Warhammer: Filial Piety Makes Power

Chapter 314 Shattered Hope

075.M32,

Parliamentary restructuring:

Although the War of the Beasts ended in chaos, the affected areas were mainly concentrated in the Solar Star Region. After a thousand years of rapid development, the Empire had accumulated a huge amount of resources.

With Primarchs disappearing one after another, and Macardo, the most crucial Shaper, falling into a deep sleep, Guilliman began to gradually decentralize power and establish more parliamentary seats in order to ensure the smooth operation of the Empire's administration.

100.M32,

Regent Robert Guilliman chose to take a vacation, secretly visiting Belissarukau during his journey, and then recuperating in Macurag for two and a half years.

During this time, Guilliman refused all work to take care of Mrs. Euton, who was now gray-haired, and sent Caul to perform Euton's last life-extending surgery.

123.M32,

The Second Dark Crusade: Abaddon's Black Legion begins the Second Dark Crusade, and some peripheral worlds around the Eye of Terror choose to betray the Empire's rule and join the Black Legion.

To ensure the stability of the empire's rule, War Marshal Felus personally led the campaign, with 32 warbands joining the battle to defend the Misty Starfield.

The Black Legion was reduced to a mere tenth of its original strength. Abaddon fled from the Eye of Terror, leaving behind the words, "I will return!"

The Black Legion has officially entered the Empire's purview.

199.M32,

With the activation of the warp, the 1200-year-long period of stability in the Sea of ​​Souls completely disappeared, and the warp returned to its former state of a cesspool.

Meanwhile, the probability of psionic beings being born among the newborns of the Empire has increased dramatically, and numerous chaotic invasions have occurred frequently.

Under the unspoken understanding, many legions began recruiting new psionic talents to cultivate their own psionic intelligence pools.

However, due to the reduction in large-scale wars, the size of the Star Pavilion was reduced, resulting in its decreasing influence in the High Lords Council.

After discovering that the chapters were also starting to develop their own psionic units, the Star Pavilion, a relatively unremarkable faction within the council, began to collaborate with the Navigator Family and gradually became affiliated with the various chapters.

Most of them joined the Thousand Sons faction, which was small in number and numbered less than 10,000.

211.M32,

The storm rises again: the emerald green lightning storm deep within the vortex grows increasingly ferocious, and many psionicists hear a strange roar emanating from the twisted void.

But then a sudden warp storm swept in, washing away the increasingly ferocious strange phenomenon, as if the entire warp was resisting the arrival of some kind of monster.

With the occurrence of this subspace storm, the Space People located at the Galactic Center began to experience chaotic corruption, and a large number of ancestral cores became abnormal.

However, after the storm's core dissipated, a strange emerald-green crystal remained, which was then fiercely contested by various forces.

This year was also a pivotal year that marked the large-scale emergence of the Chaos invasion. Abaddon, the leader of the Black Legion who had launched two Dark Crusades, even proclaimed himself the Chaos Warmaster!
This led to the launch of the Third Dark Crusade, which was then defeated by the Iron Hand led by Feralus.

211.M32,

As the empire gradually developed green crystal, people discovered its extremely strong polluting properties, and through this, they discovered another magical effect.

The discovery that it could dissolve both subspace entities and even the souls of living beings directly attracted the attention of the Imperial Demon Inquisition and even the Grey Knights.

And this is just the beginning. With further research, people have discovered that crystals can do more than that; they can also enchant matter by absorbing energy.

One researcher even came up with a brilliant idea: to use crystals and orange juice to create a life-extending agent.

What's rather strange is that the production of this substance, which Imperial scholars have named Fel Crystals, is extremely unstable. However, it is certain that its appearance is due to the abnormal spatial phenomena within the Great Vortex.

Moreover, it is only produced in the vicinity of the Tranquil Star Sector.

234.M32,

Through persistent research into fel crystals, the Empire discovered their spatial distortion properties.

For example, before entering warp space, having the navigator and psionicists inside the Geller Field consume a large amount of fel crystals in a short period of time can effectively stabilize the Geller Field.

With the blessing of the Fel Crystal Pair, an energy bubble will form on the outside of the Geller Field, which can effectively avoid warp energy radiation and even dispel some warp demons.

In response, Regent Guilliman declared that the Tranquil Sector, as an area under the control of the Imperial military, would be guarded by the Blood Raven Chapter, and anyone who stole crystals would be punished, with the sentencing starting at burning at the stake.

Meanwhile, Fel Crystals have been classified as Imperial Alpha-level military controlled materials.

The decree immediately drew discontent from countless human nobles, but Guilliman overruled the objections and strictly enforced the decree.

In the same year, the Webway Project was restarted, and the task was assigned to Dorn and Ahriman, who had extensive psionic skills and was then the leader of the Thousand Sons.

As the Webway Gates reopened, the Empire discovered that the once-broken Webway pathways were gradually recovering, and the native Webway species known as the Lizardmen had begun to thrive.

Therefore, after Primarch Dorne had amicably discussed the matter with Lizardman Commander Renekton, the reward, which was more than 1000 years overdue, finally arrived: the Lizardmen officially joined the Empire of Man and became official, legitimate pets.

A large number of fel crystals were secretly introduced into the human network. 333.M32

The Webway Opens: After countless years of construction, the shattered remains of the Webway within the Empire have finally been repaired and connected with the Ancient Sacred Webway.

However, just nine years after the network was established, a sudden subspace storm struck, instantly shattering the once solid and reliable network.

Countless chaotic demons poured into the Web Path, their leader being none other than Magnus, the Primarch who had vanished a thousand years ago.

No one knows why the Internet Channel broke down, but according to rumors, the root cause was the Thousand Sons Legion that built the Internet Channel.

The day before the incident, the Thousand Sons Space Marines, led by Chapter Master Ariman, were conducting an experimental ritual in the Webway in order to find their missing Gene Father.

However, as the experiment proceeded, the powerful energy contained in its summoning ritual instantly turned the Thousand Sons Legion to ashes and pierced through the net.

When Magnus's figure was summoned, the former Crimson King could only let out a painful roar before being forced to become a demon during the filial son's summoning ritual.

In order to shut down the Webway, Imperial Warmaster Felus led the Iron Hand and the Imperial Guard into the Webway to intercept the demons.

During the First Webway War, the Imperium was able to sustain itself only by repeatedly wearing down its endless Lizardman legions. But this time, with the Webway shattering, the Lizardmen who were recuperating within it were also swept into the warp storm.

Even when the Imperial Guards entered the arena, their forces were far from sufficient to sustain the attack, and the Chaos Demons even managed to reach the gates of the Net Path.

To prevent Holy Terra from becoming a second Eye of Terror, Feralas ordered the destruction of the Web Path entrance, choosing to perish together with the Chaos Demon.

With a deafening explosion, the creation that had been humanity's hope was completely shattered, leaving only a short section connected to the base of the golden throne.

When Guilliman gathered his troops to provide support, Feralus, who had once survived even with only his head remaining, could not escape the cruelty of fate this time.

The energy generated by its violent explosion instantly melted through the energy shield of Feralus's collar, causing his flesh and tissue to evaporate directly, leaving not even a trace of brain matter, only Feralus's skull.

334.M32,

The death of the Imperial Warmaster has drawn nationwide mourning; he is the third Primarch to be confirmed as a fallen warrior since the Archangel.

With Felus's passing, Guilliman was forced to shoulder the burden of the Empire alone, and in order to alleviate the pressure of governance, the High Lords Council gradually gained more power.

Guilliman, who trusted mortals, failed to notice that, as time passed, the number of people who once revered them as demigods began to decrease, and the Primarch's influence was rapidly diminishing.

However, in order to stabilize the human empire, Guilliman could only work overtime. At the same time, unrest within the empire was increasing, and Dorn and Corax had to lead their fleets on numerous expeditions.

388.M32,

Divine Punishment Descends: Due to their dissatisfaction with Blood Raven's control over the precious resource of Fel Crystals, some human noble traveling merchants and ronin began to target the dogmen who lived in the same tranquil place as Blood Raven.

Without Guilliman's knowledge, the High Lord Council unilaterally amended the Demi-human Act, stripping the Dogmen of their Demi-human status, and secretly assembled a fleet to head to the Tranquil Sector.

Just as the fleet arrived at Tranquility, preparing to launch a shameless sneak attack on Blood Raven, a giant sword cleaved out of the void and shredded the fleet into pieces.

399.M32,

Twisting Void: As the lightning storm deep within the vortex intensifies, the space within the entire vortex begins to twist rapidly, and countless debris surges outward from within the vortex.

These wrecks are diverse, including not only celestial fragments but also various types of spaceship debris. Through excavation and comparison, people discovered that these wrecks actually came from warships from the Great Expedition era.

In order to discover these treasures, large numbers of humans came to colonize the vast and tranquil secondary star sector and settled in the only two worlds in the entire galaxy, the Tranquil World.

As for the other world, Catachan, after discovering that colonizing this hellish place required competing with trees for air, the colonists abandoned the idea of ​​developing this deadly world.

On the contrary, the native inhabitants who adapted to the environment of Katachon attracted the attention of the Asgardian Army, which began recruiting soldiers in this world.

Meanwhile, as a large amount of debris was spewed out by the vortex, its corresponding subspace location was also spewing various fragments into the Sea of ​​Souls.

From then on, just like the human garbage collectors, a large number of demons began to gather in the subspace region around Tranquility. However, contrary to the expectations of the Demon Tribunal, these demons were quite well-behaved.

Although these demons come in all shapes and sizes, they all share a common feature: they have four arms and a long, menacing tail.

666.M32,

After nearly 2000 years of extreme stress, Guilliman's health deteriorated to an extremely dangerous level.

To alleviate the pressure and to better manage the empire, Guilliman had no choice but to gradually decentralize power and expand the High Lords Council.

However, after the parliament was expanded, Guilliman found that as time went on, the backlog of government affairs on his hands did not decrease, but rather increased.

Perhaps feeling that he was no longer up to the task, Guilliman decided to take a break as usual. But just as he announced to Parliament that he would recall Corax to replace him as president,

A despicable assassination attempt, born solely from the desire for more power, has occurred.

667.M32,

A large-scale rebellion broke out in Makulag, and Lady Yotton was assassinated.

(End of this chapter)