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{{Battle
|Name =Battle of Catallus{{PAGENAME}}
|Image =PathOfHeavenArt.jpg
|Image caption=[[Jaghatai Khan]] battles the [[Daemons]] of [[Manushya-Rakshasi]] aboard the ''[[Lance of Heaven]]'' during the Battle of Catallus
}}
The '''Battle of Catallus{{PAGENAME}}''' was a battle during the [[Horus Heresy]].{{Fn|1}}
==Overview==
The campaign was a continuation of the attempts by the [[White Scars]] to find a passage to [[Terra]]. After the [[Battle of the Kalium Gate]], the Scars had managed to discover the location of the elusive [[Navigator]] [[Pieter Helian Achelieux]]. After a council of war where [[Jaghatai Khan]] proclaimed his intent to stand on Terra over fighting to the death against the traitor fleets pursuing them, the White Scars reformed in their entirety and moved on the [[Catallus Rift]].{{Cite this}}
At the [[Warp Rift]] over Catallus, they discovered that while Achelieux had long since died, his machine [[Dark Glass]] endured. While the White Scars explored the Dark Glass, a combined traitor fleet of [[Death Guard]] and [[Emperor's Children]] led by [[Mortarion]] and [[Eidolon]] arrived. The Scars sought to block the traitors with suicidal detachments of the [[Sagyar Mazan]] and a fleet led by the ''Kaljian'' under [[Shiban Khan]]. A vicious battle erupted across space as the two fleets dueled to the death.{{Fn|1}} During the battle, a horde of [[Slaaneshi]] [[Daemon]]s led by the [[Keeper of Secrets]] [[Manushya-Rakshasi]] were summoned by the Emperor's Children [[Apothecary]] [[Von Kalda]]. The Daemons possessed the entire crew of the Emperor's Children warship ''Ravisher'' then set their sights upon Jaghatai Khan.{{Fn|1}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[The Path of Heaven (Novel)]] , Chapters 21-27
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