Battle of Skalathrax

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The Battle of Skalathrax
Date M31
Scale Planetary
Theatre Eye of Terror Legion Wars
Status Loss for everyone except Kharn
Belligerents
World Eaters Emperor's Children
Commanders and Leaders
Angron, Kharn the Betrayer Unknown
Strength
Unknown number of World Eaters Legionnaires Unknown number of Emperor's Children Legionnaires
Losses
High High
Outcome
Both Legions were mostly shattered into warbands

The Battle of Skalathrax is a fairly simple equation: World Eaters + Emperor's Children + sub-absolute-zero weather + limited shelter + Kharn + flamer = two broken Chaos Space Marine Legions.

Being servants of rival Chaos Gods, the World Eaters and the Emperor's Children spend much time between Black Crusades fighting each other. One happened on the planet Scalathrax in M31. However, they were on the planet when it started hitting sub-zero weather that was too much for even Space Marines in Power Armour, not to mention one legion who considers any sensation pleasurable and another legion filled with psychotic berserkers, so that has to count for something. When the World Eaters decided to take a break from the slaughter, Kharn, Captain of the 8th Assault Company and equerry to Primarch Angron, was furious with his fellow battle-brothers over quitting the field. So Kharn decided to do something about it. Grabbing a flamer, Kharn rampaged around the broken city the World Eaters and Emperor's Children were fighting in, burning every building that could house people and killing everything he found. With the number of shelters dwindling, the World Eaters and the Emperor's Children were forced to fight each other for the remaining shelters left. By the time the night was over, both Legions were effectively broken into dozens of marauding warbands.

With the splitting of both legions, the warbands were forced to sell their services as shock troopers for Abaddon or whatever Chaos Lord would put up with them (and trust us, the World Eaters and Emperor's Children are people you don't want to be near). For his part, Fulgrim was content to allow the Emperor's Children to split, and the Emperor's Children now roam the Eye of Terror look for the Pleasure Planet that Fulgrim has been given rule over. Angron, however, was royally pissed off (well, more than usual) and spent several millennia trying to put the World Eaters back together. He finally succeeded with the Dominion of Fire, gathering 50,000 World Eaters (the largest such gathering since Scalathrax) and rampaging across imperial space capturing over 70 sectors in two centuries before Imperium got its act together and gathered enough Baneblades, Space Marine chapters and Titan Legions to retaliate. Still it took 3 millennia for the loyalists to reclaim 90% of the lost territories. As for Kharn himself, he would go on to earn his legendary epithet "the Betrayer", and now roams the galaxy killing everything that comes his way. Except Abaddon, for some reason though he is still a pretty swell guy.

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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