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What Happened In The Final Battles of the Horus Heresy – LORE

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Final battles of the Horus Heresy inevitably lead to the Emperor being fatally wounded. Come find out what imprisoned the Emperor to the Golden Throne!

Via our good friends at Lexicanum

After years of bitter fighting, Horus and his forces finally arrived at Terra, capital of humanity. For several years previous, traitors had been wresting control of the Sol System from the Imperial Fists in the Solar War. During these battles, the Alpha Legionstruck at Pluto and Alpharius himself was seemingly killed by Rogal Dorn.

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Nonetheless, eventually only Terra itself stood. Once within range of Terra, Horus and his forces destroyed Luna‘s naval bases and within thirty days had destroyed the Terran system’s defences. Terra was bombarded and devastated.The corrupted Marines eventually landed on Terra, experiencing heavy resistance from the defenders. Among these loyalists were Blood Angels, Imperial Fists and White Scars. The loyalists were outnumbered and the battle for Terra turned into a siege of the Imperial Palace.

By the fifty-fifth day the rebels had reached the walls of the Inner Palace. Horus, who had remained in orbit aboard his battle barge, was at that point warned that the rest of the loyalist Legions were returning to Terra and would arrive in hours. The Ultramarines were pushing their way to Terra, along with the Space Wolves and the Dark Angels. If this were to happen, Horus’s advantage in numbers would be diminished. He let down the force field protecting his battle barge to lure the Emperor in a final battle that would decide the war.

The Emperor saw this opportunity and teleported to the Warmaster’s battle barge with two of his Primarchs, Terminator-armoured marines of their Legions, and a number of Custodes. The Emperor’s forces were scattered through the ship upon arrival and forced to battle their way to find each other. Sanguinius found Horus first.

Horus was at the height of his powers, augmented with the blessings of all four Chaos Gods and the god-like powers he had acquired during the Battle of Molech, and Sanguinius was slain. Horus stood over the Primarch’s body as the Emperor found him. After a long and gruelling battle, the Emperor was successful in defeating Horus, but he himself was mortally wounded. The Emperor survived long enough to be transferred to the Golden Throne – a strange mechanism that would allow him to survive forever in a state of undeath.

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