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Despite having gone rogue, the Night Lords were one of the seven Legions dispatched to destroy the gathered [[Sons of Horus]], [[World Eaters]], [[Death Guard]], and [[Emperor's Children]] at the [[Isstvan]] [[system]]. While records do not clearly explain why an apparent rogue legion was tasked to join the loyalist Astartes force charged with exterminating the traitors, at least one account puts forth the view that the Imperial justice system was both so slow and so unsure of how to deal with the Night Lords that the Imperial military commanders issued the order anyway, in their hurry to assemble a powerful force with which to crush Horus.{{Fn|1}}
Upon [[Isstvan V]], the Night Lords, alongside the [[Word Bearers]], [[Iron Warriors]], and the [[Alpha Legion]], turned on the loyalist Legions who had arrived earlier and took part in the [[Dropsite Massacre]]. Upon decimating the [[Raven Guard]], [[Iron Hands]], and the [[Salamanders]], the Night Lords returned to the galactic east and began an apparently unfocused genocidal campaign; most likely this was designed to stop any support from this area reaching [[Terra]].{{Fn|1}} Eventually, however, the Night Lords fleet was ambushed and badly mauled by the [[Dark Angels]] at the climax of the [[Thramas Crusade]], with one fifth of the Legion confirmed destroyed. Worse still for the Night Lords, Curze himself had been badly injured and rendered comatose by [[Lion El'Jonson]] during the debacle, forcing [[Sevatar]] to take command of the Legion and organize organise a regrouping.{{Fn|15a}} Before his capture by the Dark Angels Sevatar would divide the fleet into six parts and order their commanders to scatter. Meanwhile, Curze was stranded aboard the Dark Angels flagship ''[[Invincible Reason]]'', eluding capture and eventually escaping to [[Macragge]].{{Fn|15d}}{{Fn|41}}
Meanwhile the splinter fleets of Night Lords forces scattered during Thramas continued to wreak havoc across [[Ultima Segmentum]]. One notable example was the [[Battle of Sotha]], where Night Lords under the command of [[Krukesh]] and [[Gendor Skraivok]] attempted to secure the xenos device known as the [[Pharos (Device)|Pharos]] from [[Imperium Secundus]].{{Fn|18d}} Later a renewed power struggle to determine the future of the Legion erupted aboard the ''[[Nightfall]]'', with Curze's former [[Equerry]] [[Shang]] wanting to continue the search for the Primarch and become reaving warbands. However Shang was slain by Gendor Skraivok, who proclaimed that he intended to join with Horus and push on Terra.{{Fn|19}}
