Battle of Thessala
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The Battle of Thessala was a battle between the Imperium and the Emperor's Children fought in 121.M31[2], during the Great Scouring[1].
Trying to pursue Fulgrim after his flight from Xolco, Roboute Guilliman's fleet was pinned by three Emperor's Children ships above Thessala. The Pride of the Emperor heeled over the Gauntlet of Power, which responded with a barrage that created an opening in the enemy's void shields. One hundred Ultramarines, fifty from the First Company and fifty from the Second Company, teleported aboard the Pride of the Emperor, leaded by Guilliman, First Captain Andros and Second Captain Aeonid Thiel.[3a]
Aboard the ship, Guilliman went through the Triumphal Way and reached the Heliopolis undisturbed, while Ludon and Corvo voxed him of Emperor's Children resistance on many other decks. The Primarch decided to enter the Heliopolis alone, ordering his Ultramarines to stand where they were. Fulgrim waited him inside and their confrontation would have given time to the Ultramarines and their Successors to cripple the Emperor's Children ships.[3b]
The two Primarchs talked until Corvo signaled the accomplishment of its mission, then Guilliman made Thiel and Andros charge inside the Heliopolis. Fulgrim answered calling his Noise Marines. That was the moment when the duel between Guilliman and Fulgrim started.[3c]
Using his lethal stink and his poisoned sword, Fulgrim managed to slit Guilliman's throat. When Guilliman asked how he could do that, Fulgrim said he saw the mark of Kor Phaeron's athame, a wound inflicted during the Battle of Calth.[4] The athame inflicted a scar in the Warp that could never heal, agreat weakness that Fulgrim exploited.[3c] The Ultramarines recovered the dying Guilliman and retreated.[3c]
Sources
- 1: Nightbringer (Novel) - The Ultramarines Omnibus (Omnibus) Ch. Two, p. 49
- 2: Index Astartes: Ultramarines
- 3: Dark Imperium (Novel) by Guy Haley
- 4: Know No Fear (Novel) by Dan Abnett
