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The Death of Isstvan III The first wave of attacks on the rebel planet of Isstvan III by the Space Marines of the Emperor's Children, Death Guard and World Eater Legions were devastating. Within hours the rebels were in utter disarray. Tens of thousands of the planetary defence forces had been crushed in a series of hammer-blow assaults. The Space Marines were jubilant, the Emperor’s law would be quickly reinstated and the miscreant rebels brought to justice. Just as victory seemed assured, disaster struck the Space Marine forces on the planet. All communications with the orbiting fleet ceased and the encircling battleships began to bombard the planet. A thousand virus bombs rained down onto Isstvan III, within moments razing every city to the ground. Millions died as the giant bombs exploded around them. Worse still was the carnage wreaked by the bombs’ viral payload in the wake of the firestorm. Virus bombs were devised to cleanse planets of all life, and so it was on Isstvan III, the six billion inhabitants of the planet had no chance of survival. Horus the Warmaster had at last declared his hand and openly defied the Emperor. Ordered to quell a rebellion on Isstvan III and reinstate law and order, he had instead ordered an orbital bombardment that had utterly annihilated the population. He had also planned that the virus bombs would destroy a host of Space Marines he could not trust to fight for him in the coming struggle with the Emperor. However, the Warmaster’s plans were upset. Some loyalist Space Marines remained onboard the orbiting ships. Among them was Captain Garro of the Death Guard, a Terran, one of the original recruits to the fourteenth Legion. As soon as the bombardment began, Garro instinctively beamed warning messages to his battle-brothers on the planet’s surface. First Captain Tarvitz of the Emperor’s Children had a similar reaction. The loyalists were immediately attacked and slaughtered by their traitorous brethren. A few escaped aboard the commandeered frigate Eisenstein led by Garro, whilst Tarvitz seized aThunder-hawk and made for the planet below. On the planet’s surface had been over one hundred companies of Space Marines drawn from the Emperor’s Children, Death Guard and World Eaters Legions. Of these fully two-thirds miraculously survived the bombardment, thanks to the warning messages they received from their loyal comrades in orbit. The Horus Heresy I 81
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