Editing Battle of Beta-Garmon (section)

==Early Battles==

With the outbreak of the Heresy in 006.M31, Horus and his commanders identified Beta-Garmon as a priority target. Shortly after the [[Drop Site Massacre]], [[Alpha Legion]] agents started fomenting unrest across the cluster with the aim of softening it up for follow-on attacks by the less sneaky legions. When the Alphas invaded the nearby Paramar system, open civil war erupted in Beta-Garmon. The [[Emperor's Children]], accompanied by a Reaver Titan maniple from Legio Mortis, attacked Beta-Garmon II, the capital world of the cluster, with the aim of capturing it and impressing their [[Fulgrim|prissy dick of a dad]]. The Titans stormed Nyrcon City, the largest hive on the planet and the nerve center of the entire cluster, while the Emperor’s Children captured its largest orbital fort and overran the rest of the planet. With the capital firmly in traitor hands, other worlds began declaring for Horus and the cluster descended into all-out war. For the next three years, from 007-010.M31, war raged across Beta-Garmon as the Emperor’s Children sought to subjugate the cluster, aided by elements from other traitor Titan and Astartes Legions. Loyalist forces cut off from the rest of the galaxy by the Ruinstorm filtered into the cluster, providing some relief to the beleaguered defenders, though this was offset by the steady stream of reinforcements pouring in for the traitors.

In 010.M31, [[Rogal Dorn]] decided that enough was enough and dispatched a sizable force of [[Imperial Fists]] and [[Salamanders]] to retake Beta-Garmon II, accompanied by several regiments of [[Solar Auxilia]] and a Titan maniple from Legio Astorum, the Warp Runners. The loyalist Astartes attacked Nyrcon directly, while the Solar Auxilia teamed up with some newly raised regiments from Theta-Garmon to storm the planet’s equatorial fortresses and the Warp Runners went to Beta-Garmon III to engage the Mortis Titans holding the hive of Caldera Primus. The Fists and Salamanders made good headway at first, until the Emperor’s Children and Alpha Legion launched a counterattack that threatened to eject them from the city. The loyalists got a break when a new ship entered the system: the ''Ebon Drake'', carrying the Disciples of the Flame, a Shattered Legions warband commanded by Salamanders Dreadnought [[Cassian Vaughn|Cassian Dracos]] and loyalist Iron Warrior [[Nârik Dreygur]]. The ''Drake'' barged past the traitor fleet and unleashed a horde of gunships and drop pods on Nyrcon before retreating to the edge of the system. Neither side knew what to make of the new arrivals until they started fucking up the Alpha Legion with a vengeance, confirming that they were loyalists. When the Imperial Fists’ commander tried to coordinate with them, however, the Disciples ignored him completely in favor of charging into the city and setting everything on fire like the [[Doom#The_Doom_Comic|berserker-packin’ men-and-a-half]] they were. Though they suffered heavy casualties from Alpha Legion disruption squads, the Disciples ultimately killed both XX Legion commanders and accomplished their own objectives, while the Imperial Fists were able to chase off the Emperor’s Children. With the cluster mostly back in loyalist hands, Dorn ordered it to be heavily fortified in preparation for the next traitor attack, which he correctly anticipated would be led by Horus himself.