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The Imperium was founded by the [[Emperor]] ("The Immortal Emperor", and the "Master of Mankind") and ended the "[[Age of Strife]]", a period of anarchy, lawlessness and senseless destruction that lasted for dozens of centuries and during which all but the faintest traces of the vast, advanced galactic civilization built by men in previous eras disappeared.
However, when the [[The Warp|warpstormswarp storms]] of the Age of Strife subsided, the Emperor set forth to unite mankind under his rule, turning his hordes of techno-barbaric technobarbaric warriors into the first superhuman [[Space MarinesMarine]]s.
After having secured the scientific posts and spacedocks of [[Luna]], along with the factories and weaponshops based on [[Mars]], the Emperor built a warfleet with which he undertook the [[Great Crusade]], which lasted for two centuries and ended with the formal establishment of Imperial rule over all but the most scattered and distant human colonized worlds.