Editing Signus Campaign (section)

==The Battle of Signus Prime==

After their abrupt landing on Signus Prime, the Blood Angels started securing their position on the planet. In short order, they found out where all the hundreds of thousands of missing bones had gone: the daemons had used them to build a gigantic palace known as the Cathedral of the Mark. Sanguinius ordered his sons to tool up and prepare for some ass-kicking. As the legion stormed the Cathedral, they were met with wave after wave of human cultists and lesser daemons led by the Bloodthirster Ka'Bandha, who taunted Sanguinius by telling him that Horus had betrayed him and that he planned to turn him and his entire legion to the service of the Blood God. Sanguinius responded by kicking Ka'Bandha's ass up and down the battlefield until the Greater Daemon got in a lucky shot with his whip that crushed the primarch’s legs. Ka’Bandha then used his axe to instantly kill five hundred Blood Angels. The psychic backlash of their deaths sent Sanguinius into a coma and triggered the onset of the Red Thirst in every single Blood Angel. This was precisely the wrong move to make however, and it resulted in a massive case of [[not as planned]] for Team Chaos, who realized to their horror that they'd bitten off far more than they could chew; a horror that only increased as the Blood Angels became so colossally, jaw-droppingly, batshit [[Rage|ANGRY]] that they proceeded to [[rip and tear]] through literally everything in their way, and even some things not in their way at all, but instead off to the side, as was the case with the poor Space Wolf tagalongs who had the misfortune to run afoul of the future first [[Nassir Amit|chapter master]] of the [[Flesh Tearers]] and his 5th Company. Having stumbled upon the 5th Company drinking the blood of recently slain foes, the Space Wolves committed the reprehensible transgression of asking Amit and his boys if they were alright, which Amit took great exception to, and reacted by killing the wolves so hard they died to death; this evidently being a capital offense. An interesting aside to note here is that though they clearly seem to have lost their capacity, or perhaps just their patience, for higher levels of thought while fully immersed in the Red Thirst, (and though you wouldn't know it by looking it at Amit) the Blood Angels did not devolve into a dumb, aimless, fuckangry moshpit such as happens to the [[World Eaters]] once the latter is lost to the Butcher's Nails, as Team Chaos had expected.

[[First Captain]] [[Raldoron]] and [[Apothecary]] [[Meros]] gathered a small team of Blood Angels who'd maintained control of their faculties, grabbed Niobe the blank, and attacked the Cathedral while making use her anti-psyker aura to shield themselves from the Ragefire's effects and even ward off some of the lesser warp entities once the party's cover was blown. Meanwhile, several of the legion's former Librarians chucked the Edict of Nikaea out the window and used their psychic abilities to snap their primarch out of his coma. Sanguinius immediately grabbed his sword, took off for the Cathedral, and kicked in the windows just as the Blood Angels assault team arrived. He proceeded to break open a massive can of whoop-ass on Ka'Bandha and Kyriss. Pinning the Greater Daemon of Slaanesh to a wall with his sword, he beat the shit out of Ka’Bandha UNARMED. Sanguinius tore away Ka'Bandha's axe, noosed him with his own whip, then ripped the Bloodthirster's wings off his back and tossed him howling into a warp portal, though not before dropping one of the most kickass one-liners in all of Warhammer canon. Before he could finish the job, Kyriss offered him a deal: if Sanguinius were to take the Ragefire into himself and become a servant of Chaos, then the Blood Angels would be cured of the Red Thirst for good. A dubious assurance from a wholly untrustworthy source at the best of times, Sanguinius was nevertheless all set to do it for the sake of his sons, but Meros refused to let his father make such a sacrifice. Instead, he jumped into the Ragefire after extracting his own gene-seed, becoming a daemonhost known as the Red Angel. Kyriss promptly had a bitchfit about how this was all Not As Planned, whereupon an annoyed Sanguinius shut him/her/it/that up with a quick head-chop.