

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. 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. 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. 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.Ībaddon 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 13th Black Crusade of Abaddon the Despoiler that began in ca.

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
