title: Titanicus (Warhammer 40,000)
author:  Dan Abnett 
description: Dan Abnett is a novelist and award-winning comic book writer. He has twenty-five novels for Black Library including the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts series and the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, and with Mike Lee, the Hours cycle. His Black Library novel Horus Rising and his Torchwood novel Border Princes (for the BBC) were both bestsellers. He lives and works in Maidstone, Kent.
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  ## A WARHAMMER 40,000 NOVEL
  
  
  # TITANICUS
  
  
  ## Dan Abnett
  
  
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  **It is the 41st millennium. For more than a hundred**
  
  
  **centuries the Emperor has sat immobile on the Golden**
  
  
  **Throne of Earth. He is the master of mankind by the will**
  
  
  **of the gods, and master of a million worlds by the might of**
  
  
  **his inexhaustible armies. He is a rotting carcass writhing**
  
  
  **invisibly with power from the Dark Age of Technology. He**
  
  
  **is the Carrion Lord of the Imperium for whom a thousand**
  
  
  **souls are sacrificed every day, so that he may never truly die.**
  
  
  
  
  
  **Yet even in his deathless state, the Emperor continues his**
  
  
  **eternal vigilance. Mighty battlefleets cross the daemon-infested**
  
  
  **miasma of the warp, the only route between distant stars,**
  
  
  **their way lit by the Astronomican, the psychic**
  
  
  **manifestation of the Emperors will. Vast armies give battle in**
  
  
  **his name on uncounted worlds. Greatest among