Siege of Terra

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The Siege of Terra was the end of the Horus Heresy in Warhammer 40,000. If the Horus Heresy can be considered the most important series of events in the 40k universe, then the Siege of Terra itself could be considered the single most important event.

It was Horus's big attempt to off his daddy and so be the true Emperor of the galaxy (for Chaos of course!). He bought a load of his traitor legions, millions of corrupt Imperial army personnel and mutants, the part of the Mechanicus that had gone over to his side and a whole load of daemons to boot. On his side the Emperor had three legions, his custodians and the loyal imperial army regiments of Terra and you know what? The Emperor went and won anyway (granted it was because the Emperor offed Horus before his legions could crack the Imperial palace but still, victory for the home team!).

Horus's side: Sons of Horus; Emperor's Children; Death Guard; World Eaters; Lost and the Damned; Several chaos titan legions

Emperor's side: Blood Angels; Imperial Fists; White Scars; loyalist imperial army regiments; Legio Custodians

Duel of the Emperor and Horus

Like with any truly epic event, the siege only ended with the most motherfuckingest duel in the entire 40k fluff; the Emperor of Mankind against Horus, most favour of the primarches and the living avatar of the Chaos Gods. If the Horus Heresy was the most important of a series of events, if the siege was the single most event, then the duel is the defining most of the fluff and affected everything else that came after it.

Althought the Emperor managed to win and kill Horus, he was so badly wounded in the end he needed to be on 24/7 life support just to survive. So really when you come down to it it was a draw; Chaos had been stopped then but their eventual victory only postpone.


/tg/ Connection

What, besides the fact that it's the most important event in the 40k universe? Fine.

The Siege of Terra is also the theme for the Horus Heresy board game, in which you reenact the Siege itself. There. Happy?

Not really.

Timeline of Warhammer 40,000
The Times of Old Wars of Secession • War in Heaven (60.000.000 BC) • Fall of the Eldar (M30)
Pre-Heresy Age of Terra (M1-M15) • Dark Age of Technology (M15-M25) • Cybernetic Revolt (M23-M25) • Age of Strife (M25-M30)
Great Crusade
(Late M30-005.M31) 		Unification Wars • The Last Church • Rangdan Xenocides • Interex • Gardinaal • Faash • Council of Nikaea
Horus Heresy
(005.M31-014.M31) 		Battle of Isstvan III • The Burning of Prospero • Battle of the Alaxxes Nebula • Drop Site Massacre • Thramas Crusade • The Battle of Phall • Battle of Calth • Signus Campaign • Imperium Secundus • Battle of Trisolian • Battle of Beta-Garmon • Siege of Terra
Time of Rebirth
(015.M31-M32) 		The Great Scouring (~015.M31) • Start of The Long War (M31) • The Legion Wars (M31) • The Battle of Skalathrax (M31) • The Battle of Harmony (M31) • Creation of the Codex Astartes (M31) • Second Founding (021.M31) • Battle of Thessala (121.M31)
The Forging
(M32-M34) 		The War of The Beast (544.M32-546.M32) • The Beheading (546.M32) • The War of the False Primarch (780.M33-860.M33)
Nova Terra Interregnum
(M34-M36) 		21st Founding (M36)
Age of Apostasy
(M36) 		Plague of Unbelief (310.M36)
Age of Redemption
(M37-Early M38) 		Abyssal Crusade (321.M37-121.M38)
The Waning
(Early M38- Early M41) 		Gothic War (143-151.M41) • The Macharian Crusade (392-399.M41) • The Macharian Heresy (400-470.M41) • Wars for Armageddon (444.M41, 941.M41 and 991.M41) • Damocles Crusade (742.M41)
Time of Ending
(Early M41-999.M41) 		The Vaxi Atrocity (731.M41) • First Tyrannic War (745-746.M41) • Sabbat Worlds Crusade (755.M41-780.M41) • Siege of Vraks (813.M41-830.M41) • Massacre at Sanctuary 101 (897.M41) • Badab War (901-912.M41) • The Vaxhallian Genocide (926.M41) • Second Tyrannic War (990.M41-993.M41) • Orphean War (991.M41-Ongoing) • Third Tyrannic War (997.M41-999.M41) • Taros Campaign (998.M41) • Fall of Shadowbrink (998.M41) • Octarius War (999.M41-Ongoing) • Conquest of Uttu Prime (Late M41) • Devastation of Baal (999.M41) • 13th Black Crusade (999.M41-M42) • 2nd Siege of Terra (000.M42)
Age of the Dark Imperium
(000.M42-Ongoing) 		Ultima Founding (999.M41-012.M42) • Indomitus Crusade (999.M41-Ongoing, first phase ended on 012.M42) • War of Beasts (001.M42-025.M42) • Plague Wars (~012.M42) • Psychic Awakening (M42) • Fourth Tyrannic War (M42)
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