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The subsiding of the warp storms plaguing much of the galaxy coincided with the end of the Age of Strife. With warp travel feasible again, the Emperor was able to begin the Great Crusade which would create the Imperium. Even before the warp storms and the Age of Strife had ended, the Emperor had begun to make plans for the Great Crusade. These plans included the creation of a far more advanced form of power armour required for the conditions of deep space and alien worlds.{{Fn|1}}
After securing [[Luna]] and then [[Mars]], he began a great building project, reconstructing the industries and production facilities he would need to construct and maintain a great space fleet, sufficient to carry his legions all the way to the edges of the galaxy. Mars, due to its advanced technology and manufacturing infrastructure, became the center of this development, producing, along with ships, the arms and armor armour his warriors would be equipped with.{{Fn|1}} [[Saturn]], [[Neptune]], and [[Jupiter]] fell to the Emperor next, its inhabitants liberated from cruel alien overlords. Finally, the Imperial War Fleet broke out of the [[Sol System]] system after completely annihilating the "false world" of [[Sedna]].{{Fn|7a}}
==The Crusade begins==
*[[Battle of Sixty-Three Nineteen]] — [[Horus]] brings the world of [[Sixty-Three-Nineteen]] into the Imperial fold.{{Fn|5}}
*[[Fall of the Lords of Gardinaal]] — The 413rd [[Expeditionary Fleet]] and [[Ferrus Manus]] subdue the advanced human world of [[Gardinaal]]
*[[Battle of Gyros-Thravian]] — The [[Emperor]], [[Rogal Dorn]], [[Mortarion]], and [[Horus]] defeat one of the most powerful [[Ork]] [[Warboss|Warbosses]] es in recorded history, [[Gharkul Blackfang]].{{Fn|3}}
*[[Conquest of Galaspar]] — The [[Death Guard]] conquers the world of [[Galaspar]].
*[[Cleansing of Laeran]] — The [[Emperor's Children]] annihilate the [[Laer]].{{Fn|6}}
*{{Endn|9}}: [[The Dark King (Short Story)]]
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Fallen Angels (Novel)]] - Chapter 1
*{{Endn|11}}: [[ The Horus Heresy Book Eight - Malevolence]] - pg. 79
*{{Endn|12}}: [[False Gods (Novel)]] - Chapter 21
*{{Endn|13}}: [[Codex: Space Marines (5th Edition)]], pgs. 13-14
