Editing Battle of Trisolian (section)

==Background==
Throughout the Horus Heresy, the Space Wolves were at the forefront for many of the most vicious battles. Loud space viking appearances and antics notwithstanding, the VIth Legion and their primarch, [[Leman Russ]], always took their role as The Emperor's executioners very seriously, and so threw themselves into the thick of things quite often throughout the Heresy. Fights they evidently mostly won, but which inevitably took a toll on manpower and material. Additionally, for at least the first half of the war, contact could not even be established with the 3 most populous loyalist legions, the [[Blood Angels]], [[Dark Angels]], and [[Ultramarines]] as they were all trapped behind the Ruin Storm. So, with the other [[Salamanders|loyalist]] [[Raven Guard|legions]] [[Iron Hands|indisposed]], [[Imperial Fists|detained]], or [[White Scars|otherwise]] [[Custodes|occupied]], this resulted in the Space Wolves being engaged far more frequently than was ideal, without being rotated out of the front lines, and consequently, with no time to rest, receive repairs, or take on new recruits. By late in the war, the Wolves had lost around 25% of their forces at the [[Burning of Prospero|Prospero]], taken further maulings at the [[Battle of the Alaxxes Nebula]], coupled with further engagements at Vanaheim and Daverant, ultimately reducing their numbers down to around 40,000 marines (give or take), after having started the Heresy with approximately 130,000. Following Alaxxes, the remnant returned to Terra to coordinate with the loyalist forces.

Leman Russ sponsored a stealth mission by the [[Knights-Errant]] on the Vengeful Spirit during the '''Battle of Molech''' in order to gauge any weaknesses in the traitor dispositions and report back on the state of Horus himself. However, the mission went sour when they were discovered, leading to the deaths of several of the Knights-Errant involved when the Warmaster decided to make examples of them; though they succeeded in planting tracking devices on the Vengeful Spirit, and those that survived the ill-fated engagement ultimately returned successfully to relay their findings.

At the behest of [[Malcador]], Constantine Valdor, and [[Rogal Dorn]] following the completion of the recon mission on the Vengeful Spirit, a war council was convened to take in new information and to determine the next course of action. [[Jaghatai Khan]] and Russ were already on-location, with [[Vulkan]] and [[Sanguinius]] now the newest arrivals (though the former arrived in secret, had remained in the basement ever since, and so wasn't invited). [[Rogal Dorn]] urged that all remaining forces maintain a defensive posture, but was appreciative that the [[Ultramarines]] and [[Dark Angels]] were assaulting the traitors' rear and providing relief to loyalist forces, allowing them to dictate the next few battles. Dorn declared that Terra was too confined a battlezone for the loyalist contingent of Titan Legions and so proposed a muster at '''Beta-Garmon''' and make a stand there in order to give time for [[Roboute Guilliman]] and [[Lion El'Jonson]], to crush the traitors in a pincer movement. The Battle of Beta-Garmon would itself become the site of one of the greatest battles in the entire Horus Heresy.

However, Leman Russ would not be swayed from his original plan and chose to depart from Terra for [[Fenris]] in order to scry a weakness in the superhuman upgrades that Horus gained at Molech. Upon arriving to Fenris, through the combined efforts of Russ and his best Rune Priests, Russ would enter the world spirit of Fenris to gain the knowledge he sought, and while this was hardly a risk-free endeavor, even for a primarch, it effectively meant that Russ was able to enter into a plane of the warp directly, without exposing himself to chaos. Russ was ultimately successful, and when he re-emerged back into the materium, he had determined that he would have to take the oft-maligned "Spear of Russ" with him; it's a good thing he did too, as it turns out that it's actually probably one of the most powerful pointy sticks in existence, being a gift personally made and given by [[Emperor|Daddy]].