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The role of Terminus Est during the [[Horus Heresy]] is better known. At [[Isstvan V|Isstvan]] the ''Terminus Est'' engaged and destroyed the ''[[Shadow of the Emperor]]'', the flagship of the [[Raven Guard]]. It is argued that this engagement was the earliest recorded conflict between battleships specialised to carry attack craft. The engagement was swift and deprived the embattled loyalist forces of any air support in the massacre that followed. The vessel led Typhon's fleet during the [[Battle of Perditus]] and subsequent campaigns.
The ''Terminus Est'' and Typhon reappeared on [[Ynyx]] and upon the First Captain's first request Mortarion himself agreed to journey on the vessel to [[Terra]] instead of the ''[[Endurance]]''. However this was part of Typhon's elaborate plot to corrupt the Death Guard, and in the subsequent trap within the [[Warp]] the ''Terminus Est'' along with the rest of the Death Guard fleet became daemonically corrupted.{{Fn|3}} When the ''Terminus Est'' was sighted as part of the armada that followed [[Horus]] to [[Terra]] it had changed. The Mark of Nurgle was upon it and all the other vessels of the Death Guard. While [[Mortarion]] led the assault on the Lion's Gate starport, Typhus controlled the Plaguefleet and it is suspected actually began the orbital bombardment of the Emperor’s Palace.
[[Image:TerminusEst.jpg|thumb|right|The ''Terminus Est'' in action.]]
