Prelude to Heresy: Horus & The Interex (Warhammer 40K & Horus Heresy Lore)

Being a record of the Interex Incident, and it's effect upon the humours of XVI Legion Primarch and Warmaster, Horus Lupercal.
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[@thcdreams654]

Future civilizations will find these records and wonder what the hell was going on. Love your content.

[@MrJedimedic]

We should also dress dead goats up in military uniforms to really mess with them...

[@AshleyBlackwater]

makes me wonder how long you could get away with teaching warhammer lore to a child, presented as fact, a long long time ago style, before they get wise

[@fergusmor5546]

@@AshleyBlackwater anything can become real if you have enough people who believe

[@lockerjoe2578]

@@AshleyBlackwater lol.. don't do that.. you'll have em going to school hollering treason because they pledge allegiance to the flag and not the emperor

[@CherryBlossom-mh6vv]

@@fergusmor5546 who are you, the imperium?

[@raycearcher5794]

HORUS: Wow, you guys have a really neat museum here. I'm digging it. INTEREX: Thank you! Would you perhaps like to see our EEEEEVILLLLL MUSEUM? HORUS: Uh. EREBUS: Ooh! Say yes! Say yes!

[@MrPedroleiria]

"The data would be far more tenous" is a rather elaborate way of saying "The World Eaters killed everyone and they could not collect tithes."

[@chadcuckproducer1037]

*Bureaucracy for the Bureaucracy Throne!* Didn't Eisenhorn have an adept that had a virus or illness that made him feel Ill if he were not processing data? Sounds like administrautum butcher's nails.

[@MonCrDeVlog]

Aemos was a data addict because of a 'meme-virus' that compelled him to observe and register every detail of everything all the time.

[@weldonwin]

And the Death Guard's "Compliant" worlds are equally hard to collect tithes from, since its generally hard to tax people who have been nerve gassed

[@chadcuckproducer1037]

@@weldonwin hard but not impossible.

[@ArchArturo]

Administratum menial: So... The file under the world 45-H23-08 under the control of the World Eaters is nothing but to leaves and a ton of gore and teeth... Care to explain, Kharn?.

[@dragonfangalexander]

"You say you come in peace yet you call yourself Warmaster."

[@butHomeisNowhere___]

Iconic

[@dracorex426]

Oh. So THAT's what happened to the good guys of 40k.

[@iainhansen1047]

The story of the interex is one of the most grim dark things in 40k. A surviving strain of the Star Trek like golden age of humanity, with knowledge of the threat of chaos, possessing the resources to potentially rebuild humanity, and with HORUS himself willing to work with them to build a better future for the galaxy. Only for their potential to be snuffed out while beginning the warmasters fall.

[@StylesV13]

Yeah but they lived with filthy Aliens so they had to go!

[@TealWolf26]

#BlameErebus

[@Destroyer_V0]

The imperium but was a few steps from a prosperus future. All it would have required even, was a simple treaty. The imperium stays out of the interex's teritory, and leaves them alone, and the interex would do the same. The imperium would then trade it's massive quantity of resources with the intrex on a number of designated trading hubs in neutral territory around the interex's borders, in exchange for the knowledge of the interex, along with any particularly interesting bits of tech they produce. Not unlike how the imperium works with the mechanics. Such an agreement could, in time. be a fruitful for further benifits to the moral advancement of the imperium, but that in and of itself would be an excellent first step... Come to think of it. The Tau are not that dissimilar from the Interex... Certainly the farsight enclaves might be a valuable ally to the imperium for similar reasons.

[@TealWolf26]

@@Destroyer_V0 Much like the Oculus said there was the mechanicus alliance which is wild considering the professed imperial values. So possible. But as much as it would be "good," it apparently would ruin the aesthetic to go the Star Trek route. It passes up the chance for a good tragedy. At the end of the day we are bound by the need for a story with conflict, so GW is gonna do what GW is gonna do regardless of what the wise, safe decisions would be in-universe.

[@jeffreygreen8668]

Excellent point, Iain... 🖖🏼😔

[@OmegaLittleBob]

28:06 "Poor Captain Loken" I don't think there's ever been a more brief, but tragically accurate description of a 40K character.

[@lordfrostwind3151]

I still hold out hope Garviel Loken is out there, one day awaiting to take his revenge on Abbadon, after he stops laughing at the "armless failure" jokes.

[@Northwing2024]

​@@lordfrostwind3151sadly your comment has not aged well 😢

[@soccrplayr232]

TFW the heresy could probably have been avoided by just making Guileman deal with the civilian bureaucracy instead of Horus. He probably would have enjoyed it too.

[@commieKalmarunion]

Our Boi is back again with the best lore in the game

[@HeiligerGrimmnir]

What an absolute tragedy. I read Horus Rising before I knew anything about the heresy or really 40k in general. Heartbreaking stuff.

[@TheOneTheyCallJack]

No one: Oculus: M E A T M I N D

[@mr.smithsgovermentclass4556]

"You're telling me that they're made out of...meat?"

[@Irondrone4]

I once had a friend ask me to give him some good 40k trivia that he could use to pitch the franchise to his school mates. I jokingly responded with the following summation of the tragedy of the Interex: "Did you know that Horus, favored son of the God-Emperor, once killed Star Trek?"

[@NaillLookingforaHammer]

A wonderfully empathetic recounting of Horus' lot.

[@jeffreygreen8668]

Holy bloody Imperator, that was good. The most intelligent, sagacious, profound and tragic entry yet committed to record. I am stunned by this. Just stunned. My most sincere thanks and respects to the Oculus. 🙏🏻

[@francusweathers5097]

So very much fukin tru! It should have been Guilimon.

[@Historyfrek4ever]

One of the greatest tragedies of the crusade and one of the greates moments of Horus. Back when he was the greatest of his brothers. Until that tool Erebus ruined it all.

[@SonsOfLorgar]

The arch corruptors Erebus and Kor Pharon will be purged so that the 17th Primarch and Legion may start on the long and terminal path of penitent repentance.

[@blakelowrey9620]

@@SonsOfLorgar penitent repentance is a little redundant no?

[@ceejay310]

@@blakelowrey9620 the department of redundancy department begs to differ.

[@macromicro1715]

Erebus pushed the button, but it seemed all but inevitable that Horus would fall. The Interex convinced him that the Imperium was just another endless tyranny, a king sitting on a throne far away, bringing war and terror to any it deemed deserving. Understanding, evolution, hope these were dead, and only cold pragmatism mattered. To someone who serves that, what value is their in loyalty or morality, why not simply be a war master. Unfortunately for the Emperor when hope for anything but more death dies, Chaos floods in. Chaos says there’s no point in hoping, the universe is just a mad free for all. The Imperium was almost certainly going destroy this society, even without Erebus. Even if the emperor himself had to do it, but I doubt it could be stopped. With it Horus’s fall began, maybe slower but inevitable:

[@lovebunny2652]

@@macromicro1715 the Interex were definetly not wrong tho. Would be cool to see a civil war without chaos, because if it weren't for the archenemy, the traitor legions would be just doing the galaxy a fucking favour.

[@poirob2]

Lore read from in universe is such a great concept, it draws you in so perfectly

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

" oh the wonderful thing about humans , is the human mind is a curious thing!"

[@RedwolfDogrocket]

Work with the general public and you know a bolt round is the missing component in most craniums.

[@abimanyuputra5185]

Sanguinius on vacation. PERMANENT vacation, in marble box.

[@mr.smithsgovermentclass4556]

@@RedwolfDogrocket I'm stealing this and nobody can stop me, woopwoopwoopwoop

[@ilyac3185]

This was always more tragic a tale to me than the loss of the medical STC to the dark eldar and the Gen STC of the Orician Technocracy. It was the death of tolerance, not technology.

[@owenparris7490]

I cannot agree more. The Emperor's whole ideology was proven wrong by the Interex.

[@Enriiiiiii]

"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it..."

[@osmosisjones2822]

Been waiting a while to get a deeper understanding of this conflict. Thank you for your scripture scribe. Avi Emporor bless you eternal

[@StylesV13]

Interex "Chaos is greatest threat we all face." Also Interex "Hey lets put this insanely powerful Chaos Weapon in a museum." It would be like the putting a working H-Bomb in the Smithsonian.

[@BM-is5ei]

That always struck me as odd.

[@widdershins5383]

I don’t think they knew it was chaos blessed, they thought it was an old alien construct that everyone knew was dangerous, the imperium with no knowledge of chaos thought it was just a weapon...except for the word bearers at that point.

[@piotrd.4850]

Explanation is simple. Time and success of their protection - to certain point, coming form 'aware ignorance' (as opposed to Imperium's unaware ignorance) - diluted their protection. Quite simple really.

[@cegesh1459]

@@widdershins5383 No they knew it was Chaos and attacked because they thought the Imperium was Chaos corrupted.

[@widdershins5383]

@@cegesh1459 the interex attacked the sons of Horus because Erebus stole the anathema dagger, which he then passed to Temba who fell to Nurgle and felled Horus so he could be turned to chaos.

[@storminmormon]

The Interex: the true inheritors of mankind’s future

[@gabrielmarquez4029]

Yep, they did the opposite of the Imperium and prospered.

[@joevines3428]

@@D2017_ sounds like you wouldn't have been sent to Istvaan 3

[@storminmormon]

The Interex are the superior nation. The imperium is a joke. A slow rot eaten by chaos.

[@jackstrayfeald1007]

@@storminmormon Yet the Imperium endures, it survives against all odds. The Interex are gone and forgotten.

[@ZeroNumerous]

The Interex would have died to chaos as readily as the Imperium. Thinking you are immune to propaganda only makes you more suspectible to it.

[@brendancusack7642]

Funny thing, history, how chance has so much to do with things. Had matters been slightly different, the tragedy that followed might have been averted. Had things been just slightly different, humanity might have ascended to a true golden age of tolerance, knowledge, and understanding. Had it not been for the greed and spite of one man, so much could have been different. It reflect here as much as it does in our own, real world. How swiftly do the dominoes fall...

[@ekhidna4]

And all of that has one name. Erebus.

[@daijodan]

Even if everything had gone to plan eventually there would have been legion wars in one way or another. Magnus' sons were doomed, Angron was uncontrollable, Lorgar was on a path to know the gods eventually, Fulgrim likewise set himself on the path to corruption; and in a true golden age, most of the legions as they were would have no place within the imperium. I guess the main difference is that the Emperor would be around to participate in whatever conflict took place, and eventually the legions would likely destroy themselves.

[@kyle857]

@@daijodan I've said it before. The primarch were a bad idea.

[@ZeroNumerous]

@@kyle857 The primarchs were literally necessary for space marines to function. Without the primarchs five of the Legions--the Emperor's Children, Revenants, Space Wolves, Thousand Sons, and Dragon Warriors--would have died in the womb, four more--the Warborn, War Hounds, Iron Warriors, and the First--would have destroyed themselves in the Crusade, two would never grow quickly enough--Raven Guard and Star Hunters--and who knows what the 2 lost Legions would have been like. Without the primarchs anywhere from 8 to 10 Legions would be DOA or destroyed through the Crusade, and 2 would be tiny fractions of their already tiny size. That would leave Ullanor with only 1 full strength Legion to fight it: The Luna Wolves. The Rangdan would have only a single full strength Legion: the First. Even if these Legions still somehow won, then we know at very least the Luna Wolves would have been destroyed even in their victory, as only the Warborn, Iron Warriors, and the First were reliably able implant geneseed without genetic degradation. But even among those 3 stable legions two were killing themselves without their primarch. Without the primarchs there were no Legions, and without Legions there was no Imperium.

[@brendancusack7642]

If I may, the Primarchs were a good idea in theory. Don't get me wrong, I ADORE many of the Primarchs and their character immensely. Many of them turned out to be decent and stable folk, and some were even a marked improvement to their legions: see Sanguinius, Guilliman, Jaghatai Khan, Vulcan, even Magnus to an extent. However, I think the rush of the Great Crusade, the Primarchs being immediately thrust into their positions, was a bad idea. The wiser choice would have been to put the crusade on hold when they found each Primarch, or at least give each Primarch a decade or two with Malcador to acclimatize and educate them; with the greatest galactic military organization the galaxy had ever seen for millennia at his beck and call, the Emperor could have, in theory, taken things slow. And of course, especially with the likes of Lorgar, Horus, and Magnus, the whole thing was a tragedy resulting from a lack of communication. The Emperor was loathe to explain himself or the nature of the universe when he really, REALLY should have, not to mention his callousness towards the less favoured like Perty and Angron. Ultimately it was a good idea with good intentions, but flawed, flawed, FLAWED in execution. A good reflection of the Emperor himself, really.

[@starlightbreaker561]

Didn't the Emperor order his sons to find (non human) allies for humanity? I wonder what things would have been if the Interex had been the victors.

[@Barabel22]

A vision of what the Imperium could have been, that you don’t have to be a bunch of geno/xenocidal monsters who abhor anything different....

[@inquisitorgarza312]

This is the beginnings of perhaps the greatest tragedies within all of humanity, one that is still felt though-out the Imperium to this Dark Day. The Horus Heresy is a event so horrible that many within the Imperium wonder how the Emperor’s most beloved son could ever betray him, and many far too many wonder what the Imperium could have been if the Heresy never had happened.

[@Tucker0603]

The fall of the Interex is a sad tragedy that highlights that which defines Warhammer 40K, what happens when all mistakes are made, and not averted.

[@doomgardener1495]

Once again, the Word Bearers ruined everything.

[@georgesulea]

Well done Chronicler. A situation full of subtlety which you voiced perfectly.

[@thesagepilgrim4441]

I scrolled past three times before I realized what I was seeing, then ran up and down the hall yipping in wild glee.

[@pancho1117]

We learned Oculus' one weakness: the word calm. Joking aside, love your work, keep up the amazing content!

[@usernamenumber]

How do you do it? I just spent a half hour riveted to someone essentially recounting the plot of a book I've already read. Bravo.

[@Sleepy_zzzzz]

Ya'h know... That golden boy... If he had stuck around for a little bit longer things would be so much different. He is never faulted as doing anything wrong, but if he had been there for his brother here...

[@fernmarbo7717]

I wish GW would make a Interex centaur model.

[@SCP-49668]

I was just talking about you Oculus! Holy shit! Thank you Oculus!!!

[@awesomehpt8938]

Kinda tragic what happened to the interex. In many ways they were superior to the imperium.

[@iainhansen1047]

HERESY

[@ineednochannelyoutube5384]

On all ways were they superior. Much more advanced, and indeed capable of advancement. Much more flexible, and much more resilient. Its.only weakness was its size, and thus resojrces at its back and call in the moment of contact with the imperium. They were but a few years too late, otherwise the imlerium would have not had a chance at taking them on.

[@jasonulysess3652]

Poor, poor, me, it is all your fault! You, you forced me to bomb your society from orbit. Listen to all these people talking about how charismatic I am (the ability to talk people into doing what I want an liking it). Listen to them talking about how amazingly noble an honorable I am (just ignore the fact that not a single one of them can name even one single action I have ever performed that demonstrates that honor or nobility.) It is all your fault I treated you like I treated every single being I have ever encountered that did not immediately surrender to me OR reminded me of me.

[@rycolligan]

I could listen to your videos for the choral music alone. The fact that they are further apportioned with such quality content is a delight I shan't tire of.

[@l33t9r0u93]

sometimes i kind of "curse" alfa's series I mean this video is as brilliant as ever but by 33:10 all i could think was : "stay optimistic" x)

[@aliveandwellinisrael2507]

Ah, the Inters- I mean, Interex. Perhaps one of the most unfortunately-named groups in 40K.

[@_AvgWellInformedCitizen]

I’ve been waiting for this lore for thirty years. An advanced successful break away human civilization and stolen relic chaos sword changed the Warmaster’s outlook on his Imperium...

[@peterwall8191]

The interex incident!Where the architect's of fate machinations bore fruit. You think chaos was unaware of them? Little mortal you are more and more amusing. The interex were left alone on purpose. Yes the pointy eared blubber mouths told them something of chaos, little that could help them as it was. We were biding our time until the anathema left. His presence kept His astartes safe. We cannot manifest in His sphere of influence, He is Anathema to Us by nature. Without the interex , do you really think Horus would have turned? A person filled with hope for the future does not kick that which he was building down, however flawed it might be. To turn Horus we had to crash his hope first. To make everything seem bleak and hopeless. We besieged him with our slaves, or did you think it accidental he was deluged with impossible demands at this very time? We needed him distracted,over loaded, desperate , on edge. Poor poor Horus . He never had a chance once the link was found. Lorgar blood of his blood ,our wiling servant gave us the war master and gladly. Remember we have all of space time to lay our traps. We see all paths. If not the interex ,something else would have occurred. Horus had to be crushed. We needed a general, someone who could pose a credible threat to the Anathema. Too we needed Him immobilized, rendered helpless to affect events. Horus was meant to fail. Surprised? If he has succeeded in killing the Anathema what do you think would have happened? He would have become the Anathema. He would have taken Horus over with his dying breath.Giving Him a body, far more powerful ,far more durable, than the one that housed Him. A nigh invulnerable eternal body, with His power ? Not in our interest. We needed time we needed Him contained. Horus was the perfect toll for it. The little king was never meant to succeed.

[@thetalkingbear]

Horus should have ripped Abaddon's arms off and beat him to death with them.

[@yurachunt3179]

what arms?

[@cegesh1459]

Indeed.

[@JeremyBuxman]

Slowly getting caught up, but man, the Interex. More than anything else, I wish GW would have kept them around. The idea of a human culture using cyber-centaur battle-frames, and being a bright mirror to the Imperium's brutality...I wish they were a part of the "real" setting.

[@sithprimarch9970]

A tragedy that set in motion the downfall of humanity.

[@drgonzo305]

What if the sencond terra Horus found a laid waste to was actually the honest to emperor real earth of old, birthplace of humanity?

[@evanceier8577]

Loving the knew series'. First vraks, then badab and now perhaps the heresy?

[@tripod222]

Horus was promoted too quickly. He went from command of 1 Legion + human auxiliaries to commanding 17 legions + ...well, everything. It's like a company commander being given command of an army. Sure, he will eventually get the hang of it, but until then he, and everyone beneath him, is going to struggle.

[@jeffreygreen8668]

That’s a touch baseline-centric; Horus, at the time had spent thirty years just he and Big Emps, then a further 170 *years* fighting the Great Crusade. It’s not like the guy had just left Sandhurst a couple of years ago and was on the fast-track... 😏

[@tripod222]

@@jeffreygreen8668 True, but complexity rises exponentially. And from what I understand, during the time he spent with the emperor, and the years fighting, he never commanded more than his legion + adjuncts. And watching someone doing something is far less strenuous than actually having to perform yourself. And perhaps it's also that what he wanted, glory, isn't something that commanders-in-chief get in 30k. The overall commander doesn't have the action. He's pushing toy soldier representations of army groups across strategium tables :D IMHO, Horus didn't want to transition away from field command, yet that is what a Warmaster actually does, and I think that was quite the source of annoyance, combined with - in his eyes - uninspiring pencil-pusher duties and voila, the grumpy employee thinking he's being treated unfairly is born.

[@jeffreygreen8668]

@@tripod222 But he did, mate; Horus fought side-by-side with the Emperor. Literally. His intro in Horus Rising has him teleporting in personally and taking out a main dude with a single shot, which rather impressed Loken. When the glorious hawk-boy turned up for a while, he and Sanguinius *fought* together. I could go on. At Ullanor, there was pretty much the biggest parade ever to mark the eradication of the pesky green skins from that cluster, and to mark Horus’ accession to Warmaster. All pretty melée and glorious, to my mind. Sure he had some pretty big work. But the other Primarchs were working over thousands of light years, and not so bad at what they were doing. He wasn’t pulling a Robby-in-Ultramar and literally running everything personally. It’s expressly stated that a/ he liked being just-he-and-Emps, and once Russ and No.2 turned up, he felt a sting, b/that when Empy took off without telling any of his sons what he was up to, he and others were like “dude, what‽” and c/that the accession if the High Lords, mortals all (aside from Valdor, and he busy most of the time), was bloody annoying for demi-gods to have to take. He was created to be awesome. He was awesome. He could deal. But Erebus was a massive dick, which was the grenade-in-the-ammo-dump for the Interex, and then other stuff happened... So like I say, you’re being a little baseline-human, real-world-centric take, in my opinion... 😎

[@davebowman9000]

Something died within Horus that day and soon enough, the Imperial dream with it...

[@unintentionallydramatic]

Summons received, summons answered! Question: Could you do a record about STC discoveries please? Edit: EMPEROR ENTHRONED, I DID NOT SEE THE LENGTH...!!

[@PatS152]

Amazing video! Love your videos Oculus!

[@grangoyikes.809]

Would be great to see if the Interex ended up surviving in remnants and ended up being more powerful after the milleniums as a whole new faction.

[@KnightofEkron]

Wow, that's tragic.

[@jeffreygreen8668]

As heretical as the observation of such an ancient holy day may be, a very happy St. Patrick’s Day to you, Oculus... 🍀🍀🍀

[@olehhumeniuk1632]

And the entire 16th Legion could not guess that Erebus's actions were to their detriment? :(

[@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD]

No one knew he took it. His actions in general were under the veil of Horus' support.

[@BlizzardofKnives]

This takes me back to reading the first Heresy novel :) .

[@jeffreygreen8668]

Oh thank Holy Terra for that; that’s my evening spent perusing my data-slate! 😎

[@SeanWilliamGeorgeBuc]

You have perfectly encapsulated why Horus remains my favorite Primarch. Bravo Oculus! Ava Imperator!

[@kuigghu]

This was so well written I felt actual physical pain at the tragedy of this tail.

[@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD]

Tale

[@ironduke5058]

Tale

[@old_boy9030]

More than any others, my heart weeps for those such as Horus before Interex, and not just for the obvious reason, no. For even if Horus decided to embark upon that road hand-in-hand with the Interex... I doubt the Emperor would have approved, nor would it have been possible to win over ALL of his brother-primarchs in joining this path let alone the entirety Exertis Imperialis and the population at large. Conflict, in one way or another, but certainly bloody, barbaric, and cruel to a degree of which I'm sure those like the Drukhari would approve, would have been inevitable

[@trajanfidelis1532]

#blameErebus

[@Weirwoodchronicler]

EREBUS😡😡😡

[@Frostfly]

I have to say ...going from a video about the recent Cats movie...to this is a very jarring change of tone. Although equally distopian.

[@tnh723]

Thank you for all the hard and brilliant work. Longtime fan here

[@lordfrostwind3151]

The Federation meets the Imperium, goes about exactly like wed think, circa 30K.

[@jackstrayfeald1007]

If the Imperium met the Human Federation at the height of the Golden Age of technology, the Imperium would be swept aside.

[@lordfrostwind3151]

@@jackstrayfeald1007 "gentlemen, allow us to introduce you to the Castigator Class Titan." Yeah Dark Age of Technology humanity was freighteningly powerful

[@jackstrayfeald1007]

@@lordfrostwind3151 Ahh yes the Castigator, so big and tall that the Imperator class Imperial Titan only stood up to its chest. Also with such powerful weaponry that even the Strongest of imperial void sheilds would last mere minutes at best, seconds at worst.

[@lordfrostwind3151]

@@jackstrayfeald1007 between that, the Men if Iron in their uncountable hordes and the time bending shenanigans the Speranza was pulling off in the Mechanicus novels, it begs the question of what fresh Hell could the Eldar and other Xenos empires unleash that would justify that ungodly by 40K standards level of firepower.

[@ineednochannelyoutube5384]

@@lordfrostwind3151 Considering wide spread utilization of STC forges, one has to conclude the golden age of technology operated not unlike the settings of Total Annihilation, or Supreme Commander do, wherein the mass fabrication of materiel is so easy it is economical to construct an army in theater, and the limiting factor on the exponential growth of industrial output, and by extension of forces, is the physical access to raw materials. This is the sort of setting where a war might involve taking a planet apart, and turning the entire resulting mass into tanks.

[@RobbieJacobs_Talks]

Pretty sure Oculus is Irish.... the way he said Calm at around 17:00 is a good indicator. Am i right?

[@OculusImperia]

Guilty as charged.

[@musicalDrebin]

God I can't wait for him to finish the legions and start the horus heresy

[@thegeneralissimo470]

Damn you Erebus!

[@brandonpierce4102]

One of your very, very, best Oculus. Not just stellar (forgive me) 40k content, but quality heresy for all to appreciate.

[@TheSynthPunk]

I imagine that all the Historitors, after finishing their grueling researches, will present ALL their findings to Guilliman in one succinct sentence: *"FUCK EREBUS!"*

[@DustunColeman]

Ong

[@thewayfarer8849]

Considering Pius was thrown out the window by Abbnett in Saturnine, my bet is that Loken will be the one who stands in the way of the Emperor and gets obliterated.

[@lachlancampbell6328]

Samus was here

[@whiteelephant3673]

Last time I was this early it still was Dark Age of technology

[@tacticalmanatee]

Exceptional! The Interex is really a look at what the Imperium could have been had the Emperor not been... as he was. What a shame.

[@alexs1954]

I consider it more that the Imperium was more heavily impacted by the Terran experience with xenos, technology and mutants. The Interex were lucky enough to not be utterly screwed over by all of the above at the same time while Terra was utterly shagged.

[@kalebsalas2770]

Thank you oculus, your videos are always so captivating and interesting. Every time I find myself getting totally wrapped up in your storytelling. Keep it up :)

[@stephennelson4954]

This is the kind of villainous origin story I love the most, where the antagonist come so damnably close to an overall betterment, but is betrayed from within and falls forever into a darkness from which there is no escape.

[@Asmusei]

I don't know how you do it, but you made me feel sorry for the singular lynch-pin that caused the free fall of the Imperium. Sometimes, your videos are equally anticipated and worrying.

[@bigmant2897]

This was a beautiful way of showing the fall. Thank you

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

Right. Thanks for the amazing video, Oculus. I’m off to go punch my Erebus punching bag.

[@lothos-tu4uh]

SOMEONE CAN PRONOUNCE 'ANATHAME' CORRECTLY!!! 😁 ...so tired of people saying 'anna-thame' instead of 'anna-tha-may'... 😫

[@johncolvin2754]

Ave imperator

[@silentnight9097]

I adore these works! Every time i start painting a model i turn on your channel for motivation!

[@piotrd.4850]

Megaarachnigs .... space faring bugs... who would have thought.... wonder if they have anything in common with Great Devourer, had they contact with them? are they offshoot of them? or just parallel evolution? Yet, solution was so Simple - Reassing Sanguinius to negotiations, delegate tax and industry to Guiliiman and up and onward go.

[@fenrir7878]

The Godfather Part IV: Horus Heresy - Baptism Scene on Davin. "Do you reject The Emperor, and all His empty promises" Horus says "I do" and unleashes the heresy.

[@jfkjkshjpppppppppphsasi8669]

Awesome

[@MortarGuyX]

You would think that a single note from Horus to Terra about "Hey I found a civilization that not only survived Long Night but thrived, what do?" would have the Emperor and the Fabricator General come running to investigate...

[@michaelhowell2326]

So were the warning beacons set up by the Interex a warp-based beacon or what? Can someone please elaborate?

[@alexs1954]

I believe it was just satellites around the planet transmitting in realspace. The threat is really only limited to the planet so the satellites don’t need to reach much further than the edge of the system.

[@adampodlewski5140]

Horu & The Intersex

[@WhereIsMyAlbatross]

I love that the 21st century speaker AND the 41st millennium speaker are both so inured and accustomed to the imperium's repressive policies that they accidentally say "suppress ideas" instead of "express ideas" at 7:47

[@petrusjnaude7279]

I know what I'm going to say will be considered heresy, but to me, many of the problems that would lead to the Horus Heresy could have been mitigated if the Emperor at least educated his sons on the nature of Chaos and the danger it posed. But no, he merely declared all religion and belief in anything other than science as anathema the his Imperium.

[@indranillkh1470]

Will you continue the vraks series lord?

[@collinfulling3223]

ERRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEBUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSS

[@shadowrobot7708]

The amount of people responding to comments with “Heresy!” Is really annoying

[@ComradeBozzey]

Present a man a possible destiny that has not yet come to pass, and by his will or not it shall be manifest. We are no more masters of our fate than we are sons of a god. we only hold the arrogance that we are. A lie so deep within us as humans, we never learn from the mistakes we make from it.

[@Azaghal1988]

I really feel for Boris. He may be the archtraitor, but he also was betrayed, abused and forced into a no-win situation without having a chance to avoid it.

[@samael2607]

I feel arch-traitor is a bit harsh. Boris did his best with Brexit. but is Boris is Horus then Nigel Ferarge is Erebus.

[@Azaghal1988]

@@samael2607 🤣🤣just saw this greatest of my auto correct fails.

[@DustunColeman]

The borus beresy

[@Isildun9]

And this, boys and girls, is why the answer is always, "Fuck Erebus!"

[@attemptedunkindness3632]

Horus: "YOU ALL SHOULD BE GLAD MY SOOTHING PET BIRD IS HERE!" Sanguinius: "Wut?" Horus: Points to doorway "MY OTHER BIRD, HE LEAVES ME!" Corax, in distance: " -eat shit, horus!- " Sanguinius: "Uhh, Brother... these talks are good and all, but I have a matter of my children to attend to." *Unsheaths sword, flies away* Horus, to himself: "...heresy it is, then."

[@Vuntermonkey]

Tome of voice used during this recording is dangerously reminiscent of a heretical leaning... Inquisitor!

[@jeffreygreen8668]

Dude, the guy has been literally dragged from his bedchamber and been inquisited all to hell in recent past. He has epic clearance, within his Librarium, and is committing entries to record on the direct order of Robby Gorillaman. I’m not saying that he’s safe, far from it. But I’m of the mind that Rowboat himself peruses these records. And finds kernels of knowledge and insight that even he in his administrative genius had missed...

[@KillerOrca]

An alternative Terra, out in the void. I wonder how many of those there were

[@snurgumwurgum8238]

New occulus. always a good day. I actually DIDN'T like warhammer fantasy until i watched your videos covering the build up to and the setting of the age of sigmar. STILL like 40k more though.