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Battle of Catallus
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Jaghatai Khan battles the Daemons of Manushya-Rakshasi aboard the Lance of Heaven during the Battle of Catallus
Conflict Horus Heresy
Date 011.M41
Location Catallus Rift
Outcome Loyalist Victory
Combatants
White Scars Death Guard
Emperor's Children
Commanders
Primarch Jaghatai Khan
Jubal Khan
Shiban Khan
Torghun Khan.
Primarch Mortarion
Lord Commander Primus Eidolon
Marshal Gremus Kalgaro
Consul Delegatus Azael Konenos(KIA)
Prefector Ravasch Cario (KIA)
Strength
84% of White Scars Legion Sizable portion of Death Guard
Emperor's Children taskforce
Slaaneshi Daemons
Casualties
Heavy Heavy

The Battle of Catallus was a battle during the Horus Heresy.[1]

Overview

The campaign was a continuation of the attempts by the White Scars to find a passage to Terra. After the Battle of the Kalium Gate, the Scars had managed to discover the location of the elusive Navigator Pieter Helian Achelieux. After a council of war where Jaghatai Khan proclaimed his intent to stand on Terra over fighting to the death against the traitor fleets pursuing them, the White Scars reformed in their entirety and moved on the Catallus Rift.[Needs Citation]

At the Warp Rift over Catallus, they discovered that while Achelieux had long since died, his machine Dark Glass endured. While the White Scars explored the Dark Glass, a combined traitor fleet of Death Guard and Emperor's Children led by Mortarion and Eidolon arrived. The Scars sought to block the traitors with suicidal detachments of the Sagyar Mazan and a fleet led by the Kaljian under Shiban Khan. A vicious battle erupted across space as the two fleets dueled to the death.[1] During the battle, a horde of Slaaneshi Daemons led by the Keeper of Secrets Manushya-Rakshasi were summoned by the Emperor's Children Apothecary Von Kalda. The Daemons possessed the entire crew of the Emperor's Children warship Ravisher then set their sights upon Jaghatai Khan.[1]

Seeking to settle the score with Mortarion that had begun on Prospero, Jaghatai became determined to charge his flagship, the Swordstorm, into Mortarion's Endurance for a final stand. However inside Dark Glass, Chief Stormseer Targutai Yesugei had failed to prevent an attempt by the Navis Nobilite agent Veil to destroy the device. Discovering the throne at the center of the Dark Glass, Yesugei sacrificed himself to open a portal into the Webway to Terra. Jaghatai, determined to prevent Yesugei's sacrifice from going to waste, instead chose escape over a last stand. The Swordstorm was abandoned, the only warriors left aboard consisting of the Sagyar Mazan led by Torghun Khan.[1]

When Mortarion and his forces boarded the Swordstorm, they were ambushed by Torghun's forces who set the vessel to self-destruct as the Khan evacuated to the Lance of Heaven and led the remaining Scars fleet into the Webway portal opened by Yesugei. Mortarion and his Deathshroud managed to massacre Torghun and the Sagyar Mazan and escape the vessel before it was destroyed, but the delay had cost him dearly. The Scars were able to escape with only minimal pursuit, but Manushya-Rakshashi's Daemons were among them. On the bridge of the Lance of Heaven, the White Scars and their mortal crew held off the Daemons as Revuel Arvida guided the fleet to Terra. The Khan slew Manushya-Rakshashi, and ultimately Arvida was successful in navigating the fleet. The battered remains of the White Scars emerged over Terra, where they would later prove decisive during Horus' siege of the palace.[1]

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Battles of the Horus Heresy
005-006.M31 Battle of Isstvan IIIFirst Battle of ProsperoWar Within the WebwayBattle of the Somnus CitadelUnrest on CalibanSchism of MarsBattle of DiamatDrop Site MassacreBattle of the Rangda SystemFirst Battle of ParamarManachean WarSignus CampaignTreachery at Advex-MorsSiege of CthoniaBattle for Felweather Keep‎
007-008.M31 Battle of PhallBattle of RavendelveRuin of MaerdanBattle of the Alaxxes NebulaPale Stars CampaignBreaking of the Perfect FortressChondax CampaignSecond Battle of ProsperoFirst Siege of Hydra CordatusBattle of the Furious AbyssBattle of CalthBattle of ArmaturaBetrayal at IthracaDeath of CanopusShadow CrusadeCrusade of IronDoom of BorminaDefence of TyrosDefence of the Three PlanetsBattle of UlixisAmbush at EspandorBattle of Aquila AtollBattle of Drooth IIPercepton CampaignBattle of IydrisThramas CrusadeFall of Baztel IIIBattle of VannaheimSecond Battle of ParamarBattle of Constanix IIMezoan CampaignBattle of BodtBattle of DwellErellian SubjugationSiege of Baal
009-010.M31 Battle of MolechBreaking of AnvillusXana IncursionCarnage of MoroxSangraal CampaignBattle of ArissakBattle of PerditusBattle of SothaDrussen AtrocityScouring of Gilden's StarBattle of NyrconBattle of TallarnCataclysm of IronBattle of NocturneWar of DrakesBattle of PlutoSiege of InwitBurning of Ohmn-MatBitter War
011-014.M31 Reaving of the Xibana ReachesLorin Alpha CampaignSubjugation of TyrinthMalagant ConflictBattle of the Kalium GateBattle of CatallusAxandrian IncidentBattle of the Haddon SystemJarrazr IncursionBattle of TralsakTarren SuppressionBalthor Sigma InterventionBattle of AbsolomScouring of the Ollanz ClusterBattle of ZepathSecond Battle of ZaramundBattle of AnuariBattle of PyrrhanSecond Battle of DavinArgolian MassacresBattle of TrisolianBattle of YarantBattle of KradeBattle of DelugeBattle of Heta-GladiusBattle of the Aragna ChainBattle of KallethBattle of the Diavanos SystemBattle of DesperationBattle of Beta-GarmonWar for AgaropsDefence of RyzaBattle of ThagriaPassage of AngelsThassos IncidentBattle of Zhao-ArkhadSerpent's CoilSiege of BarbarusForicaan CampaignBattle of VezdellBurning of VrexorDawn of DesolationDeath of ChemosBattle of Luth TyreYdursk IncidentFall of TenzebarSolar WarRaid on LunaSiege of TerraGreat Scouring