Editing The Beheading (section)

==Aftermath==
In the immediate aftermath of Vangorich's death the [[Imperium]] fell into a state of anarchy as everyone and their sisters vied for a place in the new version of the Senatorium Imperialis - just as Vangorich had predicted and feared. For a century there was no central leadership and no official successors for the High Lords as people struggled for political power. Luckily Agnathio, the then-[[Chapter Master]] of the [[Ultramarines]] got fed up with this shit real quick, gathered up no less than fifty of his fellow Chapter Masters and their Space Marines, and they all set course for Terra where they proceeded to cock-slap everyone in the Senatorum until once again twelve High Lords were chosen, finally restoring stability to the Imperium.

In an amusing twist, the Mechanicus studied scientific-ish Ork tech to recreate the actual Dark Age of Technology ability to teleport planets out of danger or fortress worlds right to the enemy. In a less amusing but unsurprisingly stupid move, this technology was never used to do exactly that at the time or in the future and was not used for ship interstellar travel, either. Considering it was Ork-derived, required ludicrous levels of precision and power (thousands of tech-priests, countless variables, enough energy to fry numerous systems aboard an Ark Mechanicus - all of which had absolutely no room for error) and was developed by a borderline heretic of a Fabricator-General, it's entirely possible that the Adeptus Mechanicus mothballed the tech or destroyed it outright at some point.