Atrocity Perturabo conducts a multi-day bombardment, probing for a flaw in the “Aegis” shield.
Perturabo led the opening bombardment of the Palace, probing the “Aegis” shield megastructure and finding a weakness at Bastion-16. Horus did not yet throw everything into the fray: the Emperor’s presence both locked the daemons out of Terra and threatened to incinerate any daemon primarch who set foot on her soil.
Sides
- Type
- Siege
- Scale
- 4 of 5
- Casualties
- Not reconciled by the sources.
Significance
The beginning of the ground siege of the Imperial Palace; the prologue to the first assaults.
Sources
- Lexicanum: Siege of Terra
- The First Wall (G. Thorpe)
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