Editing Battle of Rai (section)

==Aftermath==

Due to the skilful actions of his fleetmasters, Johannes Vrach managed to escape from Rai along with much of his remaining fleet. Left with no other place to go, he entered the Eye of Terror, where Nurgle finally rewarded him for his loyalty by granting him Daemonhood. Wilmut Sachs took over the Life Bringers as their de-facto leader, which prompted a further fragmentation of the Legion.

Galen's foul betrayal marked the origin of the Green Men as a separate warband. Like many independent warlords, he set course for the Eye of Terror, where he carved out a sizeable domain for himself. His most notorious achievement was [[the Great Sowing]] - the first massive Chaos incursion from the Eye of Terror which is generally considered to be the precursor to the first Black Crusade. 

His failure to finish off the Life Bringers when he had a chance finally drove Cardinal Merik over the edge, turning him completely insane. The reverence his soldiers felt for him left replacing him on grounds of insanity out of question, and the mad Cardinal remained the Master of the Legion until the Second Founding. Under his leadership, the Entombed have massacred several innocent Imperial worlds suspected of collaboration with the Life Bringers, and only their stellar reputation as the heroes of the Scouring prevented a thorough investigation by the recently formed Inquisition.

The Scale Bearers lost a lot of their Heavy Sors in this battle, contributing to the extinction of these mighty beasts. Perhaps even more importantly, their premature withdrawal earned them the contempt of the other two Loyalist Legions present at Rai. Cardinal Merik in particular was truly infuriated at this perceived betrayal, openly accusing the Scale Bearers of collaborating with the Life Bringers. Frustrated by Vrach's escape, he was on the lookout for a scapegoat to blame for his fiasco, and the Scale Bearers came in very handy. This was the beginning of the great feud between the two Legions that persists to this day.

To this day, the Void Angels have not forgotten the heroic death of Antoine Antonelle. A lot of their iconography depicts a Void Angel trampling a slain treeman. Bercilak in particular is universally reviled by all of the members of the Legion and its successor chapters, and his execution is considered a holy duty.

The Plague World of Rai was cleansed by several viral bombings, destroying all life on it but keeping many ancient structures intact. The Imperial authorities who carried out the cleansing speculated that the world was spared a full scale Exterminatus because of the ancient Xenos catacombs on it that posed certain interest for the Imperium.