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This is as true of loyalty as it is of steel, for loyalty that is never tested is as worthless as flawed metal.”  \nCodicil 13:9, The Book of Vulkan  \n1  \nA flAWed heArt  \nThe storm of war came unbidden and unexpected to the northern expanses of the Imperium during the opening of the seventh year of the 31st Millennium, at the very outset of the wars that would later be known as the Horus Heresy. Spreading from the ruined worlds ofthe Isstvan System like a dark stain across the face of the Emperor’s once-vast realm, the Legions sworn to the Traitor Warmaster took system after system, wielding lies, threats and cruel violence with equal abandon. Even as those who remained loyal struggled to comprehend the conflict that had taken form around them, the Traitors secured for themselves a dark realm in the far galactic north. Yet, even in its birthing throes, Horus’ empire showed its flaws, for those of his brothers he had turned to his cause and named as warlords and satraps of his new conquests quickly fell to bickering at the slightest setback, ever-keen to place themselves above their brethren.  \nOf the early failures of Horus’ great hosts, one of the most notable is the Siege of Epsilon-Stranivar IX, known to the armies of the Great Crusade as Fortress Stranivar, a conflict that features prominently in several Legions’ battle honours. Found at the very edges ofthe Coronid Deeps, Fortress Stranivar had at one point served as a forward staging point for the Great Crusade, and now stood as the last redoubt for broken Imperial battalions retreating from battlegrounds across the galactic north, the last Loyalist stronghold on Horus’ flanks. A small Imperial Fists garrison, augmented by companies of the Raven Guard, Salamanders, Iron Hands and even a contingent of  \nerrant Blood Angels whose craft had evaded the pursuing forces of Horus, held the world, refusing to retreat in the face of overwhelming assault having sworn inviolable oaths to secure it in the Emperor’s name. It fell to the amassed might of the Iron Warriors, Death Guard and Alpha Legion to cast down the Loyalists’ fortifications and claim the defiant world for the Warmaster, a task that was to reveal the deeply graven flaws in Horus’ host.  \nWhere the Loyalist Legions stood shoulder to shoulder as brothers, united by their defiance of the Traitor Warmaster, each of the Legions sworn to Horus fought only for themselves. Each of the three waged a separate campaign, making little attempt to share resources or intelligence, and placing the blame for their failures on their rivals. In particular, the Iron Warriors contingent, the 114th Grand Battalion, was ill-used by its allies. Time and time again the Alpha Legion companies allowed them to attack unsupported into the guns of the dug-in Loyalists while using the confusion to mount their own spoiling attacks on high priority targets, claiming all the glory and ignoring the cost in lives paid by Perturabo’s sons. During the climactic battle of the campaign, at the Siege of Vharna where the Traitor host broke on the Loyalists’ lines, the 114th Grand Battalion was effectively abandoned by both the Alpha Legion and the Death Guard. Left to act as a sacrificial rearguard, of the 6,000 Iron Warriors who took to the field, less thana third would leave alive and the highest ranked officer who remained to them, Nârik Dreygur oftheApolakron, swore that one day his fallen brothers would be avenged.  \nWAr in the Coronid deeps  \nAs the hosts ofthe Warmaster first marched on the Imperium, they sought to conquer those regions of the Northern Fringes that sat close by Isstvan, seeking to create a dark empire from which Horus could fuel the campaign to assault the walls of the Imperial Palace on Terra itself. Absolute control of this area of space was vital to his plans, for without a stable industrial ","cbCaie9nNxJkfuUT","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaie9nNxJkfuUT","pdf",3978407,12,"English","# A flAWed heArt\n## War in the Coronid deeps\n## Devils from the Outer Dark","[{\"question\":\"What lesson about loyalty is set up at the beginning of the narrative?\",\"answer\":\"It states that all things must be tested, and that loyalty never tested is as worthless as flawed metal, citing Codicil 13:9 from The Book of Vulkan.\"},{\"question\":\"Why was Fortress Stranivar strategically important to Horus’ plans?\",\"answer\":\"It sat at the edges of the Coronid Deeps and linked to key stable warp-canals, making it a potential fortified beachhead for counter-invasions if held by Loyalists.\"},{\"question\":\"How did disunity among Horus’ forces affect the campaign outcomes?\",\"answer\":\"Instead of coordinating, the traitor legions fought separate campaigns and blamed rivals, with examples of one ally abandoning another, turning battles into sacrificial failures rather than coherent assaults.\"}]","Upon the Anvil of WAr - A flAWed heArt | PDF",1791333741,18]