Editing Battle of Beta-Garmon (section)

==The Titandeath==

Sanguinius mustered his sons and every loyalist Titan Legion in Beta-Garmon to retake Nyrcon City from Horus’ forces. He ordered a preliminary orbital bombardment, but it proved ineffective thanks to the traitors’ deep entrenchments, the planet’s void shields, and the blizzards of debris clogging its atmosphere. When the loyalist assault force landed, they were confronted by an equally large traitor army. Over a thousand Titans met in battle on the ruined, irradiated landscapes of Beta-Garmon II, as both sides unleashed the full fury of their god-engines against each other. Sanguinius himself descended from the skies, accompanied by his Sanguinary Guard, and personally destroyed the Imperator Titan ''Axis Mundi''. In orbit around the planet, Azkaellon led a IX Legion assault force onto the star fort Anvil, but found that it was guarded only by a skeleton force of the Sons of Horus and a rabble of traitor Army regiments. Realizing that it was a trap, the Blood Angels evacuated just before the fortress self-destructed. Its debris rained down on the planet, annihilating both sides. Tens of thousands of soldiers perished in moments. Titans that had weathered the storms and terrors of Old Night and served proudly through two centuries of crusade were smashed and broken like children’s toys, their carcasses left to rust in the rad-soaked soil of Beta-Garmon II.

It soon became evident that the fight for Beta-Garmon II had been a feint, as the traitor forces attacked the now-lightly defended Beta-Garmon III in force, aiming to destroy the Carthega Telepathica, an astropathic comms station that had been the key to coordinating the loyalist forces. They set off a vortex bomb in the upper atmosphere, triggering a caustic storm that rained down on Caldera Primus. Horus himself led the attack at the head of his own Legion, accompanied by one hundred Titans from Legio Mortis, eight possessed Legio Vulpa engines, and more Titans from Legio Krytos. The loyalist defenders, a mixed bag of Titans from Solaria, Defensor, Astorum, and Atarus backed by Knights and Imperial Army, were swiftly overrun, and the Mortis Titans toppled the Carthega on top of the survivors, wiping most of them out and securing victory for the traitors. At this moment of triumph, Horus collapsed in clear sight of both sides, as the wound Leman Russ had inflicted on him at Trisolian suddenly reopened. Panicked, Horus Aximand and Falkus Kibre frantically bundled the comatose Warmaster off to the ''Vengeful Spirit''.