Age of Redemption

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The Age of Redemption is one of the major time periods of the Imperium of Man. It was preceded by the Age of Apostasy and followed by the Waning, stretching from the beginning of M36 to mid-M37.

Basically, the Imperium, fresh off the Thorian Reformation, decided to expend all of its troops in penitent and redemptive crusades instead of, you know, actually defending its borders. This would prove to be a bad idea.

Abyssal Crusade

One of the more important events of the Age of Redemption was the Abyssal Crusade. Basically, a Chaos-worshipping Ecclesiarch (apparently such things exist) sent thirty Chapters of Space Marines on a crusade into the Eye of Terror, where most of them went renegade.