Palace Of Thorns
The Palace Of Thorns was the heart of the Astral Claws' domain and the lair of the Tyrant of Badab.[1]
Located north-east of the Hive Dominar, the palace was built into a mountainous volcanic plateau that rose hight above the level of the hive city. It comprised a hulking, ornate citadel sourrounded by wide statue-lined plazas and minaret-capped gun towers studded with defence lasers and flak batteries.[1]
Above the Palace complex's centre an actinic-bright lighting shield rippled and clashed in the air, a vast charged power-field that desintegrated anything it touched and shrugged off even the firepower of a warship.[1]
The Fall of Badab
During the Fall of Badab, the plazas and weapons batteries that spread out beyond the Palace were not impervious and the Star Phantoms descended into them. 500 battle brothers out of 700 landed and besieged the Palace, but all the loyalists force were unable to break the defense and the siege was at a lethal impasse.[1]
The second day of the assault, the Carcharodons sabotaged the vast and ancient atomic and geo-thermal reactors which powered the hives on Badab Primaris. The sudden destabilisation of power offered the loyalists an opening and the Star Phantoms assault force managed to breach the lower level bunker network and catacombs. The bastion wall was finally breached and the lightning shield collapsed, leading to a brutal combat between the first and the remaining Astral Claws.[1]
