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**The Second Black Crusade did involve an attack through the Cadian Gate, however it also resulted in an actual attack and besieging of Cadia itself, something the account of Dorn's Death in Index Astartes states did not happen at that time.
**In the [[Index Astartes II]], Dorn's death is said to have taken place "soon after the disappearance of his brother", [[Corvus Corax]] into the [[Eye of Terror]], which further guarantees it could not have been the 12th, as Corax had been long gone by that point; more generally, it implies an earlier crusade, as Corax's absence from galactic events before his disappearance is less plausible the longer it is.
*[[Codex: Space Marines (6th Edition)]] describes his hand being in possession of the Imperial Fists as of [[M32]], inspiring the Imperial Fists from the "Ork Onslaughts"{{fn|51}} Although it might seem like these Ork Onslaughts may refer to the [[War of the Beast]], the only Black Crusade (of Abaddon's) to occur in [[M32]] was the [[2nd Black Crusade]] in 597.[[M32]]{{fn|41}}, 50 years after the end of the War of the Beast in 546.[[M32]].{{fn|52}}
Several of these details are not reconcilable (i.e. the hand being discovered in M32 and the ship being built in M36). Thus, depending on which source one goes by, in terms of associating one of the 12 Black Crusades of Abaddon Dorn's death may have occurred at different times.
