Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-25618639-20141206200938/@comment-24944355-20141217224959

It's strongly hinted that the Emperor had roles in mind for the primarchs post crusade & some of the primarchs would have been quite happy to retire from war to more peaceful pursuits with Corax being the most obvious example of this. On the other hand there were several primarchs to whom peace would have been anathema such as Angron & Russ so the Emperor was kidding himself if he thought he could retire all of them without conflict. From hints in the Horus Heresy series it does seem that the Emperor was aware that some of his primarchs (Curze, Angron) had to be reigned in as he prepared for a post crusade empire. This only helped Horus rebellion as he left it too late, the Emperor was happy to use the excesses of some of his primarchs to hasten the crusade to completion but this only left them feeling betrayed when he finally did start holding them accountable.