Heliosa-78
Heliosa-78 was the ruling Matriarch of Luna's Selenar gene-cults. Arrogant and gaudy, Heliosa nonetheless maintained her position over the remaining astartes-creation technology on Luna.
During the Solar War at the end of the Horus Heresy, she was commanded by Rogal Dorn to destroy her precious Gene-Seed technology on Luna should it fall into traitor hands. However as Abaddon and his forces stormed Luna, she hesitated to carry out the Primarch's orders. She instead pledged herself to Warmaster Horus and pledged to deliver onto him new Space Marines.[1]
By the end of the Siege of Terra Heliosa-78 had managed to build a quasi-"legion" of 7,000 crazed Simulacra Astartes through a method of mass production dubbed gene-looming.[2b] These cheap Astartes copies were all wiped out during the Retaking of Luna, and Heliosa-78 would later resign herself to await her own death within the observation tower of the Somnus Citadel alongside the remaining Selenar and Sons of Horus during their final stand.[2c]
Sources
- 1: The Solar War (Novel) - Chapters 20-22
- 2: Ashes of the Imperium (Novel)
