Chapter 281 Death of Hope!

001.M33,

The Golden Age: After the Heresy, the Imperium of Mankind survived into the third millennium, amidst turmoil.

As the empire's territory became completely consolidated, mankind ushered in an unprecedented development. Many lost technologies were restored, and thanks to the existence of the Kara network, information was spread rapidly.

In the same year, the Pope of the Two Gods awakened, and countless demigods came from afar and gathered on Terra to celebrate.

At the banquet, the Emperor's Dreadnought, which had been stagnant for 2000 years, suddenly emitted golden light and converged on Sanguinius who had just awakened.

For a time, all humans believed that this was the manifestation of the Divine Emperor, and a sign of long-term stability in the empire.

023.M33,

The Star Gate Dims: As human trade prospers, the transmission star gate that originally shone with psionic light, as a transportation hub connecting the five major star fields, gradually began to dim, and the scarlet psionic energy gradually turned into purple-red.

At the same time, more and more Black Light believers' cries for help can be heard, and even a very small number of fanatics can see some disgusting hallucinations.

However, since a large number of Black Watch had fallen into a dormant state, the Black Light Pope Lorgar had to summon all the Black Watch sub-groups, hoping to find a solution with the help of these brothers and descendants.

But in the end, they returned empty-handed. Only Ross, the former captain of the Blackwatch and current commander of the Blacklight Regiment, made a suggestion.

According to future meeting records, this distinguished chapter leader was the first initiator of the Firelink Project.

In the same year, the Alicia sector, which was originally eroded by psionic energy, was placed under martial law, and the Iron Warriors entered the ruins of Catachan and began to build a stable subspace portal.

025.M33,

Psionic Lord: Pope Lorgar issued a decree for the Black Light Cult to establish a special type of soldier, the Firebringer. Any believer can join and enter Catachan every 20 years to hunt down psionic-infected creatures.

Stargate Taxation:

Regent Robert Guilliman announced: The Alicia sector will be used as a resource protection zone, and anyone who steals psionic crystals will be punished, with the sentencing standard starting at the death penalty.

At the same time, the stargate usage tax increased by eight percentage points, and all taxes will be collected by Blackwatch's subordinate groups.

As soon as the decree was issued, it immediately aroused dissatisfaction among many human nobles, and the Council of High Lords voted unanimously against the decree.

But this time the regent went against the majority opinion and raised the original tax rate from eight percentage points to ten percentage points.

For a time, psionic crystals became the empire's most important strategic resource.

033.M33,

Eldar Explosion: According to the Assassin's Court's observations over the years, the Eldar, who were originally dwindling in population, began to have a huge birth explosion, and most of the newborns had silver hair and short ears.

After comparing the Black Light Eldar, Wild Eldar, Ark Eldar, and Dark Eldar, Imperial researchers discovered that:
Compared with the previous standard Eldar, this group of Eldar newborns are shorter in stature and their cell activity is greatly enhanced, but only their psychic adaptability rate is reduced.

037.M33,

Return of the Imperial Fists: Having disappeared for nearly a thousand years, the Imperial Fists suddenly emerged from the Warp, followed by a large number of green-skinned orc pursuers.

But fortunately, they were discovered by the Iron Phoenix stationed nearby. The two founding groups immediately launched a counter-encirclement and suppression campaign against the Orcs, and finally worked together to seal the Warp rift before the Battle Moon was about to enter the real world.

After the war, all the Imperial Fists were summoned, and under the witness of Guilliman, 37426 gene-seeds were left behind, and then half of the Sons of Dorn were selected to enter the Warp again.

040.M33,

Webway Project: Thanks to the psionic crystals transported by the Firebringers, the Stargate gradually stabilized, but due to the surge in shipping volume, the Stargate began to gradually break down, and the Webway Project was proposed again.

At the same time, the Emperor's movements became more frequent. Archangel Sanguinius began to appear frequently in front of the public to preach, and the number of the Divine Emperor's followers reached an unprecedented high.

103.M33,

Malcador awakens, but this time there is no warp storm.

Malcador the Sigillite became Archon, assisting Guilliman in handling the affairs of the Empire.

145.M33,

The Fall of Caliban: Countless Chaos Daemons descend upon the Caliban Sector, and the Imperial Warmaster Lion El'Jonson leads the Dark Angels to stop them.

After the war, Lion King Jonson disappeared, and his adoptive father Luther took over as the leader of the First Legion.

According to gossip, during the fall of Caliban, someone witnessed a red giant and posted a video of it on the Kara network.

But after the demon was repelled, Kara could no longer find the video on the Internet.

246.M33,

Psychic Outbreak: After the star gates were connected, the probability of human psychics appearing gradually decreased, but according to the investigation of the Astronomican Court, the number of psychics has begun to increase in recent years.

And compared to the unstable psykers before, most of these newborns have full faith in the God-Emperor.

All of a sudden, the originally declining Star Language Hall, the Navigator Family, and the Star Torch Hall began to expand.

But at the suggestion of Pope Lorgar, the Inquisition established a new department of the Ordo Malleus to deal with the possible chaos contamination.

But to everyone's surprise, with the surge in the number of psykers, the Empire did not receive any news of Chaos invasion, but Black Light Pope Lorgar became increasingly uneasy.

247. M33,

Stargate Shattered: A large number of Dark Eldar poured out from the Webway and raided the stargates belonging to the five major star regions.

Although the Stargate Crusaders fought desperately and repelled the Dark Eldar's attack, stargates in various locations were damaged.

Even though the Iron Warriors were repaired and no longer affected their use, they still caused immeasurable losses to Imperial shipping.

For this reason, Malphite, the evil orc warlord who originally guarded the Webway, was once again summoned to Holy Terra to restart the human Webway plan.

But with the construction of the webway, many planets were tortured by the tithe tax.

300.M33,

The Grey Knights are founded: The former Thousand Sons Legion, due to heavy losses during the Heresy, is still very small in number and cannot meet the scale of a starting regiment.

To this end, with the consent of several Primarchs, the Thousand Sons Legion was renamed the Grey Knights while retaining its number, and was given priority in the selection of Imperial psykers.

But when the Grey Knights began recruiting, the recruiting officers discovered that among the psychics there were several dog-men who called themselves Magdogs.

With the mentality of just giving it a try, Ahriman personally tested these psychic dogs. Unexpectedly, these big dogs turned out to have outstanding psychic potential.

What he didn't expect was that this group of dog-men who called themselves Magdogs actually passed the selection. Ahriman even saw the shadow of his father in these dog-men.

After Ahriman tempted him with delicious food, he learned about a legend spanning tens of millions of years.

After careful consideration, Ahriman led his personal guards to visit Alicia secretly. After a long negotiation with the dog-man warrior handsome Da, he obtained a piece of manufacturing technology for the interstellar super dog.

Since then, the Grey Knights, who were originally sparse in number, have begun to grow explosively, but what is puzzling is that these knights seem to never take off their helmets.

342.M33,

Loving Father and Filial Son: When the Grey Knights were escorting a group of psykers to be used as Astronomican fuel, a young boy with red skin started to run away madly, but was shot dead by the Grey Knights.

But when the boy died, his body turned directly into a red soul stone fragment, which was later confirmed to be the soul fragment of Magnus. After that, whenever a red-skinned psychic appeared, these huge gray cans would appear.

366.M33,

Shocking Change of Psionic Energy: The psionic energy that was about to turn completely purple-red suddenly stopped changing and instead began to deviate towards scarlet again.

But at the same time, a large number of Eldar began to be attacked by the Lustful Demons, and only a small number of Blacklight Eldar survived.

During this period, the frequency of screams heard by the Black Light believers gradually decreased, and the damaged star gate began to slowly repair itself.

In the same year, the Burning Legion began its first expedition into the Abyss, heading directly for the Eye of Terror.

432.M33,

Assassination: During the attack on Holy Terra, a rebel force broke into the Imperial Palace and attempted to assassinate the Emperor, but were ultimately crushed by the Custodians.

After genetic comparison, it was found that the genetic sequence of this group of rebellious Space Marines was the same as that of Alpha.

In the same year, Alpha and her Hydra legion disappeared, and someone in the Kara network began to claim to be Alpharius.

500.M33,

The Apparition of the God-Emperor: The Custodians reveal that the previously dormant Emperor is finally showing signs of awakening, and all the Primarchs are gathered on Terra at once.

Pope Sanguinius announced that the Lord of Mankind will be awakened on the last day of next year.

For a time, the Divine Emperor Sect gained dominance over the Two Gods Sect with an overwhelming advantage, and the name of the Archangel was cheered everywhere.

But as the state religion prospered, strange phenomena began to appear in monasteries across the empire, and many people saw tall warriors burning with black flames.

501.M33,

When the Devil Comes: On the last day of the year, Archangel Sanguinius begins the ritual to awaken the Lord of Mankind.

He gave a speech in front of the three Primarchs, Guilliman, Lorgar, and Vulkan.

In order to preserve this sacred moment, believers even started a live broadcast on Kara.

But when the Pope touched the Emperor, the angel's originally white wings instantly turned black and burned with black flames.

After realizing something was wrong, a sudden subspace storm occurred instantly, directly cutting off the live broadcast signal, and Malcador was pierced through the body by the angel's sword.

A destructive force descended upon them, and Archangel Saint Elias and all his descendants went mad and began to attack indiscriminately.
In order to control their mad brothers, the Primarchs had to launch an attack on the Angels, but they found that they could not defeat the fallen Angels at all.

As a last resort, Vulkan was lifted up by Lorgar again. Relying on these two super meat shields, Sanguinius was finally controlled by Guilliman's sneak attack.

But the price was that Malcador fell into a deep sleep, Vulkan fell into suspended animation, and Lorgar had half of his body burned by the black flames, which could not be extinguished at all.

Guilliman had no choice but to give the only remaining Dreadnought to Lorgar and let Malcador lie in the static position. As for Vulkan, Guilliman believed that he would be resurrected.

503.M33,

Chaos: After two years of cleansing, the crazed Blood Angels were wiped out, with only a handful of individuals who were close to the Stargate remaining conscious.

But as the angels and their descendants became corrupt, a large number of religious worlds rebelled, and people discovered that these demigods were not as good as they thought, but monsters more terrifying than demons.

To this end, Guilliman ordered the Space Wolves to be stationed on Holy Terra to control public opinion on the Kara network.

At the same time, a large-scale memory erasure operation began across the empire.

That night, Leman Russ conferred with Guilliman, then led some Space Wolves to Baal.

At the same time, the existing Blood Angels were broken up and all information was destroyed.

504,M33,

Chaos is Coming: As if by plan, after a massive demonic invasion broke out simultaneously across the empire, the Pacific Sector was attacked by the Dark Eldar.

While pursuing the Eldar, the Khan rushed into the webway and disappeared, and Qin Xia took over as the commander of the White Scars Mother Corps.

But bad news came one after another. A powerful alien suddenly emerged from under the ice field of Fenris, the home planet of the Space Wolves, forcing the Space Wolves to withdraw troops to support the rear.

Finally, after Leman Russ killed a Zerg Titan similar to Blackwatch, these strange aliens were wiped out.

However, according to the Wolf Group’s think tank, before the Titan died, it sent a sharp psychic roar towards the starry sky.

572.M33,

Chaos Crusade: Unwilling to be invaded by demons, the Human Empire decides to fight back. The Space Wolves and the Death Guard begin to assemble, and under the leadership of the two Primarchs, they go deep into the Warp, preparing to find a way to revive the Emperor.

However, as the food quickly ran out, the two legions returned empty-handed and had to return to their home planet to raise supplies.

Then, with the full support of Blackwatch, he set out on another expedition.

But a warp storm hit, and the Empire gradually lost news of them.

600.M33,

With the disappearance of the Primarchs, Robert Guilliman had to carry the burden of the Empire alone. In order to ease the pressure of government affairs, the Council of High Lords gradually gained more power.

Guilliman, who trusted mortals, did not realize that the number of people who originally revered them as demigods began to decrease, and the influence of the Primarch was gradually declining.

But for the stability of the human empire, Guilliman continued to delegate power to ease the increasing pressure of government affairs.

637.M33,

Wrath of the Cthulhu: Dissatisfied with Blackwatch's control of the psionic crystal, some human nobles turned their attention to the active dog-men.

But before they could take any action, the planet where these nobles lived was chopped into pieces by a giant sword that came out of the void.

666.M33,

Voice of the Void: Following a scream from the Eye of Terror, the psionic energy that had been developing in a positive direction turned purple again, arousing the vigilance of many Black Light believers.

In the same year, the fertility rate of the Eldar increased again, and a large number of newborns were born.

The Burning Legion returns to Alicia, and Shafrin is seriously injured.

Since then, a large number of demons began to gather in the subspace around Alicia, but contrary to the expectations of the Inquisition, these demons were very honest.

754.M33,

Serious Illness: After nearly three thousand years of exertion, Guilliman's health has been failing, and he is gradually beginning to fail, to the point where the Apothecary warns him.

But just as Guilliman announced to the Senate that he would recall the remaining Primarchs, a despicable assassination began.

755.M33,

On the same day that Roboute Guilliman was picked up by his adoptive parents, Lady Euton was assassinated.

(End of this chapter)