"The scream of that Warp god's birth blew away the Warp storms that had raged for so long. Seizing this heaven-sent opportunity, the Emperor began the Great Crusade to unify humanity and forge the species into one once more."
After learning most of the causes and consequences from the Necron overlord, Lox gained a new understanding of many things he had once been unable to comprehend.
He understood why the Emperor had launched the Great Crusade with such urgency, and why his governance of the worlds he brought under his rule had been so crude and fraught with future consequences.
Why he had always seemed to be racing desperately against time, conducting the Great Crusade as though it were a near-suicidal gamble.
"Yes, yes. There was only one chance. The Aeldari had spent sixty million years courting death before they awakened a Warp god, causing the Warp storms that had persisted since the Age of Strife to disperse."
"Only by removing the interference of the Warp storms could humanity hope to reclaim its lost homeland through the Great Crusade and reunite the scattered human civilizations across the galaxy."
Lox had to admit that he had harbored subjective prejudice and hostility toward the Emperor, whom he had never met, from the very beginning.
Humanity of the past had followed a federation system. Humans scattered across the galaxy had formed a vast but loosely connected human alliance.
When he awoke from his slumber and discovered someone implementing a feudal imperial system while proclaiming himself lord of mankind, he had instinctively assumed the man was a dictator dragging history backward.
"Our history of over ten thousand years has already proven this. If the goal is to strengthen cohesion and decisiveness in a short time, then monarchy—long discarded into history's trash heap—is a decent