Horus Heresy · atlas

Dispute in the canon · 3 positions

The destruction of Caliban relative to the Siege

Positions

  1. Position 1

    Immediately after the Heresy — the wording of old summaries, with no exact year.

    • Lexicanum: Fall of Caliban

  2. Position 2

    009–014.M31 — a spread across the novels about the Fallen.

    • Fallen Angels / Angels of Caliban (Gav Thorpe)

  3. Position 3

    015.M31 — the atlas’s position, already within the Great Scouring.

    Russian source notes (1) RU
    • Хронология атласа: «Гибель Калибана», 015.M31

Our position

015.M31 — after the Siege, so that the Lion’s absence from the walls in 014 reads as a fact of his route and not as “he is still on Caliban at that very hour”. It is more important to show that the I Legion is not at Sol during the fighting at the walls than to collapse the home war into 014.

  • Angels of Caliban (G. Thorpe)
  • Lexicanum · Destruction of Caliban

Marks on the map

  • 014.M31 Caliban: 009–014.M31 — a spread across the novels about the Fallen.
  • 015.M31 Caliban: 015.M31 — the atlas’s position, already within the Great Scouring.

Events of the dispute

  1. 015.M31 Destruction of Caliban Pyrrhic loyalist victory

    Grief-stricken at the fate of the Emperor, mortally wounded and interred on the Golden Throne, Lion El’Jonson returned to Caliban — and his ships were met by a salvo of planetary guns: his old…

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