Editing The War of The Beast (section)

==Aftermath==
The Imperium was saved! Chapter Master Thane and the Imperial Fists had defeated the Ork menace but the Imperium's flaws had not been fixed, and in light of the Adeptus Mechanicus' blatant disregard for how close the Orks had been to wiping out Terra, Vangorich decided it was time to fix things forever.

Interestingly, [[The Beheading|killing most of the High Lords of Terra]] actually wasn't as bad as the one-sentence timeline entry seemed to think. For the first few decades, Vangorich's single-handedly ruling the Imperium while Thane was busy recovering all the territories lost to the Orks seemed to work. Sadly, the fear that future High Lords could screw things up caused Vangorich to go mad - like, [[Konrad Curze]]-tier mad - and he established a [[Goge Vandire|reign of terror]] brutal even by the standards of the Imperium on Terra. Which doesn't make sense considering he was afraid of High Lords screwing the Imperium over. Paranoia doesn't explain it since people lash out at those they fear when paranoid. Tyrants, for example, lash out at their subjects out of fear of them. This in no way fits Vangorich's situation. Humans act in strange ways and do stupid things and are irrational, but not entirely, not mostly even. It can't be used as some blanket hand-waive for literally everything, human nature ''does'' have a logic and rythm to it. But then, Games Workshop never thinks things through.

In the end, Thane went back and stormed the Throneworld to kill Vangorich (by this point you may be wondering [[plot armour|why Failbaddon, Imotekh or the Tyranids find this so hard]], probably because the normal defenders didn't lift a finger to stop the assault).

Vangorich unleashed the [[Assassinorum Execution Force|killing talents of the combined Assassin Temples]] on the liberating forces. His final stronghold was home to 100 [[Eversor]]s, and if you watched that video made by Karl the Deranged from the Alfa Legion then you may imagine how bad it went for Thane. Fortunately, the final assassin was an ex-operative of Vangorich forcefully converted into a WRRYYY! who fought against his psycho-conditioning and gave Thane the opening to kill Vangorich. The erstwhile Grandmaster's final words were "Wanna know how [[Konrad Curze]] died?".

The rest is history. Hey, this series was cool, and unlike the Horus Heresy, it actually went somewhere, don't you agree? {{BLAM}}