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==Battle of Phall==
The Loyalist fleet was unaware that after the traitor victory at [[Isstvan V]], [[Horus]] ordered the [[Iron Warriors]] to intercept them, believing such a large force should not go unmolested.{{Fn|2}} Ahead of the attack, Iron Warriors scouting ships collected intelligence on the Retribution Fleet, which was psychically transmitted to hundreds of psi-amplifying devices across the system made up of communication systems cyberneticaly cybernetically joined to brutalized astropaths. When these devices received the intelligence gathered by the Iron Warriors scouting vessels, they detonated in massive psychic blasts to transmit their information through the warp storms and back to the main fleet.{{Fn|3c}}
The psychic blasts from the psi-amplifiers subjected the Imperial Fists and their cohorts to painful screams, visions and other psychic affects. While the the event killed a small number of human crew in the Fleet, it was determined not to be an attack but, instead, a psychic signal of some kind. While the Imperial Fists could not determine who was behind planting the devices, they assumed it was the prelude to an attack from an unknown enemy.{{Fn|3e}}{{Fn|4}}
===Polux's Gambit===
[[Image:Crimson_Fist.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Imperial Fists under the command of Captain Amandus Tyr engage Iron Warriors Primarch Perturabo in close-quarters aboard his flagship, the ''Iron Blood''.]]
In the course of the Retribution Fleet's counterattacks, Captain Tyr discovered Perturabo's flagship, the ''[[Iron Blood]]'' at the center of the Iron Warriors formation. Upon reporting the discovery to Fleet Master Polux, he was ordered to assume command over a sub-fleet of 50 ships and execute the traitor primarch. Tyr and ''Halcyon'' led a group of a dozen other strike cruisers to strike at the group of forces defending the ''Iron Blood'' to draw it into the battle. Then, 15 additional Imperial Fists warships entered the engagement from below, targeting the primarch's escort vessels and launching 1,300 astartes Astartes in a boarding action against ''Iron Blood.'' Captain Tyr led the boarding action.{{Fn|3c}}
Fighting aboard ''Iron Blood'' was fierce. A second wave of Imperial Fists was to reinforce the boarding action, but it never arrived. When Captain Tyr reached the inner sanctum of the ship where Perturabo resided, he had only 14 terminators and 30 Astartes in Mark III "Iron Armor" with him. All of the Imperial Fists, including Amandus Tyr, were killed in the final assault against the primarch.{{Fn|3c}}
