that her empire within an Empire deserved the name "Realm of Peace". Of course, there were many more targets than the Kazi could protect and they lacked the doctrine to hunt down the roving Space Marines. When confronted by Mechanicum warships, Mastodontii hunting packs simply turned about and looked to one of countless undefended worlds.

Even where the Space Marines were not taking out their appetites on humanity, the fabric of the Imperium was tearing. Imperial governors and Imperial Army commanders began to act as autocrats, seeking no superior authority. Even where these petty despots claimed to only be carrying out an independent policy "for the duration of the emergency", they also reserved the right to define when the emergency ended. Others unabashedly embraced new masters, making pacts with powerful Xenos or kowtowing to the Ruinous Powers. Much of the vast Ultima Segmentum was beyond even the nominal rule of Terra, but a new empire was rising. [[Sebastion Rex]], formerly of the Heralds of Hektor, was gathering renegade Space Marines and other warriors to his banner. In the reaches of Ultima, Sebastion proclaimed [[the Bulwark]] as a shelter for that portion of mankind who wanted nothing of the war between the Primarchs. While the Bulwark would not last, for a few short years it was a vibrant light in the Galaxy, home to refugees and fortune-seekers, pacifists and rogue warriors alike, all under the enlightened despotism of the Rex.