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(3) | None | Ferrus Manus, primarch of the Iron Hands, employs his brutal methods of war to bring a world to heel in the Emperor's name. The Great Crusade has swept across half the galaxy, a million human worlds now embracing the truth and reason that comes with allegiance to the rule of Terra. But even such unparalleled success comes at a cost. Rumours abound that the Emperor plans to step back from the Crusade and raise one of his primarch sons to lead in his stead. Faced with the bitterly non-compliant human empire of Gardinaal and a leaderless host of Ultramarines, Thousand Sons and Emperor's Children at his Legion's command, the Iron Hands primarch Ferrus Manus decides to make an example that even the Emperor cannot ignore.… (more) |
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'Ulan Cicerus was a passionate rhetorician, and he described the Gardinaal to me in a rhetorician's terms – they were "big fish in a shrinking pond".
The Chapter Master's ability to turn a phrase, coupled to an apparent inability to recognise that few amongst his audience had the cultural reference frame for an ecological metaphor, never failed to endear him to the regiments of the doomed 413th.
'It is a continuing failing of mortals to be unsettled by perfection.
'What little I thence learned of the Gardinaal would have been familiar to any child of Sol, but none of us could have been prepared for the degradation practised on those eleven worlds in the name of efficiency, or necessity. "Why would humans choose to live like this?" Cicerus once demanded of us, as if we, without the blinkers of Ultramarian descent, could better answer.
"The truth, as one of Terran descent would say, is that such men are seldom given choices.
'We were not.
'Our orders came from the offices of the Emperor himself, beloved by all. The Imperium desired the industrial power of the Gardinaal for the Great Crusade. The Gardinaal desired effective sovereignty, and had the military muscle to ensure that the 413th gave fair hearing to their demands. Nobody wanted a war.
'But then, nobody gave us a choice.'
– The Remembrances of Akurduana, Vol. CCLXVII, The Fall of the Lords of Gardinaal  | |
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Taken from us too soon, who knows what might have been. | |
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Mighty heroes battle for the right to rule the galaxy.
Introduction: The Horus Heresy / It is a time of legend. Amadeus DuCaine thumped shoulder-first into the rockcrete wall. | |
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