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==Terran Crusade==

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The Terran Crusade comprised events surrounding the newly-resurrected Roboute Guilliman. After going around Ultima Segmentum and securing his holdings from further Chaos incursions, Guilliman sought to return to Holy Terra to have an audience with the Emperor. Naturally, Chaos did everything to keep him from returning, from Fulgrim attempting to subtly corrupt him to Slaanesh to Nurgle trying to keep him anchored in the sector by making a plague that could only be healed by being admitted into Guilliman's presence. With a steel will and heavy heart however, he couldn't be swayed, and he got a fleet of whatever Imperial forces he could muster and started his pilgrimage back to Terra. Again, Chaos was not having any of that shit.

The trip was incredibly perilous; the Dark Gods made warp travel incredibly turbulent and heavily stalled their pilgrimage, including raids by the [[Thousand Sons]] and [[Red Corsairs]]. Eventually, after several desperate blind warp jumps and intense fighting, the crusade was ultimately captured after [[Kairos Fateweaver|Kairos]] and crew boarded the Macragge's Honor, dueled Guilliman and captured him with some subtle warpfuckery. On the threat of having their spiritual liege killed, the rest of the crusaders surrendered and were taken prisoner.

After that, some other convenient things happened. Guilliman and crew were imprisoned in a Blackstone Fortress owned by Huron Blackheart while Karios and [[Skarbrand]] were having an argument which turned sour: Kairos wanted to keep Guilliman alive for future plans, while Skarbrand wanted him dead. Offended by the lack of consensus, Skarbrand and his warband invaded the Blackstone Fortress to kill Guilliman. During the fighting, [[Cypher]] and his [[Fallen Angel]]s broke into the fortress, released the primarch and his troops, and helped them escape on the condition that Cypher be allowed to see the Emperor, which Guilliman reluctantly agreed to.

Then the Eldar intervened and led the party to a webway gate to allow them to escape the fortress. Seeing this, the Khornate and Tzeentchian warbands temporarily put aside their differences since their prize was escaping. Skarbrand saw Guilliman making a break for the webway gate and charged at him with furious resolve after decrying his hatred for the color blue (coincidentally the color of Guilliman's armor and the webway itself). Guilliman was only able to escape after [[Black Templar]] Marshal Amalrich managed to sacrifice himself to impale Skarbrand with a sword. Distracted by the sword in his gut, Skarbrand took a moment to bellow his hatred for swords before having his head bisected by Guilliman.

Things didn't let up though, as the Thousand Sons led by [[Magnus]] himself was on the chase. Not wanting to potentially lead the Crimson Cyclops into Terra, Guilliman asked the Eldar to lead them onto Luna instead, which they escaped to but not before Magnus and crew managed to follow them through the webway, as the Eldar couldn't seal the webway gate in time. Things were looking bad once again for the crusaders until a Terran response force comprised of Battlefleet Solar (the fleet incharge of guarding Holy Terra itself), [[Imperial Fists]], [[Sisters of Silence]], and the [[Adeptus Custodes|The Emperor's Golden Banana Men]] appeared on the scene. The combination of the Sisters of Silence's psychic null field and the collective might of the forces brought together were enough to beat back Magnus and his cohorts back into the Warp.

Finally safe after so many sacrifices, Guilliman was finally granted an audience with the Emperor. As for the rest, the Eldar disappeared as mysteriously as they arrived, and Cypher and his Fallen Angels were arrested after Guilliman recognized the sword Cypher was carrying and would not allow him to get near The Emperor. Naturally, Cypher escaped captivity a few hours later but was noticeably miffed by the betrayal.

What he and The Emperor discussed is a mystery, but Guilliman went to the Senatorum Imperialis, told the [[High Lords of Terra]] how bad they were and how he was disappointed at how they ruined The Emperor's vision for humanity and declared himself Lord Commander of the Imperium (again), effectively having political power second only to the Emperor himself - at least in theory. The reality is that the Imperium's 10,000 years of unchecked bureaucracy combined with all the power-hungry assholes in the Adeptus Terra mean that even Guilliman's position can't save him from the Chaos God of Red Tape bogging him down. The High Lords even planned a coup to depose him, which was stopped only when the Custodes threatened to intervene and even then it fired off but under controlled circumstances, letting the custodes and loyalist High Lords purge the traitors (and the ones who were fired and joined to gain back power); when combined with the unrelated death of the Master of the Astronomican, this let Guilliman stack the Senatorum with competent loyalists. Having assumed his new role, he set about preparing for the dark times the Imperium had ahead.