Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-112.207.229.75-20160517103444/@comment-28917471-20160520134037

Attank wrote: The Emperor took his risks. Sorry to be crude, but things are more or less like this:

"I have to build up a way to use the webway. It would be game-changing for humans. So i don't give a damn about anything else. Horus, you will be warmaster. EVERYTHING you order to more than a million Space Marines is Law. I don't give a damn, just leave me alone, doing secretive stuff i did not speak to anyone".

He gave all power to the Warmaster. He knows that. All Primarch know that.

Then, (lol) he supposed to give sporadic orders, without boring himself to follow the situations. He's just contraddicting himself...seems like he though.."Yes a made a Warmaster, but in the end, i still give orders".

If you make someone Warmaster (Emp, you know what "master" mean in english, right?) then it is supposed that follow the Warmaster is to follow  the will of the Emperor.

It was too easy to Horus to do as he pleased, going against pivotal orders like the one about bringing Magnus in a peaceful way, knowing that the Emperor will not care at all to check evolving events.

One thing i did not understand: It looks like the Emperor had a very urgent deadline to make the entrance to the webway. Like he had a very short amount of time to finish his work before it will be not possible anymore. I did not recall in the lore any fact regarding absolute urgency to make the Webway entrance.

My theory is that:

Consider the magnificence of the project, the absolute value, and gamechanging importance once finished. Consider his absolute isolation during the making of the project. Consider the absolute lack of trust of the Emperor about any of his 18 sons about the project.

Result? The Emperor become obsessed my his project. He lose any connection with reality while in his lab. just like a mad scientist.

Just one question: could the Emperor put "on Hold" his damned webway project, and deal with the real world from time to time? It kind of reminds me about that thread, when you were crude with the Codex Astartes and tried to prove how inefficient and useless the Codex is (you do remember what happened, right Attank?).

The Emperor knew that he had to prepare the Imperium for a new stage and had all the rights to keep the Webway project a secret, hence is why he left the Great Crusade and gave the newly created title of the Warmaster to Horus. Horus was the most experienced militant of all the Primarchs, plus, he was the one who had the deep brotherhood relationship with most of the Primarchs. Those two reasons are why Horus was made a Warmaster.

Once the Great Crusade would be over, the Webway would allow the Imperial Armed Forces to protect it much more effective, than to use the difficult and dangerous warp-travel. What the Emperor wanted was to break the distance of the void between every Imperial planet and unite all of his domain under an unbreakable bond. That was about the 1 paragraph.

The Warmaster was responsible for all the Imperium's armed forces (not just the Space Marines). All of the Space Marines Legions, Imperial Army, and the Imperial Fleet was under his command. So what's up with you and the word "Master"? Horus was a master of the war, not master of the Imperium. The Emperor could give how many orders to Horus as he wanted, since he is the Emperor of the Imperium.

Horus was already corrupted when the Emperor ordered Horus to bring Magnus to justice. And yes, the Emperor is a busy guy, what is your point?

Of course he had to finish the Webway project before the Great Crusade was over (I already wrote that down). He trusted Horus to lead the Imperial Armed Forces while he would work with the Adeptus Mechanicus on the Webway Project. This was the project that would change the Imperium drastically. Of course he could not say something like: "Ok, I will take a break now from the project and see how my sons are doing". If you had to start such a grand project, how could you ever stop it?! (unless it is finished of course). When great minds start working on something grand that can alter the reality of mankind, how can anything else be importent?

Hope that all of these answers your questions.