Editing /tg/ Heresy Timeline (section)

==798.M30 to 005.M31: The Great Crusade==
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Following His victory in the Unification Wars, the Emperor launched an immense campaign to unite the scattered human race.  His mighty Space Marine Legions would play the foremost role in the '''Great Crusade''', but they were accompanied by the auxiliary formations of the [[Imperial Army (Hektor Heresy)|Imperial Army]].  The '''Treaty of Mars'''  in 805.M30 brought the Mechanicum of [[Mars (Hektor Heresy)|Mars]] and the warhosts of the Taghmata Omnissiah into the Crusade.  The forces of the Imperium were organised in great [[Expedition Fleets (Hektor Heresy)|Expedition Fleets]] and dispatched to every sector of the Galaxy.

At its height, the Great Crusade threw down mighty star empires such as the Core Worlds Confederation, [[Harakien Eldar Empire]], and most startlingly of all, Khork's Ork Empire of Ullanor.  These great victories, led by the Emperor and his Primarchs, put humanity ascendant in the Galaxy.

The Great Crusade would end neither in victory nor defeat, but in treachery and civil war.  The Warmaster [[Hektor Cincinnatus]] took up arms against the government of the Imperium and allied himself with the Ruinous Powers of Chaos, beginning a horrific war that would leave trillions dead.