Editing Indomitus Crusade (section)

==Phase 2: Guilliman frees a bunch of planets and brings Primarines to the Chapters==
Guilliman soon arrived into the thick of things. He travelled around dozens of planets, liberating those that could be saved and exterminatusing those that could not. Slowly but surely, Imperial forces managed to push back the chaotic tide. Albeit only enough to stabilize some of the war fronts. The arrival to Catachan was a specially interesting point in the Crusade: the planet's local fauna was so deadly it scared away even the daemons, which probably brought a decent amount of morale-uplifting laughter to the Imperial forces involved. As the tides of the Warp calmed, astropathic communications started to improve all around (even if the Imperium Nihilus was still pretty much isolated from the light of the Astronomican). The more planets the Primarch freed, the more reinforcements he added to his campaign and the more momentum it built up. During this phase of the Crusade they went to the other side of the Imperium, the part that would be known as the Imperium Nihilus or Dark Imperium, and saw the horrible things that had been going on there without a consistent shine of the Astronomican. They came across the massive meatgrinder that was the [[Devastation of Baal|Battle for Baal]] between [[Hive Fleet Leviathan]] and all the [[Blood Angels]]' descendant chapters Dante could muster. Even though the battle was pretty much over when Guilliman arrived (stated by himself to [[Dante]] once the fight was over), Guilliman used his enormous fleet to purge and chase away as many splinter fleets of Leviathan as possible before the reconstruction of Baal and before they could restart the crusade against Chaos. Guilliman also appointed Dante as the military leader of the Imperium Nihilus, which means [[awesome|he has the maximum authority over half of the Imperium, only below the Primarch and the Emperor]].

It is also during this phase that the already extant Astartes Chapters started getting their Primaris reinforcements, with all manner of colourful reactions. After much grumbling, the general consensus ended up being "accept them or the [[Adeptus Custodes]] will shove a Guardian Spear up your ass, also fucking hell we need the manpower".