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==Horus Heresy==
[[Image:angel-500.jpg|thumb|250px|Right|Perturabo and his brother [[Fulgrim]], after their fall to [[Chaos]], battle [[Eldar]] Revenants (not to be confused with 'Revenant Titans').{{Fn|4}}]]
Shortly after the [[Sak'trada Deeps Campaign]] Perturabo learned that his homeworld, Olympia, was in rebellion. Dammekos was dead and in his absence the politicking and bickering of the city-states had resumed. Perturabo demanded the Olympians themselves enact decimation, killing one in every ten of their own or face extermination and enslavement. Many refused, and Perturabo purged Olympia city by city, overrunning the fortresses he had built and sparing no one. Iron Warriors that refused to take part in the genocide suffered the same fate.{{Fn|12b}} By the time the massacre was over, five million Olympians had been killed and the rest put into slavery. While storming [[Lochos]]' palace, Perturabo came across his old foster sister [[Calliphone]] and strangled her to death after a furious argument where she blamed the Primarch for what had befallen their world. As Olympia died, Perturabo looked on in cold silence. After the pyres were burning, the Iron Warriors realized what they had done. They were no more the saviours of the [[Imperium]], - they had been destroying the Hrud one moment and the next they were committing genocideon their own. Perturabo realized the Emperor could never forgive him for what he had done.{{Fn|12c}} Horus , on the other hand , commended Perturabo for his decisive action and the Lord of Iron swore an oath of loyalty to the [[Warmaster]]. Horus later made the most of the opportunity by presenting Perturabo with a hammer named [[Forgebreaker]], the gift symbolic of a signing of a pact between them. {{Fn|7b}}
It was in that time that disturbing news of the [[Horus Heresy]] and new orders came from Terra. Leman Russ and the Space Wolves had attacked [[Magnus]] and his [[Thousand Sons]] on [[Prospero]]. [[Horus]] had turned renegade with his legion the [[Sons of Horus]] besides some other legions. The whole of the Imperium was on the brink of a civil-war. The new orders were to join with six other legions and then to face Horus and his forces on [[Isstvan V]]. The result of the following [[Drop Site Massacre|battle]] was that the Iron Warriors, Night Lords, Word Bearers and Alpha Legion all joined Horus and almost completely destroyed the three remaining loyal legions on the '''Drop Site Massacre'''{{Cite This}}. After that the Iron Warriors were let loose and Perturabo relished the opportunity to fight in a way that did not rely on massive sieges and trench warfare. Because of their massive deployment throughout the galaxy, dozens of [[Warsmith]]s took over planets and demanded tithes to support the heresy.