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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, Jaghatai's ship ''[[Lance of Heaven]]'' was boarded by [[Daemon]]s and the Khan slew the [[Keeper of Secrets]] [[Manushya-RakshasiRakshsasi]]. Thanks to the efforts of [[Revuel Arvida]], the White Scars fleet was able to navigate the Webway and reappear over [[Terra]].{{Fn|6x}} 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}}
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Titandeath (Novel)]], Chapter 31
*{{Endn|11}}: [[The Solar War (Novel)]], Chapter 13
*12: [[The Lost and the Damned (Novel)]] :
**{{Endn|12a}}: Chapter 3
**{{Endn|12b}}: Chapters 19-21
