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{{cite}}'''Fortis Binary''' is a [[Forge World]] in the [[Sabbat Worlds]] cluster, that fell to [[Chaos]]. 

During the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]], the [[Tanith First and Only]] [[regiment]] was ordered to make a suicidal frontal attack on the enemy trench line. The order came from [[Lord Militant General]] [[Hechtor Dravere]], the theatre commander, at the suggestion of [[Colonel]] [[Draker Flense]] of the [[Jantine Patricians]], who harboured a deep personal hatred for the Tanith's commanding officer, [[Colonel-Commissar]] [[Ibram Gaunt]].{{Fn|1a}}

[[Imperial Guardsmen]] fought with Chaos forces across four hundred kilometres of battlefield, a vast and ragged pat­tern of opposing trench systems, facing each other across a mangled dead-land of cratered mud and shattered factories.{{Fn|1a}} However, the Ghosts managed to sabotage a [[Chaos]] ritual to turn the attacking guardsmen into [[Daemonhost]]s.{{Fn|1b}}

General Dravere made his headquarters in a ducal palace which was miraculously intact after six months of serial bombardment, and overlooked the wide rift valley of '''Diemos''', once the hydro­electric industrial heartland of Fortis Binary, and now the axis on which the war revolved. In all directions, as far as the eye could see, sprawled the gross architecture of the manufacturing zone: the towers and hangers, the vaults and bunkers, the storage tanks and chimney stacks. A great ziggurat rose to the north, the brilliant gold icon of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] displayed on its flank. It rivalled, perhaps even surpassed, the Temple of the [[Ecclesiarchy]], dedicated to the [[God-Emperor]].{{Fn|1a}}

There were silos and shelled-out structures of the rising industrial manufactories just behind the [[Shriven]] lines, sooty shells of melted stone, rusted metal girder-work and fractured ceramite. Gargoyles, built to ward the buildings against contamination, had been defaced or toppled completely.{{Fn|1b}}

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