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The age of the Great Crusade ended with the virus bombing of [[Isstvan III]] by [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]], which announced the beginning of his [[Horus Heresy|Rebellion]]. The loyalist legions were recalled to Terra to defend against the traitor Warmaster, but not all of the Legions were able to return. The [[Ultramarines]] were mired in the Ultramar system fighting [[Kor Phaeron]] and his retinue of [[Word Bearers]] that had come to destroy them. The [[Space Wolves]] were finishing their battle at Prospero with the now openly traitorous [[Thousand Sons]], the [[White Scars]] were mired in the [[Chondax Campaign]], and the [[Dark Angels]] were in the midst of a civil war on Caliban and a slow campaign against the [[Gordian League]].{{cite this}}
In many ways the Emperor was now gone, The Imperium suddenly finding itself without the great leadership of the Guardian of Mankind. The brief age of recovery which the Great Crusade represented was over, and mankind began to decline into the state it is now, with fear and chaos rife, [[Inquisitor]]s seeking out heresy at every corner and billions of people living in forced, and willing, [[slavery ]] to their God-Emperor.{{cite this}}
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