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Now that we are past Istvaan and firmly in the Age of Darkness (apart from a few trips back: Know No Fear and Fear to Tread) do you think we will get a fully fledged book about the battle beneath the palace in the webway, after Magnus caused total havoc? I think its probably one of the most important parts of the heresy as it pretty muched screwed over the loyalists. With the big E 'exterminating rodents in the basement' he couldn't really concentrate on the wider war. It would also give us a good opportunity to see a bit more about the sisters of battle, custodes and other Terran factions.

 

I for one would hate to see this in the form of a short story. A wider question for discussion would be why the Emperor didn't just collapse the human part of the webway to stem the tide.

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Now that we are past Istvaan and firmly in the Age of Darkness (apart from a few trips back: Know No Fear and Fear to Tread) do you think we will get a fully fledged book about the battle beneath the palace in the webway, after Magnus caused total havoc? I think its probably one of the most important parts of the heresy as it pretty muched screwed over the loyalists. With the big E 'exterminating rodents in the basement' he couldn't really concentrate on the wider war. It would also give us a good opportunity to see a bit more about the sisters of battle, custodes and other Terran factions.

 

I for one would hate to see this in the form of a short story. A wider question for discussion would be why the Emperor didn't just collapse the human part of the webway to stem the tide.

 

The War in the Webway is probably my favourite piece of Horus Heresy canon.

 

If it:

 

1. ...comes in the form of a short story

2. ...is written by anyone else

3. ...is never written about at all

 

...then I will kill everyone in the whole world.

 

 

EDIT: Stupid hyperbole aside, it'll get covered. It's too important to get left out.

Seeing as the Emperor's involvement in the creation of the human attachment to the webway could be seen as one of the prime catalysts for the heresy as a whole (E.g Horus' abandonment issues and the like) I'd be quite disappointed if there isn't anything written to describe the battle surrounding it.

It's very important to the whole heresy era, not to mention interesting!

Could this be the real reason behind the heresy, instead of wanting to take over?

 

Had the Emp been successful with the webway portal, no longer need for warp travel, less exposure to Chaos etc

 

Still, have to agree with the previous posters that this is one of the biggest events and therefore can't be ignored.

How long was the Battle in the Webway? Magnus destroyed/damaged the webway near the start of the Heresy, or possibly around the same time as Istvaan 3, so that would give 7 years between then and the Siege. Would be awesome to have a book about it though, maybe the Custodian from the Blood Games short story will be one of the main characters, Amon or Toros was it?

 

EDIT: Also, just thought, the Emperors forces would be understrength too because of Valor and the other Custodians on their way to Prospero, unless the Dungeon was secured first.

From the look of things the battle did go on in some form or another for the seven year period. When Horus and the traitors arrived at Terra the Emperor was still required to sit on the throne. I think the actual battle didn't last the whole seven year period, the big E and his assorted forces were able to contain the daemons, but he had to sit on the throne permanently to make sure the gate remained shut.

 

As for his forces, it wasn't just Custodes, but Sisters of Battle and elements of the Mechanicum as well. Like I said, this would be an awesome book, which would answer a lot of questions and reveal some juicy secrets, but would have to handled carefully, as there is no escaping the fact that the Emperor would be a main part of the story. Even if we don't see things from his perspective.,

As for his forces, it wasn't just Custodes, but Sisters of Silence and elements of the Mechanicum as well. Like I said, this would be an awesome book, which would answer a lot of questions and reveal some juicy secrets, but would have to handled carefully, as there is no escaping the fact that the Emperor would be a main part of the story. Even if we don't see things from his perspective.,

 

Fixed.

I think, if we do see A D-B do this story, I'd like to see flashbacks or at least anecdotes as to how the Emperor gained access to the Webway in the first place. It's always been unclear to me whether the Eldar were supportive of it (a theory I find likely) or if he infiltrated it and meant to sweep them out of it (I can see some chance to this too).
I had forgot about the webway until I saw this. That and I did read Visions of.... last week and read the part about the Webway but i'd like to read about the POV from one of cog boys working on this or someone that wasn't a Custodian or SOS. Just to get an idea of overawed they'd be seeing something that is as old as the galaxy itself. Obviously with some throwback stuff put in of how the Big E finding out about it etc and a nice cheeky mention or at least, how it came to be made, the Atlas Infernal.
Could this be the real reason behind the heresy, instead of wanting to take over?

 

Had the Emp been successful with the webway portal, no longer need for warp travel, less exposure to Chaos etc

 

Still, have to agree with the previous posters that this is one of the biggest events and therefore can't be ignored.

 

IMO, you're spot on there....

 

... It's always been unclear to me whether the Eldar were supportive of it (a theory I find likely) or if he infiltrated it and meant to sweep them out of it (I can see some chance to this too).

 

I think (my opinion, so it's probably very wrong lol) that if any Eldar helped the Big E then they were radicals (like those =][= that use demon weapons...), because I just can't see Eldar helping us do anything but kill their enemies for them.

 

So, if there's a Webway portal on Terra, does that mean it was originally an Eldar world?

 

As far as I can remember the Eldar didn't create the webway either (been awhile since I had a xenos codex/book, so my memory probably is wrong), but inherited it's use from the Old Ones after the Necrontyr wars (again, old fluff, so I'm not sure how accurate it still is).

 

No, the Emperor created it during the GC as a means of replacing Warp Travel.

 

I think all the Big E did was re-build a tunnel to it...kinda like repairing a freeway on ramp.

 

...life breathed into my 40k fluff dreams...

A D-B: please, please, please write this book.

 

Seconded

 

The War in the Webway is probably my favourite piece of Horus Heresy canon.

 

If it:

 

1. ...comes in the form of a short story

2. ...is written by anyone else

3. ...is never written about at all

 

...then I will kill everyone in the whole world.

 

 

EDIT: Stupid hyperbole aside, it'll get covered. It's too important to get left out.

 

:D

Should I start a petition now for Black Library to have you write the story?

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