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== The Death of The Emperor and the Golden Throne ==
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: In the 1st century of the 42nd millennium, the Emperor finally left the materium. The golden throne didn't fail, the emperor simply quit, tired of festering and decaying upon a techno-psychic edifice. The Astronomicon did not die with him. It just blurred. The psychic might of the great world of Terra no longer had its focus. The fragmented bits of the Emperor were free to drift about the tides and streams of the Warp. Were they ever to coalesce, the Emperor's soul would be reborn, much like his initial birth.

 
: Without the Emperor providing the psychic power to hold the wall against the failed human webway, it spilled open releasing a torrent of daemons. Within weeks the Imperial Palace became a war zone. The imperial forces local to Sol all converged upon Terra to keep it from falling to the forces of Chaos. Unfortunately for Chaos, it was at a distinct disadvantage having to fight against nearly every form of the Imperium's finest. Invigorated by the very life of the Imperium at stake should Terra fall the Custodes and Companions held the breach as Imperial Fists transformed the continent sized building into an inescapable killing field. The moon of Titan spewed forth the bane of daemons, the Grey Knights. In the first year of the Emperor's Death, the number of grimoires doubled. Mars had a revival as the Mechanicum began to churn out tech and weapons as fast as it could. Not only material but men were shipped to Terra as yet another facet of the Imperium set itself against The Breach as it was called later. The initial wave of Warp monstrosities was but a precursor of what was truly to come.


: The death of the Emperor did not only affect the Sol system. The Astronomicon whilst still active was not as bright and focused. Many worlds far away were suddenly in the dark, only seeing occasional glimpses of the light in the Warp. Given the sudden changes the more passionate parts of the Ecclesiarchy went into overdrive. Refusing that their god could die, they stifled all rumors and hearsay. Stating that the Emperor had died was treated as the ultimate heresy. Entire worlds on the fringes of the Astronomicon were purged when the light went dark and the wailing cries of the populace asked where the God-Emperor went. 


: Centuries later the Golden Throne would truly fail and the human Webway it was sealing would open its floodgates. This was the true battle, the 2nd Invasion of Terra. It slogged on for over a century. The Battle of the Breach, as it was called, would end a year before the millennium changed over.