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Luna
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During the [[Horus Heresy]]'s [[Solar War]], Luna was the target of a major traitor attack led by [[Sons of Horus]] [[First Captain]] [[Abaddon]]. During the fighting its massive orbital defense ring was the target of a kamikaze attack by the [[Battle Barge]] ''[[War Oath]]'' and Abaddon captured its remaining gene-labs from loyalist forces. The Selenar Cults, resentful against the Imperium, chose to side with [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]] and share with him their gene-tech.{{Fn|9b}} After the traitor defeat in the [[Siege of Terra]] Luna was reclaimed by loyalists in the [[Great Scouring]].{{Cite this}}
By the [[M41]] era Luna had decayed, having long since been squeezed of its resources by Terra. Much of the populace seemed bitter and resentful towards Terra, which they blamed for exploiting and "forgetting" them. Outside of key port facilities much of the planets infrastructure was abandoned and rottedand much of the population lived in squalor. This included the [[Somnus Citadel]], which was thought abandoned by the Imperium.{{Fn|10c}} After the destruction of [[Cadia]] Luna again became a battlefield in the final stage of the [[Terran Crusade]]. Due to the reborn [[Roboute Guilliman]]'s efforts to reach Terra via the Webway, [[Magnus]] and his [[Thousand Sons]] were able to emerge on the moon. In the subsequent battle the Chaos invaders were defeated thanks to the arrival of Imperial reinforcements from Terra that included the [[Imperial Fists]], [[Custodes]], [[Battlefleet Solar]], and [[Sisters of Silence]].{{Fn|7}} After reforming the Imperium and beginning the [[Indomitus Crusade]], Guilliman had Luna return to a measure of its former glory by re-garrisoning the Somnus Citadel with the renewed Sisters of Silence.{{Fn|10c}}
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