Guilliman the Traitor!

"Guilliman is a traitor!"

"Lion El'Jonson and Sanguinius are traitors too!"

"Who can the Imperium still trust? Who is truly loyal? Who is the Emperor's utterly faithful follower?"

The Greenskin Orks passed through Webway routes opened by the Aeldari, bypassing layer upon layer of defenses stretched across vast distances of space, and appeared directly within countless human worlds.

If the Webway had not suffered such severe damage over the long passage of time, making it incapable of sustaining prolonged large-scale troop deployments, any race that controlled it would possess an absolute advantage in mobility.

The Speed Freeks spreading news of the Second Imperium appeared on Macragge, Nostramo, Baal, Chogoris, Nocturne...

The entire Ultima Segmentum became a disaster zone plagued by Greenskin Orks, with the home worlds of the Astartes Legions receiving particularly special attention.

After all, not many people had known the little secret shared by the three Astartes Legions back then, and after the Horus Heresy, even fewer remained.

Take the Salamanders, for example. Although their primarch was on Macragge, Vulkan, who had only just escaped Curze's clutches, had fallen into madness and did not know what Guilliman had done.

And after rushing through the Webway to reinforce Terra, the warriors of the Ultramarines, Dark Angels, and Blood Angels had all sworn to keep that secret completely, never revealing it even unto death.

Although the Emperor and Malcador later stated that they knew the three Legions' little secret and had forgiven the rash actions of Guilliman and his two brothers.

The problem was that no one else knew the truth.

The entire Imperium did not know that Guilliman had truly once contemplated rebellion, nor did they know that the Emperor had forgiven them.

Such a shameful scandal, one that could not bear the light of day, was naturally meant