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The rebellion was fought across the galaxy. Horus, seeking to achieve a swift and decisive victory, led most of the traitor forces in a direct strike at the capital of humanity, in the [[Battle of Terra]]. In the final decisive battle between the Emperor and the Arch-Traitor, Horus was slain, leading to the breakup of the rebellion and the exile of the traitors to the [[Eye of Terror]]. However the Master of Mankind was himself mortally wounded. According to his instructions he was placed on the life-preserving [[Golden Throne]], where, for nearly ten thousand years, he has remained. Though physically a carcass incapable of movement or communication, his omnipotent will extends across the million worlds of the Imperium, beaming the psychic energy of the [[Astronomican]], soul-binding psychic humans and struggling against the [[daemon]]s of the Warp. He endures by his undying will, and by the sustenance that only the souls of sacrificial [[psyker]]s can provide. By the numberless masses of humanity he is worshiped as a god.
The immediate period following the Heresy, [[The Scouring]] and [[Age of Rebirth]], saw the Imperium slowly rebuild its might and control over the domain of man. It also saw the last of the Emperor's loyal Primarch's Primarchs either battle fall in battle, become gravely wounded, or disappear altogether. Nonetheless in the subsequent age known as [[The Forging]], the Imperium enjoyed a period of growth and expansion.{{Fn|3e}} The Imperium's period of relative peace ended abruptly in mid-[[M32]] when a an [[Ork]] [[Warboss]] known only as [[The Beast]] launched the [[War of the Beast|greatest Waaagh! ever counteredencountered]]. The Beast was only halted at great cost by the [[Adeptus Astartes]].
The Imperium saw further periods of severe instability throughout [[M35]] and [[M36]], experiencing civil wars during the [[Nova Terra Interregnum]] and [[Age of Apostasy]]. This period saw the worst internal violence since the Heresy. Following the Age of Apostasy, the Imperium was again heavily reorganized and many [[heretic]]s purged in the [[Age of Redemption]]. This new fervor culminated in a series of major [[Crusade]]s and [[War of Faith|Wars of Faith]] most notably the [[Redemption Crusades]] and [[Macharian Crusade]]. However while successful, this period exhausted the Imperium's military forces and in [[The Waning]], many worlds were lost to [[xenos]] and [[Chaos]] attacks as well as internal rebellion.{{Fn|3e}}
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