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As the hour of the Horus Heresy grew near, Horus had little difficulty corrupting the bitter and unhappy Angron. Horus was able to feed the flames of Angron's discontent with the Emperor's prior behaviour, reinforcing Angron's perception that he had been betrayed and that the Emperor was a moral weakling. When the [[Sons of Horus]] broke with the Emperor's Imperium, Angron and the World Eaters were with them.{{Fn|5c}}
Angron and the World Eaters were first known to have worked to Lupercal's ends during the war with the [[Auretian Technocracy]], when Angron's [[203rd Expeditionary Fleet]] linked up with the [[63rd Expeditionary Fleet|63rd]] of Horus. Shortly after their arrival, a war started under false pretences so that Horus could secure valuable [[STC]] machines with which to win the loyalty of the [[Mechanicum]], the World Eaters worked in concert with the Sons of Horus to obliterate the Auretian civilisation. Originally, the 63rd and 203rd fleet Expeditions had arranged to rendezvous at [[Sardis]] to campaign the compliance of the [[Caiades Cluster]]. However, after Horus reemerged from the [[Serpent Lodge]] during his detour to [[Davin]], Horus sent word to the 203rd Fleet to instead rendezvous in the [[Drakonis Three Eleven]] binary cluster , where the Auretian Technocracy's world of [[Aureus]] was discovered. Hours after the 203rd's arrival, a war started under false pretences so that Horus could secure valuable [[STC]] machines with which to win the loyalty of the [[Mechanicum]], the World Eaters worked in concert with the Sons of Horus to obliterate the Auretian civilisation.{{Fn|23}}
When word of the rebellion on [[Isstvan III]] arrived, Angron was a member of Horus' war council which determined that the imminent campaign of reconquest on the planet was the perfect opportunity to rid their legions of the personnel believed unlikely to turn against the Emperor. A sizeable grouping of World Eaters was attached to the forces deployed to crush the rebellion, and like all the other victorious warriors, they were betrayed by their fellows in orbit. The ''[[Conqueror (Ship)|Conqueror]]'', the World Eaters Legion flagship, was amongst the vessels which commenced a [[Virus bomb|viral bombardment]] of the planet.{{Fn|15g}}
