Editing Battle of Phall (section)

===Engagement===
Maintaining a defensive position near a planet, the Imperial Fists ship groups began looping around a point in space to form a sphere of guns. Polux was right about the suspicious nature of the system, and sure enough after months of waiting the main Iron Warriors fleet showed up to kill them.

Unfortunately for the Iron Warriors, Perturabo thought that Sigismund would be in command of the Retribution Fleet. Sigismund was expected to do two things: land on the planet and build a fortress and charge at the Iron Warriors fleet guns blazing with the remaining ships. However, Sigismund decided to listen to a witch instead of his Primarch and was disowned and stripped of command. Polux's fleet maneuverability and powers of [[Plot Armor|narrative favoritism]] evened the odds and gave the Iron Warriors a much harder time than they were expecting.

As the conflict moved past the initial surprise stages and into a more pitched battle, Polux was able to note a vulnerability in the Iron Warriors' defenses. Exploiting the opportunity was going to be costly, but considered worth the risks. An Imperial Fists boarding party of Terminators boarded the Iron Warriors's flagship, with successive waves of warships supporting the assault preventing the traitors from rallying their forces and supporting their Primarch. The assault force fought through the flagship searching for Perturabo and some survived just long enough to reach his quarters [[Rape|only to be told to bend over]]. One of them survived, a plot hook which was wasted in ''Angel Exterminatus'' as the character was a detail of a subplot and overshadowed by another Fist introduced at the start of that book. Because of this attempt on his life, Perturabo became rather paranoid and constructed a group of Legio Cybernetica bodyguards called the Iron Circle.