"That's a lot of history all at once, but I'll do my best."
He raises a single finger, "Compliance actions are our term for bringing worlds back into the Imperium after the scattering of Old Night. Humanity was united until at some point we lost the ability to travel between star systems, likely because of a phenomenon called warp storms but that is a lot to explain. Sometimes this involves a fight, because a fair amount of human cultures fell to superstition and worship of... the Darkness when night fell over the first empire of humanity."
"The planet which had 'rebelled' was Istvaan III. It truly had risen against the Imperium but it was influenced, we think, by Chaos. Which was ironic as our brothers were also thralls to Chaos already, and used our deployment on planet to bombard us with Virus bombs and orbital lances, killing off the loyal members of the Luna Wolves, the World Eaters, The Emperor's children, and the Death guard."
He is quiet for a moment, then continues, "The Great Crusade was the Emperor's attempt to bring humanity back together, and stop the predatory alien races which had enslaved or slaughtered humanity on so many worlds, like the Eldar, strangely graceful but capricious xeno-breeds that would enslave humans, or slaughter them wholesale at times, and at others leave us alone. Or the Orks, large, brutish fungal creatures that viewed humanity only as food, or something to fight. I think their religion, such as it was, was based entirely around warfare. We broke their Empire at Ullanor, and it was there the Emperor himself stepped away from the Crusade, to return to terra, leaving Horus Lupercal as his warmaster and chosen heir."
As for the last question, Loken is quiet a long time, "I don't know why Horus chose to rise against his father, beloved by all. He was already his heir, his warmaster, his chosen son. He was the most popular man in the Imperium, and was invincible in battle. I suspect when he was wounded by a sorcerous blade on the moon of Davin something had... tainted him, but I don't know for sure. All I know is the gene-sire I had known for a century, and who I had followed into battle changed, his heart turned against the good of all, and he started the greatest war the galaxy had ever known."
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He raises a single finger, "Compliance actions are our term for bringing worlds back into the Imperium after the scattering of Old Night. Humanity was united until at some point we lost the ability to travel between star systems, likely because of a phenomenon called warp storms but that is a lot to explain. Sometimes this involves a fight, because a fair amount of human cultures fell to superstition and worship of... the Darkness when night fell over the first empire of humanity."
"The planet which had 'rebelled' was Istvaan III. It truly had risen against the Imperium but it was influenced, we think, by Chaos. Which was ironic as our brothers were also thralls to Chaos already, and used our deployment on planet to bombard us with Virus bombs and orbital lances, killing off the loyal members of the Luna Wolves, the World Eaters, The Emperor's children, and the Death guard."
He is quiet for a moment, then continues, "The Great Crusade was the Emperor's attempt to bring humanity back together, and stop the predatory alien races which had enslaved or slaughtered humanity on so many worlds, like the Eldar, strangely graceful but capricious xeno-breeds that would enslave humans, or slaughter them wholesale at times, and at others leave us alone. Or the Orks, large, brutish fungal creatures that viewed humanity only as food, or something to fight. I think their religion, such as it was, was based entirely around warfare. We broke their Empire at Ullanor, and it was there the Emperor himself stepped away from the Crusade, to return to terra, leaving Horus Lupercal as his warmaster and chosen heir."
As for the last question, Loken is quiet a long time, "I don't know why Horus chose to rise against his father, beloved by all. He was already his heir, his warmaster, his chosen son. He was the most popular man in the Imperium, and was invincible in battle. I suspect when he was wounded by a sorcerous blade on the moon of Davin something had... tainted him, but I don't know for sure. All I know is the gene-sire I had known for a century, and who I had followed into battle changed, his heart turned against the good of all, and he started the greatest war the galaxy had ever known."