Talk:Council of Terra

chapter 1 starts off with the following quote (which is somewhat misleading from a timeline point of view (or i am misreading something)

"The Council of Terra, in it's first incarnation, wasd he Imperium's earliest attempt at true civilian rule. As the Great Crusade filled out the blank corners of the galactic map, the daily needs of governance fell increasingly to the adepts of the Administratum rather than the Emperor and His sons on the War Council, where some had mistakenly assumed such authority would remain in perpetuity. It was becoming clear that an empire of a million worlds and more would, as time went on, have less need of mighty conquerors and ever more of diplomats and traders, architects and artists, comptrollers, judges and tithe collectors.

After the Triumph at Ullanor, this transition of power was sanctioned and approved by the Throne (in absentia) and vested in the High Lords of Terra. Presiding over a grand Council of several thousand representatives, both elected and appointed, they decreed that the future of the Imperium was to be placed, now and always, in the hands of it's people.

But, in spite of the noble inent behind i's creation, the Council ruled for little over a decade before being formally disbanded, in the monhs preceding the invasion of Terra by the renegade Warmaster Horus."

which somehow even boils down to, as it is from the throne in absentia, that the original plan for the rule of the imperium by humans was made by malcador and not emps.