8 Indomitus Crusade Example Orders of Battle.1.4 Indomitus Crusade Fleet Organisation.The period of time in the Age of the Imperium when the Indomitus Crusade was ongoing was known as the " Era Indomitus" or the " Age of the Dark Imperium." He met his brother, the Daemon Primarch Mortarion, in battle to prevent him from adding Ultramar to those worlds already claimed by the servants of the Plague God Nurgle during the so-called " Plague Wars." 012.M42, Guilliman returned home to the Realm of Ultramar with Imperial reinforcements. In the course of the first phase of the Indomitus Crusade, the Imperium, especially the half of Human space known as the Imperium Sanctus which still knew the light of the Astronomican, was stabilised from imminent collapse in the face of myriad threats, though there was no clear victory over those forces that still sought to exterminate Mankind's light from the galaxy.Īt the end of the crusade's first phase in ca. The crusade's first phase lasted for approximately 12 standard years by the reckoning of the original Imperial Calendar, coming to an end at the Battle of Raukos.Īs its first phase was completed, Guilliman held a great triumphal review and dispersed many of its military elements across the Imperium, reinforcing many worlds with new Chapters of Primaris Space Marines. Its purpose was to defend and reclaim those regions of the Imperium of Man threatened by the surging forces of Chaos and the threats of xenos such as the Orks, T'au, Drukhari and Tyranids in the wake of the 13th Black Crusade and the birth of the Great Rift in ca. The Indomitus Crusade was the massive, multifleet Imperial Crusade initiated by Lord Commander of the Imperium Roboute Guilliman from Terra at the start of the period known as the Noctis Aeterna in the early 42nd Millennium. Imperium of Man stabilised though still divided into the Imperium Sanctus and the Imperium Nihilus in the wake of massive Chaos and xenos assaults following the birth of the Great Rift and the coming of the Noctis Aeterna