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== The Golden Rift War ==
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: Given the huge expanses of time that the Imperium deals with on a daily basis, the amount of time between the Emperor’s death and the eruption of daemons from the unsealed human Webway was considerably abrupt. Klaxons blared and lights strobed as the Golden Throne desperately attempted to keep its charge alive. As it sparked and crackled, new sounds overpowered the throne. A deep hum. Seconds later, purple tinged rifts blazed into existence and divulged their passengers. The area beyond the Eternity Gate went from chaotic to Chaotic. Tech adepts and Mechanicus Magos who were monitoring and fixing the throne now found themselves locked in tentacle-to-mechadendrite combat. Custodes ran into battle, Bolters and Power Swords shooting and swinging. The Golden Rift War had begun.


: The Imperial forces reeled at the onslaught of daemons. They were pushed back as the weeks ground on and soon the Eternity Gate was lost. Daemons surged outward and within months a full kilometer surrounding the Sanctum Imperialis was a boiling sea of charnel. The humans had not lost. The war had bogged down into a stalemate. 

: In late 029M42, a plan was formulated by the Adeptus Custodes, the Imperial Fists and the Adeptus Mechanicus. A massive push was made toward the Eternity Gate. As the beachhead reached the door, a pair of techmarines temporarily sealed it while an ever growing pocket of Astartes held off the counter-attack. Within three months, the surrounding area beyond the Sanctum had been cleansed. All that was left was to retake the Golden Throne.


: It wasn’t an immediate rush after the Gate was retaken. The Imperium forces knew that retaking the Golden Throne meant nothing if the failed Webway couldn’t be sealed. It took over six months and several dozen Magos to figure out how to modify the Golden Throne just enough to focus the psychic might of Terra instead of the Emperor. As soon as they had a decent patch, the go ahead was given to fight into the Sanctum.

: When those doors were first opened, the stench and mist that rolled out was terrible. Lesser mortals would have died immediately. However Astartes are not mortal and the Sororitas and other Adeptus forces were filled with the ultimate righteous fury. The most holy and sacred place in the entire Imperium had been filled with Chaos taint. And they were fighting to take it back. It was now the daemons turn to reel from such a brutal onslaught. By the end of 030M42, the Sanctum Imperialis had been purged of all Chaos filth. The Golden Rift War was over, but it was only a small taste of what was to come.