Editing Perturabo (section)

===Iron Cage Trolling===
[[File:DemonicFortress.png|thumb|right|[http://gunshowcomic.com/471 You come across a seemingly well-fortified daemonic fortress! Defences as far as the eye can see!]]]

And thus after leaving he performed one of the greatest acts of trolling in the entire fluff, called the "Eternal Fortress": a trap set for the [[Imperial Fists]] who wanted to take revenge on Perturabo, who claimed to be residing in the Central Keep of the Fortress. Surrounding the Fortress was a 20 kilometre killzone filled with mine fields, traps, bunkers, trenches, and every other kind of base defence imaginable in order to make the assault on the keep a very costly affair. This was intended to bleed the Imperial Fists dry before they reached the actual fortress. This was made more effective by the fact that the Imperial Fists' fleet was kept busy dealing with the Iron Warriors' fleet, preventing them from providing effective orbital support to Dorn's forces on the ground, isolating them all the more.

When the Imperial Fists DID manage to get to the keep after wading through twenty miles (or maybe kilometres) of killing ground and losing a great deal of their forces in the process, they found out the Central Keep was - *plot twist* - empty! 

[[Trap|Except for the various inward-pointing guns aimed directly at the Imperial Fists, essentially trapping them inside the fortress in a veritable killzone]]. This caused Rogal Dorn to become a normal man after getting trolled: Sad, broken and filled with [[RAGE]]. The Fists proceeded to [[Rape|spend the next three weeks being shot, blown up, and generally curb-stomped with extreme prejudice]] until they were reduced to [[Grimdark|fighting armoured Iron Warriors with knives and using each others' corpses for cover]].

And then none other than the great heroes of the Imperium, *cough* [[Ultramarines|Ultrasmurfs]] *cough* showed up and saved their sorry arses, since Rawbutt Jellyman rightfully thought Dorn was taking his masochistic "I must punish myself and my legion for our failures!" bullshit too far and risking pissing away ''even more'' of the Imperium's already faltering strength in a functionally (near-) pointless gesture.

The Iron Warriors, realizing they couldn't beat both legions at the same time, decided to instead deny the Imperial Fists from recovering their fallen brothers' gene-seed by essentially ''nuking the entire fucking planet.'' 400 Battle-Brothers' corpses and/or geneseed were never recovered, dealing a great blow to the Fists' ability to replenish their numbers after the assault. Having obtained the [[gene-seed]] of hundreds of Imperial Fists and sacrificed it to the Chaos Gods, Perturabo was elevated to the position of Daemon Prince of Chaos Undivided.

(One thing to note: not all the geneseed was sacrificed to the CG. Some of this gene-seed was used to create a few IF/IW half-breeds with a little [[Fabius Bile|Fabulous]] support, including the [[Honsou|evilest motherfucker of the 41st millennium]].)

Earlier fluff of this event (by loyalist corpsefuckers, clearly) claims that Perturabo hesitated to slay Rogal Dorn, because "Only through his self-sacrifice could he break the Emprah's Champion!". Since FW gave rules to both of them, we now know that Pert has nice chances against Dorn, if they both start on an even footing - which they very much weren't on Sebastus, given Pert spent weeks of the Iron Cage siege laughing at countless Fists being blasted by heavy ordnance, while Dorn spent them fighting 24/7 without rest and repair to his weapon/armour while watching his beloved sons being slaughtered by the hundreds in a totally unmanly and unfair way. And of course, let's not forget the much more preferable and easily available option to just shoot the fuck out of Dorn with some crazy big and powerful guns Pert had in abundance, since Dorn was already trapped in the crossfire without any cover [[Grimdark|but the corpses of his fallen sons]] - a few D-blasts in the face is enough to end any Primarch, save Horus and (psychic, not regular) Lorgar.

Furthermore, Perturabo would have known that killing Dorn would have made him a martyr throughout the Imperium. He'd go down in history as the mighty Primarch who went down trying to take one of foul arch-traitors of Chaos down; nobody would question that and people would see Dorn as a hero who fought to the last. But bloody his sons, utterly humiliate him, and have him fail his sworn objective while leaving him alive to face the shame? Now Dorn is just a man who boasted big, got tactically outsmarted by his prey, and was utterly defeated for his troubles... a much bigger blow than simply pulling the trigger of his superweapon and ending it there.

To Perturabo's [[Rage|eternal frustration]] and in a positively ''grand'' moment of [[irony]] considering his motives, this actually caused Dorn and the Fists to become '''''even more famous and loved throughout the Imperium as everyone saw it as Dorn and his Imperial Fists cleansing themselves in the fires of war to be reborn anew.''''' Heck, it couldn't even be proof that he was a better siegemaster than Dorn, THE defining rivalry of his life; a better tactician who could easily play his foe like a fiddle and lead them into a [[Battle of Calth|masterfully crafted]] [[Drop Site Massacre|meatgrinder]], certainly, but not someone who could actually build or break fortifications better considering it was designed as a trap from the start.

So in a sense, the Iron Cage perfectly encapsulates Perturabo's entire life: [[grimdark|meticulous genius turned to remorseless slaughter, wasting his potential in a one-sided rivalry that warped and narrowed his perceptions, marred by his fundamental inability to comprehend or appreciate concepts like willing sacrifice and honour, with only a death toll as his bloody prize.]] [[Lulz|Perty just can't catch a break, can he?]]

(Alternative take: We can only assume that the first Iron Warrior [[Derp|foolish]] enough to suggest that [[Rogal_Dorn#Who_is_Dorn.3F|Dorn and the Fists practically handed them the win]] because [[Imperial_Fists#What_it_means_to_be_an_Imperial_Fist|they wanted to go out as a Legion]] was [[BLAM|'volunteered']] to be converted into [[Obliterators|Obliterator]] ammunition, [[RIP AND TEAR|by hand]]. And the second [[Stupid|stupid]] enough to repeat the idea was the [[Daemonculaba|first 'lucky' test subject of new daemonic technologies]].)