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==Overview==

As the butchery continued, word of the Daemonic incursion reached the Hive World's remaining PDF, who raced to defeat the threat, along with two [[Regiment]]s of [[Cadian Shock Troop]]s that were stationed there and a task force of the [[Dark Angels]]' [[Ravenwing]]; who had been assigned patrol duties in Absolom Reach's [[System]]. Disaster struck however, as twenty thousand Imperial Guardsmen and ninety Dark Angels advanced on the burning ruin of the arena's Hive, when the [[Changeling]] appeared. Just as the Imperium's forces began to fight the [[Chaos]] hordes emerging from the Hive, the [[Tzeentch]] Daemon gave a signal and scores of Cadian squads, thought by all to be loyal Guardsmen, shed their mortal skin and revealed themselves to be gibbering, [[Pink Horror]]s. In the sudden confusion, thousands of the PDF and Cadians died, but the Dark Angels still held their nerve and fought on - right before a phalanx of Daemon Princes led by [[Lord of Change]] [[Kairos Fateweaver]], stormed their position and struck them down. With their deaths, the Hive World's fate was sealed, as Fateweaver offered the Ravenwing's souls as a birth-gift to the [[Chaos Gods]] and guided the Daemon Princes, known as the [[Council of Despair]], in ushering Absolom Reach's transformation into a [[Daemon World]].{{Fn|1}}

*{{Endn|1}}: [[White Dwarf 369 (UK)]], pg. 54

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