The Great Crusade EXPLAINED By An Australian | Warhammer 40k Lore

g'day guys and gal when you think of the word crusade what springs to mind a war of faith the purging of heretics or maybe a genocide of religious minorities you definitely wouldn't think of oversized roided up super soldiers killing aliens in space at the directive of a golden atheist wizard i mean i guess if you're a warhammer fan that's probably the only thing you think about when someone mentions a crusade but that's besides the point recently we've been covering the chronological law of the imperium of man having a look at the dark edge of technology the age of strife the unification wars next up on the come train is naturally the great crusade mankind's attempt to reclaim its shattered empire and usher in a new golden age of mankind a period of time rich in lore with a vast variety of unique and interesting xenos as well as a good look at the primarks when they were actually interesting and not just a bunch of ass kissing smelly moths or angsty tryhards i say that statement with love but the good versus the bad dynamic that 40k has recently found itself in is way less interesting than the 50 shades of grey that the crusade offered before we get started [ __ ] john barilaro free kristo today we're going over the great crusade who was involved with it what it achieved and then i'll highlight the interesting parts i want to know that the great crusade was vast and there was a shitload of lore involved with it it tends to happen you know we got 18 legions to keep up with so i won't be able to cover all of it you'll get a pretty good idea of what's going on let's get into it the great crusade kicks off towards the later part of the 30th millennium just as the unification wars came to a close there was a bit of an overlap as some cheeky dogs kicking up some rebellions on terror as the great crusade was beginning could be considered part of the unification war still regardless mankind's ascension back into the stars had begun and it had a bit of a rocky start see the emperor wanked his holy [ __ ] into a test tube and from that he had created 20 demigod babies called primarks from these primarks the space marine legions were born the idea was that these super overpowered beans would lead their respective legion into the galaxy and absolutely curb stomp some [ __ ] unfortunately the primark's mother had a bit of postnatal depression and allowed chaos gods to eat the baby primarks across the galaxy now it's kind of implied that the emperor let this happen as a way of allowing each primark to develop their own personality and traits however the evidence suggests that losing the primarks was a gigantic pain in the ass for the emperor who would have been better off if they didn't get flung away either way the emperor now lost his generals before the crusade had even begun good thing he still had like a million super soldier space marines as well as mars sucking his dick and making him ships hence the crusade begun with no primarks initially that wasn't really an issue unless you were the empress children or thousand sons of course most of the human worlds had suffered greatly during the age of strife and didn't have the technology manpower or will to successfully fight off the emperor's armies hence they either put up a weak fight or they straight up agreed to join the imperium about 90 of human worlds join the imperium without an issue you obviously just don't hear about it because it's less exciting whilst thousands of fleets traveled in all directions conquering or settling every world they could the emperor had a different agenda his goal is to find all of his lost children and bring them into the fold now i've already done a video on the law surrounding the meeting of the emperor in each primark but to summarize the emperor did find all of his lost sons beginning with horus some of the meetings were joyful and sweet like when the emperor met sanguinius or puerto rabo some meetings were a huge dick measuring contest like when the emperor met vulcan or lehman and some meetings were straight up hostile like when the emperor meant angron and angran tried to kill him one of the funnier meanings depending on your sense of humor was when conrad saw the emperor and tried to claw his own eyes out never changed conrad either way eventually each primark was reunited with the emperor and they were given command over their own space marine legion as each space ring was created from the dna of the primark the space marine saw their primarks as their daddies as the crusade pushed further out into the darkness of space and more primarks were added to the roster its momentum accelerated dramatically as its resources became nearly limitless however this began to create a new problem the crusade was beginning to push into various zeno empires now whilst most of the shattered human empire was full of [ __ ] and pushovers the zeno empires were ancient and very powerful they had technology that often fasted past the imperiums and they also had some wacky-ass abilities there were two zener empires that made humanity be like oh [ __ ] or [ __ ] or no the first was the hadoo who were these creepy blob creatures that could accelerate your aging the more hadoo there was the quicker you age this caused guardsmen to age 100 years and seconds whilst even some astartes succumb to the effect one spacerin was aged to about 3 000 years old and he survived but yeah he was not in good shape perturbo fought and killed a lot of his [ __ ] and after all that he noted that he felt older considering a primark literally cannot age beyond their prime or die of old age this is a huge props to the hadoo however the hadoo were just to come stain on a hooker's corpse compared to the random though now once again i've already covered the random in a different video [ __ ] me i've made a lot of videos but this xeno empire was so powerful that it's straight up nearly ended humanity the dark angels who were the number one legion at the time were given a bunch of fun genocide tier toys by the emperor but they were still and nearly exterminated by the rang dung and there are strong theories to suggest that the rang dong played a major role in at least one of the lost primark's demise the imperium finally beat the rung done when the emperor had to play pokemon with his big ass shirt of the void dragon that's right then brought to throw a literal god at the problem to fix it my lord outside of these two zener empires the rest weren't so bad the eldar were around and often provided a good fight but they were few and far between whilst the orcs just got their ass kicked time and time again the tau tyrions and necrons also weren't a thing yet there were some pretty cool xeno and human empires that the imperium ran into and had to murder these include a human world who thought it was the original earth and had their own version of the emperor psychic xeno race that had members that were millions of years old gigantic evil space spiders and a civilization of humans and xenos living in harmony that fought the forces of chaos there is a lot of really cool [ __ ] that happened in the great crusade and there were numerous times where the legions and their primarks faced destruction as the crusade ground on and the primarks grew more confident or in most cases more [ __ ] various issues and cracks started to appear angron and his world eaters were no longer bringing worlds into imperial compliance and they were instead just killing everyone law ghani's word bearers were bringing worlds into imperial compliance extremely slowly due to loga trying to make the emperor religious icon and conrad lost his mind and nearly killed roguel dorne every attempt by the emperor and his non-retarded sons ended up just making things worse lehman was sent to go bring anger on to heal but that just ended in a battle between the space walls and the world eaters the emperor then went with giliman to get lorga to stop molesting choir boys they did this via blowing up lorega's favourite city however all that did was give lorgaar the push he needed to join chaos and sowed the seeds of the horus heresy conrad was thrown in jail and then he escaped and blew up his home planet see there was a fair bit of [ __ ] that was starting to go sideways for the imperium but overall things were still pretty good until they weren't see the orcs had grown sick and tired of getting [ __ ] on by everyone hence they formed a fuck-off massive war on the planet of ulinor the emperor was like deering me hence he his custodies and a shitload of primarks and space marines attacked all lenore and wiped out the orcs so yeah the orcs got shot on by everyone again at the end of the war the emperor was like alright [ __ ] i'm out of here horus is in charge hence the emperor returned to terror without telling anyone why and horus was chosen to be the war master and to continue the great crusade in the emperor's name the victory on all and orc also kind of signaled the beginning of the end of the great crusade as all wars in the great crusade after that were more of a cleanup than anything so why did the emperor abandon his sons and go back to terror didn't he know that they all had major daddy issues well it was actually for a pretty good reason see mankind was progressively getting more and more psychic which if not handled correctly would result in the age of strife part 2 electric boogaloo the emperor needed a way of cutting off mankind's reliance on the warp hence starve the chaos gods of fuel to do this he had to figure out how to breach the elder webway which was like a tunnel that exists in the war but is protected from it he would then turn a portion of the webway into a human-compatible area hence allowing mankind to travel around the galaxy via the web way instead of the warp on top of this mankind could set up great cities in the webway that would be completely untouchable by the warp to finish this project though the emperor needed to be there in person just because of how awesome he is the reason he kept this a secret from his sons is twofold firstly the more primarks that knew meant there was a bigger chance that chaos would catch onto the plan and secondly the navigator houses of the imperium as well as all the industries that rely on the warp travel to make money would flip their [ __ ] and likely try to kill the emperor or at least sabotage his project which would suck well once again this plan backfired and chaos found out anyways you know for an old wisest [ __ ] fortune teller the emperor has made some pretty brain dead mistakes with horus's war master everything was okay for a bit then rapidly went to [ __ ] perturbo destroyed his home planet in a fit of rage numerous primarks were mia and fulgrim started smashing drugs the emperor also banned the use of psyches to try and keep his sons in check until the webway project was done but all this really did was piss off magnus and cause more problems down the track eventually through the manipulations of the now chaos aligned lord iron erebus horus gets stabbed by a poisonous knife and nearly dies only living due to him turning to chaos this officially marked the end of the great crusade and the beginning of the horus heresy although the primax were still crusading for the most part whilst horus quietly turned half the primarks to his cause the first part of the horus heresy was so successful for horus due to all the loyalist prime marks being divided and crusading elsewhere horus could also command the loyalist legions where to go as they did not yet know he was a total dick he sent the blood angels to a demon-infested world and he sent the white scars away it's actually pretty funny that the traitors didn't win the horror heresy considering the disgustingly huge advantage they had at the start now i have already covered the horus heresy in both normal format and asmr format i'm not sure why i did it in asmr but if that's your vibe then go for it as such i'm not really sure where to go from here maybe the age of apostasy or maybe the scouring we'll figure it out if you enjoyed the video and you want to support the channel then patreon is the place to be where only one dollar per month gives you access to a boatload of warhammer hentai hit the subscribe button then hit the real subscribe button for more great content join the discord for more memes and i'll see you in the next one peace bow to me

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Length: 11min 9sec (669 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 16 2021