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===Warden of the Nephilim Sector===
During the [[Pariah Crusade]], Messinius was appointed by Guilliman to accompany [[Belisarius Cawl]] to [[Planet 7/2]] as [[Fleet Primus]] and [[Fleet Tertius]] waged ruinous diversionary attacks.{{Fn|7a}} Leading 426 150 former [[Greyshield]]s who had just been declared official White Consuls, Messinius' forces took grievous losses to the [[Necrons]]. However Cawl was successful in interfacing with the Necron command pyramid on the planets surface to disrupt the [[Pariah Nexus]] and the survivors escaped back into orbit with a [[Pharos]] device.{{Fn|7b}} Wounded during the battle, in the aftermath Messinius underwent the [[Rubicon Primaris]] to become a [[Primaris Space Marine]].{{Fn|7c}} While in recovery he met with Guilliman, who appointed Messinius as the new [[Fleetmaster]] of [[Fleet Tertius]] as well as the Warden of the [[Nephilim Sector]].{{Fn|7d}}
Messinius was left in command of an Imperial presence to the southeast of the Nephilim Sector. While he was supposed to expand and reinforce what Guilliman had reconquered, the effects of the anomaly on normal humans made that difficult, and the unexpected arrival of [[Orks]] put them on the defensive.{{Fn|6}}
