[Fluff] La Croisade Macharius (Macharian Crusade)

The Macharian Crusade (392-399.M41) was a seven year campaign or Crusade led by Lord Commander Solar Macharius. It took place on the far western edge of the galaxy, within the Segmentum Pacificus and leading into the Halo Zone. The campaign brought nearly one thousand worlds into the Imperium, and was one of the most successful crusades in the history of the Imperium. Since the end of the Crusade there has not been a crusade of such success, or size.

It all began on Macharia, now a Shrine World. Here Macharius rallied his troops before boarding the waiting transports in orbit above the planet. Then they set off to conquer planets right out to the galactic rim, and even beyond the reach of the Astronomican.

On their conquests, they encountered many races and civilizations, including a Waaagh! of Orks whose Warboss inflicted debilitating injuries on the Warmaster himself.3 Other encounters included Chaos Space Marines and a highly advanced civilization on the planet Adrantis Five. Each of them was systematically wiped out or brought under the dominion of the Imperium, and this control, so violently applied then, is still as strong today.

Macharius was not the only great leader. His trusted second in command, General Sejanus, was always found at the side of Macharius. He was the one to end the crusade, telling Macharius that the crusade could go no further, that the men would not follow him further from their homes. They simply refused to enter the Halo Zone. After the death of Macharius himself his newly-forged conquests fell into anarchy in a civil war known as the Macharian Heresy1

Certainly this was one of the greatest actions since the Great Crusade thousands of years before. It included many Imperial Guard Regiments, such as the Catachan Jungle Fighters and members of the Tallarn Desert Raiders and Mordian Iron Guard.

Darius Kandor a écrit:En fait les 3 informations (17millions de GI, 33 milliards d'Orks et une centaine de régiments cadien) n'ont pas de relation entre elles car il s'agit de chiffres donnés pour 3 campagnes distinctes.