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 {{quote|''In an empire of a million worlds, how much can one man truly matter? Only one being is truly essential to its continued existence, hail his name, the Master of Mankind. And he has not spoken in ten thousand years...''}}
-The Imperium of Man, ruled from Holy Terra, is [[The Empire]] of ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', and a particularly brutal and dystopian one at that. After the collapse of galactic civilization, a being known only as [[Messianic Archetype|The Emperor of Mankind]] led his Great Crusade to reunify humanity in an enlightened new order. But just when a new golden age seemed imminent, the newly-forged Imperium was wracked by civil war as half of the Emperor's sons turned against him. The [[Horus Heresy]] was ultimately quashed, but at a terrible price: countless worlds were left in cinders, untold trillions were dead, and the Emperor himself was mortally wounded and forced to "ascend" to the Golden Throne, an arcane life-support machine.
+The Imperium of Man, ruled from Holy Terra, is [[The Empire]] of ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', and a particularly brutal and dystopian one at that. After the collapse of galactic civilization, a being known only as [[Messianic Archetype|The Emperor of Mankind]] led his Great Crusade to reunify humanity in an enlightened new order. But just when a new golden age seemed imminent, the newly-forged Imperium was wracked by civil war as half of the Emperor's sons turned against him. The [[Horus Heresy]] was ultimately quashed, but at a terrible price: countless worlds were left in cinders, untold trillions were dead, and the Emperor himself was mortally wounded and forced to "ascend" to the Golden Throne, an arcane life-support machine.
 Ten thousand years later [[God-Emperor|the Emperor is venerated as a God]], [[Medieval Stasis|the Imperium's technology has barely progressed]], [[Witch Hunt|Witch Hunts]] are commonplace since every rogue psyker is a potential gateway to the [[Legions of Hell]], each day [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|thousands of souls are sacrificed to power]] the psychic navigational aid known as the Astronomican, planets deemed tainted beyond salvation are [[Earthshattering Kaboom|subject to Exterminatus]], and the sheer size of the [[The Government|Terran bureaucracy]] means that entire planetary populations can be forgotten due to filing errors.
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 [[Category:Warhammer 40000 Imperial Factions]]
+[[Category:Warhammer 40,000]]
 [[Category:Characters]]
-[[Category:Warhammer 40000]]