Lord Militant Terra
The Lord Militant Terra is a title the Imperium's War Court bestowed upon the Imperial Fists officer Archamus II, near the end of the Horus Heresy's Siege of Terra.[1d]
History
Archamus II had served as the War Court's commander, after his Primarch Dorn's departure, and did so from its base within the Grand Borealis of the Imperial Palace's Bhab Bastion. However near the end of the Siege of Terra, the Borealis was lost to Warmaster Horus' forces[1a] and the War Court's surviving members fled to the safety of the Sanctum Imperialis.[1b] Archamus did not, however, and remained outside its walls as the Sanctum's doors were sealed. Because of this, the War Court[1d], reestablished within the Sanctum's Tower of Hegemon[1c], named him the Lord Militant Terra[1d] and gave Archamus command of the Imperial forces that had not reached the Sanctum Imperialis.[1e] However because of this, the War Court was unable to directly aid Archamus[2a] and would instead focus on directing the Sanctum's defense as the Traitors' attacked it.[2b]