Horus Heresy · atlas

013.M31 · The Siege of Terra · date disputed

The Solar War

Place: Sol System · Segmentum Solar

Fig. 1 · Place on the map

Traitor victory Dorn’s defence of five Spheres is broken; Luna falls, the road to Terra is open.

The traitor fleet fought its way through the outer defences of Sol — a system of five concentric Spheres of Dorn. Aximand struck at Pluto, Perturabo at Uranus; Abaddon slew Jubal Khan, and the daemon Samus escaped aboard the “Phalanx” through the corrupted Mersadie Oliton. Dorn traded space for time, but Luna fell, and victory in Sol became impossible.

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Type
Fleet
Scale
5 of 5
Casualties
The defence of Luna knocked out more than a quarter of the traitor fleet, but the loyalists were thrown back to Terra.

Significance

The last barrier before Terra; opens the ground siege of the Imperial Palace.

Disputed in the canon

  • The campaign as a whole is 010–014.M31 (Lexicanum infobox); the final phase (the assault of the Sons of Horus / Iron Warriors, the immediate prologue to the siege) is 013–014.M31.

Sources

  1. Lexicanum: Solar War
  2. The Solar War (J. French)

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