Editing Perturabo (section)

===Siege of Terra===
[[File:Perturabo during the siege.jpg|300px|thumb|left|FFS guys! get your shit together!]]
If there was any moment during the Horus Heresy that Perturabo could even remotely be called 'happy', it was at the beginning of the Siege. Him. Dorn. A fortress to take, and immense forces on both sides to be used as they saw fit. No more [[Fulgrim|tricks]], [[Tallarn|withdrawals]], or [[Battle of Phall|fake-outs]] to confuse the result. It would be their greatest contest, [[Wargame|the ultimate arbitration on who was ''really'' the greatest general]].

So of course it was when he had barely translated his fleet in-system that shit started to go sideways. Unsurprisingly, the seeming unity of the Traitor Legions had vanished alongside [[Alpharius]]. Thus when Perturabo arrived, it was alone- as it turned out, all of his brothers wanted to keep their forces nice and fresh for Terra itself, not wanting to bore themselves demolishing the various spaceborne defences of the Solar System. Perturabo spent both lives and material grinding down the outer defence stations, just in time for Horus, Angron and Fulgrim to directly jump their forces past the perimeter lines via warp-fuckery, [[Troll|rendering all his efforts redundant but content to let him waste his soldiers like an idiot.]]

And it only got worse from there.

At every turn his promised triumph, the shining vision Horus had dangled before him turned to ash. Instead of [[Emperor's Children|exemplary linebreakers]] he got [[Noise Marines|debauched hedonists]]. Instead of [[Thousand Sons|enlightened philosophers]] he got [[Chaos Sorcerer|arrogant douchebags]]. Instead of [[Death Guard|indomitable infantrymen]] he got [[Plague Marine|rotting hulks]], and instead of [[World Eaters|merciless breachers]] he got [[Khorne Berserkers|bloodthirsty idiots.]]

And as for the [[Sons of Horus|shock troops]], [[Word Bearers|the demagogues]], [[Alpha Legion|the spec ops]]? From them he got nothing at all, literally in the latter's case as the Alpha Legion had completely fucked off after massive losses at Pluto. In fact, Horus himself required very little time to prove just how much he didn't care about Perty's wishes despite having personally named him as commander. Perturabo held it in, and did his job- for what else was there for him, now? But any satisfaction he may have had from his contest with Dorn was gone. There was no glory in this, no clever stratagems or well-laid plans. He was watching the last crumbling pillar of a collapsed empire - [[grimdark|and worse, he could not even say he was fighting for a cause that was any better.]] Something had to give.

And give it did, when Horus went beyond even Perturabo's massive ability to ignore his mistakes and told him to forget the logic he had used to secure his loyalty. Perturabo flipped out, calling Horus a monster no better than the Emperor, pointing out that both had only ever used him to destroy and refusing to have any more to do with his schemes and pacts and submission to Chaos. In many ways it was as with his betrayal of the Emperor, save that he now knew there was no chance of redemption, no offer of forgiveness.

So he did what he could never do before. [[Awesome|He downed his tools, took his sons, and left]].

Well, there was ''one'' outstanding issue; his promised resolution of matters with Dorn. But Perturabo had a plan for that too- if he wasn't allowed to find and best Dorn, he'd get Dorn to come to him.

It was time for round two.