įighting continued for another seven years before the rebels were wholly destroyed or exiled. Meanwhile since the death of Horus, the Traitor Legions had become splintered and dispersed. It would be as if the Traitor Legions never existed. Worlds such as Isstvan V and Davin would be scoured and the Traitors' associated troops were to be destroyed or driven into the Eye. All records and memory of the Traitor Legions were to be expunged from the Imperial archives.
Overviewīefore actually being confined within the Golden Throne, the Emperor had pronounced judgment on the rebels: they were to be driven into the hellish region of the Eye of Terror, which would hold them for all eternity. The Great Scouring saw the first mass galaxy-wide purge carried out by the Imperium as it sought to erase the taint of Horus' treachery from its realm. The rebels were broken and in retreat, and Imperial forces now had the job of reacquiring all the territory they had captured. Horus's campaign to strike towards Terra to achieve a quick and decisive victory had ultimately been defeated. The Great Scouring was the Imperium's counter-offensive against the rebel armies of Horus, following the defeat of the Horus Heresy in c.
This article is about the Imperial campaign for the Tau campaign, see Campaign of Scouring.
