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{{Battle
|Name = {{PAGENAME}}
|Image =
|Image caption=
|Conflict = [[Indomitus Crusade]]
|Date = [[M42]]
|Location =
|Outcome =
|Combatant1 = [[Imperium]]
|Combatant2 = [[Chaos|Forces of Chaos]]
|Commanders1 = [[Racej Lucerne]](WIA){{Fn|1a}}<br>[[Ferren Areios]](WIA){{Fn|1b}}
|Commanders2 = [[Kor Phaeron]]{{Fn|1a}}<br>[[Tenebrus]]{{Fn|1a}}<br>[[Pridor Vrakon]]{{Fn|1a}}
|Strength1 = [[Unnumbered Sons]]{{Fn|1a}}<br>[[Black Templars]] ([[Angevin Crusade (Black Templars)|Angevin Crusade]]){{Fn|1a}}<br>[[Imperial Navy]]{{Fn|1a}}<br>[[Inquisition]]{{Fn|1d}}
|Strength2 =[[Word Bearers]]{{Fn|1a}}<br>[[Black Legion]]{{Fn|1a}}
|Casualties1 = Heavy
|Casualties2 = Unknown
}}
The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a battle during the [[Indomitus Crusade]].{{Fn|1a}}
== Overview ==
The war saw the [[Word Bearers]] under [[Kor Phaeron]], aided by the [[Black Legion]] [[Sorcerer]] [[Tenebrus]], raid the [[Astropath]]ic Relay Station of [[Srinagar]] in a bid to discover the nature and location of the [[Star Child]]. After pushing aside the [[Imperial Navy]] vessels in orbit, Tenebrus and [[Pridor Vrakon]] led an assault of the surface to probe the minds of Astropaths there. Meanwhile in orbit, a [[Black Templars]] fleet alongside [[Racej Lucerne]] arrived, led by a vision. After a boarding operation, these were confronted by [[Xhokol Hruvak]] and his [[Khymerae]], killing [[Castellan (Black Templars)|Castellan]] [[Beorhtnoth]] before being slain in turn by Lucerne.{{Fn|1a}}
Meanwhile on the surface, Word Bearers [[Terminator]]s under Vrakon traded blows with [[Unnumbered Sons]] of [[Roboute Guilliman]] led by [[Ferren Areios]]. Vrakon badly wounded Areios and left him for dead, and by this point Tenebrus had discovered the location of the Star Child. Their mission achieved, the traitor forces departed.{{Fn|1b}}
During the battle, nearly all the Black Templars of the [[Angevin Crusade (Black Templars)|Angevin Crusade]] were slain. In the final stages of the battle Lucerne revealed to the Black Templars [[Chaplain]] that he knew the truth of their Crusade's mutiny against their previous Marshal and their massacre of a [[Torchbearer Fleet]]. This caused the Chaplain to nearly kill Lucerne, though [[Neophyte]] [[Botho]] intervened and slew the traitor instead.{{Fn|1c}}
==Sources==
**{{Endn|1b}}: Chapters 39-40
**{{Endn|1c}}: Chapter 41
**{{Endn|1d}}: Chapter 42
[[Category:Battles (Word Bearers)]]
[[Category:Indomitus Crusade]]
[[Category:Battles (Imperial Navy)]]
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