Editing Signus Campaign (section)

==Outcome==

The IX Legion had won the Signus campaign, but it wasn't a clean victory. Hundreds of Blood Angels had been killed in the battle, the legion’s fleet had lost a lot of its mortal crews and several of its best ships were heavily damaged, and what's more, the 5th Company had to live with the shame of knowing that they'd murdered some of their fellow loyal brother legionaries in their Thirst-induced rage. [[Azkaellon]] knew Sanguinius would tell [[Leman Russ]] the truth and hold himself responsible for it, so the Guard Commander and High Warden Dakha Bert's covered it, while Azkaellon forced Raldoron and Amit into secrecy. Sanguinius was so disgusted by the whole thing that he had his Astartes clean up every last trace of their presence in the system down to the bolter shells, then parked some warning beacons around the Cluster. Before destroying the Cathedral with a Cyclonic warhead, Sanguinius informed his Captains of Astropathic messages the Legion had received. Time had moved faster outside the Warp bubble, and the Blood Angels had missed the [[Drop Site Massacre]] and the Schism of [[Mars]]. With the Cathedral destroyed, Sanguinius ordered his fleet to set course for [[Terra]] to answer the summons of [[Rogal Dorn]]. They wound up getting lost in a huge warp storm, bigger than anything they had ever seen before. Eventually, their Navigators spied some kind of light in the Warp and made a beeline for it, and thus they stumbled upon [[Imperium Secundus]]...

The loss at Signus was the first major setback of the Heresy for the Traitors. Sanguinius and the IX Legion had been hurt, but they remained uncorrupted and would continue to fight for the Imperium. Horus was pissed, Erebus was pissed, the Chaos gods were pissed, and Ka’Bandha was supremely butthurt about the whole thing; a butthurt that would last forever more. Erebus made the mistake of going to Horus’ flagship and throwing a tantrum at the Warmaster about how he'd fucked up the Chaos gods' plan. Horus reacted about as calmly as a Chaos-corrupted primarch could be expected to: he skinned the douchebag's big, stupid face off with a fuckmothering ATHAME and reminded Erebus that ''he'' was in charge of the Heresy, not some bitch-ass warp gribblies.

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