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Book · Horus Heresy · 2007

The Flight of the Eisenstein

Author: James Swallow

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Year
2007
Series
Horus Heresy
Place in the reading order
4 of 34
Era
The Fall
Events
3 events
Plot (spoilers: moderate)

How the news of the betrayal reaches Terra at all. Garro, Keeler, the Lectitio Divinitatus and the birth of Malcador’s “silent war”. Without this thread the Siege would have come as a surprise; on the map it is the only arrow from Isstvan that works for the loyalists.

Events in the book

  1. 005.M31 Isstvan III Atrocity Pyrrhic traitor victory

    Under the pretext of pacifying a revolt, Horus assembled four Legions at Isstvan III — the Sons of Horus, Emperor’s Children, World Eaters and Death Guard — and with Life-Eater virus bombs…

  2. 005.M31 Flight of the Eisenstein Loyalist victory

    Death Guard captain Nathaniel Garro seized the frigate “Eisenstein” and with a handful of loyalists took her out of the Isstvan system.

  3. 005.M31 Battle of the Somnus Citadel Loyalist victory

    The daemonic contagion of Nurgle that had made its way aboard the “Eisenstein” broke into the Somnus Citadel on Luna, where the loyal Death Guard and the Sisters of Silence gave battle.

Sources

  1. Black Library
  2. The Flight of the Eisenstein (J. Swallow)
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