Solar Macharius

Solar Macharius's History

Lord Commander Solar Macharius (356-400.M41) was the chief military commander of the Imperium's Segmentum Solar, one of the High Lords of Terra and likely the greatest Imperial Guard commander in Imperial History, being considered one of the greatest military minds to have been produced by humanity, the equal even of the godlike Primarchs. Granted the rank of Imperial Warmaster by the Senatorum Imperialis, he undertook the Macharian Conquests, also called the Macharian Crusade, beginning in 392.M41, which brought nearly a thousand worlds under Imperial control within only seven years of fighting at the very edge of the Milky Way Galaxy in the Segmentum Pacificus.

Macharius' vast conquest aimed to expand the boundaries of the Imperium into uncharted regions of the Milky Way Galaxy and beyond, and was the greatest Imperial Crusade since the Emperor's own Great Crusade which founded the Imperium of Man. His conquest reached all the way to the farthest edge of the galaxy, at the outer border of the Astronomican's reach, and was only halted due to the refusal of his men to continue out of their fear of what lay beyond the known reaches of space. It is said that when Macharius learned that he would be unable to conquer any more worlds in the name of the Emperor of Mankind, he fell to his knees and wept, a man broken by the human frailties of those around him which he did not share.

After his death, Macharius's great accomplishments led to his canonization as a Saint of the Imperium by the Ecclesiarchy. His homeworld was renamed Macharia in his honor, and transformed into a Shrine World dedicated to the Saint. Every year since, millions of pilgrims from across the Imperium have journeyed to visit the grand Imperial cathedral erected over his final resting place.