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Luna was a renowned center of human genetic research during the [[Dark Age of Technology]], becoming home to massive underground genetic laboratories. During the [[Age of Strife]], it was ruled over by brilliant but fanatical [[Selenar]] gene-cults who only submitted to the [[Emperor]] after the [[First Pacification of Luna]], the first battle of the [[Great Crusade]].{{Fn|3}} The pacification of the Gene-Cults of Luna allowed the Emperor to mass-produce the [[Legiones Astartes]].{{Fn|6}} As the Crusade expanded outwards, Astartes production on Luna diminished and the Selenar cults lost their importance. The moon was instead given to the [[Sisters of Silence]], [[Departmento Munitorum]] centers, and [[Imperialis Armada]] defenses.{{Fn|9a}}
During the [[Horus Heresy]]'s [[Solar War]], Luna was the target of a major traitor attack led by [[Sons of Horus]] [[First Captain]] [[Abaddon]]. During the fighting its massive orbital defense ring was the target of a kamikaze attack by the [[Battle Barge]] ''[[War Oath]]'' and Abaddon captured its remaining gene-labs from loyalist forces. The Selenar Cults, resentful against the Imperium, chose to side with [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]] and share with him their gene-tech.{{Fn|9b}} After the traitor defeat in the [[Siege of Terra]] Luna was reclaimed by loyalists in the [[Great Scouring]].{{Cite this}}
Ten thousand years later Luna again became a battlefield in the final stage of the [[Terran Crusade]]. Due to the reborn [[Roboute Guilliman]]'s efforts to reach Terra via the Webway, [[Magnus]] and his [[Thousand Sons]] were able to emerge on the moon. In the subsequent battle the Chaos invaders were defeated thanks to the arrival of Imperial reinforcements from Terra that included the [[Imperial Fists]], [[Custodes]], [[Battlefleet Solar]], and [[Sisters of Silence]].{{Fn|7}}
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*{{Endn|1}}: [[Realm of Chaos: Slaves to Darkness]] (1988), pg. 241
*{{Endn|2}}: [[The Flight of the Eisenstein (Novel)]], {{Cite This}}
