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Defeating the initial enemy defenses of asteroid-fortresses and [[Fire Ship]]s, Mortarion's fleet made a direct course for Galaspar itself, ignoring the surrounding planets. Reaching Galaspar's orbit, Mortarion led the invasion of the world from his personal assault barque, the ''[[Fourth Horseman]]''. The three kilometer-long craft ploughed into the upper [[Hive]]s of Galaspar, toppling the city's spires and unleashing its deadly cargo of 11,000 Death Guard [[Space Marine]]s. Galaspar's primary hive fell in a night and a day, the Death Guard killing any man, woman, or child who stood before them.{{Fn|1}}
The unprepared slave-soldiers of Galaspar found themselves reeling in terror at the Astartes onslaught. Falling back to defensive redoubts, the Galaspar force's [[Stubber]]s and [[Lasgun]]s proved useless against thick Astartes [[Power ArmorArmour]]. The Death Guard seized ground, destroyed enemy counter attacks, and advanced in its wake in a cycle that broke the Galaspar defenders. The Death Guard also employed biological weapons, using [[Phosphex Bomb]]s to sow death and terror. The enemy forces began a bloody retreat into the lower depths of Galaspar's hives but, even in this noxious and dark environment, the Death Guard found and slaughtered them. With Galaspar's primary hive in firm Death Guard control, the Legion's [[Techmarine]]s took control of the main planetary orbital defenses, quickly disabling them. This allowed the orbiting Death Guard fleet to safely land even more reinforcements on the world.{{Fn|1}}
However, the rulers of Galaspar were not yet defeated, and the world's secondary hives spewed forth tens of millions of soldiers and thousands of tanks. The Death Guard met the enormous attack, using their orbiting warships to unleash devastating bombardments on the tightly massed enemy forces. With the bulk of Galaspar's remaining army destroyed in the open, each of the world's secondary hives were methodically encircled, besieged, and violently captured, the Death Guard ignoring any proclamations of surrender. Mortarion showed no mercy, dispatching forces to pursue and hunt down the scattered remains of fleeing enemy forces in the later stages of the battle. It is said that not one of the enemy defenders survived the battle.{{Fn|1}} However Death Guard losses were also heavy, including its [[First Captain]] [[Antavus Barrazin]].{{Fn|2a}}
