Horus Heresy · atlas

013.M31 · The Siege of Terra · date disputed

Battle of Beta-Garmon · Titandeath

Place: Beta-Garmon Cluster · Segmentum Solar

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Traitor victory The greatest Titan battle of the Heresy; the traitors’ breakthrough opens the road to Sol.

At the Beta-Garmon cluster, the “gateway to Terra”, both sides assembled titanic forces. More than a thousand Titans fought on irradiated Beta-Garmon II — the greatest Titan battle in history. Sanguinius with the Sanguinary Guard landed from a “Stormbird” and destroyed from within the enemy Imperator-class Titan “Axis Mundi”, but at the price of monstrous losses the world fell.

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Type
Battle
Scale
5 of 5
Casualties
The losses of the Collegia Titanica on both sides exceeded those of the last five years of the Great Crusade.

Significance

The last great barrier before Sol falls; the way is open to the Solar War and the Siege of Terra.

Disputed in the canon

  • Campaign 006–013.M31 (Lexicanum: First Phase 006–011, Second Phase 012–013); the culmination of the Titandeath c. 013.M31 (356.013.M31).

Sources

  1. Lexicanum: Battle of Beta-Garmon
  2. Titandeath (G. Haley)
  3. Adeptus Titanicus: Titandeath

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