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'''Heliosa-78''' was the ruling Matriarch of [[Luna]]'s [[Selenar]] gene-cults. Arrogant and gaudy, Heliosa nonetheless maintained her position over the remaining astartes-creation technology on Luna.
During the [[Solar War]] at the end of the [[Horus Heresy]], she was commanded by [[Rogal Dorn]] to destroy her precious [[Gene-Seed]] technology on Luna should it fall into traitor hands. However as [[Abaddon]] and his forces stormed Luna, she hesitated to carry out the [[Primarch]]'s orders. She instead pledged herself to [[Warmaster]] [[Horus]] and pledged to deliver onto him new Space Marines.{{Fn|1}}
By the end of the [[Siege of Terra]] Heliosa-78 had managed to build a quasi-"legion" of 7,000 crazed [[Simulacra Astartes]] through a method of mass production dubbed gene-looming.{{Fn|2b}} These cheap Astartes copies were all wiped out during the [[Retaking of Luna]], though during the conflict Heliosa was possibly able to escape with some fellow Selenar thanks to the sacrifice of a [[Sons of Horus]] force led by [[Chief Apothecary]] [[Vardesh Kraiya]].{{Fn|2c}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[The Solar War (Novel)]] - Chapters 20-22
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Ashes of the Imperium (Novel)]] - **{{Endn|2a}}: Limited Edition Artwork**{{Endn|2b}}: Chapter 18**{{Endn|2c}}: Chapter 32
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