Immortal Emperor. Emperor of Mankind - WARFORGE Forums. The current state of affairs in the galaxy

Nobody knows his name and exact date of birth. Friends and enemies call him the same - the Emperor. Someone - someone - a half-corpse on the throne, but respect and fear are always present at the mention of him. If it is possible to speak about the supremacy of the role of the individual in history, then this is fully true for the Emperor. Unite Terra, create the Imperium, prevent the destruction of civilization at the cost of your own life in front of the combined forces of Chaos, and even after that play leading role in the destinies of many reasonable - all these deeds are worthy of only one thing. Emperor.

Birth of the Emperor, the path to the unification of Terra

Since ancient times, mankind has been aware of the existence of the wrong side of our reality. Of course, in those days, no one called it the warp or the Ocean of Souls, but many gifted prophets, shamans and oracles could operate with the forces of this underworld. From generation to generation, for many thousands of years, they passed through to be reborn again in the human body and continue their work. However, as the sentients grew in numbers, the currents of their emotions began to affect the warp more and more seriously.

The divine gift of foresight and the possibility of reincarnation began to weaken, so that soon a real threat arose for all the gifted to die completely. They were not cowards - they were not afraid of Death. And they were not individualists - everyone understood that if a solution cannot be found alone, then perhaps, by uniting, they can find a way out of this situation. At the Great Council, a unique decision was made - to unite all the souls of the bearers of the Gift in the body of one baby. And all as one gave their lives so that somewhere on Earth (then not even Terra) the Emperor was born. A future that will lead people to glorious victories and make the Galaxy reckon with a new young race.

Little is known of the Emperor's life during the Dark Age of Technology. However, there is an opinion that it was he, in the role of another genius or prophet, who gave mankind another discovery, or saved him from imminent death with his predictions. But in any case, his role in those days was more observational than constructive. Everything changed during the Age of Strife - communication with all the colonies was lost, humanity lost the ability to make interstellar flights, and even the dominant role of Terra as the main planet solar system was forgotten. The rulers of Mars and the Moon paid less and less attention to the orders that came from their former homeland. And on the planet itself, things were not going well - divided into many states, constantly at war with each other, Terra became a world in which anarchy and fear ruled the ball. The chemical, biological and even nuclear weapons accumulated over many centuries were used so widely that life itself on the planet became a question of existence. For 25 long centuries this madness raged, and when the end was near, the Emperor ceased to play the role of an observer.

In laboratories hidden deep underground, genetically enhanced soldiers were created - Thunder Warriors. The distant ancestors of the Space Marines, it was they who became for the Emperor the force with which he wanted, could, and subsequently united Terra into one state. The emperor did not adhere to the policy of genocide regarding his enemies - many former opponents gladly stood under his banner, and not out of fear, but out of conscience. People were tired of living in fear and chaos, they wanted a banal order and at least relative stability - and the Emperor gave them such an opportunity. Very soon, Terra was united and became the cradle for those who would later be called primarchs...

The rise of the Imperium and the plight of the primarchs

After the unification of Terra, the Emperor turned his attention to Mars, which at that time was already under the complete control of the Cult Mechanicus. The meeting with the tech-priests who worshiped the Machine God ended to the mutual satisfaction of both parties. The Imperial army and Astartes warriors were given weapons, ground and air units, as well as the required number of spaceships. In turn, Mars (and subsequently other forge worlds) received complete autonomy with respect to the unified government of the human Empire. The first union of the two planets was the first step towards what after many centuries will be called or the empire of people.

Realizing that, despite the prowess of the Astartes soldiers and the latest technology from Mars, one cannot cope with the unification of mankind alone, the Emperor took a decisive step. In a genetic laboratory under the Imperial Palace in the Himalayas, he created twenty super-soldiers based on his own DNA. In their physical and mental capabilities, they surpassed the warriors of the Astartes as much as they surpass ordinary people. Primarchs, flesh of flesh and blood of the Emperor's blood, they bore the names of the Sons for a reason. It was with them that the Emperor of Mankind planned to launch his Great Crusade and unite the young race under one banner. But other forces intervened...

Existence in the Warhammer universe has been known to the Emperor since ancient times. The end of the Dark Age of Technology and the birth of Slaanesh were links in the same chain, but the rest of the gods of the Great Four in those days had already finally awakened (realized themselves). It remains to be seen why appropriate measures were not taken to protect the young primarchs, but what happened happened. During the influence of the forces of Chaos, capsules with young demigods were scattered throughout the galaxy. And each of them was touched by the hand of the Ocean of Souls, leaving an indelible mark. Subsequently, some will be able to completely overcome it, while for the second, this test will be fatal. But all this is a matter of the distant future, but for now the Emperor has an additional goal - not only to unite humanity, but also to find his lost Sons. Thus began the Great Crusade...

The Great Crusade and the Horus Heresy

Failure only stops the weak, and in those days few would have dared to call the Emperor weak. The Great Crusade was launched by him alone and gradually planet after planet joined the Imperium. Almost immediately, the first primarch, Horus, was found. He became right hand Emperor, his most loyal and devoted follower and outstanding military leader. The last of the primarchs, Alpharius, was found many decades later. It cannot be said that all the Lost Sons accepted their reappeared father with joy, but the goal that he showed them was exciting and they really understood the need for the Crusade. For a long two hundred years, the Imperium grew, but gradually the military component became less and less interesting to the Emperor. The Luna Wolves' victory at Ullanor led to him granting Horus the title of Warmaster and appointing him as the new leader of the campaign. The decision was taken by the primarchs in a completely ambiguous way. Some rejoiced at the appointment of the most worthy, others openly expressed dissatisfaction or envy - it is one thing to follow the orders of their father and quite another - a brother who is your equal in almost everything. So the first seed of discord was sown, which in many years will give its black fruit.

I must say that Horus, like himself, perfectly coped with the role of leader of the Great Crusade. However, the comparison with his father was not in vain - he sought to surpass the Emperor in glory and opened his soul to envy. Too honest, straightforward and vain - he became an easy prey for the forces of Chaos. And the uprising against the will of the Emperor was not long in coming. Following the primarch, almost the entire of his Legion went over to the side of Chaos, and soon almost half of all Space Marine Legions joined the renegades. The Great Crusade had mirrored its direction and now Terra was its new target. Attempts to stop the renegades failed one after another, the decisive battle took place in the orbit of Terra. One of the strongest primarchs, tried to reason with Horus, but fell, so the Emperor himself had to join the battle. In a fierce duel, Horus was slain, and the troops of Chaos, having lost their centralized control, retreated to the Eye of Terror. But the price of victory turned out to be too high - the Emperor received injuries that are not compatible with life, and only a unique life support system called the Golden Throne made it possible to keep the ruler of the Imperium on the border of two worlds. And today he continues to dictate his will, being between life and death, and faithful guards from among the Custodians guard his peace ...

The current state of affairs in the galaxy

Initially, no one considered the Emperor a god, and he himself repeatedly spoke out about his destiny in general and religion in particular. Perhaps with this the Emperor wanted to level the power of the Chaos Gods, who even during the time of the Great Crusade posed a serious threat. This idea seemed very tempting - to deprive the Dark Four of nourishment at the cost of refusing to recognize their own divine essence. Perhaps, if the Emperor were in good health, his plan would have succeeded to the end, but it violated many of his plans. And people gradually began to pray to the one who sits on the Golden Throne. Years will pass and the prayer for the fallen - "May light cover your soul, may the Emperor accept you" will become known to any person of the Imperium. So the Emperor became God Emperor which gave many strength and gave new hope.

Talking about the God-Emperor and the Golden Throne, one cannot but mention the Astronomicon. The greatest beacon that enables humanity to travel safely through the warp, the Ray of Hope or the Golden Path - it has many names. The direct control of the lighthouse is carried out by the Emperor, but even he cannot support the work of the Astronomicon alone. Several tens of thousands of psykers, condemned to death for heresy or treachery, create a chorus of voices that every Navigator in the Ocean of Souls hears. At the same time, part of their energy supports the Emperor himself. A simple mortal shell does not last long - the average lifespan of an ordinary psyker is measured in several months. So from all over the Imperium, the black ships of the Inquisition bring new doomed - at the cost of their lives, they support the Ray of Hope.

It should also not be forgotten that the Golden Throne is essentially not so much a classical life support system as an ancient artifact. And in last year In the 987th century of the M41 era, malfunctions were discovered in its work, which to this day the most intelligent among the Adeptus Mechanicus cannot solve. Will the end of the Golden Throne be the final death of the God Emperor, or will he incarnate as the new deity of humanity? No one is able to answer this question, but many people think that the wait is not so long...

The greatest of warriors, the founder of the Imperium and the creator of the primarchs, the leader under whose banner all of humanity united. A lot can be said about the role that the Emperor played in history. About the current state of affairs - no less. Emperor Warhammer - these two words cannot exist without each other and, uttering one, we certainly imagine the other. Leading the civilization of people through the stars, until the very end he could not appreciate the full power of Chaos, but at the cost of his life he managed to give humanity another chance. We will hear his will more than once, which will spread from the Golden Throne throughout the Galaxy ...

After the Fall of the Eldar, for nearly 5,000 years, the galaxy shook with mighty warp tides. Human colonies fought demons, eldar, orcs, genestealers and other evil spirits, defending their right to exist. The land isolated from the rest of space by warp storms existed on its own, having no influence on other human worlds. Technology was in decline, and the only custodians of the knowledge of the Golden Age were the tech-priests of Mars who worshiped the Machine God. It was at this time that a man was born on Earth who was to change the face of the galaxy for the next 10,000 years. No one now remembers his real name, everyone knows him under the name Emperor. His childhood, youth and even maturity are also shrouded in obscurity. For the first time, he became something more than just a man when he came with his supporters to the capital of one of the many states of the Earth and conquered the entire state in one night, crushing an army of many thousands with a force of just less than a hundred soldiers. Having become the ruler, he began to systematically conquer the land until he became sole ruler cradle of mankind. The backbone of the Emperor and the main strength of his army were the first space marines, genetically enhanced human warriors. The Emperor-created Space Marines were inhumanly strong, agile, durable and fast, an order of magnitude beyond their capabilities. common man and on equal terms fighting even with demons. But in addition to the talent of a scientist and geneticist, the Emperor was also a psyker, the strongest of those that ever gave birth to the human race. By the time the Emperor conquered Earth, the warp storms in the galaxy had begun to subside and eventually ceased altogether, making interstellar travel possible again. Who knows, maybe the will of the Emperor did it. Having conquered the Earth, the Emperor began to prepare for the Great Crusade into the galaxy in order to unite humanity again, and jointly confront the threat of chaos and aliens. For this, the Emperor created twenty superhumans, the Primarchs, who were destined for the role of leaders and commanders in the future crusade. The deeds of the Emperor could not fail to attract the attention of the most important enemy of mankind, Chaos. The Gods of Chaos sent their faithful servants, the warp winds, to the earth, and those, whirling the Earth in a wild storm, stole the incubators with the unborn Primarchs and scattered them across the galaxy. The touch of the will of the Chaos Gods poisoned the Primarchs and confused the Emperor's plans to create ideal people. Primarchs were born in different parts of the galaxy, and each of them had a flaw. One of them was born one-eyed like a cyclops, the other received the wings of an angel, and some, without physical defects, carried the poison of Chaos, which sharpened their will and strength from the inside. Nevertheless, the Emperor, having started the Great Crusade, eventually returned all the Primarchs to himself, and those, recognizing the Emperor as the creator and master, faithfully served him in the field of the great war.

The greatest of the Primarchs was Horus. He was the very first creation of the Emperor and the most beloved. There was no equal to Horus on the battlefield and other Primarchs bowed before his strength and will. But the poison of Chaos was strong in Horus and thousands of voices in every way whispered to him about his strength, will and that he was more worthy than his creator to become the ruler of mankind. For a long time Horus resisted this whisper, but could not stand it, and his pride surpassed his loyalty to the Emperor. After the end of the crusade, Horus rebelled and went to war against his creator. The greatest of mankind's warriors, the Space Marines, are divided into two warring camps. Of the twenty Legions of the Emperor, only nine remained loyal to their master, nine more joined Horus, two Legions were lost in the fires of war. Like biblical wheels of fire, war rolled across the vastness of the newly created human empire. Not only were the Marines fighting each other, but the Imperial Guard units and the Titan Legions fought on both sides of the war. The war lasted a long time and with varying success, but in the end, Horus overcame the resistance of the loyal troops, and his ships rushed to Earth, the heart of the Imperium, the home of the Emperor. The most bloody and stubborn battle took place around the Imperial Palace. Radiating forces of loyal Space Marines protected it, and the most fanatical of Chaos' followers rushed to its walls. In the end, seeing that he was losing, the Emperor made the only possible decision. Together with two loyal Primarchs and a troop of heavily armored Terminators, he transported himself to the battle barge of Horus to crush the very heart of the rebellion. A titanic battle took place on the barge. In it fell the angel-winged Sanguinius, Primarch of the Blood Angels, fell at the hands of Horus, covering his lord, the Emperor, with himself. Another Primarch, the Primarch of the Imperial Fists Rogal Dorn, defeated two Chaos Princes of Horus' retinue in personal combat and thus covered himself with unfading glory. The duel between the Emperor and Horus ended tragically for both sides. Horus fell slain at the hand of the Emperor, and his last thought was the unbearable awareness of the depth and blackness of his fall. The Emperor was mortally wounded and would certainly have died if Rogal Dorn had not saved him. He carried his master's body back to the dilapidated Palace, where the other seven loyal Primarchs had gathered after driving the demoralized and scattered Chaos forces. They bitterly mourned the inevitable death of their master. Of all the Primarchs, only Leman Russ, Primarch of the Space Wolves, did not cry. His blade-sharp thought pierced the darkness of despair and brought a solution. He turned to his followers, the Iron Priests of the Space Wolves, and they, calling on the help of the tech-priests of Mars, created the Golden Throne, a sarcophagus in which the stasis field supported the physical life in the body of the Emperor. As a powerful psyker, the Emperor, while in stasis, could mentally communicate with his followers. Thus was the light of the Imperium saved. From now on, the Golden Throne of Earth is the center of the Imperium of Man in every sense. The Emperor is the source of the power of the Astromicon, a warp beacon that allows one to travel the warp without fear of daemonic traps. The Emperor, by the power of his thought, communicates with the current rulers of the Earth, the High Lords, who rule in the name of the Emperor and at his word.

Imperial Cult

Thanks to the Imperial Cult, millions of people across the Imperium are familiar with the name Emperor. Children sing about him in their songs and listen to the legends about his life. This is the Emperor that mankind knows - the Emperor of the Imperial Cult. Such is the power of the Cult that no one even thinks of challenging the authority and power of the Emperor. The Ruler himself has not spoken or moved for ten thousand years. The truth about the life of the Emperor before he became a prisoner of the Golden Throne has already been completely redrawn by the Ecclesiarchy.

The emperor was born in Turkey in the eighth century BC. In a place surrounded by cold streams and mountains. With the awakening of the warp, humanity was completely defenseless against its energies. Warp is an alternative universe consisting of psi-energy created by the thoughts, emotions and mental activity of all living beings. The warp is sometimes referred to as the Sea of Souls or the Realm of Chaos.

When the universe was young, the warp was filled with the energies of primitive animals, and this energy was harmless. However, evolution developed the brain of living beings, and new thoughts generated powerful and sometimes dangerous energies. The natural energy of the warp was harmonious, while human thoughts were sometimes envious, filled with hatred and meanness. Such negative energies accumulated together in the warp, attracting each other. Subsequently, these energies became the Forces of Chaos that the Imperium is facing today. They were created from the fears, hatred and malice of sentient beings.

When the Emperor was young, these forces were not yet as powerful as many thousands of years later. Ever since they appeared primitive people, humanity has made contact with the warp. In primitive tribes, shamans and sorcerers knew how to communicate with him.

As humanity evolved and expanded, the malevolent energies created by humans began to dominate the warp. If the forces of nature were harmonious and kind, then the human forces were unpredictable and dangerous. Power, ambition, greed, lust, and a thousand other human feelings have spread their roots in the warp and begun to bear terrible fruit. Thousands of people became stronger, and the warp was less and less subject to shamans.

The Emperor was born at a time when the warp still flowed through all living beings. The old shamans manipulated the warp and led their people. But the shamans knew that in a few millennia their knowledge would be lost and the warp would spiral out of control. In addition, shamans lost the ability to reincarnate. When the shaman died, his spirit was in the warp, looking for a suitable body for rebirth. However, now, the evil forces of the warp devoured the souls of the shamans and they could no longer be reborn.

Frightened by what's to come human race, all the shamans of the world gathered in one place and killed themselves, releasing their energy, and then directing it into the body of an infant who became the New Human Emperor.

The emperor and the history of mankind

The Emperor had many gifts. He could read people's minds. He was immortal and could not die of old age. For thirty-five thousand years the Emperor wandered the Earth, appearing first in one country, then in another. At first, he only watched people, but then he began to use his power to help humanity. He always helped people carefully, without revealing the truth about himself.

The Emperor traveled the planet helping people. He became either a leader or an adviser, then a warrior or a messiah, and sometimes even a magician or a pioneering scientist. He always stood guard over mankind, constantly helping him to survive.

Emperor and the forces of Chaos

The forces of Chaos felt the presence of the New Man and his efforts to reduce their forces. Even before the gods of Chaos became conscious, they recognized the Emperor as their main enemy. Khorne became the first god of Chaos. His birth was marked by many wars and conflicts throughout the Earth. Tzeentch was next, and the politicians of various states began an era of deceit and duplicity. The third was born Nurgle, and many diseases and infections fell upon people, taking their lives and souls. By the end of the Middle Ages, the three gods of Chaos were fully born. The fourth power, Slaanesh, was still developing and came to life only during the Fall of the Eldar.

New person understood that as long as humanity is tied to the solar system, it is doomed. So the Emperor began his own research and development in the field of interstellar travel through the warp.

Several hundred years before the birth of Slaanesh, the Emperor decided to take control of humanity into his own hands. He begins to create his own powerful and loyal army in order to reclaim the galaxy after the cessation of psi-storms in the warp.

Primarchs

The Emperor never underestimated the power of Chaos, so the best earth scientists started working. The weapons and equipment produced in the Martian factories were supposed to help people in reclaiming their Imperium. However, the Emperor also decides to create the Primarchs: genetically engineered superhumans like gods. The emperor was going to create a whole race of superhumans, not subject to the influence of Chaos.

The Primarchs were to be a shining example of human perfection and invincibility to Chaos. The energy of uncorrupted Chaos was to flow through the Primarchs as through the Emperor himself. However, the gods of Chaos found out about the Primarchs and, despite all attempts to protect them, Chaos scattered the Primarchs throughout the galaxy.

Space Marine

The Emperor had lost the Primarchs and could not recreate them. The birth of Slaanesh was accompanied by powerful psi-screams, and it was drawing near. The emperor developed a different plan. Using the genetic material left over from the Primarchs, the Emperor creates many advanced organs. By implanting these organs into the young bodies of humans, it was possible to equip them with some of the abilities of the Primarchs. Thus the first Space Marine Legions were founded. Each Legion had genetic material inherited from their Primarch.

Great Crusade

By the time the warp storms around the solar system had ended, the Space Marines, in alliance with the rest of the human military, were ready to reclaim the galaxy. The forces of Chaos were also strong, and many human worlds were taken over by Chaos cults or aliens. It was terrible war, but with each conquered world, the Imperium grew and received new warriors in its ranks.

During the Great Crusade The Emperor found all his Primarchs and they joined him. The Imperium was stronger than ever, and the forces of Chaos retreated into the Eye of Terror.

Horus Heresy

In this article, we will not delve into the details of the Horus Heresy. However, let's say that at the end of this betrayal, the Emperor was almost killed. It was Horus who met the Emperor in a hand-to-hand duel, after which he can no longer speak or move.

Golden Throne

The duel with Horus took place both in the physical and in the non-material world at the same time: the souls of those who fought fought among themselves in the warp. The Emperor's body was almost destroyed, but his soul was also damaged. The forces of Chaos retreated again. Many of those who had been at the mercy of the Dark Gods for a short time realized their mistake and quickly returned to the side of the Imperium. The Emperor's body was brought to Earth and placed in a giant life support machine. The car was named the Golden Throne. The body of the Emperor was destroyed, but the spirit survived, and for some time he still communicated with his subjects. However, he then fell silent forever.

The Soul of the Emperor went to the Sea of Souls and to this day wanders there, waiting for the moment of rebirth. The forces of Chaos are unable to find His soul to destroy, as the warp is huge.

Child of the Stars

As long as the soul of the Emperor lives in the warp, all is not lost for humanity. Just as the New Man was born many tens of thousands of years ago by the efforts of shamans, the Emperor can be reborn again. But this will not happen soon, only when the cries of salvation reach the energy of the Savior. At the same time, the Emperor's soul awaits the birth of a child it could inhabit - the Star Child. Most people in the Imperium don't know the whole truth about what really happened to the Emperor. And the fact that he can be born again is unknown to most of humanity. To the rulers of the Imperium, the Emperor is alive, though not in our sense of the word.

Only a small secret sect of initiates knows the whole truth about the rebirth of the Emperor, they call themselves the Illuminati. The Illuminati await the birth of the Star Child and the second coming of the Emperor. They know that they are heretics throughout the Imperium and therefore hide their actions and beliefs. They remain a hidden force in the Imperium, which, bypassing the state machine and the Inquisition, are preparing the second coming of the New Man.

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Early history

Humanity has long known about the warp and coexisted with it. There were gifted individuals who were able to communicate with the warp and use it for various purposes - healers in the tribes, shamans, diviners and other spiritual leaders of early mankind. The spirits of these people could even sweep through the warp after death and be reborn in new human bodies.

However, with the acquisition of knowledge by mankind, their secret desires for power and pleasure grew, and decay began. Moreover, the vast warp storms conserved entire systems from the Empire of people, many xenos took advantage of the weakening of the Empire and began to attack the worlds, people could not resist this, they were torn apart by inter-religious and civil wars (therefore, the Emperor will ban religion under death penalty and with the help of the tech-priests of Mars, gave people technology). Spiritual leaders began to notice changes as their psychic gifts began to wane and reincarnation into new bodies became more difficult. They convened a great council, which decided that none of them could solve the problem alone - but perhaps together they could. They decided that they would give their lives to be reborn as a god of unimaginable power.

Almost a year after this council and the suicides that followed, a child was born - a boy who was destined to become the Immortal God-Emperor of Mankind. His real name is unknown, but there are references in Warhammer 40,000 canon that he was born in the 8th millennium BC in central Anatolia.

Many years later, as the Emperor's experience and wisdom grew, he intuitively realized the spiritual corruption caused by human behavior and set himself the goal of correcting it. He has always remained in the shadows, controlling and directing the most significant changes in the history of Mankind and protecting the species as a whole. He had different names in different periods of human history, sometimes taking the role of a man who became a great historical figure who guided Mankind on the true path. At other times, he remained unrecognized, continuing to lead people along the path of enlightenment and universal happiness, as far as it was in his power.

The first mention of the Emperor in Imperial Chronicles occurs when he unifies Holy Terra after the Age of Strife (sometime around the 29th millennium). The Emperor's use of genetically altered soldiers - proto-Astartes, prototypes of the future Space Marines - allowed him to unite the people of Earth and turn his gaze to distant stars. With the help of the Adeptus Mechanicus on Mars, the Emperor armed his Space Marines and interstellar fleets to carry his armies to the far reaches of the galaxy and expand the Imperium of Man.

The Emperor created the superhuman primarchs from his own genetic samples, and from their templates the Space Marine Legions were subsequently created. But Chaos abducted the primarchs and they were scattered throughout the human-inhabited worlds - throughout the Imperium - from the laboratory under the Himalayan Mountains where the Emperor had created them.

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Great Crusade

The Emperor developed a plan to save humanity: to unite the disparate planets of people scattered throughout the galaxy and isolated from each other in the Age of Strife. During the early years of the Great Crusade, the Emperor was at the forefront of the battle, leading his genetically enhanced soldiers into battle. With the worlds rediscovered and incorporated into the Imperium, the Emperor found the lost primarchs, whose genetic samples were used to stabilize the Space Marine creation process.

After the Triumph at Ullanor, the Emperor returned to the underground laboratories on Earth to continue working on secret projects, including mapping the Web, the entrance to which he found in his palace in Tibet. He left his faithful "sons", the primarchs, to continue the Crusade, granting the best of them, Horus, the title of Warmaster. He deliberately did not explain to anyone, not even Horus, what he was going to do after returning to Terra; this sowed the first seeds of misunderstanding that would later lead to the Horus Heresy.

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Horus Heresy

The Great Crusade ended with the events of the Horus Heresy, when Horus rebelled against the Emperor. Under the command of Horus, nine Space Marine Legions and many regiments of the Imperial Guard turned to the service of Chaos and unleashed a galactic civil war.

Even when Horus' armies were besieging Terra, the Emperor still believed that Horus could redeem himself, and he maintained this belief when he faced Horus one on one aboard his battle barge. Due to his unwillingness to use his full power against his own son, the Emperor was horribly wounded at the hands of Horus. As Horus stood over the mangled body of the Emperor, a Custodian entered the cockpit. Horus tore him apart with a single blow. The death of the Custodes sobered the Emperor. He saw how low Horus had fallen and that there was only one way to end Chaos - to kill his pawn, his beloved son. The Emperor summoned a psychic lance of unimaginable power and launched it at Horus. As the Chaos Gods abandoned their dying puppet, the Emperor felt Horus regain his sanity. He knew that Chaos would try to get Horus back, and he might not be there to prevent it. Banishing all compassion from his mind, the Emperor called upon his inner reserves and destroyed the Warmaster.

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present tense

The Emperor's crippled body was found by Rogal Dorn, who, following the Emperor's instructions, supervised the connection of the Emperor to the Golden Throne, a technical device to sustain his spirit. The Emperor remains imprisoned in the Golden Throne from that day on, being neither fully alive nor dead. Originally conceived by the Emperor as the hub of the Webway's colonization project, the Golden Throne can also function as a gigantic life-sustaining device. The Golden Throne itself resides in the Sanctum Imperialis, guarded by the Custodian Emperor's Guard, also known as the Adeptus Custodes. The physical body of the Emperor is preserved and its vital functions are maintained by the bizarre machinery of the Throne.

The Golden Throne is also connected to the strongest psychic warp beacon known as the Astronomican, which generates the signals that enable FTL travel in the Imperium, as it serves as a psychic beacon that navigators and astropaths can navigate to. The Emperor himself controls the signal, dubbed the Ray of Hope and the Golden Path, but a choir of ten thousand human psykers provides the bulk of its power. The lifeblood of such psykers dries up in a matter of months, meaning that replacements must be constantly sought out and brought back to Terra aboard the famous Black Ships of the Inquisition.

According to the latest revision of the board game's rules, in 986.999.M41 Imperial reckoning, the Adeptus Mechanicus discovered a malfunction in the Golden Throne that they were unable to fix.

Emperor of Humanity. These two words contain the epic and pathos of Warhammer. So let's see who he is and what he is.
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According to an overdue fluff, the Emperor was born into a simple family somewhere on the territory of Anatolia (Turkey), and the souls of the strongest shamans of their time, who committed suicide, smelled the appearance of demons in the warp, which was so pure and maintains the conditions for reincarnation, moved into his body. "The Rise of Horus" partly confirms the age of the Emperor, as well as the version with raging demons: the ring is mentioned, created in the 8th millennium BC, a year before the birth of Himself. Why are demons here? Khorne was born then.
The longevity of the Emperor is explained by his peculiarity - he is Eternal. Through the centuries, he passed with different guises - he was a prophet, a warrior, a scientist. It is impossible not to recall the moment from the Mechanicum, a vision in which the Hegemon is shown by George the Victorious, and then still a simple rider of Rome, who slew the Dragon. The same one that he later concluded on Mars. In the pre-space era.
This may seem strange, but in Warhammer it has an explanation: in "Unmarked" we meet Oll Persson, another Eternal who was born around 13 thousand years BC, using athame shards to cut space at certain points that are warp compass. All said that an old acquaintance (and the Emperor was just an old acquaintance of his) warned of the dangers of such travels. And this is a great explanation for the capture of the Dragon.
What happened to the Hegemon in the Middle Ages and after is unknown, his trail resurfaces only in the Dark Age of Technology, at its very beginning, in the Star Exodus. The Emperor and Alyvia Sureka, another Eternal, traveled to Molech in one of the first FTL ships. Be that as it may, but he crashed and was not restored, and this couple found the gates to the Wastes of Chaos, entering which, the Emperor signed a pact with the Ruinous Powers, so that they would grant him power to conquer the Galaxy. At least that's how the story is presented to Horus in The Vengeful Spirit. Perhaps the Master of Mankind had spent, like Lupercal, countless hours in the warp gaining powers. But he returned, and Alyvia remained on the planet to keep an eye on the gate. And, again, confirming the version of the warp compass, the future Emperor left Molekh.
By the way, the overdue fluff mentioned that the Hegemon was involved in the creation of the STC.
An interesting moment is presented in the "Derelict Dead": in the 20 thousandth, Psi-Wars swept the Old Earth, almost destroying the planet. But the psyker warlords were slain by a mysterious warrior with golden eyes. In Lost Liberation, the Emperor on the Golden Throne appears before Corvus with bright golden eyes sparkling with ethereal energies.
But the time when the Emperor was quietly hiding and pushing humanity to new achievements from the shadows has passed: the Age of Strife has come (hmm, maybe it was also part of his plans?). From that moment on, He appears before us as the ruler of Himalasia, the creator of the Thunder Warriors - a huge army of improved soldiers (however, not the only one of its kind: the troops of the Caucasian Ethnarchy were not inferior to them). Conquering state after state, the Lord of Mankind uses forgotten developments and remnants of technology, gains allies in the person of the Terrawatt Clan of technocrats who huddled under the Urals (and contributed a lot to the creation of space marines). According to The Legion, during the takeover of the Achiemenid Empire, the Master of Mankind felt his mind being penetrated by the psyker John Grammaticus. He climbed too deep, found out the plans of the Emperor to capture the galaxy, for which he was killed. Earlier or at about this time, the xenos anti-chaosites of the Cabal notice the efforts of the Emperor and are even going to accept him into their ranks, according to the Legion. In parallel with the expansion of his Imperium, the Hegemon destroyed cults and religions: in turbulent times, when psykers can become puppets of the Ruinous Powers, creeds have every chance of becoming cells of Chaos, carefully hidden and corrupting. Well, in general, superstitions interfere with the flight of thought. Destroying the last temple of what was once Christianity, the priest catches the Emperor on the fact that in his aspirations he is no better than another techno-barbarian. In addition, Arik Taranis' thunder army had slaughtered Scandia cleanly.
Having acquired enough seemingly lost technologies, the Emperor sets about creating generals - genetic sons, primarchs. By the way, in the fluff of the time of the dinosaurs, the primarchs are creatures imbued with the energies of pure immaterium. However, Chaos does not sleep, and no matter how hard the Father tries to fence off his sons with Geller fields and inscriptions on enuncia (according to the "First Heretic"), the capsules are stolen by the currents of the warp. According to Lost Liberation, the Emperor initially motivated himself to create new primarchs, but ended up with a more ingenious idea: why bother with twenty demigods when, based on the biomass left from them, you can create organs for new super-soldiers to replace the Thunder Warriors? Thus began the First Founding. Meanwhile, the proto-legions participated in the capture of the remaining techno-barbarian possessions where the last Thunder Warriors (if the Hegemon, of course, had not slaughtered them by that time) and the armies of ordinary and not very mortals are ineffective.
Later (according to The Havoc), the Emperor realized that the Astartes were very cool, and created his own personal Legion, the Custodes, where each was unique, like the planned Primarch Generals.
And the day came when all the Old Earth, henceforth Terra, bowed before the Emperor. They say that the last battle of the Unification Wars was the battle for Ararat, in which the last Thunder Warrior fell (but we all know). And the Emperor's gaze rushed to the sky, embraced by toxic clouds of chemical weapons and industrial pipe waste. And, yes, one more thing: the Hegemon took care of the inhabitants of Terra, at least in the "Horus Heresy, book one" from FV it is written that he was conducting a health campaign in order to return the proud appearance of their ancestors to the terrans, distorted by alchemical weapons and radiation. True, the environment has not changed much. Around the same time (if not earlier) he acquired his "right hand", Malcador, about whom, if, again, to believe "book 1", they said that he was closely related to the Emperor (remember the old, ancient fluff about the sensei, who are the immortal children of Himself). But again, these are rumors.
In general, the Emperor gathered his armies and moved to conquer Sol. Why did the Astartes get the Model 2 armor for Void Wars? But on Mars, the Hegemon faced the Mechanicum. It seems that the guys are cool, they understand the gears, but they believe in all kinds of Gods-Made-Machines. Thanks to the Emperor's tech savvy, they quickly recognized him as the Prophet of the Machine God, the Omnissiah. Although the Father of Humanity was against religions, it was stupid to lose useful billions of techies, and progress is good, so he allowed himself to be called the herald of progress, the Omnissiah. And so the Raptor Imperialis (which is an eagle head with lightning, a sign of the early Imperium) acquired a second head, Mars, and became an aquila.
One way or another, a little later, under circumstances not fully clarified, Horus met his father, and together they set off on the Great Crusade. On the planet Gorro (or whatever it was called in Index Astartes 4), Lupercal saved the Emperor from a very powerful warboss, who had every chance to kill Himself (and let him be reborn, if he is Eternal). Later, the rest of the primarchs were found. And when Lorgar was found, the Emperor reacted sharply negatively to his religiosity, even wanted to cut him out (in the "Aurelian" the demon showed an unfulfilled past with Curze the executioner), but everything worked out. But in vain. However, the fate of two was decided before the Heresy: The Eleventh (because at the time of the "First Heretic", 966m30 he had already been guilty, in the order of finding the primarchs from Golding, number 3 was deleted, and the 19th found was also deleted, but in 965m30 there is an event<отредактировано>, next, the second has not yet been found) was eliminated, and, according to Magnus, the Emperor himself participated in this (really, we did not meet the souls of the forgotten - the work of a mental spear?).
However, it is worth noting that sending TC with HF to one CP turned out to be a bad idea: Russ the rat told about witchcraft in the legion of Magnus, and the Nicene Edict began. The emperor, all in the light, said that it would be necessary to get rid of the Librarians, or rather, abolish them (but the primarchs decided this way and that).
And then the moment came when the galaxy was almost completely cleared, and the greatest xeno-threat - the Ullanor orc empire - was defeated, the Hegemon decided that the primarchs could handle the rest themselves, appointed Horus, the "oldest" of the brothers, as his deputy warrior, and set sail for Terra to pave the way for humanity and the Webway, thanks to the Himalayan gate right below the palace. Who went to help build the Imperial Fists.
This is where the real softness begins: suddenly, the defense against demons breaks in the palace due to the magical message of Magnus. The Scarlet King announces that the Warmaster has betrayed. My father reasoned sensibly: since Magnus broke it, Magnus must also atone for his guilt. To do this, the Emperor built an amazing device - the Golden Throne - and meditated on it, while Leman, who was instructed to bring the Cyclops to Terra, flew to Prospero. It never occurred to the emperor that his "first" son could betray the imperial truths. Meanwhile, the Warmaster, who still seemed loyal, distorted the order, and the Space Wolves flew off to burn the thousands with their home world. It was only later that the Hegemon realized how he had broken off. PN, ZhR, AL, SM, NS, GV and ZhV, led by the tactician Ferrus, were supposed to bring the presumptuous CI, GS and SH to their senses. However, they suffered a crushing defeat, losing a bunch of people on Isstvan and 2 (as it turned out, only one) primarch. At the same time, the fickleness of the Warp causes an echo of Magnus's message to ring out at the Himalayan gates, according to The Dead Cast Away.
So the Emperor sits on the Golden Throne for many years, concentrating his superhuman powers to keep the gates closed. At the same time, during the break, he gives Corax the go-ahead to use the original gene matrix with Astartes DNA. More will be in the "Master of Mankind", definitely not this year.
Apotheosis is coming civil war: Rebels storm Terra. For at least a hundred days, the planet has been engulfed in an apocalyptic war, and only after briefly driving back the Chaosites, who were driven into retreat by the death of Ka "Bandah", the Emperor, Dorn, Sanguinius and the Custodes teleport to the "Vengeful Spirit" that removed the shields. Malcador, who is still a psyker, remains to maintain the stability of the passage to the Web "According to the fluff, possibly outdated, the Hegemon battles Dumbrid on the ship and disembodies him by calling his true name. When the Father reaches the bridge, the dead Angel and Horus Lupercal, pumped with the energies of the Warp, appear before him. The Emperor hopes that the Warmaster will come to his senses, but he rips out the Lord's hand, rips out his eye and even breaks his spine.It would seem that everything, the Emperor lost because of giving in, but then suddenly Horus is distracted by the Imperial Fist / Custodes / Guardsman (depending on the edition) Oll Persson (according to the current canon - a guardsman) , from which the Warmaster flays his skin with just a glance. oh power "hangs fat." Deprived of nourishment from the Gods of Chaos, Horus realizes what he has done, sobs and asks for forgiveness. But the father feels that the Ruinous Powers are trying to subdue the Warmaster again, and casts the Mental Spear, destroying the soul of the First of those found, which completes the Heresy.
A little later, Dorn finds him and takes him to the Palace. Malcador is disconnected from the Throne and crumbles to dust from the load (and is not reborn - therefore, life has been supported by technology for many centuries). The Master of Mankind says: "Malcador ... hero ..." and forever falls silent. He would not have been able to say this had the Sigillite not left his vital energy in car. Or would be reborn, if, of course, Eternal. By the way, in the second edition, Russ was engaged in welding Him to a stool, while the rest of the primarchs were crying on the sidelines about the loss.
+++The Emperor after the Heresy+++
The Chaos consider him a corpse on a throne. This does not prevent him from talking with the founder of the Sisters of Battle during the reign of Vandire. As it does not interfere with talking with the inquisitor during the siege of Vraks.
The Cabal saw what would happen if the Emperor won: his soul would forever fight the Four and lose forever, and in 10-20K years the hunger of the Ruinous Powers would turn the galaxy into something so terrible that the previously loyal Alpharius and Omegon agreed to become traitors, so long as it doesn't happen.
The rancid fluff contains the Star Child, the fifth god of Chaos, who grows on people's faith in the divinity of the Emperor. If born, it will personify fanaticism and intolerance. Sensei will become its champions. And there is always the possibility that at least part of the Legion of the Damned are its proto-demons.
Abaddon, while collecting artifacts, discovered one that shows the future. And he saw Terra lying in ruins. The palace is full of Custodes bodies, and the burnt mummy of the Emperor sits on the Golden Throne. The Himalayan gates have been breached, and the Eye of Terror is seen in the sky as if from Cadia, and continues to grow (it seems from the Black Legion codex).
At the same time, do not forget about the Time of the End, 2.5 recent centuries m41, when the Mechanicus found a fatal flaw in the Golden Throne. At the same time, they made a pact with the homunculi so that, if anything, they would revive the Master of Mankind.
Let's not forget about Fabia: he stole some of Sanguinius' blood from the Blood Angels in order to use it to create a clone of the Emperor.
+++Personality+++
Even before the CPSU, he preferred to dress simply, but tastefully, in the business clothes of his time (remember "The Last Temple").
We don't know his name, but Magnus knows him. And it would surprise Khan ("Scars").

After the Fall of the Eldar, for nearly 5,000 years, the galaxy shook with mighty warp tides. Human colonies fought demons, eldar, orcs, genestealers and other evil spirits, defending their right to exist. The land isolated from the rest of space by warp storms existed on its own, having no influence on other human worlds. Technology was in decline, and the only custodians of the knowledge of the Golden Age were the tech-priests of Mars who worshiped the Machine God. It was at this time that a man was born on Earth who was to change the face of the galaxy for the next 10,000 years. No one now remembers his real name, everyone knows him under the name Emperor. His childhood, youth and even maturity are also shrouded in obscurity. For the first time, he became something more than just a man when he came with his supporters to the capital of one of the many states of the Earth and conquered the entire state in one night, crushing an army of many thousands with a force of just less than a hundred soldiers. Having become the ruler, he began to systematically conquer the land until he became the sole ruler of the cradle of mankind. The backbone of the Emperor and the main strength of his army were the first space marines, genetically enhanced human warriors. The Space Marines created by the Emperor were inhumanly strong, agile, tenacious and fast, by an order of magnitude, surpassing the capabilities of an ordinary person and even fighting demons on equal terms. But in addition to the talent of a scientist and geneticist, the Emperor was also a psyker, the strongest of those that ever gave birth to the human race. By the time the Emperor conquered Earth, the warp storms in the galaxy had begun to subside and eventually ceased altogether, making interstellar travel possible again. Who knows, maybe the will of the Emperor did it. Having conquered the Earth, the Emperor began to prepare for the Great Crusade into the galaxy in order to unite humanity again, and jointly confront the threat of chaos and aliens. For this, the Emperor created twenty superhumans, the Primarchs, who were destined for the role of leaders and commanders in the future crusade. The deeds of the Emperor could not fail to attract the attention of the most important enemy of mankind, Chaos. The Gods of Chaos sent their faithful servants, the warp winds, to the earth, and those, whirling the Earth in a wild storm, stole the incubators with the unborn Primarchs and scattered them across the galaxy. The touch of the will of the Chaos Gods poisoned the Primarchs and confused the Emperor's plans to create ideal people. Primarchs were born in different parts of the galaxy, and each of them had a flaw. One of them was born one-eyed like a cyclops, the other received the wings of an angel, and some, without physical defects, carried the poison of Chaos, which sharpened their will and strength from the inside. Nevertheless, the Emperor, having started the Great Crusade, eventually returned all the Primarchs to himself, and those, recognizing the Emperor as the creator and master, faithfully served him in the field of the great war.

Imperial Cult

When the Emperor was young, these forces were not yet as powerful as many thousands of years later. Ever since primitive humans appeared, humanity has made contact with the warp. In primitive tribes, shamans and sorcerers knew how to communicate with him.

Frightened by what threatens the human race, all the shamans of the world gathered in one place and killed themselves, releasing their energy, and then directing it into the body of an infant who became the New Human Emperor.

The emperor and the history of mankind

Emperor and the forces of Chaos

The New Man understood that as long as humanity is tied to the solar system, it is doomed. So the Emperor began his own research and development in the field of interstellar travel through the warp.

Primarchs

The Emperor never underestimated the power of Chaos, so the best scientists of the Earth began to work. The weapons and equipment produced in the Martian factories were supposed to help people in reclaiming their Imperium. However, the Emperor also decides to create the Primarchs: genetically engineered superhumans like gods. The emperor was going to create a whole race of superhumans, not subject to the influence of Chaos.

Space Marine

Great Crusade

By the time the warp storms around the solar system had ended, the Space Marines, in alliance with the rest of the human military, were ready to reclaim the galaxy. The forces of Chaos were also strong, and many human worlds were taken over by Chaos cults or aliens. It was a terrible war, but with each conquered world, the Imperium grew and received new warriors in its ranks.

During the Great Crusade, the Emperor found all his Primarchs and they joined him. The Imperium was stronger than ever, and the forces of Chaos retreated into the Eye of Terror.

Horus Heresy

Golden Throne

The Soul of the Emperor went to the Sea of Souls and to this day wanders there, waiting for the moment of rebirth. The forces of Chaos are unable to find His soul to destroy, as the warp is huge.

Child of the Stars