Horus Heresy · atlas

007.M31 · Shadow of War

First Siege of Hydra Cordatus

Place: Hydra Cordatus · Segmentum Obscurus

Fig. 1 · Place on the map

Traitor victory Perturabo ravages the Fists’ fortress world; the garrison is butchered.

Perturabo’s Iron Warriors besieged and crushed the fortress world of Hydra Cordatus, guarded by the Imperial Fists. The surviving defenders were slaughtered, the population enslaved, the world turned into a wasteland — a personal humiliation for Dorn’s Legion.

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Type
Siege
Scale
2 of 5

Significance

Perturabo’s personal revenge on the Fists; the genetic repository is plundered (important for the M41 era).

Sources

  1. Lexicanum: First Siege of Hydra Cordatus
  2. WH40k Fandom: Horus Heresy Chronology

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