

The Imperium supposedly has about a million worlds, and the Great Crusade, as it was called, lasted approximately two hundred years. They smashed everything they found along the way that wasn’t human, and intimidated all the humans into joining his Imperium. However, evil gods of Chaos scattered the primarchs across the galaxy while they were still babies, so the Emperor had to go with Plan B and using the genes of the lost Primarchs, created legions of somewhat less superhuman grandsons he named the Space Marines, and set out across the galaxy to find his lost kids. Plenty of theories exist about what happened to them and why, but none of them have any more credence than any other because Games Workshop has steadfastly refused to say anything about them other than once they existed, and due to some kind of undisclosed tragedy, they subsequently didn’t exist. Well, several of them were defective, but these two were especially defective, and had to be recalled and disposed of through ambiguous means. So, through a combination of science and wacky space magic, the Emperor created twenty superhuman sons for himself, calling them Primarchs. With more gothic architecture and Scandinavian heavy metal.īut even immortal Space Jesi want a family. Apparently, after it went tits-up the last time, he decided to take a more hands-on approach and take over. It is largely implied that the Emperor had existed for thousands of years, pulling strings from behind the scenes to push Humanity forward through a few different golden and dark ages. And it is ruled by a being known only as Nathan Exp- I mean, the Emperor, or colloquially: Brutal Space Jesus. Hope you enjoy:Ībout 28,000 years from now, Earth as we know it is now known as Terra (which is Latin for Earth. If people enjoy it, maybe I’ll do more of these. I’ve tried to make it both funny and informative. Their version seems on track to be completed some time in the 2020s, so what follows pieces together the various versions which have been released up until now, with the current novels worked in. The Heresy has been written and rewritten several times, including the current iteration from Games Workshops’ subsidiary The Black Library. Its catastrophic events ended a potential golden age for Mankind, and instead plunged it into one of the most dystopic dystopias ever. The Horus Heresy is the pivotal event in the 40K Universe.
