Battle of Kalleth

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Battle of Kalleth
Battle of Kalleth.jpg
Kheron Ophion on the bridge of the Shroud of Eventide
Conflict Horus Heresy
Date 011.M31
Location Kalleth
Outcome Night Lords victory
Combatants
NL Icon.png Night Lords AshenClaw.jpg Ashen Claws
Commanders
NL Icon.png Captain Kheron Ophion (KIA) Unknown
Strength
NL Icon.png Advance fleet squadron
NL Icon.png Up to 9,000 Night Lords
AshenClaw.jpg ~12 Cruisers
AshenClaw.jpg Ashen Claws
Casualties
Shroud of Eventide 2 cruisers crippled

The Battle of Kalleth was a battle in the Horus Heresy between the Night Lords and Ashen Claws.[1a] Although the Night Lords were victorious, Captain Ophion's death caused the Nostramo Sector to fall into strife in the following years.[1b]

Overview

In the aftermath of the Thramas Crusade, Ophion returned to the Nostramo Sector with a force of nine thousand Night Lords[1b] seeking to gather reinforcements for the Warmaster's cause. Above the isolated world of Kalleth, an advance squadron of his fleet was suddenly attacked by a dozen cruisers emerging from the warp. Communications intercepted from the rogue fleet identified them as the Ashen Claws.[1a]

With little room to manoeuvre in the planet's gravity well, Ophion ordered the Shroud of Eventide to act as a shield for the smaller craft and transport barged - ignoring his captains' suggestions to retreat and abandon the slower ships. The majority of the fleet's complement of Legionaries were deployed to the surface and ordered to fortify the refuelling stations, supposedly for their own safety, but in fact to prevent rebellion.[1a]

The Night Lords were victorious in the void, crippling two of the enemies' cruisers before the Ashen Claws were forced to retreat. They had, however, managed to land troops on the surface and inflict heavy damage to the thruster array on the Shroud of Eventide. Unable to maintain orbit, the ship crashed on an icy plain.[1a]

Little is known of the remainder of the battle of the surface. Six years later, during the Scouring of the Nostramo Sector, the world was found lifeless but for a signs that a handful of individuals might have managed to survive in the canyons and ice caves. The wreck of the Shroud of Eventide was found with fewer than a hundred dead crew aboard, none of them Legionaries, with a nearby mass grave containing four hundred corpses of both humans and Legionaries.[1a] With Ophion presumed dead, the Nostramo Sector began to fall back into strife.[1b]

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Battles of the Horus Heresy
005-006.M31 Battle of Isstvan IIIFirst Battle of ProsperoWar Within the WebwayBattle of the Somnus CitadelUnrest on CalibanSchism of MarsBattle of DiamatDrop Site MassacreFirst Battle of ParamarManachean WarSignus CampaignTreachery at Advex-MorsSiege of CthoniaBattle for Felweather Keep‎
007-008.M31 Battle of PhallBroken KeyDevouring of AntarrasBattle of RavendelveRuin of MaerdanBattle of the Alaxxes NebulaPale Stars CampaignBreaking of the Perfect FortressSilencing of GalantaChondax CampaignSecond Battle of ProsperoKolarne-Distal IncidentFirst Siege of Hydra CordatusBattle of the Furious AbyssBattle of CalthShadow CrusadeBattle of ArmaturaBetrayal at IthracaDeath of CanopusCrusade of IronDoom of BorminaDefence of TyrosDefence of the Three PlanetsBattle of UlixisAmbush at EspandorBattle of Aquila AtollBattle of Drooth IIPercepton CampaignBattle of IydrisThramas CrusadeFall of Baztel IIIBattle of VannaheimSecond Battle of ParamarBattle of Constanix IIHarrowing of LastratiMezoan CampaignBattle of BodtBattle of DwellErellian SubjugationSiege of Baal
009-010.M31 Battle of MolechBreaking of AnvillusXana IncursionCarnage of MoroxSangraal CampaignBattle of ArissakBattle of PerditusBattle of SothaDrussen AtrocityScouring of Gilden's StarBattle of NyrconBattle of TallarnCataclysm of IronBattle of NocturneWar of DrakesBattle of PlutoSiege of InwitBurning of Ohmn-MatBitter War
011-012.M31 Sacking of Sarcosa-OmikronReaving of the Xibana ReachesLorin Alpha CampaignSubjugation of TyrinthMalagant ConflictBattle of the Kalium GateBattle of CatallusAxandrian IncidentBattle of the Haddon SystemJarrazr IncursionBattle of TralsakTarren SuppressionSiege of StromhelmBalthor Sigma InterventionBattle of AbsolomScouring of the Ollanz ClusterWar for XytheraBattle of ZepathSecond Battle of ZaramundBattle of AnuariBattle of PyrrhanSecond Battle of DavinArgolian MassacresBattle of TrisolianBattle of YarantBattle of KradeBattle of DelugeBattle of Heta-GladiusBattle of the Aragna ChainBattle of KallethBattle of the Diavanos SystemBattle of Desperation
013-014.M31 Battle of Beta-GarmonWar for AgaropsDefence of RyzaBattle of ThagriaPassage of AngelsThassos IncidentBattle of Zhao-ArkhadSerpent's CoilBlight of HorstaxSiege of BarbarusForicaan CampaignBattle of VezdellBurning of VrexorDawn of DesolationDeath of ChemosBattle of Luth TyreYdursk IncidentFall of TenzebarBattle of CambraeSolar WarRaid on LunaSiege of TerraGreat Scouring