40,701
edits
Changes
From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
m
deturdify
The '''{{PAGENAME}}Doom of Katara''' was a conflict on the [[forgeworld]] [[Katara]], fought between the [[Imperium]] and [[Khornate]] forces.
==Overview==
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|1}}
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}}
Meanwhile, back in Deicoon, the Company of the Bridge had reentered the hive city. They had seen loyal Imperial citizens continuing to fight against the cultists within the city and moved to kill as many cultists as they could. Marching straight through flaming debris and choking ash from the earlier battle between the Titan legios, they reengaged the cultists. Confessor Ornastus eventually located the leader of the cultists, a former colonial of the Kataran Spears. The confessor and the cultist engaged in a duel. While the cult's leader nearly killed the confessor, but the cult's defeat at Therimachus caused all of its members to turn and scream in agony, with the cultist leader flinging himself off the roof he and Ornastus were dueling on. The loyalists then began rounding up surviving cultists and publicly executing them.{{Fn|1}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Warlord: Fury of the God Machine (Novel)]],{{Cite this}}
[[Category:Anti-Imperial Rebellions]]
[[Category:Battles (Adeptus Mechanicus)]]
