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Tizca was destroyed when the [[Space Wolves]] attacked under orders to censure [[Magnus]] for violating the terms of the [[Council of Nikea]].{{Fn|2b}}
The city survived the initial planetary bombardment thanks to its [[Telekinesis|kine-shields]] maintained by the [[Cults of the Thousand Sons#Cult of the Raptora|Raptora Cult]].{{Fn|2c}} The bombardment was followed immediately by a direct assault by the Space Wolves. The first landers were [[Stormbird]]s deploying troops at the seaside docks. The first invader ever to set foot on Prospero was [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]], leading his Legion. The assault force landed with little resistance, as Tizca was protected by Legion assets as well as several layers of psychic defenses, and thus had no antiaircraft batteries for defense.{{Fn|2a}}
The fighting drove the [[Thousand Sons]] back until the last remaining members of the Legion were gathered at the [[Pyramid of Photep]] to stage a last stand. It was on the causeway to the pyramid that Magnus and Leman Russ met in personal combat and Magnus was defeated.{{Fn|2d}} This was the moment at which the Thousand Sons escaped total destruction and marked the end of the battle.
