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The Children's Crusade, also known as the Lost Crusade, was an unofficial Crusade in the Imperium in 754.M37.[1]

Overview

On a thousand planets, menials rebelled against their Administratum masters. The insurgents demanded a better way of life and a galaxy of tolerance. The movement was especially popular among youth, earning the title of the Children's Crusade. Billions of earnest pilgrims were lured to seek transport to Terra, some by pirates. However, the majority of their transports disappeared in the Warp in transit.[1]

Later, in 666.M38, the armada suddenly reemerged from Warpspace near Terra. Twisted and mutated, many of the hulls had fused together. What fate exactly befell the pilgrims was unclear, as the Inquisition worked feverishly to cover up the incident and purge the flotilla's cargo of abominations.[1]

Trivia

The Children's Crusade was a failed popular crusade by European Christians to establish a second Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in the Holy Land, said to have taken place in 1212. The traditional narrative includes children being sold into slavery or dying in shipwrecks after boarding transports that were supposed to bring them to the Holy Land.

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