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====Hit-and-Run====
For the next four years, Jaghatai had his Scars wage a brutal attrition hit-and-run campaign against the traitor lines. But with the road to Terra blocked by enemy fleets and [[Warp Storm]]s, he could not reach the Emperor. Following the loss of his close friend and subordinate [[Qin Xa]] in the [[Battle of the Kalium Gate]], Jaghatai became determined to forge a path home where he believed his destiny lay. Upon finding the [[Dark Glass]] artifact, the White Scars were [[Battle of Catallus|cornered]] by their pursuers, and as Jaghatai prepared to settle his score with Mortarion in the face of certain doom, [[Targutai Yesugei]] sacrificed himself to the device to open a portal into the [[Webway]]. Refusing to allow Yesugei's sacrifice be for nothing, the Khan chose escape over honor and fled from Mortarion. Once inside the Webway, JagahatiJaghatai's ship ''[[Lance of Heaven]]'' was boarded by [[Daemon]]s and the Khan slew the [[Keeper of Secrets]] [[Manushya-Rakshasi]]. Thanks to the efforts of [[Revuel Arvida]], the White Scars fleet was able to navigate the Webway and reappear over [[Terra]].{{Fn|6}} On Terra, Jaghatai Khan met with [[Rogal Dorn]], [[Leman Russ (Primarch)|Leman Russ]], [[Sanguinius]], and [[Malcador the Sigillite]] to discuss their war strategy. The Khan disapproved of Dorn's defensive approach to the war, and urged a swift attack on Horus' forces. He agreed to a degree with Leman Russ, who was preparing to leave Terra and face Horus aboard the ''[[Vengeful Spirit]]'' directly.{{Fn|8}}
Jaghatai Khan along with [[Sanguinius]] later appeared at the [[Battle of Beta-Garmon]], though over a month late due to difficult Warp travel. The Khan immediately took to organizing hit-and-run strikes throughout the Beta-Garmon warzone. However the loyalists were ultimately outmaneuvered by Horus, and Sanguinius and the Khan agreed that Dorn's gambit at Beta-Garmon had reached its limit and it was time to return to Terra.{{Fn|10}} During the final phase of the [[Solar War]] Jaghatai dispatched his Scars to above and below the orbital disc of the [[Sol System]] in an attempt to counter flanking assaults by the traitors. During the early portion of the battle for Sol, he expressed his belief that Horus had failed and that they had already bought enough time to allow for [[Roboute Guilliman]] to arrive with reinforcements.{{Fn|11}}
After traitor forces penetrated the Mercury and Exultant Walls, the loyalist war effort seemed doomed. However it was then that Jaghatai Khan announced his intent to retake the Lion's Gate Spaceport to not only slow the flow of traitor reinforcements on the planet but also allow for [[Roboute Guilliman]] to easily land his own forces once he arrived. An exhausted Rogal Dorn did not protest, and the Khan led a massive assault of the White Scars and [[Terran First Armoured]] alongside the [[Sky Fortress]].{{Fn|14a}} During the height of the fighting, Jaghatai Khan again came to blows with his brother Mortarion. Faced with Mortarion's new Daemonic endurance and strength, the Khan was brutally beaten down and nearly defenseless. However he was able to find a weakness in the Death Lord with his pride. Jaghatai Khan scolded Mortarion for being weak and giving into the powers of the Warp, while he himself had resisted the temptations of Chaos and remained true to the Emperor. Mortarion flew into a rage, which the Khan took advantage of to launch a second wave of dizzying attacks that overwhelmed the Primarch. In the end the badly wounded Jaghatai Khan was impaled on the blade of Mortarion's scythe, but simply pulled his body along its length to get face-to-face with the Death Guard Primarch. The loyalist Primarch decapitated Mortarion, who was banished into the Warp in a massive explosion similar to that of a [[Vortex Weapon]]. Later, the Khan's nearly dead body was discovered by [[Ilya Ravallion]] and [[Jangsai Khan]] who sought to take him to Malcador.{{Fn|14b}}
[[Image:KhanDisappears.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Artwork depicting the disappearance of Jagahtai Jaghatai Khan{{Fn|17}}]]
By all mortal standards, the Khan was dead. Nonetheless, Malcador used his psychic powers to try and heal the Primarch. He thought he had succeeded, before noticing that it was the Emperor Himself who had done it. Khan would live, though it would take a long time for him to awake.{{Fn|16}}
