Editing Battle of Beta-Garmon (section)

==The Battle of Beta-Garmon==

The war for Beta-Garmon spread across the entire cluster, encompassing planetary campaigns across every inhabited world in all five systems and multiple void battles between the loyalist and traitor fleets, and lasted for months as the two sides slowly ground each other to pieces.

403012.M31: On Beta-Garmon II, Horus begins the assault by orbitally bombarding the planet, then unleashes the might of Legios Mortis, Fureans, and Vulpa against Nyrcon City. They smash through a 100-kilometer deep defensive belt manned by the Imperial Army and the Warp Runners, easily defeating both forces and capturing Nyrcon. With the capital city once again in traitor hands, the rest of the planet falls shortly thereafter. On Beta-Garmon III, a Legio Defensor detachment holds its ground against attacks from the Sons of Horus and Iron Warriors, while another Defensor detachment, supplemented by strengths from Legio Astorum, successfully holds the Mechanicum citadels of Alpha-Garmon IX against attacks from Legio Krytos, the God-Breakers.

705012.M31: On Omega-Garmon, loyalist Titans from Legio Atarus clash with a detachment of Legio Mortis, though the precise details of the battle remain a mystery.

919012.M31: The Sea of Fire begins, as the loyalist and traitor fleets engage each other in the space between Beta-Garmon II and Beta-Garmon III. So many ships are destroyed in this battle that their debris rains down on both planets for months, crushing loyalist and traitor alike. At Theta-Garmon V, half of Legio Solaria leads the way for the loyalist forces, seizing the planet’s orbital stations from Legio Fureans. On Beta-Garmon III, the other half of Solaria fights alongside Legio Atarus engines, Knights of House Procon Vi, and the Fasadian Heavy Infantry against traitor Imperial Army regiments, supplemented by captured loyalist soldiers who have been forcibly implanted with sinister neuroslave devices by the Dark Mechanicum. The Iron Warriors land siege battalions with heavy artillery on the planet and score some successes against the loyalists, though they are eventually wiped out. The Dark Mechanicum eventually triggers a solar flare event that blinds the sensors of the loyalist Titans, who are then overrun by the engines of Legio Fureans, though they fight to the bitter end.

840013.M31: The scales of the battle are tipping in favor of the traitor forces. The Warp is disturbed, and loyalist forces can only arrive piecemeal. Further complicating the situation, the loyalists lack a clear command structure. The principes of the Titan Legions refuse to subordinate themselves to anyone else, and no other commander has clear and unquestioned authority over the loyalist armies. This keeps them from creating a united front against the traitors, who are themselves under Horus’ personal command and driven by their fear and fanaticism. This changes with the arrival of a fleet of Blood Angels and White Scars ships, led by Sanguinius and Jaghatai Khan. Sanguinius immediately assumes overall command, while the Khagan leads his Legion in hit-and-run attacks across the cluster. With an unquestioned commander at the helm, the loyalist forces are revitalized.