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{{Battle
|Name =Battle of Gate Forty-Two
|Image =Gate42Battle.jpg
|Image caption=The [[Raven Guard]] advances during the Battle of Gate Forty-Two
|Conflict =[[Great Crusade]]
|Date =000.[[M31]]
|Location =[[Akum-Sothos Cluster]]
|Outcome =Pyrrhic Imperial victory
|Combatant1 =[[Imperium]]
|Combatant2 =[[Unsighted Kings]]
|Commanders1 =[[Warmaster]] [[Horus]]<br>[[Primarch]] [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]]<br>[[Primarch]] [[Perturabo]]<br>[[Primarch]] [[Corax]]
|Commanders2 =Unknown
|Strength1 =[[Sons of Horus]]<br>[[Space Wolves]]<br>[[Iron Warriors]]<br>[[Raven Guard]]
|Strength2 =Large amounts of parasitic hosts
|Casualties1 =Heavy<br>[[Terran]] members of the [[Raven Guard]] endure significant losses
|Casualties2 =Annihilated
}}
The '''Battle of Gate Forty-Two''' was a battle of the [[Great Crusade]].{{Fn|1}}
==Overview==
The [[Akum-Sothos Cluster]] had been brought to compliance by the [[Luna Wolves]] in the opening years of the [[Great Crusade]], but its people had since fallen to mass-psychosis and violently revolted against the authority of [[Terra]]. It was determined that a [[Xenos]] parasite which matured within the eye sockets of its host had been behind the riots. The parasites gained rudimentary control of their hosts as they matured and formed what amounted to an alien gestalt cabal of primary hosts dubbed the 'Unsighted Kings'. Newly ascended [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]] refused to see a cluster of worlds he himself had once conquered slip from the [[Imperium]]'s grasp, so he vowed to retake the Cluster no matter the cost.{{Fn|1}}
