I, Superman, the Supreme Commander

As early as the 29th Millennium (M), the Emperor created a powerful genetic creature called the Primarch, planning to use the Primarch as his general, leading twenty Space Marine Legions to conquer the galaxy for the Imperium of Man.

However, due to an accident, the embryonic Primarchs were caught in a warp explosion and scattered throughout the galaxy, and were separated from their "father" - the Emperor - before they grew up.

Time waits for no one, and the destruction of the human world is imminent. Although he has lost his Primarch, the Emperor still personally leads the Space Marine Legion to launch a great crusade to recover human territory. During the Great Crusade, the Emperor finds the lost Primarchs one after another.

These powerful warriors and perfect leaders, who are said to possess the Emperor's own genes, returned to the Emperor's service as legion leaders and joined his great cause of the Great Crusade.

Under the leadership of the Primarch, the Space Marine Legions annihilated countless enemies with thundering force and quickly recovered one human world after another.

Among them, Horus Lupercal, the Primarch of the 16th Legion, who had made great achievements in battle, was awarded the glorious title of "Warmaster" by the Emperor, and led the army to complete the rest of the Great Crusade on his behalf.

The Emperor himself returned to Terra to conduct some secret research.

It was this decision that laid the seeds for the human empire to split again.

The Space Marines regarded the Primarch as their father, and the Primarch regarded the Emperor as their father. They respected and worshipped him, and loyally followed his father. But perhaps because the Great Crusade was too successful in close combat, the Emperor did not realize that the father-son relationship between him and the Primarch was not so harmonious.

Behind the glorious revival of the human world, there are certain powerful evil forces that have already infiltrated the human world and the Space Marine Corps.

005.M31, the fifth year of the th Millennium, the greatest rebellion in human history, known as the Horus Heresy, began in the Istvaan system.

Warmaster Horus, led by eight other Primarchs and nine Space Marine Legions, suddenly launched a rebellion, catching the Imperium of Man by surprise and causing heavy damage. At the beginning of the rebellion, three loyal Space Marine Legions were almost completely slaughtered, and the Primarch of the Tenth Legion, Ferrus Manus, was killed on the spot.

It was later proved that the Warmaster and these legions had joined the Chaos camp - the evil forces existing in the warp, the Chaos Demons. With the help of the demons, the Warmaster Horus led the rebels all the way to the center of the Empire, Holy Terra, and launched a massive bombardment on his home planet, surrounding the Emperor's palace.

Just like an ancient drama, the plot of patricide continues to unfold, and the rebellious son attempts to seize the throne. Horus vows to kill the fallen Emperor and crown himself as the Lord of Mankind.

In 007.M31, Horus finally got his wish and faced the Emperor on Terra, using the ancient and glorious method of one-on-one combat to decide who would be qualified to rule over humanity. With the power of the Chaos Gods, Horus was extremely powerful, while the Emperor was the most powerful psyker in the history of humanity and even the entire galaxy, almost on par with the gods.

The battle was so intense that the sun and moon were darkened. It is said that the aftermath of the two men's battle was enough to tear Terra apart and destroy a planet.

In the end, the Emperor won the difficult battle and killed the traitor himself, but he was also seriously injured and had to sit on the device called the Golden Throne, which he was not allowed to leave for the rest of his life and he could no longer directly lead the Empire.

What's worse is that although the culprit has been killed, the rebel forces are still there, and they have joined the camp of the Warp Demons, escaped into the Warp under the protection of the Chaos Forces, and scattered around the galaxy to cause chaos. From then on, they became a thorn in the side of the Empire and brought chaos to the Empire.

The disappearance of the loyal Primarchs, who were regarded as successors by the Emperor, left the Empire in a leaderless situation.

The Empire entered an era of mortal rule, and the [Council of the High Lords of Terra], composed of the heads of the twelve most important power institutions, became the actual rulers of the Empire.

It turns out that in this universe where demons are rampant and aliens are rampant, a mortal regime lacking a strong leader is simply unable to maintain a vast human empire.

Soon, the leaders of Terra fell into internal friction again because of the temporary peace and the struggle for power. The empire gradually drifted away in corruption and chaos, and religious forces took the opportunity to rise. The belief in science and reason was overthrown, and chaos and darkness intensified as the human empire fell into ignorance from top to bottom.

And ignorant and feudal ideas are becoming increasingly solid in the chaos and darkness.

The human world, which had just completed its reunification, was sliding slowly and uncontrollably into a desperate abyss of division, chaos, and chaos. Chaos demons, aliens, and ambitious people launched wars and rebellions across the empire. The human empire could only rely on sending fleets everywhere, constantly launching wars, and even implementing the [Extermination Order] - destroying an entire planet with all living things - to maintain the fragile rule of the empire.

Every moment, wars broke out within the empire, and every second, millions or even tens of millions of people died within the empire. Chaos, massacres, wars, and death constituted the main theme of darkness in the galaxy.

In this chaos and chronic decline, the Human Empire struggled to survive the painful ten millennia from M31 to M41. For a full ten thousand years, one million human worlds and hundreds of billions of humans lived a life worse than that of pigs and dogs in the eyes of their ancestors in the Golden Age.

Amid unimaginable oppression, and in wars and conflicts that lasted from birth to death, mankind struggled for a full ten thousand years!

However, all of this will change as the Terran Human Empire enters the 42nd Millennium (M).

000.M42, Year 42 of the nd Millennium of the Terran Era.

On the northeastern edge of the Milky Way, far away from the solar system, is a star region called the Ghoul Stars. Although there are still many human worlds distributed here, they are beyond the illumination range of the Star Torch and have not been officially included in the territory of the Terra Empire.

Like other places that the light of the Star Torch cannot reach, this place is regarded as the Dark Star Region outside the Empire. Except for the Rogue Traders who want to make money, the pirates who are avoiding wanted orders, and the Space Marines responsible for patrolling the borders, the Imperial forces rarely enter these areas.

The Ghoul Stars are mainly composed of red dwarfs. These dim stars cannot provide enough heat radiation, so the planets in this star field are quite cold and lack habitable planets. People can only build industrial worlds or hive worlds to settle on these harsh planets.

(Note: [World] is the name for [colonized planet] in Warhammer, and can be regarded as a synonym. Usually, different worlds are divided according to the appearance or purpose of the planet, such as the Warhammer-featured Hive World and Forge World.)

In the center of the Ghoul Cluster, there is a triple star system consisting of three red dwarf stars, one large and two small, called the Hades Galaxy. There are thirteen planets in the galaxy, only two of which are gas planets, and the other eleven are terrestrial planets.

However, due to insufficient radiation, only the three planets Persephone, Hecate and Melinoe, which are relatively close to the star, have been developed as habitable planets, and there are only a small number of outposts and populations on other planets.

All three planets are typical hive worlds. Among them, Persephone, located in the orbit of the second planet, is the largest, has the largest population, and the best industrial capacity. It is able to produce small spaceships that can travel at sub-light speeds, and therefore has become the capital of the Hades galaxy.

The entire Hades galaxy was nominally under the jurisdiction of Ivan Lermontov, the governor of the planet Persephone and the Lord of Hades. The governors of the other two planets were relatively independent, but nominally they were also subject to the jurisdiction of the Lord of Hades.

The Lermontov family firmly controls the planet's military factories and commands a space fleet that has absolute air superiority (in the small territory of Hades galaxy), which is the greatest guarantee for the family to rule this galaxy for hundreds of years.

However, Lord Ivan has been having a headache recently.

Because greenskins, a very annoying alien species, appeared in the galaxy he ruled.