Echoes of Eternity (Volume 7) (The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra)

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Horus, gloating in victory, showed the Imperial warrior the Emperor's broken form and laughed, taunting the Loyalist's uselessness and defeat. The Red Planet had already fallen to the forces of the Dark Mechanicum during the Schism of Mars, though the Loyalist fleet in the system had successfully blockaded it to quarantine the Traitor Tech-priests' treachery. Over the course of the next seven Terran years of brutal interstellar civil war after the Drop Site Massacre, their aim soon became clear -- Terra, the heart of the Imperium of Man. So all we had to do was make it all work, make it coherent, make it fit together, fill in those gaps, and do justice to the well-known sections. This did not deter Perturabo, and he shocked his First Captain Forrix by placing Kroeger in charge of the assault on the Spaceport.

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Meanwhile, on the Vengeful Spirit, the Primarch Rogal Dorn finally found his way to the corrupted starship's bridge, only to discover his fallen brother, Sanguinius, and the shattered body of the Emperor, who was now on the verge of death, His remaining psychic energy spent in the battle with Horus. Horus' desire is nothing less than the death of the Emperor of Mankind and the utter subjugation of the Imperium.In some versions of the tale, this blast was only able to pierce the Warmaster's body through the hole that had been made by Sanguinius before his death. Most savants now agree that it was probably one of the Legio Custodes who interceded, yet the other stories continue to be told and retold over the whole of the Imperium of Man. The battle in space lasted for 30 solar days as the Traitors attacked the Imperial blockade of Mars, but ultimately Horus drove off the Loyalist fleet, destroyed Terra's orbital platforms, and laid waste to the lunar defences.

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Of the nine remaining Loyalist Space Marine Legions, only the White Scars and the Blood Angels were able to join Rogal Dorn and his Imperial Fists in the defence of Terra before the arrival of the Traitor Legions in the Sol System. Reports from the time indicate that the Sons of Horus, sensing the moment of their Primarch's death, immediately broke from the siege and were the first to flee from Terra, while Mortarion and the Death Guard Legion were the last. The siege of Terra by the Traitor forces of Horus began on the thirteenth day of Secundus with an orbital bombardment by the Warmaster's fleet as the prelude to a ground invasion. Dorn agreed to provide Rann with reinforcements under Sigismund to prevent a total traitor victory at the Spaceport. The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra is a novel series which serves as the continuation of The Horus Heresy series by the Black Library.

What happened next is disputed in the Imperial historiography of the Horus Heresy; some believe Horus disabled his void shields as he experienced one last moment of regret for his betrayal of his father and his turn to Chaos, while others believe it was a personal challenge to the Emperor. Already fatigued from the siege, Sanguinius was cast down by the daemon, pulverising the concrete below upon impact. A secret that will have far-reaching consequences for the future course of the galaxy, no matter who eventually claims Terra.

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Eight "Warp-Bane" guns constructed near the sites of the beached Ark Mechanicus vessels opened up on the Aegis Shield around the Palace, sapping it of its energies as the Death Guard deployed massive Towers of Nurgle at the walls.He has become the ascendant vessel of Chaos, and amassed a terrible army with which to enact his will and vengeance. The destruction of Horus' soul sent a psychic shockwave surging across the Sol System, casting the daemons of Chaos back into the Warp, and spreading mass panic among the Traitor Legions and other Traitor forces on the surface of Terra in seconds as the Chaos Gods found their powers disrupted temporarily by the death of their favoured mortal vessel. Over the next several Terran years they were hounded from their remaining occupied territories in Imperial space during the campaign known as the Great Scouring.