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From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
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The '''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a hidden engagement during the [[Horus Heresy]].{{Fn|1}}
==Overview==
Following the attempt of [[Magnus the Red]] to warn the [[Emperor]] of [[Horus]]' s treachery, catastrophe struck [[Terra]]. Magnus' s psychic warning breached the wards the Emperor had placed around the [[Imperial Palace]], causing the [[Golden Throne]], a device intended to allow [[Humanhuman]] travel within the [[Webway]], to malfunction. As the Golden Throne broke down, the [[Webway Portal]] deep within the Imperial Palace became breached. Floods of [[Daemondaemon]]s rushed through this breach, and the Emperor dispatched the [[Custodes]] and [[Sisters of Silence]] to hold the line and prevent Terra from being overrun. As the Custodes and Silent Sisterhood fought back immense Daemonic hordes, the Emperor sat upon the Golden Throne in a desperate attempt to stabilize the Webway Portal. Even the Emperor's psychic might was tested in this endeavor, and He became visibly exerted.{{Fn|2}} The war within the Webway forced the Emperor's entire attention, leaving the waging of the simultaneous [[Horus Heresy]] to [[Malcador (Character)|Malcador]] and [[Rogal Dorn]]. Malcador was the only one allowed to regularly visit with the Emperor.{{Fn|1}}
Soon enough, the war within the webway fell into a pattern. The Custodians established a series of blockades across the tunnels within the webway. Behind these defended areas, the [[Mechanicum]] workers were repairing the damaged sections of tunnel and sealing the rifts to prevent more daemons from getting inside the webway. In front of the blockades, the Custodians and Sisters launched lightning-fast counter-attacks to keep the daemonic horde off-balance and prevent them massing in strength. Slowly, but surely, the Imperial forces were pushing the blockades forward as the pressure from the daemonic attacks waned. Nevertheless, some daemon assaults did manage to break through the Imperial defences and on those rare occasions the attackers wreaked havoc on the Imperial workers. More than once the daemonic entities were able to fight their way to the warp-gate of the Golden Throne. Desperate fighting ensued as the Custodians and Sisters doubled their efforts to throw back the daemons and prevent them surging through the warp-gate and into the Imperial Dungeon beyond.{{Fn|1}}
