Editing The Justicars (section)

==The Scouring==

Hektors body had barely hit the bloodied steps of the Imperial Palace when the traitor hordes began to rout. The tide had turned and the hard-pressed defenders opportunity to avenge their fallen was upon then and their counter-offensive began in earnest. Old habits die hard however; Amidst the chaos of the Traitor retreat, the Justicars began to form a rearguard with practised fluidity. Warriors from the [[Heralds_of_Hektor|First]], [[Sons_of_Fire|Fourth]] and [[Eternal_Zealots|Sixteenth]] either reformed with them, or showed no intention of retreating anyway.
An intense struggle began as rage and hatred on both sides crashed into one another yet afain that day. The traitors lead by Uriel and [[Aubrey The Grey|Aubrey]] fought bitterly, but they were forced back step by bloody step at the hands of the vengeful loyalists. Through the begrudgingly valiant efforts of the traitors, the rearguard served its purpose; Hektors lifeless body had been evacuated from Terra and the majority of the remaining traitors had escaped into the void. Those in the rearguard had all but died to a man, even Uriel himself had been banished into the warp. Only [[Aubrey The Grey]] survived, forced into an escaping ship by his own men. 

Those at Terra had died to a man, but the majority of the surviving Justicars were spared the Scouring, so dispersed were they across the galaxy that they escaped by sheer virtue of their own diffuse deployment and small numbers. Not all were so lucky however, many of the legions networks were violently uprooted, and many hidden caches and forward bases were discovered; the vengeful guns of the Loyalists exacted a heavy toll upon all the traitorous Thirteenth discovered.