Horus Heresy · atlas

007.M31 · Shadow of War · date approximate

Battle of the Furious Abyss

Place: Furious Abyss · Segmentum Ultima

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Pyrrhic loyalist victory A scratch crew catches and sinks the Word Bearers’ secret super-battleship.

The super-battleship “Furious Abyss”, secretly built by the Mechanicum for Horus, raced to bombard Macragge. A scratch crew of loyalists — Ultramarines, Space Wolves and loyal Astartes — caught and destroyed it after a desperate pursuit and boarding action.

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Type
Fleet
Scale
2 of 5

Significance

Macragge is saved; a decapitation strike at the heart of Ultramar is thwarted.

Sources

  1. Battle for the Abyss (B. Counter)
  2. WH40k Fandom: Horus Heresy Chronology

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