Infinite Citadel
The Infinite Citadel is the Iron Warriors Daemon Primarch Perturabo's plan to conquer the Imperium by launching a massive campaign of attrition to slowly advance to Terra world by world as well as expanding the Great Rift.[2]
Description
The Infinite Citadel began in the aftermath of the Noctis Aeterna, during which Perturabo dispatched scores of warbands across Segmentum Obscurus. Some were little more than brigands, Traitor Guard, or Cultists who often died to achieve their aims. Others were far larger Grand Companies of Iron Warriors, Chaos Knights, and even Traitor Titans. They assailed both the Imperials retreating from the Fall of Cadia as well as the Chaos and Xenos forces fighting them. Individually the strikes seemed like a mere act of spite, but in truth they were part of Perturabo's intricate plan he had concieved over thousands of years.[2]
Over his millennia of planning, Perturabo came to view the entire Imperium as a single galactic fortress. The breaching of the Cadian Gate in the 13th Black Crusade was the first crack in this fortress, while the Great Rift served as a potent contravallation to hold half of it at bay while the advance on Terra begins. Thus Perturabo now seeks to expand the holdings further by constructing a network of interlocking interstellar fortifications that would see each newly conquered entire world turned into massive fortress-keeps. He envisions entire systems quarried to rubble to build the fortifications necessary, consisting of defenses so vast they cross planets and stretch even into the Warp itself.[2]
This network would then slowly creep across system after system, bulldozing its way to Terra slowly in a grinding attrition. The blood spilled on both sides in these campaigns would serve as offerings to the Dark Gods to strengthen the Great Rift as well as his own Daemonic powers. Should the Infinite Citadel ever reach Terra, the Imperium would be so weakened and realspace so stretched under the power of the Warp that Perturabo will already have won.[2]
Perturabo sees resembalance of his plan to Abaddon's own Crimson Path, but has dismissed it as a reckless headlong charge that will inevitably over-extend the Black Legion's own supply lines. He sees Abaddon's plan as little different than Horus' assault on Terra ten millennia prior. Perturabo sees no reason to what he views as rushing the advance to Terra.[2]
See Also
Sources
- 1: Warhammer Community: Perturabo’s grand plan revealed (archived from [1] 31 March 2026, last accessed 31 March 2026)
- 2: Eye of Terror: Reign of Iron Lore book, pgs. 30-31
