Epics of the Great Crusade

The greatest undertaking in the history of Mankind, the Great Crusade was an event that involved the lives of trillions of mortal men and women, the Emperor of Mankind, his sons and generals The Primarchs, and their Space Marines. These are their stories.

## The Rangdan Xenocides

* The First Rangdan Xenocide
	+ Legions Involved: Horned Sentinels, Venom Stalkers, Silver Wings
* The Second Rangdan Xenocide
	+ Legions Involved: Ashen Crows, Consuls Exemplar, Dragon Lords
* The Third Rangdan Xenocide
	+ Legions Involved: Venom Stalkers, Wisps of Archeron
* Summary: A series of three xenocidal campaigns of the Great Crusade carried out against the xenos threat known as the Rangdan Cerabvores. Each of these three conflicts was deverstating to the Imperium.

## The First Squat War

* Legions Involved: Star Guardians, Grey Harbingers, Blood Angels, Sable Choir, Sol Exemplar
* Summary: Also known as The Squat Wars and The War of Lost Cousins, was one of the largest conflicts in Imperial History in the days before the Antarus Apostasy. Fought between the nascent Imperium and the Khazadi Empire, the First Squat War saw both Shaaa Hydrades's introduction to the Imperium, and the Squats prove their worth as both staunch soldiers and valuable members of the Imperium.

## Compliance of 30-92

* Legions Involved: Star Guardians
* Primarch Discovered: Daito of the World Shakers
* Summary: In early M30.905, the 30th Expeditionary Fleet, under the command of Shaaa Hydrades, exited the warp over a world designated as 30-92, and prepared for full scale compliance actions. Primarch Daito Ueyama is discovered.

## The Battle of the Endless Arkium.

* Legions Involved: The Emperor of Mankind, Watchers of Akhet, Star Guardians, Consuls Exemplar, Scorpion Guard
* Summary: Also known as The Battle of the Colossalstructure , was a war waged in M30.945 by a combined Imperial force against an Abominable Intelegence megastructure known as the Colossalstructure or the Endless Arkium.

## War of the Ròj

* Legions Involved: Watchers of Akhet, Claws of Xipac
* Summary: The War of the Ròj was a conflict facing the Imperium of Man against the xenos species later identified as the Ròj. It was particularly notable in that portions of three Legions along with a number of other Imperial assets were deployed to handle the threat of the xenos race. The World Shakers, Claws of Xipac, and Watchers of Akhet would be sent one by one to drive the Ròj to extinction. The Ròj were a species of xenos that had learned to craft horrifying weapons of war that left unchecked, would have proved troublesome for the progression of the Great Crusade.

## The Blood of Angels

* Legions Involved: Claws of Xipac, Star Guardians, War Bears, Blood Angels, Light Bringers, Ashen Crows
* Summary: One of the most shameful events in Imperial history, for it saw the fall not merely of an entire legion, but of one of, if not the most, beloved Primarch's, Sanguinius. Falling to their own inner gene-flaw, the Blood Angels brought ruin to countless worlds before five of their brother legions brought them to battle upon the surface of Baal, destroying the IXth and erasing them from Imperial Records.

## The Gyre Deeps

* Legions Involved: Watchers of Akhet, Star Guardians
* Summary: Also known as the War Against the Hrud, the Gyre Deeps was a stretch of space long since held by the Hrud, an alien species of terrible power over time itself, using the Deeps as a pathway for their many migrations across the stars. By M30.961, this threat could no longer be avoided, and the Ist Legion, the Watchers of Akhet were called upon to pacify the region and to wipe the Hrud from the face of the galaxy. Khnum rallied 40,000 of his best soldiers to fly to the Deeps and pacify the Hrud. Picking the core homeworld where the central Hrud warrens were located as the place where he would strike first to break the Hrud.

## The Basilisks Rise

* Legions Involved: Faceless Heralds
* Summary: Trapped by on Ork horde, the last dregs of the Faceless Heralds prepare to make their last stand. However, a new arrival galvanizes their last ditch defense, and the Faceless Heralds rise anew, as Silver Basilisks.

## The Emperor and The Chieftain King

* Primarch Discovered: War Bears
* Summary: The Great Crusade began without its true generals at its helm, nonetheless it would proceed - its intention now not only to bring the children of old Earth into the nascent Imperium but to also rediscover the Primarchs and reunite them with their respective legions.

## Thrizes

* Legions Involved: Brothers Encarmine
* Summary: The symphonic melodies of Imperial artisans filled the acoustic halls of the God-King of Thrizes. The late God-King of Thrizes. Three Thrizean days ago the world was forcibly brought into the Imperium of Mankind. Before the Imperials came, the world was ruled by a theocratic monarch, however now it answered to a new ruler: the distant Emperor of Mankind. The Emperor had sent his Angels of Death to liberate the world from the God-King, more specifically, the XIIth Legiones Astartes, the Brothers Encarmine, lead by the Twin Lords of Love and War, Vinicius and Euphrano Geminius. The compliance had been a glorious one, and earlier that day an occasion had been made official; the God-King and his royal guard had faced off against two of the XIIth Legion’s champions. Two-hundred-and-one versus two. Two won.

## Reclamation of Nuceria

* Legions Involved: Watchers of Akhet
* Summary: In the midst of the Great Crusade, Khnum and his sons would find the planet of Nuceria. Nuceria was a brutal, unforgiving world run by cruel slave masters from the city of Desh'ea that forced their subjects to battle in gladiatorial arenas. The aggression-enhancing technology known as the Butchers Nails was a key part of this process.

## The Wight Lord

* Legions Involved: Wisps of Archeon
* Summary: A recording of a Remembrancer's first meeting of the Wisps of Archeon, and the Legion's Primarch, Charon

## The Induction of Lucius

* Legions Involved: Dragon Lords
* Summary: Camelous, Primarch of the XIXth Legion, inducts the forgeworld of Lucius into the Imperium.

## The Fifth of Ukkosa

* Primarch Discovered: Hounds of Surmah
* Summary: And so it was on the fifth of Ukkosa, that the tumultuous skies of Verivaltas seethed with auric luminance, bathing the nocturnal world in a brilliance it had never before experienced. The inhabitants shielded their eyes as the churning maelstrom of storm clouds tore apart, revealing a shining fleet hovering in orbit above their home, lead by a vessel that eclipsed their view. Such a wondrous sight had never before been seen on their world; that such a work of incandescent beauty could exist was nearly too much for them to bear, many falling to their knees in abject bewilderment.

## The Hound and the Sagittarius

* The Hound and the Sagittarius - Part 1
* The Hound and the Sagittarius - Part 2
* Legions Involved: Palatine Wings, Hounds of Surmah
* Summary: The animosity between the XIVth and XXth Legions is well known, see where the hatred between two brother Primarchs began.

## The Grape and The Lance

* Legions Involved: Watcher of Akhet, Silver Basilisks
* Summary: Short story between Equerry Petamn "Iyp", and 1st Captain Aneirin Dulanic on their co-op mission.

## The Destruction of Quietude

* Legions Involved: Seekers of Unity, Scorpion Guard
* Summary: Short story between Veratal Dharma primarch of the Seekers of Unity and Antarus of the Scorpion Guard on mission together.

## Voyages of Dahari

* The Monkey and the Iron Bear:
	+ Events of Dahari Solas, first captain of the Seekers of unity while on mission to visit other legions. This event displays his first interactions with the Hounds of Surmah, specifically Vladamar.

## A Legion and Primarch United

* Legions Involved: Blight Wardens
* Summary: The bruised and battered remains of the second legion finally reunite with their father. On the world of Jining they would take the first steps to heal.

## Council of Vision

* Legions Involved: Ashen Crows, Warmasters Justicars, Consuls Exemplar, Silver Basilisks
* Summary: During the final decades of the Great Crusade Galvarian had worked on a project in secret, draining recourses from his legion in the process. During this day that would become known as the council of vision, he would unveil his greatest creation to some of his closest brothers and the warmaster himself.