[Macharian_Crusade]

Thanks again for all the warm welcome. I have not yet read the Horus Heresy novels, but I have read everything else you asked about. The reason why I haven't read the Horus Heresy novels is actually a conscious choice of mine, because, well, I just don't generally like prequels. The reason for that is that I know how they inevitably end, in this case with the fall of Horus and the traitor legions into the depths of heresy. So, I suppose one could say that I dislike that the books depict an Imperium falling into strife and civil war, rather than an Imperium in the ascendant.