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[[Image:AngronSlaveArt.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Angron{{Fn|25a}}]]
===Great Crusade===
Before Angron could reply he was teleported to a nearby vessel of the XII Legion, the War Hounds.{{Fn|23}} Angron initially refused to have anything to do with his Legion, and when several [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]]s tried to talk to him, he brutally killed them, as they had been ordered by the Emperor to not raise a hand against Angron. The dead included the acting [[Legion Master|Legion commander]], [[Gheer]]. Eventually, Captain [[Khârn]] of the [[8th Company (World Eaters)|8th Assault Company]] managed to form a rapport with Angronhis gene-father, talking about the rituals of Angron's his gladiators and the traditions of the War Hounds. Now convinced of their worthiness, Angron took full control over his legion, which he renamed the World Eaters, saying they would form new traditions together.{{Fn|2}} However, in the early days of Angron's leadership, he still refused to acknowledge most of his sons, who could not survive the implantation of the Butcher's Nails. At one point Angron simply abandoned his Legion, hijacking a [[Frigate]] and disappearing. After two years of searching Kharn was able to track him down to a [[Feral World]], where Angron lived like a savage and revealed that he was simply seeking a foe that could put him out of his misery. Kharn eventually convinced Angron to rejoin the Legion by reminding him that his Nucerian comrades would hate to see him in this state, and with the promise that he would try to lead the World Eaters to shed their weakness.{{Fn|25g}}
Most infamously, Angron ordered that the World Eaters conquer their targeted worlds within 31 hours - a single Nucerian day and the time he had scored his greatest victory upon the planet. The World Eaters consistently failed to capture worlds within this time limit, and each time Angron ordered decimation as punishment, forcing 1 of every 10 World Eaters to be killed by his other 9 brothers. After several of these episodes, [[Centurion (Rank)|Centurion]] [[Mago]] finally refused to again enact decimation after the [[Ghenna Massacre|Ghenna Campaign]]. This caused Angron to be thrown into a raged frenzy, during which he murdered several nearby World Eaters until being subdued by his [[Librarian]]s.{{Fn|25b}} While Angron lay comatose and had his memories of Nuceria absorbed by the young [[Lexicanium]] [[Tethys (Librarian)|Tethys]], a crisis erupted across the Legion as Mago attempted to stop [[Gahlan Surlak]] from installing the perfected Butcher's Nails in all of the World Eaters. Mago's revolt came to its climax on [[Ghenna]], where Kharn slew the rebel Centurion while Angron slew Tethys.{{Fn|25h}} Now at the head of a Legion wielding the Nails, Angron reaped many victories during the [[Great Crusade]], although some criticized the extreme and bloodthirsty tactics he used to ensure the destruction of his opponents.{{Cite This}}
