Battle of Honourum
The Battle of Honourum was a battle that occurred in 013.M31 during the Horus Heresy, where the 10th Chapter of the Ultramarines Legion recaptured the world of Honourum from the Word Bearers.[1]
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Prelude
At the start of the Shadow Crusade, Honourum was one of the first worlds to feel the wrath of the combined fleets of the World Eaters and Word Bearers Traitor Legions. Due to its isolation, the planet's destruction went unnoticed and lay as a blasted ruin for much of the Horus Heresy.[1]
History
In 013.M31, Arcaes Odenathus, a Captain-praetor of the Ultramarines 10th Chapter, rallied the scattered survivors of his own brethren and those other Loyalists fighting across the Dominion of Storms in the galactic north-east and led them to Honourum. Unexpected and unlooked for, this Loyalist assault went after the Word Bearers garrison like a thunderbolt. Three weeks of desperate fighting ensued, and as all the Word Bearers' urgent requests for reinforcements were ignored by the Warmaster, focussed now on his push toward Terra, the sons of Lorgar resorted to the most heinous of tactics.[2]
Daemons, warp-tainted infiltrators and terrors of the wars of Old Night were unleashed, with both sides driven on past mortal endurance by hatred. When the last Traitor finally fell, there was nothing left of the grand cities of Honourum but blasted ruins; ruins whose very substance was so contaminated by the fel powers and terrible weapons unleashed that they would blight Honourum longer than the memory of the wars which spawned them.[1][2]
Aftermath
After victory was achieved, a fortified outpost was rebuilt and garrisoned by the Ultramarines and their successors, but even after recapturing Honourum, its cities were left forgotten as ruins. Those surviving inhabitants of Honourum's colony, forever plagued by the horrors and trauma unleashed by the servants of Horus, swiftly regressed into a feral state.[2]
See also
Sources
- 1: The Horus Heresy Book Five - Tempest, pg. 19
- 2: The Horus Heresy Book Six - Retribution, pg. 31
