Book · Horus Heresy · 2015
Pharos
Author: Guy Haley
This page contains spoilers
- Year
- 2015
- Series
- Horus Heresy
- Place in the reading order
- 23 of 34
- Era
- Shadow of War
- Events
- 2 events
Plot (spoilers: moderate)
How Secundus navigates at all without the Astronomican: the xenos beacon on Sotha, Dantioch, the strike of the Night Lords. The technical backbone of the “second Imperium” and its vulnerability. On the map, after this book Sotha is not a backwater but the switch of the east.
Events in the book
- Imperium Secundus Proclaimed Loyalist victory
With the galaxy cleaved by the Ruinstorm and no word of the Emperor, Guilliman founded a second Imperium centred on Ultramar in order to preserve the Emperor’s legacy.
- Battle of Sotha · seizure of the Pharos Pyrrhic loyalist victory
Guided by the warp beacon after Tsagualsa, the remnants of Krukesh the Pale’s Night Lords struck without warning at the lightly defended Sotha to seize the xenos Pharos beneath Mount Pharos, the…
Sources
- Black Library
- Pharos (G. Haley)
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