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After weeks of fighting, the traitor war effort stalled in the face of the walls of the Palace and the [[Daemon Primarch]]'s proved aloof and unreliable. Horus thus relied on Perturabo to conduct the main offensive push into the [[Lion's Gate Spaceport]]. Hoping to overcome Dorn's traps with bluntness, Perturabo put [[Kroeger]] in charge of the ground offensive while inserting [[Forrix]] and a unit of Iron Warriors behind enemy lines to seize key bridges into the Spaceport.{{Fn|16}} However the attack stalled in the face of the Emperor's psychic shield of the Palace, forcing Perturabo to rely on the [[Immaterium]] by having [[Zardu Layak]] and [[Typhus]] summon [[Cor'bax Utterblight]] to subvert the Imperial Palace's population.{{Fn|16a}} During the main assault on the Lion's Gate Spaceport, Perturabo revealed that Forrix and his men had been sacrificed as a ruse in order to draw away Imperial Fists defenses in order to allow the ''[[Iron Blood]]'' to dock with the Spaceport's main spire. As Perturabo set down, [[Rogal Dorn]] met him on the field of battle. However Perturabo refused to be goaded into a battle by Dorn's taunts, knowing the Imperial Fists Primarch simply intended to buy time for his troops to withdraw. Perturabo instead promised that only after he had tore down the Palace would he kill Dorn.{{Fn|16b}}
Following the fall of Lion's Gate, Perturabo landed on Terra's surface and set up a command center to direct the siege. With Horus increasingly losing touch with the [[Materium]], it fell to Perturabo to command the war effort and he became the face of the enemy to the defenders of Terra. With the blessing of the Warmaster, Perturabo controlled his allies through a command staff that consisted of [[Abaddon]] and the [[Mournival]], [[Ahriman]], [[Typhus]], [[Eidolon]], and [[Krostovok]]. Perturabo directly connected himself to the traitor data network, absorbing enormous quantities of data and directing every facet of the siege with his own mind. In this state, commanding the greatest siege in history, Abaddon suspected that Perturabo was finally happy. In an uncharacteristically good mood, Perturabo praised Abaddon when he noticed the same flaw in the [[Saturnine Gate]] that he recently had also discovered. However Perturabo was worried that Dorn also knew of the flaw, and exploiting it would be a trap by his brother. As a result, he allowed Abaddon and the Emperor's Children to attack Saturnine and suffer the losses and humiliation that would come with it should the assault fail.{{Fn|17}} Sure enough, Dorn had known of the flaw and ambushed the traitors as they attacked.{{Fn|17a}}
==Post-Heresy==
**{{Endn|16a}}: Chapters 10-12
**{{Endn|16b}}: Chapters 30-32
*{{Endn|17}}: [[Saturnine (Novel)]] Part 1 Chapter 2
**{{Endn|17a}}: Part 3, Chapters 3-4
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