One by one, the Chapters of The Judged disappeared into the iridescent dust nebulae that surrounded the Eye, flickering out of reach from Cadia's astropaths within a single night. The last few days of 321.M37 saw a solemn procession of strike cruisers and battle barges pass through the Cadian Gate into the Eye of Terror, relay systems dormant and heraldic colours obscured by black mag-plates. After scant solar hours of debate, they acquiesced to Basillius' demands, for they believed that martyrdom was preferable to an existence of suspicion and doubt. He saw it as fitting to send the accused into the Eye of Terror, taking the fight for the Imperium's future to the Daemon Worlds inhabited by the Chaos Space Marines.Ī representative from each of the doomed Chapters held an emergency Council of Dismay to discuss the proposed crusade. To the surprise of his closest advisors, Saint Basillius agreed to their proposal. The most militant of their number demanded the right to purify their tainted flesh in the fires of battle, to make a noble end from tragic misfortune.
" The Judged," as these fallen Chapters came to be known, volunteered to undertake a redemptive Imperial Crusade.
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Such was the elder's influence with the High Lords of Terra that within a standard year this had come to pass.Īfter a series of stringent tests and prognostications, hundreds of Chapters were deemed unaffected by the Warp Storm. When the Ecclesiarchy heard of this sinister turn of events, Saint Basillius demanded that all those Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes whose homeworlds had been touched by the Warp Storm be rendered unto his judgement. Many of the Space Marine Chapters with homeworlds affected by the Warp Storm found that the secret imperfections in their gene-seed were writ large upon their new recruits, giving rise to a wave of disturbing manifestations both physical and psychological. Worse yet, it was not only the citizens who were affected by the sudden influx of Chaos. Records of mutation and Chaos Cultist activity quadrupled overnight. This short period of peace did not last, as over a dozen star systems were soon engulfed by Warp Storm Dionys, its echoes rippling along the spiral arms of the galaxy as it raged through the Empyrean. Those few civil liberties the Imperial citizenry had left were degraded further, and countless false allegations were made, but the tactic was ultimately effective the incidence of insurrection against the Emperor dropped to almost nothing. His "Puritas Divisions" of the faithful included several Chapters of Space Marines, each of which was extremely fierce in their vigilance wherever a mutant or Chaos Cultist was found, an execution would immediately follow, regardless of age, sex, station or circumstance.įor once, the Ecclesiarchy worked in concert with the Inquisition and the Adeptus Astartes across the entire Segmentum Solar, making it mandatory for the populace to inform on anyone they suspected to bear the spoor of Chaos.
After the Ecclesiarchal Purges of 321.M37, Saint Basillius the Elder was ascendant within the Imperial Cult.
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