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The campaign was a continuation of the attempts by the [[White Scars]] to find a passage to [[Terra]]. After the [[Battle of the Kalium Gate]], the Scars had managed to discover the location of the elusive [[Navigator]] [[Pieter Helian Achelieux]]. After a council of war where [[Jaghatai Khan]] proclaimed his intent to stand on Terra over fighting to the death against the traitor fleets pursuing them, the White Scars reformed in their entirety and moved on the [[Catallus Rift]].
At the [[Warp Rift]] over Catallus, they discovered that while Achelieux had long since died, his machine [[Dark Glass]] endured. While the White Scars explored the Dark Glass, a combined traitor fleet of [[Death Guard]] and [[Emperor's Children]] led by [[Mortarion]] and [[Eidolon]] arrived. The Scars sought to block the traitors with suicidal detachments of the [[Sagyar Mazan]] and a fleet led by the ''Kaljian'' under [[Shiban Khan]]. A vicious battle erupted across space as the two fleets dueled to the death.{{Fn|1}} During the battle, a horde of [[Slaaneshi]] [[Daemon]]s led by the [[Keeper of Secrets]] [[Manushya-Rakshasi]] were summoned by the Emperor's Children [[Apothecary]] [[Von Kalda]]. The Daemons possessed the entire crew of the Emperor's Children warship ''ProudheartRavisher'' then set their sights upon Jaghatai Khan.{{Fn|1}}
Seeking to settle the score with Mortarion that had begun on [[Prospero]], Jaghatai became determined to charge his flagship, the ''[[Swordstorm]]'', into Mortarion's ''[[Endurance]]'' for a final stand. However inside Dark Glass, Chief [[Stormseer]] [[Targutai Yesugei]] had failed to prevent an attempt by the [[Navis Nobilite]] agent [[Veil]] to destroy device. Discovering the [[Golden Throne|throne]] at the center of the Dark Glass, Yesugei sacrificed himself to open a portal into the [[Webway]] to [[Terra]]. Jaghatai, determined to prevent Yesugei's sacrifice go to waste, instead chose escape over a last stand. The [[Swordstorm]] was abandoned, the only warriors left aboard consisting of the [[Sagyar Mazan]] led by [[Torghun Khan]].{{Fn|1}}
