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Most Imperial savants agree that Macharius was the most successful and brilliant Imperial Warmaster since the Arch-Traitor Horus. Nearly a thousand worlds were brought back into the Imperial fold in only seven standard years of fighting, yet upon his death the newly-won territories erupted into the civil war known as the Macharian Heresy as Macharius' various generals vied for control over what he had won, fighting over the spoils as degenerate warlords who cared more about their own glory than that of the God-Emperor.

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  • Most Imperial savants agree that Macharius was the most successful and brilliant Imperial Warmaster since the Arch-Traitor Horus. Nearly a thousand worlds were brought back into the Imperial fold in only seven standard years of fighting, yet upon his death the newly-won territories erupted into the civil war known as the Macharian Heresy as Macharius' various generals vied for control over what he had won, fighting over the spoils as degenerate warlords who cared more about their own glory than that of the God-Emperor.
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  • Most Imperial savants agree that Macharius was the most successful and brilliant Imperial Warmaster since the Arch-Traitor Horus. Nearly a thousand worlds were brought back into the Imperial fold in only seven standard years of fighting, yet upon his death the newly-won territories erupted into the civil war known as the Macharian Heresy as Macharius' various generals vied for control over what he had won, fighting over the spoils as degenerate warlords who cared more about their own glory than that of the God-Emperor. The Lord Solar Macharius' forces consisted of seven army groups of the Imperial Guard, each led by a general appointed by Macharius himself, including Sejanus, Tarka, Lysander, Borgen Crassus, Arrian and Cyrus of Larrentine. Though Macharius was prepared to capture a thousand more worlds, his armies were not, for they had been pushed beyond the point of endurance and were exhausted by the relentless pace with which Macharius had driven them. His troops had followed him from world to world on one of the greatest human adventures of all time, but his subordinates refused to travel any further when they reached the edge of the known galaxy. It was whispered that the stars of the Halo Zone beyond the boundaries of the Segmentum Pacificus were haunted and the worlds which orbited them were inhabited by ghosts. At the edge of the galaxy Macharius prepared to move onwards but his armies, never beaten once by any enemy, wavered and crumbled at the prospect of exploring the psychic darkness at the galaxy's edge. The conquests of Macharius thus came to an end. The Lord Solar had finally been defeated, not by any opposing warlords, but by human fear and frailty. Reluctantly, Macharius agreed to conclude his campaign and return to Imperial space. The Lord Solar was never seen alive again, for he died during the voyage back to his homeworld to announce the full extent of his conquests to the Senatorum Imperialis. The exact nature of Macharius' death remains shrouded in mystery. Yet no Imperial leader has led the armies of the Imperial Guard to more victories or on to greater conquests, nor won so many worlds for the Imperium since the Great Crusade itself. Many things and places throughout the Imperium have been named in honour of Macharius, including the Imperial Navy Battleship Lord Solar Macharius commanded by Captain Leoten Semper, the Macharius Heavy Tank, and the Battleship Macharia Victrix. The planet Macharia, in the Cadian System (not to be confused with the Shrine World of the same name in the Segmentum Pacificus described below), was destroyed by Abaddon the Despoiler's Planet Killer superweapon during the 13th Black Crusade in 999.M41.
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