Editing Battle of Beta-Garmon (section)

==Prelude==

By 012.M31, the Ruinstorm had begun to abate thanks to Sanguinius, Guilliman, and the Lion blowing Davin to fuck with cyclonic torpedoes, and as a result loyalist and traitor reinforcements began pouring into the cluster, with more uprisings occurring as Imperial troops turned their coats in hopes of being spared by Horus when he showed up.

Dorn opted to muster as many of his non-Legion forces as possible at Beta-Garmon, knowing that Horus would have to fight for the cluster because of its position on the Warp routes to Sol; he couldn’t afford to leave such a heavily fortified loyalist stronghold in his rear while he was fighting at Terra. This was also the first stage in Dorn’s plan to delay the traitor forces as long as possible. By putting up a fight at Beta-Garmon, he hoped to buy more time for the Ultramarines and the Dark Angels to show up and hit the traitors from behind. A vast armada of ships descended on the cluster, bringing with them hundreds of thousands of Imperial Army troops and Titan battlegroups from almost 30 loyalist Legios. The Titans were sent to Beta-Garmon because Dorn feared that a full-scale Titan war on Terra would devastate the planet beyond any hope of repair. The traitor fleet arrived not long after the muster was completed, led by Horus himself.