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Originally Posted by Steellegioncpt  But how was it being killed off by its creators? The Emperor left the Crusade because he had to reorganize and dictate power to the HUGE Imperium. If anything they were helping. Or are you refering to the chaos bit. |
I'm going to disagree and say the EoM was not being destroyed by its creators. If anything, it was only just starting to take form as an Interstellar Empire.
The problem with the Emperor is that he wasn't a leader/general he was trying to save humanity, and to this day, (41st millienum with all our source books that is) we don't know how he was going to do this (though it had something to do with a webway portal and a group of female blanks). In fact, if you carefully look at what we know about the Man known to us as the "God" Emperor then we can come to the logical conclusion that his entire life had cumullated to this point in our (mankind) history. THe point where we could effect the warp and the warp can effect us. It was his goal to protect humanity from the warp.
Although another goal he had was in fact the goal of helping humanity in general. This meant that throughout our history he had helped us. I like to think of him as some unknown advisor that the President of the US or the Prime Minister of Britain goes to when they have a major problem (WWII is a great example). In order to do this he had to, for the first time in history, unveil himself and conquer the stars.
However, he made the mistake of reffering to the Primarchs as his "sons". Though perhaps they were, this made them think of him as their "father" which, honestly, isn't a good idea. Also, the primarchs were spoiled. Look at Russ, only after he was slapped silly did he realize that the Emperor was a someone greater than him. Or perhaps Guilliman, a man so arrogant that he drove his brother to Heresy. These guys had serious additude problems and were willing to fight it out in a civil war if needed. So when the Emperor started to stop talking to them they felt abandoned. Some of the more loyal ones (Russ, Guilliman, Vulkan) knew that the Emperor was doing what was best, but others, weren't so sure.
Then the Heresy happened. And IMO I think it was just a result of the Emperor's mistakes (yes, he made them, unless he wanted the Heresy to happen, that is).