The Horus Heresy @BRK#Dan Abnett @BRK#HORUS RISING @BRK#The seeds of heresy are sown @BRK#For Rick Priestley, John Blanche and Alan Merrett Architects of the Imperium @BRK#Thanks to Graham McNeill and Ben Counter, to Nik and Lindsey, and to Geoff Davis at GW Maidstone. @BRK#The Horus Heresy @BRK#It @BRK#is a time of legend. @BRK#Mighty heroes battle for the right to rule the galaxy. @BRK#The vast armies of the Emperor of Earth have conquered @BRK#the galaxy in a Great Crusade - the myriad alien races have @BRK#been smashed by the Emperor's elite warriors and wiped @BRK#from the face of history. @BRK#The dawn of a new age of supremacy for humanity beckons. @BRK#Gleaming citadels of marble and gold celebrate the many victories of the Emperor. Triumphs are raised on a million worlds to record the epic deeds of his most powerful and deadly warriors. @BRK#Eirst and foremost amongst these are the primarchs, @BRK#superheroic beings who have led the Emperor's armies of @BRK#Space Marines in victory after victory. They are unstoppable @BRK#and magnificent, the pinnacle of the Emperor's genetic @BRK#experimentation. The Space Marines are the mightiest @BRK#human warriors the galaxy has ever known, each capable of @BRK#besting a hundred normal men or more in combat. @BRK#Organised into vast armies of tens of thousands called Legions, the Space Marines and their primarch leaders conquer the galaxy in the name of the Emperor. @BRK#Chief amongst the primarchs is Horus, called the Glorious, the Brightest Star, favourite of the Emperor, and like a son unto him. He is the Warmaster, the commander-in-chief of the Emperor's military might, subjugator of a thousand thousand worlds and conqueror of the galaxy. He is a warrior without peer, a diplomat supreme. @BRK#Horus is a star ascendant, but how much further can a star rise before it falls?