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====Aftermath====

While victorious, the battle had proven far more costly and time-consuming than Horus could have envisioned. Moreover, by this point [[Fulgrim]] had finally returned with troubling news. Ferrus Manus had refused to join their cause and it was only a matter of time before their treachery was discovered by Terra. Horus finally withdrew his forces from Isstvan III, leaving an utterly dead world behind. He immediately set about for the next phase of his reformulated plan, regaining the initiative with an [[Drop Site Massacre|even greater act of treachery]] at [[Isstvan V]].{{Fn|1n}}{{Fn|2b}}

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