Editing Thomas Gaudin (section)

===The Heresy===

As the Heresy began to break upon the Imperium, the bulk of the Crusaders Legion was still in the midst of a full scale withdrawal to Terra. Due to the many requirements of the Great Crusade, not all the detachments had been able to comply with the order, and it is estimated that about half the Legion was absent by the time Hektor’s treachery became known, and of that half two thirds would never reach Terra at all.

Gaudin himself had arrived on Terra a few weeks before, and the news of the Betrayal stunned him.

Though he threw himself into the fighting on Mars, this left Terra alone, the fortifications being supervised by Malcador and the Emperor's advisors. Gaudin had never cared for static defenses, but when the storm finally broke upon Terra his mobile Warfare would not prove to be the boon he had hoped it would be.