Echoes of Eternity (Volume 7) (The Horus Heresy: Siege of Terra)

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Horus intended to capture Terra before the arrival of Roboute Guilliman from the galactic east, though he deployed Perturabo and the Iron Warriors to fortify the captured Sol System against any who may intrude upon the siege.

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All of this and much, much more is on its way next year, so you’ve certainly got plenty to look forward to. Despite grievous losses, the Titans, led by the infamous Imperator-class Battle Titan Dies Irae, gouged open breaches in the Imperial Palace's defenses, which the Traitors then flooded through. In the ensuing brawl Sigismund battled Kharn, but while the First Captain was the superior warrior the World Eater's Captain was now infused with Khornate strength.Desperate gambits are attempted: an unwilling saint is released into the ruins, as well as an enthusiastic sinner. The Warmaster’s horde advances through the fire and ash of Terra's dying breaths, forcing the loyalists back to the Delphic Battlement – the very walls of the Sanctum Imperialis. The myriad battles of the Siege of Terra series are pulling into a taut weave of tension, horror, and certain doom. With help from an unlikely quarter, the Space Wolves would eventually turn the tables on their attackers and make the Warp jump to Terra, well after the siege on the Imperial Palace had begun.

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You can’t let readers down by changing things, or by not giving them what they quite rightly expect to see. When we set out, we knew it would be a major project, and that it would probably appeal to a lot of people. It’s time to hand you back to Nick Kyme to guide you through the final stretch, but don’t worry – there’s still plenty more to come!Meanwhile, in the Signus Cluster, the Blood Angels, granted new and terrible power by a mysterious mass rage (that would resurface again during the Siege of Terra) had triumphed, smashed the hordes of the Chaos daemons asunder at the Battle of Signus Prime and were able to make the Warp jump to Terra following the dissolution of the Ruinstorm in the wake of the Second Battle of Davin.

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Dan: If you’d told me at the start it was going to take 17 years and 60-plus novels, I’d have laughed in your face and doubted I would still be there at the end. Not wanting to wage a purely defensive war and wishing to eventually retake the Lion's Gate Spaceport, Jaghatai Khan led a 300-strong Jetbike charge from the Colossi Gate that devastated Death Guard-led forces until at the last moment the White Scars withdrew back to their own lines. The loyalists responded with their own aerial defenses, and massive dogfights erupted over the Palace as the conscripts outermost trenches around the walls held against the attacks by the Lost and the Damned.However damage to the actual Palace itself was minimal due to a sophisticated multi-layered and self-repairing Void Shield system known as The Aegis as well as the fact that Terra's last orbital plate was placed over the Palace to serve as a shield and gun platform. Every fan of Warhammer 40,000 has heard of the First Founding Chapters such as the Ultramarines, Blood Angels, and Imperial Fists, but with this anthology, The Successors get their time to shine. Following the Battle of Beta-Garmon, the door to the Sol System was open and Horus finally mustered his forces on Ullanor after years of war. The Adeptus Ministorum tell the story that it was a lone Imperial Army trooper named Ollanius Pius who held the line, going as far as to canonise the man as the Guardian Saint of the Astra Militarum in the 32 nd Millennium, yet many doubt that mere humans would have accompanied the Emperor and His Primarchs to confront Horus. Meanwhile inside the Inner Palace, Euphrati Keeler's Lectitio Divinitatus continued to gain influence in the throngs of refugees and desperate.