The word I used above, “vague,” is the key here. It galls Horus to have to listen to the ‘nattering of paper-pushers’, as he sees it. Then he assigns councilors and bureaucrats to tax and administer the compliant planets. None of this helps him much to shoulder the titanic weight of a pan-galactic war of conquest after the Emperor retires to Terra for vague reasons. His size is immense, his strength godlike, his charisma and intellect towering, and his political acumen hard to match. He’s one of the demigod warriors the Emperor has created using mysterious technology to lead his armies.
HORUS HERESY CRACK
And it’s the first crack in Horus’s resolve.Įven though Horus Lupercal, Primarch of the Lunar Wolves and Warmaster of the Great Crusade, isn’t our main viewpoint character, he’s the lynchpin of the books. And afterwards, more than one person asks, why couldn’t they have just left them alone? The galaxy is a big place. Or, as the Emperor would rather they call it, bring it to compliance. The first scenes of the book takes place on one such world, which the Marines subjugate. Human worlds face a simple choice: bow their heads to the Emperor or have the Astartes do it for them. The dogma that all alien species are inferior to humanity and must die would hardly be out of place in the preaching of Adeptus Ministorum. The Imperium isn’t the fascist theocratic nightmare it would become later on, but the seeds are there. If that sounds way too good to be true or just plain sketchy… well, it is. After a long era where the worlds humanity had conquered were separated from each other, the Emperor will bring them together. The Primarchs, his genetically-engineered sons, are leading the legions of Adeptus Astartes (Space Marines) to subjugate the galaxy and make it a home of humanity’s golden age.
HORUS HERESY FULL
Ten thousand years before the “present” timeline, the Emperor’s Great Crusade is in full swing. We know, as we read them, that they’re heading for an inevitable disaster, but we read on to see the conflicts, struggles and triumphs of those who participated in those events. This gives the books an air of a classical tragedy. It is something of an opening for the setting. Most people who have had contact with the WH40K franchise know that the Emperor of Mankind is a rotting corpse on the Golden Throne after his traitorous son, Horus, mortally wounded him. Horus Rising, False Gods and Galaxy in Flames are the first three parts of the lengthy story of Horus Heresy.Ī peculiarity of the books is that few people picking them up won’t know how they end. The books I will tell you about today delves into a major reason it got this way. The tabletop game and the novel delve into the terrible place that is the galaxy in the 41 st millennium. Today I bring you another story from the grimdark Warhammer 40K universe, after telling you about Dark Heresy and Helsreach.
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