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Horus eventually saw fit to have Loken eliminated during the betrayal at [[Isstvan III]], placing him at the front of the doomed invasion force alongside his friend and fellow marginalized Mournival member [[Tarik Torgaddon]]. When the [[virus bomb]] strike failed to kill all of the loyalist forces on the surface, the entirety of the [[traitor legions]] were eventually deployed to wipe out the survivors, who had fortified their position under Loken's, Torgaddon's, and Saul Tarvitz's command.
Loken fought to the last as a loyal servant of the [[Emperor]] and refused to give any quarter to those who had betrayed the Emperor in favour of Horus. He was mortally wounded on Isstvan III by his old comrade [[Abaddon|Ezekyle Abaddon]], and he 'perished ' in the final orbital bombardment of the planet, along with the last surviving loyalists<sup>3</sup>. Loken * and Torgaddon's deaths marked the removal of one of the final obstacle to Horus' great ambitions. *Although we are lead to believe that Loken Perrished in the final bombardment of Isstvan III there has never been any factual statement either way supporting his unfortuate demise or his survival of a second bombardment as the last we know of him he was traped under a layer of rubble as a Titan broke one of the walls of the building they were in
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