Editing Hektor Heresy (section)

===The Emperor's Sacrifice===
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<center>'''THE SAVIOUR EMPEROR'''</center>
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Many of the veterans of the Battle of Terra - and bloody as it was, billions survived - would remember the Emperor's great contributions to the defence of humanity's homeworld. Tales of His duel with Hektor and final sacrifice in the depths would become the stuff of legend, then fade to myth and become religion. The horrors of the Heresy mocked the rational ideals of the Imperial Truth and across the stars the people of the Imperium began to embrace the simpler truth that the Emperor was their Saviour and their God.
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The Emperor of Mankind had little time to grieve his fallen son. Even as the great Traitor host reeled in dismay at Hektor's death, a new and more terrible threat was unfolding below. Golgothos the Fervent had been defeated in battle by Aubrey the Grey and his broken body dragged from the Dreadnought hulk that had sustained it. The dying Primarch was forced to watch as his Traitor brother's foul sorcery rent the Warp and unleashed a tide of daemons. Leaving Alexandri of Rosskar to oversee the repulse of Hektor's demoralised army, the Emperor and Shakya Vardhana took their bodyguards and teleported as close to Aubrey's position as they could. The instability of the Warp beneath the surface scattered the strike force, leaving each warrior alone to fight against the emerging daemonic horde. Despite the terrible odds against him, the Emperor fought His way to Aubrey's altar to find his former son transformed by the power of Chaos, as much a daemon as the entities flooding through the rift in the Warp.

Aubrey lingered long enough to utter a few mocking remarks then fled to the Warp, his new home. Through a titanic effort, the Emperor was able to seal the breach to the Warp, but doing so exhausted His psychic might and the master of mankind fell beneath the marauding daemons. His torn body, barely alive, was recovered by Shakya Vardhana and carried to the Golden Throne. There, the shriveled form of Malcador the Sigilite was disengaged from that ancient device and the Emperor of Mankind was interred to begin his lonely watch over humanity. For the Loyalists, the day had been won but the price was almost too great to bear. The Emperor was barely alive and unable to guide His Imperium, Malcador had given up his life, and Golgothos had been murdered on an altar to the dark gods. Before the loyalists was the path of vengeance and a new crusade to drive the Traitors into the Eye of Terror. The mighty war-fleets of Roman Albrecht, Gaspard Lumey, Onyx the Indestructible, Brennus, and Arelex Orannis would join the victors of Terra in the [[Great Scouring (Hektor Heresy)|Great Scouring]], and afterwards the survivors would be left to carry out the Reformation of the Imperium.