Abaddon is confident that he can eventually smash open the Cadian System and flood into Segmentum Solar with an unprecedented number of Chaos warships. But driving his invasion across the stars to Terra is another matter -- such an act would spur so many Space Marine Chapters of the Adeptus Astartes to marshal against him that the Crusade would be forced into a stalemate. As tempting as a grinding, brutal war of attrition is, it cannot be allowed to come to pass. Instead, Abaddon is throwing his might into the Cadian Gate. His plan is for his warriors to bring about so much death and destruction that his daemonic allies can breach realspace wherever they wish and be sustained indefinitely by the unbridled mayhem that rages around them. The demolition of the strange black monoliths that dot