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Under Perturabo's command, a combined assault was launched that finally saw a traitor breakthrough. Perturabo combined an underground assault in tunneler drills with a pinpoint Chaos titan [[Macrocannon]] bombardment.{{Fn|2}} The walls of the Emperor's Palace finally broke, unleashing a flood of traitors into the inner courtyards of the Palace. A massive labyrinth of hallways, complexes, courtyards, and buildings, fighting in the outer palace was room-to-room and saw heavy casualties inflicted on the Traitors.{{Fn|2}} Moreover, the inner sanctum of the palace had been heavily reinforced and in the enclosed spaces Traitor titans and heavy war engines became easy prey for the well-prepared loyalists. The [[Adeptus Custodes]] made a fierce counterattack at the inner gardens of such brutal efficiency that none of the traitor horde could initially stand against them. However in the end, the Titans of the Legio Mortis proved decisive in a traitor breakthrough. In addition traitor numbers were too great and even the Custodes were overwhelmed. After inflicting horrendous casualties on the traitor forces, so much so that the Chaos Titans could no longer continue to advance,{{Fn|2}} the Custodes would fall back to the final defensive line around the Imperial Palace, the [[Eternity Gate]], manned by the [[Blood Angels]] and their Primarch [[Sanguinius]]. Perturabo and his Iron Warriors thought that their job had been done, and the Primarch left the battle for the Inner Palace to instead direct a siege against the [[Imperial Fist]]s [[Fortress Monastery]] nearby.{{Fn|2}}
Meanwhile, [[Magnus the Red]] and the [[Thousand Sons]] finally joined the battle on the Traitor side, attacking the Ultimate Gate of the inner sanctum of the Imperial Palace in conjunction with a horde of Khorne Daemons and World Eaters.{{Fn|2}} As traitorous hordes swarmed towards this final bastion of defense, Sanguinius himself became locked in mortal combat with a mighty [[Bloodthirster]] of [[Khorne]], [[Ka'Bandha]], the daemon he had battled at [[Signus Prime]]. After a protracted and bloody airborne struggle above the Ultimate Gate, the Primarch broke the Daemons back over his knee.{{Fn|1c}} The defending Blood Angels and Custodes forces were reinforced by the [[Imperial Fists]] led personally by [[Rogal Dorn]], which disembarked from the great [[Sky Fortress]], a massive fortified gunshiporbital plate. Though it managed to deliver withering fire and much-needed reinforcements to the loyalist forces and stopped an attempt by Thousand Sons [[Sorcerer]]s to destroy the inner sanctum in an arcane ritual{{Fn|2}}, in the end the Sky Fortress was shot down by the Titans of the Death's Head legion. The ensuing crash detonated the ships great plasma reactors, creating an explosion that ripped a forty three kilometer wide crater outside the palace. Though the blast had wiped out massive numbers of traitors, the loyalist forces now realized that they were cut off from the rest of Earth.{{Fn|1c}}
===The Vengeful Spirit===
