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The '''Battle of Kalleth''' was a battle in the [[Horus Heresy]] between the [[Night Lords]] and [[Ashen Claws]].{{fn|1a}} Although the Night Lords were victorious, [[Praetor (Rank)|Captain]] [[Kheron Ophion|Ophion]]'s death caused the [[Nostramo Sector]] to fall into strife in the following years.{{fn|1b}}

In the aftermath of the [[Thramas Crusade]], Ophion returned to the Nostramo Sector with a force of nine thousand [[Night Lords]]{{fn|1b}} seeking to gather reinforcements for the [[Horus|Warmaster]]'s cause. Above the isolated world of [[Kalleth]], an advance squadron of his fleet was suddenly attacked by a dozen [[Strike Cruiser|cruisers]] emerging from the [[warp]]. Communications intercepted from the rogue fleet identified them as the [[Ashen Claws]].{{Fn|1a}}

Little is known of the remainder of the battle of the surface. Six years later, during the [[Scouring of the Nostramo Sector]], the world was found lifeless but for a signs that a handful of individuals might have managed to survive in the canyons and ice caves. The wreck of the ''Shroud of Eventide'' was found with fewer than a hundred dead crew aboard, none of them Legionaries, with a nearby mass grave containing four hundred corpses of both humans and Legionaries.{{fn|1a}} With Ophion presumed dead, the Nostramo Sector began to fall back into strife.{{fn|1b}}

*1:[[The Horus Heresy Book Six - Retribution]]

**{{Endn|1a}}: pgs.130-139