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	This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems (this was also shoehorned to try to make the Dark Age humans look bad, something Games Workshop has been trying to push for some years now oddly without retconning what already was written), and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.		This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems (this was also shoehorned to try to make the Dark Age humans look bad, something Games Workshop has been trying to push for some years now oddly without retconning what already was written), and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.

	The human federation before the Imperium may or may not have been secular, but there is no indication that religions had gone extinct within it beforehand, and indeed it is implied religions existed during it and within it, existing peacefully both with each other and with any secular or atheistic individuals and philosophies within it. Thus both religions and atheism spread together throughout the stars while humanity was at the height of its technological and societal glory, laying the seeds of what would grow during [[Age of Strife\|Old Night]] and be found later during the Crusade. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god, and the early quotes (e.g. "He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods") implied a polytheistic or religiously inclusive view similar to that of Ancient Rome, with a deified leader. The Emperor being an atheist [[Skub\|may be argued to be sensible]] considering he has lived long enough to "know" there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine," though at least one other [[Perpetual]], [[Ollanius Pius]], who had lived longer and seen more, disagreed.		The human federation before the Imperium may or may not have been secular, but there is no indication that religions had gone extinct within it beforehand, and indeed it is implied religions existed during it and within it, existing peacefully both with each other and with any secular or atheistic individuals and philosophies within it. Thus both religions and atheism spread together throughout the stars while humanity was at the height of its technological and societal glory, laying the seeds of what would grow during [[Age of Strife\|Old Night]] and be found later during the Crusade. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god, and the early quotes (e.g. "He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods") implied a polytheistic or religiously inclusive view similar to that of Ancient Rome, with a deified leader. The Emperor being an atheist [[Skub\|may be argued to be sensible]] considering he has lived long enough to "know" there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine," though at least one other [[Perpetual]], [[Ollanius Pius]], who had lived longer and seen more, disagreed and the fact that, duh, divinity is purely subjective.

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The Emperor Emerges

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	Then the [[God-Emperor of Mankind\|Emperor of Mankind]] appeared in M28, and started conquering Terra piece by piece in the [[Unification Wars]]. His army consisted of the predecessors of [[Space Marines]], the [[Thunder Warriors]], using prototype [[Mark I: Thunder Armour\|powered armor]] that wasn't even void-sealed (of course they still had massive [[pauldrons]]), who were in fact preposterously OP even relative to Marines millennia later but unsustainable collectively and genetically unstable individually.		Then the [[God-Emperor of Mankind\|Emperor of Mankind]] appeared in M28, and started conquering Terra piece by piece in the [[Unification Wars]]. His army consisted of the predecessors of [[Space Marines]], the [[Thunder Warriors]], using prototype [[Mark I: Thunder Armour\|powered armor]] that wasn't even void-sealed (of course they still had massive [[pauldrons]]), who were in fact preposterously OP even relative to Marines millennia later but unsustainable collectively and genetically unstable individually.

	This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.		This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems (this was also shoehorned to try to make the Dark Age humans look bad, something Games Workshop has been trying to push for some years now oddly without retconning what already was written), and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.

	The human federation before the Imperium may or may not have been secular, but there is no indication that religions had gone extinct within it beforehand, and indeed it is implied religions existed during it and within it, existing peacefully both with each other and with any secular or atheistic individuals and philosophies within it. Thus both religions and atheism spread together throughout the stars while humanity was at the height of its technological and societal glory, laying the seeds of what would grow during [[Age of Strife\|Old Night]] and be found later during the Crusade. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god, and the early quotes (e.g. "He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods") implied a polytheistic or religiously inclusive view similar to that of Ancient Rome, with a deified leader. The Emperor being an atheist [[Skub\|may be argued to be sensible]] considering he has lived long enough to "know" there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine," though at least one other [[Perpetual]], [[Ollanius Pius]], who had lived longer and seen more, disagreed.		The human federation before the Imperium may or may not have been secular, but there is no indication that religions had gone extinct within it beforehand, and indeed it is implied religions existed during it and within it, existing peacefully both with each other and with any secular or atheistic individuals and philosophies within it. Thus both religions and atheism spread together throughout the stars while humanity was at the height of its technological and societal glory, laying the seeds of what would grow during [[Age of Strife\|Old Night]] and be found later during the Crusade. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god, and the early quotes (e.g. "He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods") implied a polytheistic or religiously inclusive view similar to that of Ancient Rome, with a deified leader. The Emperor being an atheist [[Skub\|may be argued to be sensible]] considering he has lived long enough to "know" there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine," though at least one other [[Perpetual]], [[Ollanius Pius]], who had lived longer and seen more, disagreed.

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	This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.		This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.

	The human federation before the Imperium may or may not have been secular, but there is no indication that religions had gone extinct within it beforehand, and indeed it is implied religions existed during it and ~~we're at peace~~ within it, both with each other and with any secular or atheistic individuals and philosophies within it. Thus both religions and atheism spread together throughout the stars while humanity was at the height of its technological and societal glory, laying the seeds of what would grow during Old Night and be found later during the Crusade. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god, and the early quotes (e.g. "He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods") implied a polytheistic or religiously inclusive view similar to that of Ancient Rome, with a deified leader. The Emperor being an atheist [[Skub\|may be argued to be sensible]] considering he has lived long enough to "know" there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine," though at least one other [[Perpetual]], [[Ollanius Pius]], who had lived longer and seen more, disagreed.		The human federation before the Imperium may or may not have been secular, but there is no indication that religions had gone extinct within it beforehand, and indeed it is implied religions existed during it and within it, existing peacefully both with each other and with any secular or atheistic individuals and philosophies within it. Thus both religions and atheism spread together throughout the stars while humanity was at the height of its technological and societal glory, laying the seeds of what would grow during [[Age of Strife\|Old Night]] and be found later during the Crusade. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god, and the early quotes (e.g. "He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods") implied a polytheistic or religiously inclusive view similar to that of Ancient Rome, with a deified leader. The Emperor being an atheist [[Skub\|may be argued to be sensible]] considering he has lived long enough to "know" there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine," though at least one other [[Perpetual]], [[Ollanius Pius]], who had lived longer and seen more, disagreed.

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	This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.		This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.

	The human federation before the Imperium may or may not have been secular, but there is no indication that religions had gone extinct within it beforehand, and indeed it is implied religions existed during it and we're at peace within it, both with each other and with any secular or atheistic individuals and philosophies within it. ~~This~~ both religions and atheism spread together throughout the stars while humanity was at the height of its technological and societal glory, laying the seeds of what ~~was~~ found later during the Crusade. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god, and the early quotes (e.g. "He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods") implied a polytheistic or religiously inclusive view similar to that of Ancient Rome, with a deified leader. The Emperor being an atheist [[Skub\|may be argued to be sensible]] considering he has lived long enough to "know" there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine," though at least one other [[Perpetual]], [[Ollanius Pius]], who had lived longer and seen more, disagreed.		The human federation before the Imperium may or may not have been secular, but there is no indication that religions had gone extinct within it beforehand, and indeed it is implied religions existed during it and we're at peace within it, both with each other and with any secular or atheistic individuals and philosophies within it. Thus both religions and atheism spread together throughout the stars while humanity was at the height of its technological and societal glory, laying the seeds of what would grow during Old Night and be found later during the Crusade. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god, and the early quotes (e.g. "He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods") implied a polytheistic or religiously inclusive view similar to that of Ancient Rome, with a deified leader. The Emperor being an atheist [[Skub\|may be argued to be sensible]] considering he has lived long enough to "know" there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine," though at least one other [[Perpetual]], [[Ollanius Pius]], who had lived longer and seen more, disagreed.

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	This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.		This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.

	~~Except that the~~ human federation before the Imperium ~~has been described as secular, and that religious extremism~~ may not have ~~caused the downfall of that empire~~, but ~~it's ugly head~~ had ~~tormented Mankind in~~ it~~'s death spiral to extinction in the Age of Strife~~, ~~though~~ it is implied religions existed during it and we're at peace within it. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god. The Emperor being an atheist [[Skub\|~~is arguably~~ sensible]] considering He has lived long enough to "know" there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine," though at least one other [[Perpetual]], [[Ollanius Pius]], who had lived longer and seen more, disagreed.		The human federation before the Imperium may or may not have been secular, but there is no indication that religions had gone extinct within it beforehand, and indeed it is implied religions existed during it and we're at peace within it, both with each other and with any secular or atheistic individuals and philosophies within it. This both religions and atheism spread together throughout the stars while humanity was at the height of its technological and societal glory, laying the seeds of what was found later during the Crusade. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god, and the early quotes (e.g. "He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods") implied a polytheistic or religiously inclusive view similar to that of Ancient Rome, with a deified leader. The Emperor being an atheist [[Skub\|may be argued to be sensible]] considering he has lived long enough to "know" there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine," though at least one other [[Perpetual]], [[Ollanius Pius]], who had lived longer and seen more, disagreed.

	==The Next Step==		==The Next Step==

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	For much of the 20,000's, [[Terra]] and the other human colonies were consumed by war after the rebellion of the [[Iron Men]], an era later known as the [[Age of Strife]]. The techno-barbarians (uhn tiss uhn tiss uhn tiss baby) ruled little fiefdoms on once-proud [[Earth\|Terra]], and all hope seemed lost.		For much of the 20,000's, [[Terra]] and the other human colonies were consumed by war after the rebellion of the [[Iron Men]], an era later known as the [[Age of Strife]]. The techno-barbarians (uhn tiss uhn tiss uhn tiss baby) ruled little fiefdoms on once-proud [[Earth\|Terra]], and all hope seemed lost.

	Then the [[God-Emperor of Mankind\|Emperor of Mankind]] appeared in M28, and started conquering Terra piece by piece in the [[Unification Wars]]. His army consisted of the predecessors of [[Space Marines]], the [[Thunder Warriors]], using prototype [[Mark I: Thunder Armour\|powered armor]] that wasn't even void-sealed (of course they still had massive [[pauldrons]]), who were in fact preposterously OP even relative to Marines millennia later but unsustainable collectively and genetically unstable individually.		Then the [[God-Emperor of Mankind\|Emperor of Mankind]] appeared in M28, and started conquering Terra piece by piece in the [[Unification Wars]]. His army consisted of the predecessors of [[Space Marines]], the [[Thunder Warriors]], using prototype [[Mark I: Thunder Armour\|powered armor]] that wasn't even void-sealed (of course they still had massive [[pauldrons]]), who were in fact preposterously OP even relative to Marines millennia later but unsustainable collectively and genetically unstable individually.

	This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.		This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.
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	Over the course of the next two hundred years or so, the Space Marine Legions found their Primarchs and the [[Imperium of Man]] grew world by world, until it spanned almost the whole galaxy. Many [[Xenos]] species were exterminated along the way, as well as non-Imperial human civilizations like the [[Interex]], as the Emperor believed them to be a threat to his dominance. Between this directive and the influence of his [[Slaanesh\|Slaaneshi]] daemon blade, [[Fulgrim]] wiped out many [[Eldar]] worlds, resulting in mutual animosity between the Imperium and the Eldar for millennia to come; of course, considering the Eldar had been frequently raiding human worlds throughout the Age of Strife, tough shit. It was generally considered [[Kharn\|a pretty fun move on Fulgrim's part]]. To be fair, though, nearly all the xenos killed had descended upon human worlds during the Age of Strife and turned them into "Nightmare Worlds" and "Hell Worlds". As you might imagine, the crusading Imperium was [[RAGE\|not amused.]] In fact, most worlds added to the Imperium were of this sort, which went a long way to entrenching humanity's hatred of all things alien. Even the Jovian colonies in the Sol system were pretty much horror-infested hellholes ruled over by incalculably cruel alien overlords. Some examples of worlds liberated included electricity-blasting worm things that literally bred and harvested humans like cattle and a species that used tortured human souls as power generators.		Over the course of the next two hundred years or so, the Space Marine Legions found their Primarchs and the [[Imperium of Man]] grew world by world, until it spanned almost the whole galaxy. Many [[Xenos]] species were exterminated along the way, as well as non-Imperial human civilizations like the [[Interex]], as the Emperor believed them to be a threat to his dominance. Between this directive and the influence of his [[Slaanesh\|Slaaneshi]] daemon blade, [[Fulgrim]] wiped out many [[Eldar]] worlds, resulting in mutual animosity between the Imperium and the Eldar for millennia to come; of course, considering the Eldar had been frequently raiding human worlds throughout the Age of Strife, tough shit. It was generally considered [[Kharn\|a pretty fun move on Fulgrim's part]]. To be fair, though, nearly all the xenos killed had descended upon human worlds during the Age of Strife and turned them into "Nightmare Worlds" and "Hell Worlds". As you might imagine, the crusading Imperium was [[RAGE\|not amused.]] In fact, most worlds added to the Imperium were of this sort, which went a long way to entrenching humanity's hatred of all things alien. Even the Jovian colonies in the Sol system were pretty much horror-infested hellholes ruled over by incalculably cruel alien overlords. Some examples of worlds liberated included electricity-blasting worm things that literally bred and harvested humans like cattle and a species that used tortured human souls as power generators.

	When Eldrad tried to contact the Emperor to warn him that he should be more concerned with stopping Chaos than with expanding the Imperium, the Emperor refused to listen to him, both because Eldrad ordered his forces to attack Fulgrim upon realizing the Primarch was corrupted without realizing that Fulgrim was not yet corrupted by the sword and could still be saved (also attacking a Primarch is unbelievably stupid if you want to live). It didn't hurt that the Emperor's creation of the Imperium was performed in a way crafted by Him to specifically act as an anti-Chaos civilization by virtue of being not only massive but also [[Malal\|atheist]] (alas, he didn't realize faith hurt Chaos until the very end of the Horus Heresy). What's more, Eldrad's orders were the reason for Eldar raids - not something that screams trustworthiness, especially when the raiders hail from a ''post-scarcity society'' and so have literally no reason to go raiding but for teh lulz. The Emperor was probably also aware of the Eldar's plan to create a god made of Eldar souls to combat Slaanesh, an entity that actively drains and devours Eldar souls for funsies. Yeah, probably not a good idea to let the space elves succeed at that one.		When Eldrad tried to contact the Emperor to warn him that he should be more concerned with stopping Chaos than with expanding the Imperium, the Emperor refused to listen to him, both because Eldrad ordered his forces to attack Fulgrim upon realizing the Primarch was corrupted without realizing that Fulgrim was not yet corrupted by the sword and could still be saved (also attacking a Primarch is unbelievably stupid if you want to live). It didn't hurt that the Emperor's creation of the Imperium was performed in a way crafted by Him to specifically act as an anti-Chaos civilization by virtue of being not only massive but also [[Malal\|atheist]] (alas, he didn't realize faith hurt Chaos until the very end of the Horus Heresy). What's more, Eldrad's orders were the reason for Eldar raids - not something that screams trustworthiness, especially when the raiders hail from a ''post-scarcity society'' and so have literally no reason to go raiding but for teh lulz. The Emperor was probably also aware of the Eldar's plan to create a god made of Eldar souls to combat Slaanesh, an entity that actively drains and devours Eldar souls for funsies. Yeah, probably not a good idea to let the space elves succeed at that one.

	After the Ullanor Crusade, the Emperor announced that he was returning to Terra, saying that his sons were to prove that they were the leaders he had made them to be. He appointed [[Horus]], Primarch of the [[Black Legion\|Luna Wolves]], as Warmaster of the Great Crusade and withdrew to the Imperial Palace. In truth, the Emperor was ready to begin his next phase of star travel, creating a [[Webway]] portal under the Palace using the Golden Throne. Unfortunately, the Emperor's detachment from humanity created a great deal of rivalry and resentment among his sons, and his failure to fully explain matters to them only exacerbated the situation. The [[Chaos\|Ruinous Powers]] were quick to take advantage of these weak spots, and slowly but steadily began to corrupt some of the [[Primarchs]].		After the Ullanor Crusade, the Emperor announced that he was returning to Terra, saying that his sons were to prove that they were the leaders he had made them to be. He appointed [[Horus]], Primarch of the [[Black Legion\|Luna Wolves]], as Warmaster of the Great Crusade and withdrew to the Imperial Palace. In truth, the Emperor was ready to begin his next phase of star travel, creating a [[Webway]] portal under the Palace using the Golden Throne. Unfortunately, the Emperor's detachment from humanity created a great deal of rivalry and resentment among his sons, and his failure to fully explain matters to them only exacerbated the situation. The [[Chaos\|Ruinous Powers]] were quick to take advantage of these weak spots, and slowly but steadily began to corrupt some of the [[Primarchs]].

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	{{Topquote\|I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.\|Winston Churchill}}		{{Topquote\|I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.\|Winston Churchill}}
	{{Topquote\|The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.\|Joseph Chamberlain}}		{{Topquote\|The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.\|Joseph Chamberlain}}
	{{Topquote\| To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.\|Calgacus,Caledonian chieftain}}		{{Topquote\|To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.\|Calgacus,Caledonian chieftain}}
	{{Topquote\| Rise up, Humanity! Rise from the ashes! Claim your birthright! SPACE!!!\|The Emperor of Mankind, [[If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device]]}}		{{Topquote\|Rise up, Humanity! Rise from the ashes! Claim your birthright! SPACE!!!\|The Emperor of Mankind, [[If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device]]}}
	[[File:Eye_of_Terra.jpg\|thumb\|right\|500px\|You really [[Humanity Fuck Yeah\|can't get any better than this.]] Too bad [[Erebus\|one guy]] had to ''fuck it all up''.]]		[[File:Eye_of_Terra.jpg\|thumb\|right\|500px\|You really [[Humanity Fuck Yeah\|can't get any better than this.]] Too bad [[Erebus\|one guy]] had to ''fuck it all up''.]]
	The '''Great Crusade''' was an important event in the history of [[Warhammer 40,000]], seeing the formation of the [[Imperium of Man]] and reunification of humanity, and is basically the best time to be alive - If you are a loyal subject of the Emperor, that is. If not, you are endangered by just being in this galaxy, and try as hard as you can to stay out of the Imperium's reach until they are done with their megalomaniacal crusade.		The '''Great Crusade''' was an important event in the history of [[Warhammer 40,000]], seeing the formation of the [[Imperium of Man]] and reunification of humanity, and is basically the best time to be alive - If you are a loyal subject of the Emperor, that is. If not, you are endangered by just being in this galaxy, and try as hard as you can to stay out of the Imperium's reach until they are done with their megalomaniacal crusade.

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	This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.		This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.

	Except that the human federation before the Imperium has been described as secular, and that religious extremism may not have caused the downfall of that empire, but it's ugly head had tormented Mankind in it's death spiral to extinction in the Age of Strife. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god. The Emperor being an atheist is ~~only~~ sensible considering He has lived long enough to know there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine".		Except that the human federation before the Imperium has been described as secular, and that religious extremism may not have caused the downfall of that empire, but it's ugly head had tormented Mankind in it's death spiral to extinction in the Age of Strife, though it is implied religions existed during it and we're at peace within it. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god. The Emperor being an atheist [[Skub\|is arguably sensible]] considering He has lived long enough to "know" there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine," though at least one other [[Perpetual]], [[Ollanius Pius]], who had lived longer and seen more, disagreed.

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	==See Also==		==See Also==
	*[[The Last Church]], a short story taking place towards the end of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind\|Emperor]]'s conquest of [[Terra]] in which a priest loses an argument against the Emperor about religion~~, having completely missed~~ the ~~logical fallacies invented by~~ the ~~ridiculous notion of religion and wilfully ignoring it~~'s ~~harmful effects~~.		*[[The Last Church]], a short story taking place towards the end of the [[God-Emperor of Mankind\|Emperor]]'s conquest of [[Terra]] in which a priest [[Skub\|wins/loses]] an argument against the Emperor about religion and both of them prove ignorant of the actual history of the ancient Crusades (unless the Emperor's using them as an example and proving himself wrong intentionally was a sort of wink at the readers by the author; if he is as old as implied, he definitely knows what actually happened).

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	Then the [[God-Emperor of Mankind\|Emperor of Mankind]] appeared in M28, and started conquering Terra piece by piece in the [[Unification Wars]]. His army consisted of the predecessors of [[Space Marines]], the [[Thunder Warriors]], using prototype [[Mark I: Thunder Armour\|powered armor]] that wasn't even void-sealed (of course they still had massive [[pauldrons]]), who were in fact preposterously OP even relative to Marines millennia later but unsustainable collectively and genetically unstable individually.		Then the [[God-Emperor of Mankind\|Emperor of Mankind]] appeared in M28, and started conquering Terra piece by piece in the [[Unification Wars]]. His army consisted of the predecessors of [[Space Marines]], the [[Thunder Warriors]], using prototype [[Mark I: Thunder Armour\|powered armor]] that wasn't even void-sealed (of course they still had massive [[pauldrons]]), who were in fact preposterously OP even relative to Marines millennia later but unsustainable collectively and genetically unstable individually.

	This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.		This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems (this was also shoehorned to try to make the Dark Age humans look bad, something Games Workshop has been trying to push for some years now oddly without retconning what already was written), and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.

	The human federation before the Imperium may or may not have been secular, but there is no indication that religions had gone extinct within it beforehand, and indeed it is implied religions existed during it and within it, existing peacefully both with each other and with any secular or atheistic individuals and philosophies within it. Thus both religions and atheism spread together throughout the stars while humanity was at the height of its technological and societal glory, laying the seeds of what would grow during [[Age of Strife\|Old Night]] and be found later during the Crusade. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god, and the early quotes (e.g. "He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods") implied a polytheistic or religiously inclusive view similar to that of Ancient Rome, with a deified leader. The Emperor being an atheist [[Skub\|may be argued to be sensible]] considering he has lived long enough to "know" there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine," though at least one other [[Perpetual]], [[Ollanius Pius]], who had lived longer and seen more, disagreed.		The human federation before the Imperium may or may not have been secular, but there is no indication that religions had gone extinct within it beforehand, and indeed it is implied religions existed during it and within it, existing peacefully both with each other and with any secular or atheistic individuals and philosophies within it. Thus both religions and atheism spread together throughout the stars while humanity was at the height of its technological and societal glory, laying the seeds of what would grow during [[Age of Strife\|Old Night]] and be found later during the Crusade. There was also no mention of what the Imperium originally was in the old lore, only that the Emperor came to be worshipped as a god, and the early quotes (e.g. "He is the Master of Mankind by the will of the gods") implied a polytheistic or religiously inclusive view similar to that of Ancient Rome, with a deified leader. The Emperor being an atheist [[Skub\|may be argued to be sensible]] considering he has lived long enough to "know" there are no gods and that the things in the Warp aren't worthy of the title "divine," though at least one other [[Perpetual]], [[Ollanius Pius]], who had lived longer and seen more, disagreed.

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	For much of the 20,000's, [[Terra]] and the other human colonies were consumed by war after the rebellion of the [[Iron Men]], an era later known as the [[Age of Strife]]. The techno-barbarians (uhn tiss uhn tiss uhn tiss baby) ruled little fiefdoms on once-proud [[Earth\|Terra]], and all hope seemed lost.		For much of the 20,000's, [[Terra]] and the other human colonies were consumed by war after the rebellion of the [[Iron Men]], an era later known as the [[Age of Strife]]. The techno-barbarians (uhn tiss uhn tiss uhn tiss baby) ruled little fiefdoms on once-proud [[Earth\|Terra]], and all hope seemed lost.

	Then the [[God-Emperor of Mankind\|Emperor of Mankind]] appeared in M28, and started conquering Terra piece by piece in the [[Unification Wars]]. His army consisted of the predecessors of [[Space Marines]], the [[Thunder Warriors]], using prototype [[Mark I: Thunder Armour\|powered armor]] that wasn't even void-sealed (of course they still had massive [[pauldrons]]), who were in fact preposterously OP even relative to Marines millennia later but unsustainable collectively and genetically unstable individually.		Then the [[God-Emperor of Mankind\|Emperor of Mankind]] appeared in M28, and started conquering Terra piece by piece in the [[Unification Wars]]. His army consisted of the predecessors of [[Space Marines]], the [[Thunder Warriors]], using prototype [[Mark I: Thunder Armour\|powered armor]] that wasn't even void-sealed (of course they still had massive [[pauldrons]]), who were in fact preposterously OP even relative to Marines millennia later but unsustainable collectively and genetically unstable individually.

	This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.		This was approximately the time that the Emperor decided that religion was bad for humanity and violently implemented the [[Imperial Truth]], the conclusion of which can be seen in the story [[The Last Church]]. The reason why the Emperor's being atheist is so weird and doesn't click into the lore smoothly is because originally there was nothing atheist about him or the Imperium, to say nothing about how literally not a single cause of the fall of the [[Dark Age of Technology]] had anything to do with religion (to wit, humanity's [[Men of Iron\|race of sapient android houseslaves]] rebelled ''en masse'', dozens of enslaved or uprooted alien species launched simultaneous campaigns of revanchism for their colonized star systems, and the [[Fall of the Eldar\|birth of Slaanesh]] caused human psykers across the galaxy to lose their sanity or control of their powers while [[Warp\|warp storms]] grew cataclysmically common and powerful while the [[Daemon\|creatures of the Warp]] [[Enslavers\|multiplied and invaded]] like swarms of locusts.) So shoehorning him into that doesn't work well at all.
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	Over the course of the next two hundred years or so, the Space Marine Legions found their Primarchs and the [[Imperium of Man]] grew world by world, until it spanned almost the whole galaxy. Many [[Xenos]] species were exterminated along the way, as well as non-Imperial human civilizations like the [[Interex]], as the Emperor believed them to be a threat to his dominance. Between this directive and the influence of his [[Slaanesh\|Slaaneshi]] daemon blade, [[Fulgrim]] wiped out many [[Eldar]] worlds, resulting in mutual animosity between the Imperium and the Eldar for millennia to come; of course, considering the Eldar had been frequently raiding human worlds throughout the Age of Strife, tough shit. It was generally considered [[Kharn\|a pretty fun move on Fulgrim's part]]. To be fair, though, nearly all the xenos killed had descended upon human worlds during the Age of Strife and turned them into "Nightmare Worlds" and "Hell Worlds". As you might imagine, the crusading Imperium was [[RAGE\|not amused.]] In fact, most worlds added to the Imperium were of this sort, which went a long way to entrenching humanity's hatred of all things alien. Even the Jovian colonies in the Sol system were pretty much horror-infested hellholes ruled over by incalculably cruel alien overlords. Some examples of worlds liberated included electricity-blasting worm things that literally bred and harvested humans like cattle and a species that used tortured human souls as power generators.		Over the course of the next two hundred years or so, the Space Marine Legions found their Primarchs and the [[Imperium of Man]] grew world by world, until it spanned almost the whole galaxy. Many [[Xenos]] species were exterminated along the way, as well as non-Imperial human civilizations like the [[Interex]], as the Emperor believed them to be a threat to his dominance. Between this directive and the influence of his [[Slaanesh\|Slaaneshi]] daemon blade, [[Fulgrim]] wiped out many [[Eldar]] worlds, resulting in mutual animosity between the Imperium and the Eldar for millennia to come; of course, considering the Eldar had been frequently raiding human worlds throughout the Age of Strife, tough shit. It was generally considered [[Kharn\|a pretty fun move on Fulgrim's part]]. To be fair, though, nearly all the xenos killed had descended upon human worlds during the Age of Strife and turned them into "Nightmare Worlds" and "Hell Worlds". As you might imagine, the crusading Imperium was [[RAGE\|not amused.]] In fact, most worlds added to the Imperium were of this sort, which went a long way to entrenching humanity's hatred of all things alien. Even the Jovian colonies in the Sol system were pretty much horror-infested hellholes ruled over by incalculably cruel alien overlords. Some examples of worlds liberated included electricity-blasting worm things that literally bred and harvested humans like cattle and a species that used tortured human souls as power generators.

	When Eldrad tried to contact the Emperor to warn him that he should be more concerned with stopping Chaos than with expanding the Imperium, the Emperor refused to listen to him, both because Eldrad ordered his forces to attack Fulgrim upon realizing the Primarch was corrupted without realizing that Fulgrim was not yet corrupted by the sword and could still be saved (also attacking a Primarch is unbelievably stupid if you want to live). It didn't hurt that the Emperor's creation of the Imperium was performed in a way crafted by Him to specifically act as an anti-Chaos civilization by virtue of being not only massive but also [[Malal\|atheist]] (alas, he didn't realize faith hurt Chaos until the very end of the Horus Heresy). What's more, Eldrad's orders were the reason for Eldar raids - not something that screams trustworthiness, especially when the raiders hail from a ''post-scarcity society'' and so have literally no reason to go raiding but for teh lulz. The Emperor was probably also aware of the Eldar's plan to create a god made of Eldar souls to combat Slaanesh, an entity that actively drains and devours Eldar souls for funsies. Yeah, probably not a good idea to let the space elves succeed at that one.		When Eldrad tried to contact the Emperor to warn him that he should be more concerned with stopping Chaos than with expanding the Imperium, the Emperor refused to listen to him, both because Eldrad ordered his forces to attack Fulgrim upon realizing the Primarch was corrupted without realizing that Fulgrim was not yet corrupted by the sword and could still be saved (also attacking a Primarch is unbelievably stupid if you want to live). It didn't hurt that the Emperor's creation of the Imperium was performed in a way crafted by Him to specifically act as an anti-Chaos civilization by virtue of being not only massive but also [[Malal\|atheist]] (alas, he didn't realize faith hurt Chaos until the very end of the Horus Heresy). What's more, Eldrad's orders were the reason for Eldar raids - not something that screams trustworthiness, especially when the raiders hail from a ''post-scarcity society'' and so have literally no reason to go raiding but for teh lulz. The Emperor was probably also aware of the Eldar's plan to create a god made of Eldar souls to combat Slaanesh, an entity that actively drains and devours Eldar souls for funsies. Yeah, probably not a good idea to let the space elves succeed at that one.

	After the Ullanor Crusade, the Emperor announced that he was returning to Terra, saying that his sons were to prove that they were the leaders he had made them to be. He appointed [[Horus]], Primarch of the [[Black Legion\|Luna Wolves]], as Warmaster of the Great Crusade and withdrew to the Imperial Palace. In truth, the Emperor was ready to begin his next phase of star travel, creating a [[Webway]] portal under the Palace using the Golden Throne. Unfortunately, the Emperor's detachment from humanity created a great deal of rivalry and resentment among his sons, and his failure to fully explain matters to them only exacerbated the situation. The [[Chaos\|Ruinous Powers]] were quick to take advantage of these weak spots, and slowly but steadily began to corrupt some of the [[Primarchs]].		After the Ullanor Crusade, the Emperor announced that he was returning to Terra, saying that his sons were to prove that they were the leaders he had made them to be. He appointed [[Horus]], Primarch of the [[Black Legion\|Luna Wolves]], as Warmaster of the Great Crusade and withdrew to the Imperial Palace. In truth, the Emperor was ready to begin his next phase of star travel, creating a [[Webway]] portal under the Palace using the Golden Throne. Unfortunately, the Emperor's detachment from humanity created a great deal of rivalry and resentment among his sons, and his failure to fully explain matters to them only exacerbated the situation. The [[Chaos\|Ruinous Powers]] were quick to take advantage of these weak spots, and slowly but steadily began to corrupt some of the [[Primarchs]].

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	{{Topquote\|I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.\|Winston Churchill}}		{{Topquote\|I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.\|Winston Churchill}}
	{{Topquote\|The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.\|Joseph Chamberlain}}		{{Topquote\|The day of small nations has long passed away. The day of Empires has come.\|Joseph Chamberlain}}
	{{Topquote\| To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.\|Calgacus,Caledonian chieftain}}		{{Topquote\|To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.\|Calgacus,Caledonian chieftain}}
	{{Topquote\| Rise up, Humanity! Rise from the ashes! Claim your birthright! SPACE!!!\|The Emperor of Mankind, [[If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device]]}}		{{Topquote\|Rise up, Humanity! Rise from the ashes! Claim your birthright! SPACE!!!\|The Emperor of Mankind, [[If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device]]}}
	[[File:Eye_of_Terra.jpg\|thumb\|right\|500px\|You really [[Humanity Fuck Yeah\|can't get any better than this.]] Too bad [[Erebus\|one guy]] had to ''fuck it all up''.]]		[[File:Eye_of_Terra.jpg\|thumb\|right\|500px\|You really [[Humanity Fuck Yeah\|can't get any better than this.]] Too bad [[Erebus\|one guy]] had to ''fuck it all up''.]]
	The '''Great Crusade''' was an important event in the history of [[Warhammer 40,000]], seeing the formation of the [[Imperium of Man]] and reunification of humanity, and is basically the best time to be alive - If you are a loyal subject of the Emperor, that is. If not, you are endangered by just being in this galaxy, and try as hard as you can to stay out of the Imperium's reach until they are done with their megalomaniacal crusade.		The '''Great Crusade''' was an important event in the history of [[Warhammer 40,000]], seeing the formation of the [[Imperium of Man]] and reunification of humanity, and is basically the best time to be alive - If you are a loyal subject of the Emperor, that is. If not, you are endangered by just being in this galaxy, and try as hard as you can to stay out of the Imperium's reach until they are done with their megalomaniacal crusade.