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==Overview==
The conflict started by a sudden [[Khornate]] [[Chaos Cultist]] uprising in the capital [[hive city]] Creontiades. First discovered when the cultists attacked [[Ecclesiarchy]] [[Confessor]] [[Lehrn Ornastas]]. While Confessor Ornastas managed to repel the ambush and reported it to his superiors, his warnings were ignored. The cultists had been waiting for the planet's Imperial Guard Regiment/PDF, the Kataran 66th "Kataran Spears", to be deployed elsewhere. When the 66th was deployed to repel a [[tyranid]] invasion of the planet [[Kania]], they launched their uprising.{{Fn|1}}
The sudden attack of the cultists from within the hive city caught the city's defenders unprepared and the cultists quickly took control of the hive. The Kataran Spears, along with the [[Titan Legion]]s [[Legio Pallidus Mor]] and [[Imperial Hunters]], were sent to provide defense of the rest of the planet and retake the city. The Titan legions were assigned due to reports of [[Traitor Titan Legions|Traitor Titans]] being sent to the planet. Under the command of the [[Imperial Hunters]]'s [[Marshal]] [[Adrel Syagrius]], the Pallidus Mor was deployed to the Hive City of Deicoon, the city nearest Creontiades, while the Imperial Hunters were deployed to [[Therimachus]]. The Pallidus Mor's mission was to defend the bridge over the Kazani Strait that connected Creontiades to the mainland. With fire support from the Kataran Spears, the Pallidus Mor engaged the traitor Titans, which they identified as the [[Iron Skulls]]. The Iron Skulls outnumbered and outgunned the Pallidus Mor, forcing the Imperium's defenders to retreat back across the bridge. As a last resort, the Pallidus Mor opened fire on the bridge's support, destroyed the bridge and plunging it (and several traitor Titans) into the sea below. The defenders then returned to Deicoon for rearmament and repairs.{{Fn|1}}
Unfortunately, this was not the end of the conflict. The next day, after the Titans had left (leaving only the Kataran 66th to defend the coast), the cultists used a ritual to summon a brass bridge to replace the bridge over the strait. They then marched across, opposed only by a retreating 66th. the 66th had attempted to contact the Pallidus Mor to warn them that the cultists had made it to the mainland, but received no reply. Another group of cultists had lied in wait in the underhive of Deicoon. When the princeps of the Pallidus Mor were away from the Titan repair-yards (visiting with the city's governor), the cultists ambushed the city. Just like in Creontiades, the cultists swiftly took control of the city and captured its leaders. The Princeps, Moderati, and Secutarii of the Pallidus Mor were overpowered and captured. The cultists took them to a defiled chapel in the city, with the intent to corrupt them and their Titans. Soon afterwards, a civilian militia called the "[[Company of the Bridge]]" lead by Confessor Ornastas, assaulted the chapel and freed the members of the Pallidus Mor. Upon being freed, the Pallidus Mor armed themselves and fought their way back to their Titans. The Chaos Forces, expecting to have corrupted the Pallidus Mor, were caught off-guard by the Legio's counterattack. The majority of the Iron Skull's Titans had moved onto Therimachus to attack the Imperial Hunters. The Pallidus Mor engaged and destroyed the few enemy Titans remaining, while the Kataran 66th took down the city's defensive [[macrocannons]], which the cultists were using to fire at the Pallidus Mor. The Imperial forces then escaped the city before taking any more causalities.{{Fn|1}}
After defeating the traitor Titans at Deicoon, the Kataran Spears and Pallidus Mor received requests for assistance by the Imperial Hunters. The Imperial Hunters were being overwhelmed by the Chaos forces. Deciding to take the fastest route, the Imperial forces moved through the Klivanos Plain. The Plain was a volatile region, with large and unstable Promethium reserved beneath its surface. Despite losing a Warhound, the Legio successfully traversed the region. They were too late to rescue the surviving members of the Imperial Hunters. The Pallidus Mor readied to engage the enemy forces, noticing that they were forming a defensive line to stall for time as another Chaotic ritual was being prepared. Realizing they could not retake the city before the completion of the ritual, the Pallidus Mor instead fired into the city. Firing salvo after salvo, the Legio leveled the Hive, turning the very ground below it into a sea of magma and rubble.{{Fn|31}}
Knowing that they may need more firepower, [[Princeps]] Captain [[Krezoc]] ordered the redeployment of ''Ferrum Salvator'', despite its repairs being incomplete. She then ordered the Pallidus Mor to retreat from the sea of magma that once was Therimachus. During the retreat the Pallidus Mor suffered more losses as ''Crudelis Mortem'' was destroyed, causing a large wave of magma which in return destroyed an enemy [[Banelord]]. In its death throes, the corrupted Titan fired at ''Glorias Vastator'', critically damaging its reactor. Most of the Titan's primary crew members assembled in the command chambers and launched to escape the blast of the war machine's reactor. The crew managed to reach and activate ''Ferrum Salvator'' just in time to engage and destroy the final enemy Titan at point-blank range.{{Fn|1}}
