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On his deathbed, [[Warmaster]] [[Slaydo]], commander of the [[Sabbat Worlds Crusade]], bestowed upon [[Ibram Gaunt]] — a [[commissar]] who had fought with distinction at [[Balhaut]] — the rank of [[Colonel-Commissar]] and dispatched him to Tanith to raise three regiments for the Crusade.{{Fn|1d}}{{Fn|3}} Gaunt himself initially regarded Tanith as an excellent world for this new raising, having dutifully paid its Tithes over the years and lacking any sort of complicated martial traditions.{{Fn|2}}
However, in the wake of their defeat at [[Balhaut]], a splinter fleet of [[Chaos]] slipped past the picket set up by the [[Imperial Navy]], thanks to the newly-appointed Warmaster [[Macaroth]]'s [[The Circudus Offensive|change of tactics]].{{Fn|1d}}{{Fn|3}} This small fleet attacked and conquered six [[system]]sbefore [[The Circudus Offensive|being defeated]], one of which was Tanith.{{Fn|3}}
On the day of the Founding, the Chaos armada bombarded Tanith from orbit, and deployed ground troops to kill vital Imperial personnel before burning Tanith and its forests with the fleet's firepower. [[Colonel-Commissar]] [[Ibram Gaunt]] was one of the last people to leave the planet before its demise, and was saved by a youth called [[Brin Milo]], whom he took with him in gratitude.{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|3}} Milo later confirms that he was the only civilian to leave Tanith alive, being too young to join the Guard.{{Cite This}}
