Editing Nova Terra Interregnum (section)

==Related/Concurrent Events==
===Side Show: Moirae Schism===
Not only was the Ecclesiarchy attempting to supplant common sense with religious blindness during this period, but the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] was having its own problems too. Somewhere on the [[Forge World]] of '''Moirae''' in the galactic North, someone remembered that the Mechanicum were supposed to be worshiping the [[Emperor]] in his aspect as the '''Omnissiah''' and started making "radical" assertions that the Cult Mechanicus and the Ecclesiarchy should be unified into a single whole, even presenting mathematical evidence based on fluctuations on the energies given out by the [[Astronomican]] which were purported to predict the future. [[Great Rift|They were right.]]

In a different time, the Mechanicus would have squashed this sub-cult as heretical, but because the Imperium was itself in the grip of religious hysteria surrounding the Emperor, the idea actually took root and spread throughout the galaxy, even among some Space Marine Chapters such as the [[Iron Hands]]. Eventually this ideology would spark its own civil war, the first casualty of which was the world of Moirae itself, which was bombed to oblivion by the Martians, the Mechanicus once again showing their trademark directness when faced with a problem.

The conflict would last for over a millennium - actually longer than the Nova Terra Interregnum itself, bleeding over into the [[Age of Apostasy]] and only ending slightly before the beginning of the [[Age of Redemption]] (during the Thorian Reformation restoring the High Lords of Terra after Goge Vandire's reign of terror). It is not clear how it ended other than that many of the radicals were brought back into the fold of the "core" Cult Mechanicus. With the Iron Hands and their successors, the separatists were permitted to go their own way and form their own separate chapter named the [[Sons of Medusa]], which was specifically ratified by decree by the High Lords and is officially not a part of any founding. This was not the case for the [[Red Talons]], [[That Guy|who purged their Moirae dissidents to the last]].

===Immediate Aftermath: Cursed Founding===
The [[21st Founding]] happened shortly after the Nova Terra Interregnum and was supposedly the largest founding since the [[Second Founding]]. Unfortunately those created by this Founding were wracked with [[awesome]] mutations and the majority of [[Space Marine Chapter|Chapters]] created in this founding got wiped out by the [[Grey Knights]].

While the Inquisition and the Grey Knights did start going around offing any the 21st founding chapters that went over the line with mutations ([[Flame Falcons]] for example, who were literally on fire all time) or actual treason, others escaped or have toed the line enough they are tolerated by the Inquisition (if only barely). The [[Blood Gorgons]] turned traitor and fled to hook up with Chaos while the [[Black Dragons]], [[Minotaurs]], [[Lamenters]], and [[Sons of Antaeus]] are all still on active service. The Fire Hawks went missing in action due to a warp accident just after the [[Badab War]] and would later (or possibly earlier, thanks to some warp-fuckery) become the [[Legion of the Damned]].

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