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The '''Death of Innocence''' was an event that befell the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] shortly before the [[Horus Heresy]].
It occured when [[Fabricator General]] [[Kelbor-Hal]] made an alliance with [[Imperial Warmaster|Warmaster]] [[Horus|Horus Lupercal]] through his agent [[Adept]] [[Regulus (Dark Mechanicum)|Regulus]]. As part of the stipulations of the pact, the allies of Kelbor-Hal were to openly turn against the loyalists of the [[Emperor]] in order to prevent [[Mars]] assets from going to the enemy. As an incentive, the Warmaster gave Regulus the means to open the [[Vaults of Moravec]] which released a corrupt scrapcode that spread through the digital mechanical network on Mars leading to a great deal of unrest and devastation as well as the secret rise of the [[Dark Mechanicum]].
The Death of Innocence, as it was later known, led to numerous facilities being destroyed from power plants to factories as well as the deaths of a large amount of [[Astropaths]] on Mars when their lifesupport systems were poisoned by the corrupt scrapcode. Officially, few knew who perpetrated the attack at the time and members of the Dark Mechanicum attempted to get the support of other techpriests by telling them that the event was caused by the Emperor as he sought to conquer Mars now that the [[Great Crusade]] was nearing completion.
