Book · Horus Heresy · 2006
Galaxy in Flames
Author: Ben Counter
This page contains spoilers
- Year
- 2006
- Series
- Horus Heresy
- Place in the reading order
- 3 of 34
- Era
- The Fall
- Events
- 1 event
Plot (spoilers: many)
An operation to kill one’s own loyalists: the Life-Eater, the Andronius, the death of Torgaddon, the “death” of Loken. This is not a field battle but the ritual of a conspiracy of four Legions. Mandatory, so that Isstvan III on the atlas does not look like “just the first battle of the Heresy”.
Events in the book
- 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…
Sources
- Black Library
- Galaxy in Flames (B. Counter)
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