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→Last Stand at the Eternity Gate
Just moments after the battle of the Eternity Gate, [[Shiban Khan]] and his White Scars managed to reactivate the anti-orbital defenses of the [[Lion's Gate Spaceport]]. The traitor armada, hanging in low-orbit, was subjected to a vicious ground-to-orbit bombardment. Word reached the Sol System that [[Roboute Guilliman]] was just one week away, with [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]], [[Corax]], and [[Lion El'Jonson]] not far behind.{{Fn|22f}}
Despite the victory at the Eternity Gate, the situation for the loyalists was still dire and Chaos forces were advancing all fronts. Remaining loyalist officers such as [[Fafnir Rann]], [[Dominion Zephon|Zephon]], [[Nassir Amit]], [[Maximus Thane]], and [[Namahi]] led desperate but futile defenses of the last battlements inside the [[Inner Palace]]. While nearly all order and discipline had by now broken down amongst the Traitor Astartes, vast Daemonic legions spilled forth as legendary figures such as [[Be'lakor]], [[Skarbrand]], [[Ulkair]], [[N'Kari]], [[Heartslayer]], [[Drach'nyen]], [[Epidemius]], [[Ku'gath]], [[Madail]], [[Karanak]], [[The Masque]], [[Doombreed]], [[Tallomin]], and [[Skulltaker]] manifested on Terra's soil.{{Fn|24a}} Just hours after the shutting of the Eternity Gate, the [[Bhab Bastion]] itself was overrun by Sons of Horus forces under [[Tarchese Malabreux]] and Rogal Dorn was forced to retreat into the [[Sanctum Imperialis]].{{Fn|24b}} Concepts such as time and space started to break down and mere hours passed as if it were weeks as Terra itself began to slowly be sucked into the [[Warp]], with the ''[[Vengeful Spirit]]'' as its conduit.{{Fn|24c}} All across Terra, traitor armies and maddened souls began to chant the name of the "[[Dark King(Entity)|Dark King]]". Horus now aspired to become the fifth God of Chaos born from Humanity just as [[Slaanesh]] was born from the [[Eldar]].{{Fn|24d}}
===The Vengeful Spirit===
