Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-5.65.81.205-20131002091720/@comment-134.39.179.98-20140623172338

While it is certainly appealing to assume that the Horus Heresy was completely due to the  Emperor, such a subject, unfortunately, distorts various aspects of what factors contributed to the culmination of this horrendous conflict. There is not a single doubt that the  Emperor was certainly among the primary factors that, when integrated, would unfortunately condemn humanity to a gradual, but certain, demise, but to assume that he is the sole culprit for the repercussions that would originate the hell that was unleashed is naive. What most individuals perhaps are unwilling to consider is that as controversial and appalling as the multiple methods which the  Emperor preferred to utilize are, and while we are familiar with certain insights that provide us with the benefit of revelations, revelations that even the  Emperor, for all of his talents and intellect, lacked, there linger various aspects that indicate that there were a multitude of factors that contributed to the conflict occurring. =allummacdonald79 wrote: = while it was horus who decided his own fate he had been manipulated, a manipulation that found purchase from horus' disillusionment of emps, a disillusionment that stemmed from empy's secrecy about....well, a lot.

i think it was 100% emps' fault: he personally created the primarchs. granted they grew up in ways beyond his control, ways that allowed some to be corrupted, but without the primarchs, without horus, the heresy would never have happened. if the primarchs had died before being reunited with pops then the astartes would have continued to expand his domain, the heresy wouldn't have brought the imperium to the brink, emps would still be ambulatory, and the galaxy would mostly be controlled by the imperium.

it may be that his greatest mistake was the primarchs themselves. he had already created supersoldiers and it's highly possible he could've created astartes-like warriors without having to go through the primarchs, and avoid the unsightly heresy.