The Third Imperial Crusades

Military: War

The Third Crusades of the Empire are to some historians "the final death thrashes of a dying beast." Rather than some concentrated effort by the Federal Imperial Senate, the campaigns of the Third Crusades were conducted by rogue imperial warlords, led by the infamous Nero Proxius. Admirals and generals formed raiding parties, claiming new titles for themselves and challenging not only the treaties established with the Union, but also with the Imperial Authority itself.
  These would end when the rogue warlords would be ruthlessly hunted down and put to death by the efforts of the Imperial Judges, the Imperial Nobility and Imperial Intelligence. Rumors also persist of the Empire propping up the Federation to put pressure on the warlords who were claiming territory of Terminus.
  This actually would lay the foundations of the covenant of man. It would also create the power base that the Imperial nobility now sees today, and the diminished overall power of the Emperor. The House of Stone would go extinct, lost when Nero was forced to make his stand on Grand Bastion, during the War in Heaven.