Editing MedHammer 40,000 Macharios (section)

===The Capture of Cadia and the End of Chaos===
{{Topquote|:Though over in Macharia, The Hero lies in state
:For Gulliman to wake him up, we will not stand and wait
:The General he calls on us to charge Cadia's gate
:His soul commands us on!"
|Chant of Astra Militarum during the final crusade (To the tune of The Battle Hymmn of the Republic)}}

During the Macharian Crusade, Macharios made a modest Gambit. Divert Angron and Saporin's navy, by convincing chaos to intercept a percieved assault on Cadia. What he did not expect was the forces of chaos to fall in complete disarray. Between abandonment of the Occular Pacificus in mass, to singular suicide charges into the Obscura, to inter-chaos civil wars, this diversion placed Chaos on the Backfoot and was left scrambling for alternatives. This gargantuan military blunder was not unnoticed by the Imperium, as it was a clear signal that not only was Chaos undivided a Lorgarite fiction, but that Cadia itself was seen as vulnerable by its own forces. Imperial forces was no longer content to weather Chaotic Incursions, but instead became Bolder.  Sanguinius led the first of many "Golden Crusades" to retake Cadia. He was ultimately successful in M43, as Cadia was surrounded and seiged into submission. The capture of Perturabo's Citadel of Cadia represented the mortal blow to chaos, from which it would never recover.


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