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++Priority Transmission: Coding/Delta/Rouge++
++Recipient: Loyal Imperial Commanders – as
designated by Commissariat, The Librarius Staff,
Inquisitor Baptiste & Canoness Arrea.++
++Subject: Traitors and Executions++
++Author: Andrei Viktorov – Scrivenor-in-attendance
to Inquisitor Nikolay Vinogradov++
++Thought for the Day: To cheat is both cowardly and
dishonourable++
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THE HORUS HERESY
Dan Abnett
HORUS RISING
The seeds of heresy are sown
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For Rick Priestley, John Blanche and Alan Merrett Architects of the Imperium
Thanks to Graham McNeill and Ben Counter, to Nik and Lindsey, and to Geoff Davis at GW Maidstone.
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THE HORUS HERESY
It is a time of legend.
Mighty heroes battle for the right to rule the galaxy.
The vast armies of the Emperor of Earth have conquered
the galaxy in a Great Crusade - the myriad alien races have
been smashed by the Emperor's elite warriors and wiped
from the face of history.
The dawn of a new age of supremacy for humanity beckons.
Gleaming citadels of marble and gold celebrate the many victories of the Emperor. Triumphs are raised on a million worlds to
record the epic deeds of his most powerful and deadly warriors.
Eirst and foremost amongst these are the primarchs,
superheroic beings who have led the Emperor's armies of
Space Marines in victory after victory. They are unstoppable
and magnificent, the pinnacle of the Emperor's genetic
experimentation. The Space Marines are the mightiest
human warriors the galaxy has ever known, each capable of
besting a hundred normal men or more in combat.
Organised into vast armies of tens of thousands called Legions, the Space Marines and their primarch leaders conÂquer the
galaxy in the name of the Emperor.
Chief amongst the primarchs is Horus, called the GloriÂous, the Brightest Star, favourite of the Emperor, and like a son unto
him. He is the Warmaster, the commander-in-chief of the Emperor's military might, subjugator of a thousand thousand worlds
and conqueror of the galaxy. He is a warrior without peer, a diplomat supreme.
Horus is a star ascendant, but how much further can a star rise before it falls?
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~ DRAMATIS PERSONAE ~
The Primarchs
HORUSÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â First Primarch and Warmaster,
Commander-in-Chief of the Luna Wolves
ROGAL DORNÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Primarch of the Imperial Fists
SANGUINIUSÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Primarch of the Blood Angels
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The Luna Wolves Legion
EZEKYLE ABADDONÂ Â Â Â First Captain
TARIK TORGADDONÂ Â Â Â Captain, 2nd Company
IACTON QRUZEÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Half-heard', Captain, 3rd Company
HASTUR SEJANUSÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Captain, 4th Company
HORUS AXIMANDÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â 'Little Horus', Captain, 5th Company
SERGHAR TARGOSTÂ Â Â Â Â Captain, 7th Company, Lodge Master
GARVIEL LOKENÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Captain, 10th Company
Luc SEDIRAEÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Captain, 13th Company
TYBALT MARRÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 'The Either', Captain, 18th Company
VERULAM MOYÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 'The Or', Captain, 19th Company
LEV GOSHENÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Captain, 25th Company
KALUS EKADDONÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Captain, Catulan Reaver Squad
FALKUS KIBREÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 'Widowmaker', Captain, Justaerin Terminator
Squad
NERO VIPUSÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Sergeant, Locasta Tactical Squad
XAVYER JUBALÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Sergeant, Hellebore Tactical Squad
MALOGHURSTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 'The Twisted', Equerry to the Warmaster
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The 140th Imperial Expedition Fleet
MATHANUAL AUGUST Master of the Fleet
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Imperial Personae
KYRIL SINDERMANNÂ Â Â Primary iterator
IGNACE KARKASYÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Official remembrancer, poet
MERSADIE OLITONÂ Â Â Â Official remembrancer, documentarist
EUPHRATI KEELERÂ Â Â Â Â Official remembrancer, imagist
PEETER EGON
MOMUSÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Architect designate
AENID RATHBONEÂ Â Â Â Â High Administratrix
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Non Imperial Personae
JEPHTA NAUDÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â General Commander, the armies of the interex
DIATH SHEHNÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Abbrocarius
ASHEROTÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Indentured Kinebrach, Keeper of Devices
MITHRAS TULLÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Subordinate Commander, the armies of the interex
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The Word Bearers Legion
EREBUSÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â First Chaplain
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The Imperial Fists Legion
SIGISMUNDÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â First Captain
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The Emperor's Children Legion
EIDOLONÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Lord Commander
Lucius                      Captain
SAUL TARVITZÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Captain
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The Blood Angels Legion
RALDORONÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Chapter Master
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The 63rd Imperial Expedition Fleet
BOAS COMNENUSÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Master of the Fleet
HEKTOR VARVARASÂ Â Â Â Â Lord Commander of the Army
ING MAE SINGÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mistress of Astropaths
ERFA HINE
SWEQ CHOROGUSÂ Â Â Â Â Â High Senior of the Navis Nobilite
REGULUSÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Adept, Envoy of the Martian
Mechanicum
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PART ONE
THE DECEIVED
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I was there, the day Horus slew the Emperor...
'Myths grow like crystals, according to their own recurrent pattern; but there must be a suitable core to start their
growth.'
- attributed to the remembrancer Koestler (fl. M2)
"The difference between gods and daemons largely depends upon where one is standing at the time.'
- the Primarch Lorgar
'The new light of science shines more brightly than the old light of sorcery. Why, then, do we not seem to see as far?'
- the Sumaturan philosopher Sahlonum (fl. M29)
ONE
Blood from misunderstanding
Our brethren in ignorance
The Emperor dies
'I WAS THERE.€™ he would say afterwards, until afterwards became a time quite devoid of laughter. 'I was there,
the day Horns slew the Emperor.' It was a delicious conceit, and his comrades would chuckle at the sheer treason of
it.
The story was a good one. Torgaddon would usually be the one to cajole him into telling it, for Torgaddon was the
joker, a man of mighty laughter and idiot tricks. And Loken would tell it again, a tale rehearsed through so many
retellings, it almost told itself.
Loken was always careful to make sure his audience properly understood the irony in his story. It was likely that he
felt some shame about his complicity in the matter itself, for it was a case of blood spilled from misÂunderstanding.
There was a great tragedy implicit in the tale of the Emperor's murder, a tragedy that Loken always wanted his
listeners to appreciate. But the death of Sejanus was usually all that fixed their attentions.
That, and the punchline.
It had been, as far as the warp-dilated horologs could attest, the two hundred and third year of the Great CruÂsade.
Loken always set his story in its proper time and place. The commander had been Warmaster for about a year, since
the triumphant conclusion of the Ullanor campaign, and he was anxious to prove his new-found status, particularly
in the eyes of his brothers.
Warmaster. Such a tide. The fit was still new and unnatural, not yet worn in.
It was a strange time to be abroad amongst stars. They had been doing what they had been doing for two cenÂturies,
but now it felt unfamiliar. It was a start of things. And an ending too.
The ships of the 63rd Expedition came upon the Imperium by chance. A sudden etheric storm, later declared
providential by Maloghurst, forced a route alteration, and they translated into the edges of a system comprising nine
worlds.
Nine worlds, circling a yellow sun.
Detecting the shoal of rugged expedition warships on station at the out-system edges, the Emperor first demanded to
know their occupation and agenda. Then he painstakingly corrected what he saw as the multifarÂious errors in their
response.
Then he demanded fealty.
He was, he explained, the Emperor of Mankind. He had stoically shepherded his people through the miserÂable
epoch of warp storms, through the Age of Strife, staunchly maintaining the rule and law of man. This had been
expected of him, he declared. He had kept the flame of human culture alight through the aching isolaÂtion of Old
Night. He had sustained this precious, vital...
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