Editing Dalvan Atrocity (section)

==Aftermath==

The casualties suffered at Dalvan were a great blow to the Second Legion, but worse still were the gene-seed defects that began to crop up in the wake of the atrocity.  The Emperor commanded that Second withdraw from the field and put his gene-wrights to work on a solution.  For several years, Orend Ymoro and his men wondered if they, like the [[Void Angels|Fifth Legion]] after the [[San Angelus Incident]] would become an afterthought among the Space Marines.  But their salvation was secured with the Pacification of Luna.  [[Pallas Eugenesis]] developed a method for stabilising the Legion's gene-seed and was hailed by Ymoro as "the mother of the Legion".

Interestingly, Vuthros Khan was not executed for war crimes.  An Imperial tribunal accepted Khan's claim that he had carried out his orders under threat of violence to his family.  Rather than an immediate death sentence, the Pan-Pacific commander was given the choice of death or taking a Warrant of Trade.  Khan became a [[Rogue Traders (Hektor Heresy)|Rogue Trader]] and if his deeds in the [[Great Crusade (Hektor Heresy)|Great Crusade]] did not atone for the blow to Second Legion, they were still of great value to the expanding Imperium.