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===Battle for the Palace===
The traditional account of the scene at the Satumine Saturnine Gate of the Imperial Palace is of the Chaos horde pausing before the walls while Angron roared out Horus' terms of surrender. Coming face to face with [[Sanguinius]] high above the walls, the Blood Angels Primarch rejected the demands and the siege of the Imperial Palace soon began.{{Fn|2}}
Horus ordered his army to push on and had the attack on the outer walls of the [[Imperial Palace]] be spearheaded by the [[Legio Mortis|Death's Head]] Titan Legion. Losing five Titans within minutes to entrenched loyalist defenses, the traitor forces would not relent and kept hammering away at the palace walls. A counterattack against the Chaos horde's flanks by loyalist titans failed, though the [[White Scars]] took advantage of the confusion it caused to sweep down at the traitor forces rear columns and wreak havoc.{{Fn|2}} The Siege of the Imperial Palace soon ground on for many days, with the two primary attacks during this time being made by Angron and his World Eaters supported by [[Daemon Engines]] in one sector and the [[Legio Mortis]] commanded by [[Iron Warriors]] Primarch [[Perturabo]] in the other. The [[Emperor's Children]], led by [[Fulgrim]], soon became bored of the stalemate and set off on a bloody orgy against the people of Terra of such depravity and destruction that ten thousand years later, Terrans are still distrustful of Space Marines.{{Fn|1c}}