Rewa Medusi
Rewa Medusi was a Sergeant of the Iron Hands Legion, who took part in the Horus Heresy's Siege of Terra.[1a]
History
He was among the Imperials who were able to retreat within the Sanctum Imperialis, as the Imperial Palace was overrun by Warmaster Horus' Traitor forces. Once inside, Medusi[1d] joined the War Court's patchwork Denial Companies, which were made of Legionaries who had also made it into the Sanctum Imperialis.[1c] He then became part of Odi Sartak's Denial 340[1d] and it aided the other Denial Companies in guarding sections of the Delphic Wall, which served as a final defence against the Traitors trying to invade the Sanctum. The 340 did not take an active part in the defence, however, as it was among the twenty Companies led by the Imperial Fist Praetor-Captain Honfler. Following orders laid down by his Primarch, Dorn, Honfler instead held his Companies in reserve until the section of the Wall they defended was breached or scaled atop of by the Traitors.[1b]
Once it became clear the Delphic Wall would fall to Horus' forces, though, the Denial Companies were withdrawn by the War Court into the Sanctum Imperialis, to prepare for its invasion. They were then separated into groups of Companies, who would be commanded by Honfler or his deputies as they protected certain sections of the Sanctum. The Denial 340 would be among the four Companies that Praetor-Captain Honfler led in the defense of the Sanctum's Martian Approaches.[1c] Problems soon arose, however, when they entered the Approaches and found the section they were to be posted at had been blocked off by security gates. Though Sartak suspected they must be shut for a reason, Honfler countered that the War Court had decreed that no gates within the Sanctum were to be closed yet. Despite Sartak's further protests against doing so, the Praetor-Captain asked Sergeant Medusi and several of the 340's Iron Hands to open one of the gates' hatches. Upon doing so, they saw pure darkness and nothing within it could be made out.[1d] While he was alarmed by this, Honfler ignored Sartak's request to leave the gates be, as he now needed to determine if the Traitors were hiding in the dark. The Praetor-Captain then tried to contact the War Court, but their Vox was down and Honfler decided he would go alone to check what lie behind the gates. Sartak went with him, though, and both entered the darkness after Medusi opened the gates enough for them to pass through.[1e]
They retreated, though after Sartak determined they were somewhere outside of the Sanctum Imperialis's walls[1e] and that they were not alone in the darkness.[1f] Thankfully they made it through the gates before anything occurred and Medusi sealed the entrance once more. Honfler then ordered a message be sent to the War Court, about what they discovered, but before anyone did so, the top of the gates began to be hammered upon from the sides facing the darkness. This caused the Praetor|Praetor-Captain to ready his Denial Companies for battle, just before frost began to appear on the gates.[1h] But by that point, Terra had become so infused by the Warp, that the Traitor forces were able to materialize within the Sanctum Imperialis.[1g] This led Honfler's Denial Companies to be easily attacked from behind,[1h] by a horde of Chaos Space Marines and they had no way to escape, since the gates in front of them were sealed. Because of this, his Denial Companies suffered heavy losses and Sergeant Medusi was among them.[1i]
