title: Warhammer 40,000: The Emperor's Will
author: Jon Blanche
description: John Blanche is the legendary art director of Games Workshop. His unique style has been seen in a variety of subject from Games Workshop to Lord of the Rings
zlib_text: A WARHAMMER 40,000 NOVEL
  
  RYNN’S WORLD
  
  Space Marine Battles - 01
  
  Steve Parker
  
  (An Undead Scan v1.0)
  
  
  
  
  
  To Nick Kyme, for all the fire support!
  
  
  
  
  
  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 amongst His soldiers are the Adeptus Astartes, the
  Space M