The Great Scouring: Hunting the Traitor Legions
The Great Scouring began after Horus was defeated, but the end of the Horus Heresy did not bring immediate peace to the Imperium of Man. This episode follows the loyalist counteroffensive as surviving Primarchs and Space Marine Legions pursued the retreating traitors across a devastated galaxy. Worlds that had supported Horus were attacked, strongholds were broken, and the Traitor Legions were gradually driven toward regions such as the Eye of Terror. Listeners will learn how exhausted Imperial armies fought while rebuilding shattered institutions and how the campaign hardened many of the hatreds that would define the Long War. The episode also examines the disappearance or death of several Primarchs and the political changes surrounding the Second Founding. In Warhammer 40,000, the Great Scouring marks the transition from civil war to permanent enmity. The Imperium survived the Heresy, but its enemies escaped destruction and carried the conflict into the next ten thousand years. Visit ImaginedBattlefield.com for more military and science fiction.
