Ch. 501The Plan to Destroy the Imperium Was Mordred's
Dorn recounted how successive disasters left him the Imperium’s last surviving Primarch, while a hidden enemy corrupted the bureaucracy and drove him into exile. In the warp, Malcador revealed to Vashtorr that Mordred had devised the plan to destroy the Imperium.
- Dorn told Mordred, Guilliman, Horus, and the Emperor how the Heresy, Beast Wars, and the failed Raptors project devastated the Imperium and exhausted him.
- Dorn said he had spent two centuries fighting an unseen enemy that falsified reports and infiltrated the Imperium’s bureaucracy, and Guilliman confirmed he had noticed suspiciously uniform data.
- Dorn accused Malcador of betraying him and produced evidence, recounting how Malcador and Khorne had sent him into a desert for five thousand years.
- Malcador, Ferrus, and Vashtorr discussed the Tuchanka Engine in the Forge of Souls, where Malcador said he wanted to manifest in the world and claimed Mordred had devised the plan to destroy the Imperium.