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During the [[Horus Heresy]], shoal facilities operated in Mercury's orbit despite its conditions. [[Alpha Legion]] infiltrators also worked with anti-Imperial scavenger clans in the area during the [[Solar War]].{{Fn|2}} Shortly before the [[Siege of Terra]] the the [[Sisters of Silence]] purged [[Psyker]]s from Mercury in a bloody pogrom.{{Fn|3}}
Some time after the [[Great Rift]] appeared, preparations for an uprising by a [[Genestealer Cult]] were discovered on the planet's [[Decima-Caldus]] orbital platform. A combined Talon of [[Custodians]] and [[Silent Sisters]] stroke fast and drove the punishing blade through the cult - right to the [[Genestealer Patriarch|Patriarch]], killing it outright.{{Fn|5}}
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