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.
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| - 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.
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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, Admiral Dostov, Lord Marshal Attica of the Imperial Guard, Great Wolf Logan Grimnar, Wolf Lord Orven Highfell , and Wolf Lord Sven Bloodhowl of the Space Wolves, Iron Father Kardan Stronos of the Iron Hands, Marshal Marius Almarich of the Black Templars, Captain Tor Garadon of the Imperial Fists, Master Korahael of the Dark Angels, Saint Celestine, Canoness Eleanor, Canoness Genevieve, Inquisitor Katarinya Greyfax, Archmagos Dominus Belisarius Cawl, Baroness Vardus of House Raven , Eldrad Ulthran, Trazyn the Infinite
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| - Multiple Sectors of the Segmentum Obscurus
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| - Chaos victory; Cadia destroyed, Cadian Gate seized by Forces of Chaos; Imperial defenders flee Cadia through Webway Gate on ice moon of Klaisus with aid of the Eldar
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| - Agripinaa Sector, Belis Corona Sector, Cadia Sector and Scarus Sector of the Segmentum Obscurus
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| - Fortress World of Cadia annihilated by kinetic impact of Blackstone Fortress Will of Eternity and Eye of Terror begins expansion across the galaxy; Abaddon seizes Cadian Gate with Planet Killer and 1 Blackstone Fortress remaining while the Forces of Chaos prepare final drive on Terra
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| - In the millions; extensive losses amongst all Chaos assets
- Tens of billions dead or corrupted, including almost all of the 850 million people of Cadia
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| - 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. The campaign began with a massive assault by the Forces of Chaos out of the Eye of Terror into the sectors of the Segmentum Obscurus directly adjacent to the Cadian Gate. Fighting erupted on dozens, if not hundreds, of worlds within this region of the galaxy, with the ultimate objective of Chaos the seizure of the Cadia System and the Fortress World of Cadia at its heart. This victory would remove the last major bastion preventing Abaddon from unleashing his full force upon the Imperium of Man's defences and assaulting Terra for the second time in ten thousand standard years. The forward elements of the Black Fleet of Abaddon were ultimately forced to retreat from the Cadia System by the combined forces of the Imperial Navy and the Necrons. With the withdrawal of the Chaos warfleet, the Imperial defenders of Cadia, led by its Lord Castellan, Ursarkar E. Creed, were able to defeat the remaining servants of the Ruinous Powers who had made planetfall in the initial assault on the Fortress World. But this victory proved to be no more than a brief respite. Abaddon launched a second, far larger assault upon the Cadian Gate that unleashed the full daemonic fury of the Eye of Terror directly upon an already-battered Cadia. Though the arrival of some unexpected Imperial reinforcements prevented Abaddon from personally sealing his victory by crushing Cadia's defenders, and lead to the destruction of the Blackstone Fortress Will of Eternity, the Despoiler unleashed a brutal contingency plan. He had one of the massive fragments of the Will of Eternity hurled from orbit like an artificial asteroid onto the surface of Cadia. The strike destroyed what remained of Cadia's faltering defences and the network of Necron-built Cadian Pylons that had long prevented the Eye of Terror from naturally expanding into the Cadian Gate. Within only solar hours, most of Cadia was in the process of being consumed by the Immaterium when the tectonic instability caused by the impact of the Blackstone Fortress finally caused Cadia to tear itself apart. By that time, the few surviving Imperial forces had evacuated the planet, harried by the ships of the Black Fleet. The 13th Black Crusade had been a triumph for the servants of the Dark Gods, and the Eye of Terror began to slowly expand without limit, opening Abaddon the Despoiler's coveted Crimson Path to Terra. Yet a handful of Imperial heroes had successfully escaped the fall of Cadia with the aid of the newborn Eldar faction known as the Ynnari through a Webway gate found on the ice moon of Klaisus in the Cadia System. Together, these Imperials would forge an uneasy alliance with the xenos that would offer a new hope for the servants of the Emperor in their fight against the waxing power of the Archenemy.
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