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==Overview==
*{{Mainmain|Shadow Crusade}}
Waged during the closing stages of the [[Shadow Crusade]] in [[Ultramar]], the [[Dark Angels]] under [[Lion El'Jonson]] had recently arrived in the region through the [[Ruinstorm]] and had become part of [[Roboute Guilliman]]'s [[Imperium Secundus]]. However after [[Konrad Curze]] escaped from the ''[[Invincible Reason]]'' (which he had been imprisoned on since the [[Thramas Crusade]]), he wrought havoc on [[Macragge]]. The Lion obsessively hunted Curze in the aftermath, believing he had managed to escape from Macragge. He traced a lead to the [[Zepath System]], which had since fallen to traitor [[Word Bearers]] and [[World Eaters]] forces. The [[Dreadwing]] under [[Farith Redloss]] was deployed to lead the operation.{{Fn|1}}
In the Zepath system, the ''[[Monarch's Glory]] '' along with three corvettes, tried to battle a World Eater's Eaters [[battle-barge]] and its four [[escort]]s, including one Word Bearers ship, but the ships fled. The Dark Angels went planetside and began to fight the forces of traitor legions that were left behind, but the Lion began to have his doubts that Curze was ever in the system. Before the Lion could consider leaving, his forces on the ground sent him an image of a massive tower made from skeletons, which prompted the Lion to go planet side. Once there, Redloss said that of the 5 million citizens of the city, Antilasta, not one was alive. The Lion was disgusted at the Word Bearers' ritual. Before the Lion could order a pursuit of the fled traitors, a message from the frigate ''[[Colgrevance]]'' to report an energy signature over the southern continent in a fortification that soon attacked a [[thunderhawk]] patrol.{{Fn|1}}
The Lion soon ordered an attack on the fortress, joining it by [[stormbird]]. The Dark Angels forced their way into the fortress's tunnelwork and began to fight the traitor legionaries still remaining on the planet. Tanks and Land Raiders began to fire on the secondary citadel of the fortress, hitting its energy shield and laying siege. Seeing that it would take too long to take the shields, [[Paladin (Dark Angels)|Paladin]] [[Xavis]] ordered a Dreadwing assault. Redloss ordered the ''[[Intolerant (Dark Angels)|Intolerant]] '' for focused fire as he organized his men. Redloss joined his men on a [[Spartan]] assault carrier. During the assault on the enemy fortifications, roughly 1,500 members of the Dreadwing were deployed. Redloss had the [[''Intolerant]] '' blast the energy shield with an [[Annihilator Cannon]], a [[warp]]-blasting weapon, as the legionaries chanted "We have come. We are death." As the legionaries reached the fortress, four [[Caestus assault ram]]s were launched and smashed into it, quickly laying waste to the Word Bearers' human [[serf]]s. The traitors resisted with two World Eaters [[dreadnought]]s and 20 legionaries. As forces on both sides were cut down, Redloss charged into one Dreadnought and brought it down with his axe before he attacked two of the World Eaters.{{Fn|1}}
In the capital Numentis, no one was left alive, but the Lion made it the focus of his victory. Survivors arrived, thanking the Dark Angels for their salvation but they were still afraid of legionaries and their war. This caused Holguin to doubt the Imperium Secundus, The Lion met with the people's leaders as the Dark Angels were rebuilding the city. The Word Bearers' towers were destroyed and the remains buried en masse. The Lion appointed the delegates as rulers to the world, but they were concerned that the Dark Angels would leave and not be there to protect the people further. After being dismissed, the new rulers tried to challenge Holguin about being abandoned, and Holguin reminded them that the Ultramarines would send support and that the war was started by [[Horus]].{{Fn|1}}
==See also==
*[[Battles of the Horus Heresy (List)]]
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