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Eventually it was decided that Vulkan's legion of Space Marines would henceforth be known as the [[Salamanders]], in honour of the beast that had united him with his father. The Primarch continued to serve loyally throughout the Great Crusade.{{Cite This}} At some point during the Great Crusade, Vulkan and his Legion participated in reconquest of a world designated One-Five-Four-Six (locally known as [[Kharaatan]]) together with the [[Night Lords]] led by their Primarch, [[Konrad Curze]], and Mechanicum Titan Legion [[Legio Ignis]] and several Imperial Army regiments. During this [[Compliance of Kharaatan|campaign]], Vulkan became enraged by how Curze and his Legion waged war after he found out that the Night Lords had killed the inhabitants of a whole city in order to seed fear amongst the population. This confrontation between Vulkan and Curze resulted in a brief but fierce argument between the two primarchs. After conclusion of this campaign, Vulkan reported Curze's behaviour and actions to Warmaster [[Horus]] and primarch [[Dorn]] of the [[Imperial Fists]]. However, during the battle against Kharaatan's ruling [[Eldar]] coven, Vulkan flew into a rage when the [[Remembrancer]] [[Seriph]] was killed, and killed a surrendering Eldar child. This incident would haunt the Primarch deeply.
On the world of [[One-Five-Four Four]] Vulkan and his army came into contact with tribes of primitive humans living alongside [[Exodite]] Eldar. Surprisingly, the humans did not welcome the Imperial invaders. Vulkan was guided by a mysterious Remembrancer (later discovered to be a psychic projection of the Emperor) to a Webway Portal. After a vicious battle the Portal, Vulkan came across human tribals preparing to sacrifice a Dark Eldar woman. The Humans humans had learned to fear the [[Dark Eldar]] raiders, and sought to sacrifice her to ward off their return now that the Exodites had been defeated. Moreover, Vulkan realized that the Dark Eldar woman was from the raiding parties that terrorized Nocturne in his youth, and these humans were descendants of Nocturne captives liberated by the Eldar. Vulkan realized the Emperor had guided him here and understand that these humans would never accept the Imperium over their Eldar liberators, ordered the planet cleansed. He sought to erase any trace of Humanhuman-Xenos xeno coexistence.{{Fn|13}}
Later, when Vulkan gave his protest to Horus, he sensed a great darkness within him. This caused Vulkan to decline giving Horus the hammer [[Dawnbringer]].{{Fn|4}}