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While battle raged aboard Aegida Platform , the remaining forces under Krukesh's command performed a combat landing on Sotha without much opposition. : the [[Night Lords]] deployed the majority of 20,000 legionaries in at least seven companies with siege tanks and support vehicles.{{Fn|3g}}. This force quickly overrun overran 199th Company's planetside castellum and killed all but approximately hundred [[Ultramarines]] of the 199th.{{Fn|3g}}. Their second target was the city of Sothopolis , where individual warriors and also or whole squads of [[Night Lords]] either massacred city's population or captured it civilians and subjected it them to torture. Some of the city's inhabitants were evacuated into safety of [[Mount Pharos]] by soldiers of Sothan First Auxilia{{Fn|3f}}.

After subjecting Sothan population to torture, at least seven companies (7th, 19th, 23rd, 45th, 89th, 103rd and 104th){{Fn|3j}} launched an all out attack on Mount Pharos. Pharos facility's defence was designed by warsmith [[Dantioch]] and commanded by captain [[Alexis Polux]] who . Polux had at his disposal one hundred and twenty legionaries - , survivors of the 199th Company and members of Polux's own Lightkeepers.{{Fn|3g}}. Defenders used several blind caves to lure [[Night Lords]] attackers into launching assaults on these defended positions, inflicting heavy losses,{{Fn|3h}}, while the Sothan First Auxilia units and Aegida Company's Scouts conducted reconnaissance patrols and launched ambushes from more concealed positions higher on the slopes of the mountain.{{Fn|3i}}.

Due to heavy anti-aircraft fire from Mount Pharos' s fortification, Emperor's Watch, and the interference of Pharos' s beam , an aerial or teleport assault on the Pharos facility was not possible.{{Fn|3j}}. However after , a daemon, using the body of [[Librarian]] Berenon, the Night Lords's 45th Company's librarian, managed to strike a deal with [[Gendor Skraivok]] exchanging . In exchange for possession of Skraivok's body for his survival of Sothan Battle, the demon revealed a means to gain teleport lock inside Mount Pharos, and the stalemate was broken.{{Fn|3j}}. Without revealing source of his information, Skraivok shared his knowledge of how to invade the mountain with Krukesh, who decided to launch and lead immediate teleport assault accompanied by his company's Terminator Claw. Simultaneously, Skraivok rejoined the ground assault that finally succeeded to gain access inside Mount Pharos and into facility, capturing both [[Dantioch]] and [[Polux]] in the process.{{Fn|3k}}.