Relevance
The Horus Heresy has been and continues to be a significant component of the Warhammer 40,000 canon, and since 2012 has been repositioned as a distinct foreground gaming element. In the current backstory, ten millennia after the end of the Heresy the continuing Imperial stagnation and regression is one of the main themes – this and other situations caused by or related to the Heresy form the basis for much of the present context.
The Crusade-era Imperial Truth has been subverted into the Imperial Creed, the Imperium's official proclamation of the moribund Emperor as the "God of Mankind" and its only savior. Buffeted by constant xenos (alien) invasions, rebellions, heresies, and Chaos campaigns or plots, the Rulers of the Imperium have decreed that only unquestioning faith in the Emperor's Divinity, and total obedience in Imperial Authority, can keep the tottering edifice of the Imperium from collapsing – an event that will surely, according to the authorities, be followed by the extinction of Humankind. Thanks to official repression and censorship, by the 41st millennium few Imperial citizens consider the bulk of the Horus Heresy to be anything more than allegory or myth, and even fewer know its true history and causes.
—Sources, Chambers & Priestley (1993, p. 38); Barnes et al. (2008, p. 6); Black Library Online ("Warhammer 40,000"); Cavatore et al. (2008, p. 101)Read more about this topic: Horus Heresy
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