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====Siege of Terra====
During the [[Siege of Terra]] the Legio Solaria was stationed inside the [[Imperial Palace]]. They later ventured out of the Helios Gate with [[Sanguinius]] in order to allow [[Imperial Army]] conscripts manning the outer works to flee inside. During the fighting, Legio Solaria Titans destroyed a [[Plague Tower of Nurgle]].{{Fn|8}} The Legio Solaria later took part in the battle for the Mercury-Exultant Killzone, influcting heavy losses on the [[Legio Mortis]] through hunter-ambush tactics in concert with allied [[Knight]]s.{{Fn|10}}
===Post-Heresy===
The bulk of the Iron Skulls had marched upon Therimachus. The Imperial Hunters, not expecting to actually engage this soon, were overwhelmed by the enemy forces. Marshall Syagrius was killed when an enemy Banelord ripped the head off of ''Augustus Secutor''. This, along with the destruction of ''Primum Victor'', left command to Princeps Spinther of ''Magnificum Virum''. Spinther called for aid from the Pallidus Mor, though he let it be known that there was little chance of any of the Imperial Hunters at Therimachus surviving until they arrived. This held true as when the Pallidus Mor and remaining Imperial Hunters arrived, the force at Therimachus had been eradicated by the Iron Skulls, though they had sacrificed themselves to assure the destruction of as many traitorous engines as they could. The Pallidus Mor and Imperial Hunters engaged the enemy Titans. Realizing that the city was about to be used for another Chaos ritual, the force opened fire upon the city, leveling it and turning the very ground beneath it into a sea of magma. Suffering more losses in the battle, including the destruction of ''Gloria Vastator'' the leading Warlord of the Pallidus Mor, the Pallidus Mor redeployed the still damaged (but functional) ''Ferrum Salvator'' in order to engage the final enemy Titan. Princeps Carrinas of the Reaver ''Nobilis Arma'', and the highest ranked Imperial Hunter remaining, engaged the much larger Titan to slow it down and buy time for the surviving crew of ''Gloria Vastator'' to reactivate ''Ferrum Salvator''. The enemy Banelord smashed through the Reaver, critically damaging its right arm, but this bought the time needed for ''Ferrum Salvator'' to be reactivated and destroy the enemy Titan.{{Fn|3}}
The victory was a pyrrhic Pyrrhic one. Almost all of the Titans sent by the Imperial Hunters, save a Reaver and a Warhound, were destroyed (as well as a majority of the Pallidus Mor), two of the planet's three Hive cities were destroyed (Creontiades was leveled to the ground upon the arrival of Imperial Guard reinforcements), the forgeworld was reclassified as a Penal World (on the verge of being chosen for Exterminatus), and the planet's surviving loyalist population was interred and formed into a Penal Legion. The few surviving Imperial Hunters, now lead by Carrinas, returned to ''Currus Venatores'', formally ending the combined battlegroup of the Imperial Hunters and Pallidus Mor.{{Fn|3}}
==Known Assets==
*{{Endn|8}}: [[The Lost and the Damned (Novel)]], Chapter 29
*{{Endn|9}}: [[Adeptus Titanicus: Loyalist Legios]], pgs. 58-
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Mortis (Novel)]] Chapter 21
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