| rdfs:comment | - It was while Horus made his plans for what would become known as the infamous Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V, that the Warmaster sent word to the XVIIth Legion’s Primarch Lorgar that the time had come for his Astartes, the Word Bearers, to strike against the Imperium. The Warmaster was keenly aware of the bitter hatred that Lorgar had for his Primarch brother Roboute Guilliman and his XIIIth Legion, the Ultramarines, who had once humiliated the Word Bearers by destroying their city of Monarchia on the world of Khur at the Emperor's orders during the Great Crusade. Horus told Lorgar that he had fed Guilliman false intelligence in regard to a possible threat in the Segmentum Tempestus, far to the galactic south of Terra that stemmed from the Orks of the Ghaslakh Empire. Horus had ordered th
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| abstract | - It was while Horus made his plans for what would become known as the infamous Drop Site Massacre on Istvaan V, that the Warmaster sent word to the XVIIth Legion’s Primarch Lorgar that the time had come for his Astartes, the Word Bearers, to strike against the Imperium. The Warmaster was keenly aware of the bitter hatred that Lorgar had for his Primarch brother Roboute Guilliman and his XIIIth Legion, the Ultramarines, who had once humiliated the Word Bearers by destroying their city of Monarchia on the world of Khur at the Emperor's orders during the Great Crusade. Horus told Lorgar that he had fed Guilliman false intelligence in regard to a possible threat in the Segmentum Tempestus, far to the galactic south of Terra that stemmed from the Orks of the Ghaslakh Empire. Horus had ordered the XIIIth and the XVIIth Legions to muster and meet at the world of Calth in the Ultramarines' Realm of Ultramar, in order to conduct a massive joint campaign of extermination against the Ghaslakh xenohold, a common mission for the Astartes during the final days of the Great Crusade. It would be at Calth that Lorgar would launch a surprise attack on the Ultramarines whilst they were gathered for the campaign against the Orks of Ghaslakh that would never begin. The XIIIth Legion would be caught completely unaware while the Word Bearers seized the advantage of surprise to completely annihilate their hated rivals. This treacherous campaign would come to be known as the Battle of Calth or the Calth Atrocity. There were many portents of the tragedy soon to unfold upon Calth. Given the extraordinary thoroughness with which the XIIIth Legion maintained its readiness, it might have been considered tragic, or incompetent, that so few were heeded. Before the attack on Calth, those gifted with psychic abilities suffered severe headaches and pain behind the eyes. One such gifted individual was Tylos Rubio. He ignored the mysterious pain, chalking it up to nothing more than fatigue after having gone without rest for several days during the preparation phase for the coming campaign against the Orks. It had not been possible to shut down higher mental functions and sleep, or at least remedially meditate, a common form of rest for the genetically-engineered Astartes. This mysterious pain was actually a warning sign broadcast through the Warp of the impending approach of the Forces of Chaos. But Rubio and all of his former Librarian comrades ignored the headaches. Few would survive the coming assault long enough to regret it.
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