this was made by the stormlord
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The Tech priest was making repairs to the projector and stated to the Emperor, "How you managed to make this thing speak Russian I will never know." The Emperor said, "I AM HONESTLY UNSURE MYSELF." The tech priest played the video.
In the Time of Darkness begun with the ascension of the Emperor, the thousand Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes took many paths. Some became bitter martial tyrants, steadfastly holding power, warring with each other and with the various petty Imperiums. Others fell to the seductive whispers of the Ruinous Powers; yet others began to serve a more terrible master - the Holy Tyrant. One thing is certain - in the Time of Darkness, no one and nothing was or is safe.
Rogal noted, "That is true." Perturabo hit him..
The Final Crusade: Fall of the Black Templars
Rogal looked angry, "What are my zealot sons up to here."
When the Opening of the Eye of Terra came, the Black Templars were among the most vigilant and courageous defenders of the Imperium. But events would turn them to the cruel embrace of the Holy Tyrant. Upon the apotheosis of the Emperor, the birth of the Tyrant from the cruelty of the Imperium and the misled worship of the Ministorum, the Black Templars were all struck by a vision of such purity that they resolved to make it a reality. The vision's command was to raze the Cardinal World of Ophelia VII, because (as it claimed) the Eclessiarchy, decapitated at this stage, were fools whose worship of the Emperor was lax and heretical. The Black Templars were torn over whether this vision was reality or a trick - in the end Helbrecht, urging a relentless attack and deluded by the voice of the Tyrant, won out. Helbrecht's warriors fell on Ophelia with great slaughter, razing the world to ashes as Arco-Flagellant and Penitent Engine fought Land Raider and Space Marine. A group of Battle Sisters managed to escape to the nearby world of Valeria, founding a Petty Imperium (but that is a tale for another time) but all life on Ophelia was wiped out.
Lorgar was very shamefaced.
Then, the Holy Tyrant decided to break the Black Templars, revealing that they had been misled when they had razed Ophelia. Angered at this deception, Helbrecht rushed to Terra in an attempt to slay the source of these visions. What fools they were, what holy and pathetic fools, for as they approached Terra they entered the space where the power of the Tyrant reigned supreme, the very Eye of Terra itself. Helbrecht was personally brought into the Immaterium, where he ascended the Impossible Spire that was the heart of the Holy Tyrant's power. To imagine the Impossible Spire, envision a great, infinitely tall tower made of shining gold, a visage of oppression made manifest. In the hinterland of the Spire rise lesser towers and fortresses, battlement upon battlement, tower upon tower, crenellations, great walls, mighty gates built solely to oppress the soul. At the Spire's tip, shines a light that is the Holy Tyrant. Describing the Tyrant is equally hard, for his form in the Immaterium is but a metaphor for the divinity. Covered in gold, flowing armour, the Tyrant carries a blade and his other hand is a mighty claw. His face is that of every dictator, every warlord, every overseer, every schoolyard bully, everybody that oppresses, everybody who seeks power for the sake of it. The Tyrant exists to oppress and exert power, and all who do this worship him in their heart. To behold him is the true meaning of epiphany - to see a god in the flesh.
The Emperor was horrorfied by what his Chaos God counterpart looked like. 'OBEY'. And Helbrecht could not entertain any conception of independence longer, faced with a god's command. With their leader turned into a puppet of the Holy Tyrant and their fleet caught in the ultimate expression of his power, the Black Templars fell swiftly into his worship. All well for the Tyrant, for he needed servants that could act in the Materium, and what better prize than the Black Templars?
The Tyrant spoke one word, face-to-face, to Helbrecht.
Rogal then observed, "The most fanatical of Space Marines are the unthiniking servants of a divine tyrant. How fitting."
The Sanguinary Wars
Sanguinius paled at this name.
The Sanguinary Wars were a disaster for the Blood Angels Chapter and their Successors, as they tore themselves apart. Some argue that they could have been stopped, could have been prevented, while yet others believe that the flaws inherent in the Sanguinius gene-line made them inevitable. Whatever the case, what is known is this - fully half the Blood Angels successor Chapters turned into little more than feral beasts, degrading from pillars of reason and virtue into slobbering monsters. The rampages they wrought are horrific, on Cretacia, Crucior, and many other worlds set aflame by the rampaging hosts.
Sanguinius went from pale to worried. Chapter Master Seth, still maintaining a vestige of sanity but helpless to control his body's actions, battled Dante of the Blood Angels. Seth screamed inside as he in a show of pure ferocity, ripped Dante limb from limb. Brother-Captain Rafen, bearer of the Spear of Tellesto, artefact of Sanguinius himself, entered too late to affect the battle's outcome, forced to watch as his Chapter Master was ripped to shreds and cast onto a pillar. Seth, rushing toward the Brother-Captain, would have torn him too apart if not for the personal intervention of Mephiston, the Lord of Death. With a glance, the Flesh Tearers Chapter Master was reduced to charred bone. Rafen was declared Chapter Master of the Blood Angels shortly afterward. Thus ended the first of the Sanguinary Wars, with the utter destruction of the Flesh Tearers... [FURTHER INFORMATION IS RESTRICTED]
The first of the Sanguinary Wars took place mere years after the birth of the Holy Tyrant during a general period of chaos and fragmentation, and was largely confined to Cretacia and surrounding systems. This did not make its impact any less vile or horrific. The entire Flesh Tearers Chapter, renowned for their acts of brutality, fell into the Black Rage simultaneously. The Blood Angels were the first to respond, as the Flesh Tearers slaughtered whole worlds. The fighting was ferocious as two mighty Astartes Chapters tore into each other. The only mercy the forces arrayed against the Flesh Tearers recieved was that the Chapter was divided, and, in their blood-maddened state, could be taken out piecemeal. The Siege of Cretacia was the greatest battle of the war. The Flesh Tearers' Fortress-Monastery was home not only to the bulk of the Chapter's fighters, but also blood-maddened things that had once been Astartes, released from their prisons in the chaos. The Blood Angels fought through a sea of the abominations, giving each and every one the Emperor's Mercy from the barrels of their bolt-guns.
The video ended, and the Tech Priest noted, "That's the end of that file."
