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Demeter eventually recovered in time to lead his company in the assault of the [[Diasporex]] capital ship, and in fact captured the vessel. Normally this would have brought him great glory, but the changes taking place in the legion after the Cleansing of Laeran made this achievement not a politically wise one. Despite standing with his [[Primarch]] and his peers against the outnumbering [[Eldar]] forces of [[Craftworld]] [[Ulthwe]], Demeter began to find himself marginalised within his Legion. This increased over time to the point where, during the pacification of Deep Orbital DS191, 2nd company was not supported by the 1st and 3rd companies as the battle-plan had laid out. Demeter and his company found themselves over-extended and in real danger of being cut off and destroyed. They were saved from this fate by the unplanned arrival of forces under the commands of Captains [[Saul Tarvitz]] and [[Lucius]], two junior officers that Demeter had found himself associating more and more with as he was systematically frozen out by Legion high command.
Almost immediately afterwards the [[Istvaan Isstvan III]] campaign began, and Demeter was assigned to the first drop, the one that would be betrayed. Badly wounded in the firestorm that followed the virus bombing, he missed the initial organisation of the loyalist survivors, and by the time he was able to fight, Captain Tarvitz had commanded the Emperor's Children survivors for many weeks. Demeter decided against taking field-command and instead fought where he was needed.
However, weakened in spirit as well as body, his self-belief and good fortune ran out when he was eventually betrayed and killed by the turncoat Captain Lucius, after being tricked into helping the swordsman slay loyalist marines. Despairing of his acts and of the fate of the future, Solomon Demeter died in the Precentor's Palace on Istvaan Isstvan III.
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