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The ''Terminus Est'' and Typhon reappeared on [[Ynyx]] and upon the First Captain's request Mortarion himself agreed to journey on the vessel to [[Terra]] instead of the ''[[Endurance]]''. However this was part of Typhon's elaborate plot to corrupt the Death Guard, and in the subsequent trap within the [[Warp]] the ''Terminus Est'' along with the rest of the Death Guard fleet became daemonically corrupted.{{Fn|3}} When the ''Terminus Est'' was sighted as part of the armada that followed [[Horus]] to [[Terra]] it had changed. The Mark of Nurgle was upon it and all the other vessels of the Death Guard. While [[Mortarion]] led the assault on the Lion's Gate starport, Typhus controlled the Plaguefleet and it is suspected actually began the orbital bombardment of the Emperor’s Palace.{{Cite this}} During the [[Siege of Terra]], the ''Terminus Est'' took part in the destruction of the Emperor's flagship ''[[Imperator Somnium]], but was heavily damaged after the latter exploded.{{Fn|4}}
Following Horus’ [[Horus]]’ death and the arrival of loyalist reinforcements the ''Terminus Est''’s formidable reserves of attack craft were expended as a rearguard while the Death Guard were evacuated back to their ships. Along with the rest of the [[Traitor Legions]] the Death Guard fled to the [[Eye of Terror]] and disappeared from Human knowledge for centuries.{{Fn|2}}
In the Eye it is suspected that the Traitor Legions fought amongst themselves. It is the boast of the Death Guard that their Primarch-turned-Daemon Prince Mortarion conquered a mighty empire within the Eye and transformed it to his own tastes. Typhus and the ''Terminus Est'' were among the first of the Death Guard to be sighted again when they brought plague to the [[Agripinaa System]] in M35. The success of the ''Terminus Est'' in defeating the battlegroups sent against it had a major effect on the thinking of the [[Imperial Navy]]. In [[M36]] an [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] expeditionary force succeeded in finding schematics of its design on the perdita world of [[Barbarus]] and began building the Despoiler class.{{Fn|2}}
