(Note that due to multiple threads, the timeline of this chapter partially overlaps.)
019.M33
"The era of the Primarch is over!!!"
—Abaddon the Despoiler
After more than two thousand years of silence, the former traitor legion, the Sons of Horus, and the Black Legion composed of some rebellious Space Marines, led by Abaddon the Despoiler, reappeared before the Imperium in an ostentatious manner.
Unlike the previous small-scale fighting, we took advantage of the aftermath of the Beast War to plunder as much supplies as possible and develop the army.
Abaddon the Despoiler realized that now was the best time for him to expand his army and occupy territory, with the Empire in turmoil, the state religion collapsing, and the legions busy arresting the Blood Angels.
Long before the Ascension of Sanguinius, Abaddon, who had learned some information in the Warp, had already prepared for this Black Crusade.
This army has been developing in the warp for thousands of years.
On the fourth day after the Ascension of Sanguinius, when all the star regions were immersed in great shock and hurried to arrest the Blood Angels, Warmaster Abaddon's fleet slowly sailed out of a subspace rift in a hazy star region.
With lightning speed, Abaddon captured a series of star regions in the Nebulous Sector.
After confirming the star region where he and his legion would need to be stationed for a long time, Abaddon decisively carried out almost inhumane looting methods on the remaining planets.
While the Imperium was still reeling from the grief and shock of Sanguinius's fall, the Black Legion launched its war effort, which quickly spread to the Pacific Segmentum.
Although the Primarchs are dead now, the huge army and logistical support system they left behind cannot be shaken overnight. Therefore, Abaddon deliberately chose the Nebulous Segmentum and the Pacific Segmentum, two star regions that were less involved by the Imperial forces after the Great Heresy.
Due to the chaos of the Blood Angels on the Imperial side and the Black Legion's thorough preparation, Abaddon's offensive plan went very smoothly.
This further nourished Abaddon's ambitions, and on the map of the Black Legion, the Great Despoiler used the blood of loyal Space Marines to carve out a path towards Terra.
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Loyalties Difficult to Distinguish: The Black Legion invading the Pacific Sector encounters resistance from the Ecclesiarchy led by Gog Vandire.
During this period, except for the army led by Vandire, which still retained the state religion that had erased St. Guillemins, the belief in the state religion in other territories of the empire had basically collapsed.
After simply revising the Bible and adding the content that he was the Pope, Vandiel still firmly led his team with the state religion.
After receiving the notification that the Black Legion was invading the Taiping Star Region, Vandiel knew that his chance had come.
Unlike the tough and silent Death Guard, the rebellious army in front of him has extremely high political value in Vandir's eyes.
Now, the main force of the Black Legion is still in the Hazy Star Field, while on the other side, in the Taiping Star Field, the Salamanders, who have urgently cleared out the Blood Angels, are on their way to the battlefield.
Without hesitation, Vandir immediately used his faith to incite his men. Countless civilians who had fled and gathered here voluntarily joined the Crusade and launched an attack on the Black Legion.
After careful calculation, he chose to stand on the battlefield to face the Black Legion.
Just one week after Vandir's suicide attack, the Salamanders arrived on the battlefield.
But at the battle front, Vandir continued to attack and did not choose to retreat. On the contrary, after repeatedly confirming the current situation, Vandir resolutely went deep into the war zone occupied by the Black Legion alone.
On the wreckage of a religious planet, Vandir discovered a female guerrilla group that was fighting hard with a squad of the Black Legion. The women were lightly armed, their arms were wrapped in bandages covered with prayers, and their bodies were glowing with a faint golden light.
Vandiel knew that he was the chosen one.
After waiting for the women to be cornered by the Black Legion, Vandir dispatched his army. It was no longer composed of unqualified civilians, but assassins from the Assassin's Court assigned to him by the high lords before the departure.
These assassins are Vandir's greatest reliance to ensure his own life.
After performing a natural escape from danger, Vandir successfully gained the trust of this female guerrilla group. They called themselves "Daughters of the Emperor" and studied military affairs under the command of the local church.
Vandire renamed this group of nuns "The Emperor's Bride", gave them the best equipment, and ordered them to be responsible for protecting their own safety.
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Success: On a hub planet that was about to be captured by the Black Legion, Sigismund and his team, who came to provide emergency support, rescued Vandir who was trapped on the planet.
Through the evaluation of others, Sigismund developed a great liking for this young priest who still adhered to the state religion and was willing to fight against the traitors in his mortal body.
But Sigismund knew very well that the greatest use of this religious army was not to die in the battle against the traitors - this army that still maintained its faith had other uses.
Sigismund, who had just met with the Imperial Regent Roboutin Guilliman, sent Vandire and his army back to Terra and told Vandire that he hoped Vandire would rebuild the state religion.
This was Robouti Guilliman's final request to Sigismund - the state religion must be established, but for some reason, Guilliman told Sigismund, the newly established state religion could not be the same as the original one.
It is best to refer to the religion of the Storm Star Region.
In fact, Mortarion had not had the chance to give detailed instructions to his two brothers before he was severely injured and expelled by Sanguinius.
After briefly explaining the affairs to Vandir, Sigismund immediately plunged into the war with the Black Legion.
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In Power: Due to Roboute Guilliman's massacre of most of Terra's top brass, government affairs on Terra are now entirely handled by the middle management and the Ultramarines stationed on Terra.
It should be noted that in this bloodbath, the few departments that survived were the Imperial Navy, the Astropaths, the Astronomican, the Navigators, and the Astra Militarum.
The state religion had already collapsed from within because of the Ascension of Saint Guillain.
Previously sent to the Storm Starfield, now Bishop Vandir, with the support of his military achievements in fighting against the traitors, is almost invincible in the current collapse of Terra.
After a brief inspection of Vandire, the Primarch died. The Ultramarines, who were extremely disgusted with Terra, handed over power to mortals and left Terra hastily.
By uniting the Astropaths and Navigators, Vandire quickly expanded his power on Terra.
At the same time, in order to expand his power as much as possible and boast about his achievements to the Space Marines fighting outside, Vandir signed a series of treaties with Mars, which had just lost its Forge General.
It should be noted that the impeachment of Robert Guilliman was not completely groundless. In fact, the Imperial Regent, together with the fallen Sanguinius, did take a series of measures to restrict the development of Mars.
Under the operation of the beheaded Martian Forging General, people on Mars had long been dissatisfied with Terra's excessive restrictions.
Vandire realized that he could not restrain the Mechanicus. At the same time, he was also keenly aware of the Mechanicus' dispensable political status in the minds of most Space Marines. Therefore, Vandire decisively lifted the restrictions that Guilliman had previously set for the Martian Cult.
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Vandire himself had great ambitions and desire for power. While fighting on the front lines and amidst chaos in many places, Vandire expanded rapidly. He wrote a new Bible and established himself as the Pope.
Soon, Vandir's power in the Solar Sector reached its peak.
His actions to stabilize the Solar System and establish a state religion also earned him the trust of the Space Marines.
Meanwhile, in a personal duel with Abaddon, Sigismund was reportedly killed.
Sigismund, who had given him power, was dead.
For a moment, Vandiel almost thought that he had reached the top. He immediately sent the warbands that he could not win over to the front line to completely free himself.
—But in fact, there is a shadow in the heart of this young and successful Pope that has never disappeared.
Vandir still remembers those Death Guards in the Storm Star Region.
He deliberately ignored the part of Sigismund's words about the Storm Star Region... This haze floated over Vandir's heart, making him unwilling to recall it.
The shadow from the Death Guard hung over Vandir's head like a high-hanging scythe.
It was because Vandir knew that the group of silent lunatics would launch an attack regardless of any political situation or the overall situation, just to achieve what they called death.
And what have the Death Guard been doing all these years
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Cleanup: The Death Guard has always been the main force for arresting the Blood Angels. At the same time, under the pretext of arresting the Blood Angels, the Death Guard walked out of the Storm Star Domain on a large scale for the first time and began to spread the teachings of the Underworld to other star domains.
And pacify those planets that declare independence.
Due to the Death Guard's accompanying Cerberus Auxiliary Corps and Mechanical Sages, the resentment towards the Death Guard on other human planets or even on the Forge World is slightly less than that towards other legions.
At the same time, the Death Guard was also generously delivering supplies and weapons to the bloodbathed planet.
The Death Guard's relatively simple belief framework also allowed their ideas to take root quickly.
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Aliens Must Be Punished: Due to the battles in other star fields, the number of legions in the Storm Star Field was temporarily reduced. At this time, a fleet composed of countless Comoros conspiracy groups launched a raid on the religious planet in the Storm Star Field.
The Dark Eldars' goal was very clear. While Mortarion was seriously injured and could no longer respond to his offspring, the Dark Eldars plundered as many mortals and Hades' priests who had been blessed by Hades as possible, even including the Black Stone creations.
The remaining mortals who were not followers of Hades were brutally killed by the Dark Eldar.
Joining forces with the Eldar who converted to the Cult of Pluto, the remaining defenders of the Storm Star Region immediately launched a counterattack.
It should be noted that in the past two thousand years, the Pale Lord Mortarion himself has communicated with alien races many times, and a small number of Eldar have chosen to join the Pale Lord for some reasons.
During this period, after witnessing the atrocities committed by the Dark Eldar on the planet they built, the Death Guard, led by the Undead Kharas Typhon, swore a poisonous oath to slaughter the Dark Eldar.
On the other side, the team led by the two-faced man Vox headed for the hazy star field to fight together with other legions.
Due to the internal strife of the Mechanicus, the Imperial Legion in the Nebulous Segmentum was once again plunged into a bitter battle with Abaddon due to logistical disruptions.
At the same time, the two Chaos Legions led by Alpha and Omega also joined the Warmaster Abaddon's carnival and began to spread the teachings of Chaos.
Magnus was also seen by the Legion.
In fact, after Vandire signed many treaties with the Martian Mechanicus, the Martian Mechanicus immediately took advantage of the chaos in the Empire and launched an academic war against countless Forge Worlds.
They need to obtain from other worlds the resources that have been missing due to the restrictions of the Empire for a thousand years.
At the same time, due to the exemplary role of the Martian Mechanicus, the Forge Worlds in other star fields also began to attack each other while the empire was in chaos.
In name, the Mechanicum and the Empire are each one end of the double-headed eagle. Therefore, in the internal wars of the Mechanicum, unless heretics or traitors are involved, the Imperial Army and the Space Marines will not interfere by default.
However, due to the terms that Vandire hastily signed, the Mechanicus fought a civil war, which led to the failure of the Imperial War on the Frontier, and it was even impossible to hold the Mechanicus accountable.
Vandire himself shirked his responsibility and deliberately intensified the conflict between the Space Marines and the Mechanicus.
In the name of eliminating heresy, the Martian Mechanicus, together with several large forge worlds, launched an expedition towards several forge worlds in the Storm Star Field and the Ultramarine Star Field.
On the other side, led by the Forge World of Graeae, the Forge Worlds that also follow the teachings of Pluto launched a counterattack against Mars.
In this huge academic war, no one would care that on a small forging world like Ster, which was under the doctrine of Pluto, all the people on the planet died after a battle - all the people on both sides of the war died, and all the basic buildings were destroyed.
Through sporadic surveillance, people discovered that the long-lost Primarchs Fulgrim and Konrad appeared on this planet.
But this matter was soon drowned out and forgotten in the mutual feuds among the large forging worlds.
In the academic war between Mars and the Graeae, the Graeae, which had previously delivered most of its resources to the Death Guard, gradually fell into a disadvantage.
It seems that Mars is not going to let Graeae go. Under the relentless pressure from Mars, the commander of the Death Guard, Karas, once privately found the Forging General of Graeae and asked him if he needed the help of the Death Guard.
As the first large-scale forge world to cooperate with the Death Guard, Graeae's significance and strategic position are of great importance, and the Death Guard cannot lose Graeae.
Although they share the same religious origins, the Forge General of the Graeae refused support from the Death Guard. The Forge General knew that once the Death Guard joined the crusade between the Forge Worlds, the nature of the war would completely change.
After some discussion, Graeae's Forging General, with the help of Karas, contacted the Forging World of Faos in the Maelstrom.
Without hesitation, Faos dispatched their fleet, led by the great sage Kirklan the Chaos.
Kirkland the Chaos, a personality annex extracted from the Nirvana system, is best at disguising all kinds of Faos' technologies as legal and compliant technologies.
In order to conceal some technology, Faos sent Kirkland.
After Faos joined, the situation of the battle immediately turned around.
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Rampant: Due to the joining of other Chaos armies and the deaths of loyal Primarchs in a short period of time, the war between the Imperium and Chaos cannot be ended in the short term. At the same time, the Mechanicus's laws that are fighting each other in various places have made the Imperium more chaotic.
In the troubled times, Vandire, who sat firmly on the throne of Pope of Terra, became more and more rampant. He realized that the continuation of the war would be beneficial to his rule. Therefore, Vandire began to mediate among various forces and took the opportunity to expand his power.
He preached a religion centered on himself, claiming to be the spokesman of the God-Emperor, and the battle sisters around him seemed to confirm this statement.
Vandire reorganized the Council of High Lords and kept the Inquisition and the Assassin's Court firmly under his control.
At the same time, on the pretext of eradicating heresy and rebuilding the state religion, Vandire began to arrest and try people throughout the empire. He even commanded some chapters to attack other Space Marine chapters on the grounds that they might be corrupted.
Countless worlds that had not been destroyed on the Day of the Ascension of Sanguinius were instead ordered to be exterminated under the judgment of Pope Vandire, including many planets where the Death Guard had gone to preach.
In this way, Vandir satisfied his increasingly perverted desire for power and delayed the progress of the war as much as possible.
However, due to Vandire's concealment of information, the Space Marines, Astra Militarum, Imperial Navy and other forces involved in the war still knew nothing about it.
However, as the border war gradually died down, the end of Pope Vandiel was quietly approaching.
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An outstanding warrior from the Sons of Hades, Buzz Bella, came into people's attention during the battle between the Grey Knights and Magnus.
Because of his outgoing nature, Buz Bella learned during a conversation with the Grey Knights that High Lord Vandir had repeatedly obstructed the Grey Knights of the Inquisition from supporting the front battlefield.
But after hearing that Magnus was suspected to appear on the battlefield, the Grey Knights immediately decided to go against the wishes of the Inquisition and go to the battlefield to fight.
After successfully banishing Magnus, the weary Grey Knight was merely confiding his concerns to a trusted comrade, but for Buzz...
Thanks to the political sense gifted by his genetic father Hades, Buz Bera immediately realized that enemies of the Empire had appeared on distant Terra.
He realized that with the fall of the hero Sigismund and enemies within, the Space Marines needed a new leader to correct their mistakes.
Similarly, this young man who belongs to the Son of Pluto also hopes to imprint his admiration for the Father of Genes on the empire.
He will become the next hero, righting the wrongs and fulfilling his own selfish desires.
The first thing he did was to immediately distance himself from Vox, a two-faced man who had a very bad reputation due to his extreme behavior.
"Hey! Lao Deng! Give me your reputation and connections, and stay away from me!"
On the Endurance, Buz Bella, who had gone to the mother regiment to collect spoils of war, was ready to return to defend and retreat, but he saw Vox in front of him, looking at him in a daze.
After pinning down Buzz, who wanted to retreat immediately because he saw that things were not going well, Vox sat on Buzz, who was lying on the ground pretending to be dead. Without any hesitation, Vox contacted Karas in the Storm Star Field.
During that communication, all Boots heard was the almost synchronized sighs of Vox and Karas.
And sighs one after another.
A week later, Buz Bella had acquired so many supplies and ships that he was sweating profusely.
Thanks to Tobz, the brothers of the Sons of Hades Chapter, which consists of less than sixty people, can sleep in their own personal lounge by putting seven beds together and still have enough space left.
The Sons of Hades Chapter Master immediately appointed Buzz as Chapter Master, and he happily joined the team with his battle brothers.
Butz stayed behind to count the supplies.
In order to live up to the expectations of the Death Guard's leader and commander, Buzz, who was already sweating profusely, fought almost the entire battle with Chaos.
Here are some of Buzz's achievements:
Join the Grey Knights and exile Magnus. (I think the Grey Knights are very nice guys, five-star praise)
Participated in the boarding battle of the Vengeful Spirit, killed countless Chaos Warriors, and rescued a Word Bearer Dreadnought imprisoned on the Vengeful Spirit, "The Hermit". (As I said, he just hacked his way through.)
Fight with Abaddon. (The follow-up is that Vox arrives in time and rescues Buzz, who is about to die under Abaddon's power claws. The two successfully retreat together. Buzz is very grateful to Vox for helping him gain military merits, and further announces that he is not familiar with Vox.)
Successfully escaped from the battle against Blood Red Alpha. (According to him, he fired a shot to arouse his full hatred and then ran for his life, so he survived.)
Join the Sisters of Silence to exile Lucius. (My own opinion is that it is disgusting.)
On a plague planet, rescue the Imperial Fists trapped in the swamp. (My review is that it feels like I'm back on the Endurance.)
In the battle with Omega of Decay, he was exiled back to Omega of Decay after the Son of Pluto and the Silent Monk, along with countless Death Guards, were all annihilated except for him. (I became much calmer after this.)
As Buzz, trembling with scythe in hand, walked among the corpses of countless his comrades, the only surviving son of Pluto looked up and realized that this long war had finally come to an end.
And he himself had already become a true hero of the empire in this battle.
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With the support of the Death Guard, and together with the victorious Forge Worlds of Graeae and Phaos in the Academic War, Buz Bella led an army of Space Marines back to Terra.
By the way, in the negotiations with the Forge World, it was Buzz Bella's creator, Gold-306, who was responsible for most of the communication and negotiations.
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Under the absolute suppression of force, the Son of Pluto came to the outside of Vandir's bedroom.
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After persuading the Sisters of Battle to lay down their weapons together with the Sisters of Silence, the last Son of Hades, Buzz Bella, killed Pope Gog Vandir.
On the same day, Buzz Bella walked out of the palace carrying the head of Gorg Vandir and announced to everyone on the rooftop that in the name of the God-Emperor and the Underworld, he would establish an empire with the God-Emperor and the Underworld running parallel to each other.
On the same day, wise men from the Graeae and Phaos landed on Mars and announced that Om Messiah was Hades.
The Age of Apostasy finally came to an end after a hundred years of war.
The four Primarchs left, the Blood Angels were removed from the list, the Terra high-level officials were slaughtered, countless worlds were engulfed in war, people attacked each other, religions fought against each other, countless worlds returned to ignorance, countless planets were lost, countless technologies were lost, because of internal strife and external enemies, the army was suddenly reduced, heretics and aliens were eyeing it covetously, the Age of Apostasy, this chaotic era finally came to an end.
The era of co-rule between Hades and the God-Emperor has begun.
Thanks to my friend [Tea Leaf Fish] for his secondary creation!!! Due to my schedule, I had to let him appear a little earlier... _(:з」∠)_
(End of this chapter)