Horus Heresy · atlas

005.M31 · The Fall · date disputed

Flight of the Eisenstein

Place: Isstvan System · Segmentum Ultima

Fig. 1 · Place on the map

Loyalist victory Garro breaks through the warp, carrying to Terra the first warning of the betrayal.

Death Guard captain Nathaniel Garro seized the frigate “Eisenstein” and with a handful of loyalists took her out of the Isstvan system. Crippled by fire from Typhon’s “Terminus Est”, the ship barely made the jump; in the warp she was tormented by the spawn of Nurgle, who resurrected the slain Grulgor as the first plague marines. Garro carried to Terra the first confirmed word of the betrayal.

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Scale
3 of 5

Significance

The news that allowed Dorn to recall the fleets and begin fortifying Terra.

Disputed in the canon

  • The flight begins in 005.M31; a number of sources place the arrival at Terra in 006.M31.

Sources

  1. Lexicanum: Nathaniel Garro
  2. The Flight of the Eisenstein (J. Swallow)
  3. WH40k Fandom: Isstvan III Atrocity

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