However the Master of Mankind was himself mortally wounded. In the final decisive battle between the Emperor and the Arch-Traitor, Horus was slain, leading to the breakup of the rebellion and the exile of the traitors to the Eye of Terror. Horus, seeking to achieve a swift and decisive victory, led most of the traitor forces in a direct strike at the capital of humanity, in the Battle of Terra. The rebellion was fought across the galaxy. The Great Crusade ended with the corruption and treachery of the Primarch Horus, the instigator of the Horus Heresy. These, combined with the might of the Imperial Army (which was later separated into the Imperial Guard and the Imperial Navy), Custodian Guard, Sisters of Silence, and Martian Mechanicum forces that included the Collegia Titanica and Legio Cybernetica saw thousands of human worlds brought together under the Imperium. During this two hundred year-long military campaign, the Emperor employed his most potent military units, the Space Marine Legions, led by their leaders, the Primarchs. A vast navy was built, with which his armies undertook the Great Crusade, which lasted for about two centuries. In the Unification Wars, the Emperor led his proto- Astartes known as Thunder Warriors to victory in unifying Terra for the first time in millennia.Īs the Warp storms of the Age of Strife subsided, after having secured the scientific posts and spacedocks of Luna, along with the factories and scientists on Mars, the Emperor began to unite mankind under his rule. The Imperium was founded by the Emperor, also called The Immortal Emperor, God-Emperor, and the Master of Mankind, at the end of the Age of Strife - a very long period of anarchy, war, and destructive regression which brought humanity to the brink of destruction and reversed the technological progression made during the Dark Age of Technology. Without the protection of the Imperium, mankind would fall prey to the countless perils that threaten it.
From within, the Imperium is threatened more insidiously by rebellion, mutation, rogue psykers, and subversive cults. Several aliens and forces - Chaos, Tyranids, Eldar, Dark Eldar, Orks, Tau, Necrons - challenge the supremacy of the Imperium.
As a stellar empire, the size of the Imperium cannot be measured in terms of contiguous territory, but only in the number of planetary systems in its control. An Imperial planet might be separated from its closest neighbour by hundreds or thousands of light years. The Imperium is the largest and most powerful political entity in the galaxy, consisting of at least a million worlds which are dispersed across most of the galaxy. The founder and nominal ruler of the Imperium is the god-like Emperor of Mankind, the most powerful human psyker ever known.
The Imperium of Man is the galactic empire under which the majority of humanity is united.
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