Horus Heresy · atlas

014.M31 · The Siege of Terra

Khan Retakes Lion’s Gate · Mortarion driven out

Place: Terra · Segmentum Solar

Fig. 1 · Place on the map

Loyalist victory Khan beheads Mortarion, banishing him to the warp; the spaceport is retaken.

The White Scars rushed to retake the Lion’s Gate Spaceport so that Guilliman’s reinforcements could land quickly. Jaghatai Khan met Mortarion: pierced by the daemon primarch’s scythe, Khan pulled himself along the blade and beheaded Mortarion, banishing him to the warp with an explosion like a vortex weapon. The gravely wounded Khan was found by Ilya Ravallion and Jangsai Khan.

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Type
Battle
Scale
4 of 5
Casualties
Not reconciled by the sources.

Significance

A traitor primarch is banished; the spaceport is held for the landing of loyalist reinforcements.

Sources

  1. Lexicanum: Siege of Terra, Retaking the Lion’s Gate Spaceport
  2. Warhawk (C. Wraight)

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