Note: This article discusses material that was once considered canon but whose canonicity is now questionable. For the known canonical events of this campaign, please see 13th Black Crusade. "Thirteen times shall the Traitor King go forth. In the End Times the iron fortress shall be cast down. Its walls breached and its Gate forced open. Those that dwell beyond shall spill through it. The air shall burn and the ground shall melt, The Daemon shall lie down with the machine, Brother shall slay brother with fire and sword. And the sky-wound shall pour its malice forth. The Eye shall stare unblinking at its prize, and the Traitor King shall cross the bridge of stars. He shall return to finish the Warmonger's red work, Upon holy soil shall the fate of man be decided." —The Liber Malefact
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| - Note: This article discusses material that was once considered canon but whose canonicity is now questionable. For the known canonical events of this campaign, please see 13th Black Crusade. "Thirteen times shall the Traitor King go forth. In the End Times the iron fortress shall be cast down. Its walls breached and its Gate forced open. Those that dwell beyond shall spill through it. The air shall burn and the ground shall melt, The Daemon shall lie down with the machine, Brother shall slay brother with fire and sword. And the sky-wound shall pour its malice forth. The Eye shall stare unblinking at its prize, and the Traitor King shall cross the bridge of stars. He shall return to finish the Warmonger's red work, Upon holy soil shall the fate of man be decided." —The Liber Malefact
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- Battlefleet Cadia, Battlefleet Corona, Battlefleet Gothic, Battlefleet Scarus, Battlefleet Solar, 57 Imperial Navy Battlegroups, including Battlegroup Nemesis, Battlegroup Imperatis, and the Bakka Sector Task Force, 28 Adeptus Astartes Chapters, 5 Orders Militant of the Adepta Sororitas, Imperial Guard regiments from 18 worlds, Adeptus Mechanicus Skitarii regiments, 4 Titan Legions, Centurio Ordinatus, Eldar fleets, Necron fleets, see Imperial Order of Battle below
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| - Abaddon the Despoiler, Urkanthos , Zaraphiston, Devram Korda, Ygethmor, Zagthean, Typhus, Kossolax, Erebus, Ahriman, Lucius, Tarraq Darkblood, Varan , Krom Gat , Sevastus Kranon, Xorphas, Daemon Primarchs and many subsidiary Chaos Champions
- Lord Castellan Ursarkar E. Creed , Admiral Quarren, Lord Marshal Attica of the Imperial Guard, Great Wolf Logan Grimnar, Iron Father Kardan Stronos of the Iron Hands, Eldrad Ulthran
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| - Multiple Sectors of the Segmentum Obscurus
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| - Minor Chaos victory; Imperium of Man retains naval superiority in Cadian Gate; operations ongoing
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| - Agripinaa Sector, Belis Corona Sector, Cadia Sector and Scarus Sector of the Segmentum Obscurus
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| - Forces of Chaos gain foothold on Cadia; Abaddon escapes with Planet Killer and 1 Blackstone Fortress
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| - Tens of billions dead or corrupted
- In the millions; extensive losses amongst all Chaos assets
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| - Note: This article discusses material that was once considered canon but whose canonicity is now questionable. For the known canonical events of this campaign, please see 13th Black Crusade. "Thirteen times shall the Traitor King go forth. In the End Times the iron fortress shall be cast down. Its walls breached and its Gate forced open. Those that dwell beyond shall spill through it. The air shall burn and the ground shall melt, The Daemon shall lie down with the machine, Brother shall slay brother with fire and sword. And the sky-wound shall pour its malice forth. The Eye shall stare unblinking at its prize, and the Traitor King shall cross the bridge of stars. He shall return to finish the Warmonger's red work, Upon holy soil shall the fate of man be decided." —The Liber Malefact The 13th Black Crusade of Abaddon the Despoiler that began in 999.M41 resulted in the largest clash between Imperial and Chaos forces seen in the Milky Way Galaxy since the Horus Heresy ten thousand Terran years before. Abaddon raised the greatest army in service to the Chaos Gods since the time of Horus, and intended to bring an end to the Long War by driving on Terra, slaying the Emperor of Mankind upon His Golden Throne and at last completing the task the Traitor Legions had begun millennia before. During this great campaign, at least one of the remaining Blackstone Fortresses still in the hands of Abaddon the Despoiler was destroyed by Necron raiders, since they were weapons crafted by the Old Ones that were originally intended to destroy the Necrons' enslaved Star Gods, the C'tan. The 13th Black Crusade began as the in-game background to the 2003 worldwide Warhammer 40,000 Eye of Terror Campaign. At the time, it resulted in a minor victory for the Forces of Chaos. Its temporary conclusion provided the Warmaster of Chaos Undivided, Abaddon the Despoiler of the Black Legion, and his Chaotic allies the territorial foothold they had long sought within the Cadian Gate, though the servants of the Dark Gods suffered grievous losses to their naval warfleet. For several solar months after the pause in major combat operations, the surface of the Fortress World of Cadia was largely controlled by the Forces of Chaos, while the skies above Cadia were almost entirely ruled by Lord Admiral Quarren and the Gothic and Solar Battlefleet Groups as well as fleet elements from several Chapters of Space Marines. Thus, for a brief time, it seemed the ultimate result of the 13th Black Crusade was a stalemate between the forces of the Emperor and the Ruinous Powers. Having both space and air superiority provided a significant advantage to the Imperial forces, allowing the deployment of fresh troops and the continuous bombardment of Abaddon's trapped army on Cadia. In 2017, Games Workshop decided to pursue a different storyline than the stalemate that had emerged from the original 2003 worldwide campaign, and the course of the 13th Black Crusade was retconned along a different path.
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