Horus Heresy · atlas

012.M31 · The Road to Terra · date approximate

Passage of the Angel of Death

Place: Chemos · Segmentum Ultima

Fig. 1 · Place on the map

Loyalist victory The freed Dark Angels scorch the traitors’ home worlds — Chemos and Barbarus.

Released by the weakening Ruinstorm, the Dark Angels embarked on a campaign of vengeance, leaving burned worlds across the southern Imperium, including the tainted homelands of the traitors — Chemos of the Emperor’s Children and Barbarus of the Death Guard.

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Type
Battle
Scale
2 of 5

Significance

The Dark Angels punish the traitors by ravaging their home worlds before the Siege of Terra.

Disputed in the canon

  • 012–013.M31; Barbarus destroyed by cyclonic torpedoes c. 013.M31.

Sources

  1. WH40k Fandom: Horus Heresy Chronology
  2. FW Black Book IX: Crusade

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