DeRall
DeRall was a Sons of Horus Line Captain and chief of the Legion's Catulan Reaver section during the Battle for Terra.[1]
History
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The following paragraphs contain spoilers for: | Saturnine (Novel) |
He was chosen to be among First Captain Abaddon's forces that attempted to launch a surprise attack, by drilling into the weakened foundation of the Imperial Palace's Saturnine Gate. This would allow them to enter the basements of buildings behind the Gate, and then allow the Sons of Horus to attack the Palace's Sanctum Imperialis. However the Primarch Dorn was aware of this flaw in his defence of the Imperial Palace and he left several Loyalist Kill-Teams in the basement's as he anticipated the Traitors would attack there. Abaddon's forces did not know they were walking into an ambush and DeRall teleported into a basement from a Mantolith assault drill, with his squadron under the command of Captain Falkus Kibre.[1]
This caused them to emerge close to the Kill-Team led by Nathaniel Garro and the Reavers' superior fire power nearly destroyed Garro's forces. However before the Sons of Horus' could do so, the Kill-Teams of Helig Gallor and Endryd Haar came to Garro's aid. Soon the Reavers suffered heavy casualties and they were forced to retreat into an archway. By the time they reached it, though, only DeRall, Kibre and one other Reaver still lived. What they did not know, however, was that the remnants of Garro's Kill-Team were on the other side of the archway and they had been warned of the Reavers' approach. As soon as DeRall entered the archway, he was torn in half by the Assault Cannon of the Imperial Fist Orontis - but the Line Captain managed to kill the Loyalist with his power sword before he died. Kibre and the remaining Reaver died at Garro's hands soon afterwards.[1]
Sources
- 1: Saturnine (Novel), Part 3, Chapter 3
