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After saving Caldera, Vulkan returned to [[Terra]] with Koorland. He took command of the frantic Imperium, scolding the High Lords for their squabblings and inefficiency but stating he would not purge them for the sake of unity. He then proclaimed that he would lead the might of the Imperium to [[Ullanor]], the homeworld of The Beast. Vulkan made clear that his return was temporary, for he was destined to reappear for another war in another time.{{Fn|11}}
Vulkan officially led the subsequent crusade to Ullanor to find and slay the Beast once and for all, but in truth left most of the details to Koorland who he gave his full support to. Instead, Vulkan tinkered with [[Doomtremor]] and remained isolated in his chambers aboard the [[Fists Exemplar]]s [[Battle Barge]] ''Alcazar Remembered''. Though this discouraged many at first, Vulkan lept into the fray of battle directly when the Imperial forces reached the "capital" city of Ullanor, Gorkogrod. Vulkan eventually led the final charge into the Beast's massive temple-[[Gargantgargant]] and confronted the Warboss warboss directly. Realizing that Vulkan had always intended to fight the Beast alone and knowing he could do little in the fight, Koorland ordered an evacuation from the temple as the two giants clashed. The ten meter-high Warboss revealed he spoke perfect Imperial Gothic, gloating that humanity was on its knees and he would be its end. Vulkan tackled the Warboss warboss and they both fell into the temple-gargants gargant's power generator, where the Primarch primarch became imbued with massive amounts of Waaagh! energies. Rather than be consumed by the energies as so many other men had, Vulkan used his primal and savage essence to become one with it and launch one last attack. He slammed Doomtremor into The Beast's face and detonated the generator, causing a chain reaction that shattered the temple-gargant and seemingly obliterated them both.{{Fn|12}}
Vulkan was presumed dead by the Imperium and Koorland stated that his sacrifice would be forever remembered.{{Fn|}} However, the Salamanders still hunt him in the [[41st Millennium]]. They believe that he will return to them after they have found all nine of the [[Artefacts of Vulkan]]{{Fn|2}}