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| - Forrix, known as "The Breaker," was an Iron Warriors Warsmith and First Captain of the 1st Grand Battalion. During his time in the IVth Legion, he rose to the honourary position of Triarch, a member of Perturabo's inner circle of advisors called the Trident. He was a formidable warrior and Imperial hero during the Great Crusade. In the midst of the cleansing of the Hrud Warrens on the world of Gugann, the IV Legion was notified of the rebellion of its homeworld. It was the Warmaster Horus himself who broke the news to Perturabo that his homeworld of Olympia had risen up in rebellion against the Imperium. His adoptive father Dammekos, the Tyrant of Lochos, had died and the Olympian population had taken up arms against the Imperium following years of relentless anti-Imperial propaganda by th
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| - Forrix, known as "The Breaker," was an Iron Warriors Warsmith and First Captain of the 1st Grand Battalion. During his time in the IVth Legion, he rose to the honourary position of Triarch, a member of Perturabo's inner circle of advisors called the Trident. He was a formidable warrior and Imperial hero during the Great Crusade. In the midst of the cleansing of the Hrud Warrens on the world of Gugann, the IV Legion was notified of the rebellion of its homeworld. It was the Warmaster Horus himself who broke the news to Perturabo that his homeworld of Olympia had risen up in rebellion against the Imperium. His adoptive father Dammekos, the Tyrant of Lochos, had died and the Olympian population had taken up arms against the Imperium following years of relentless anti-Imperial propaganda by the dead Tyrant. Perturabo was by this time exhausted by what he saw as the need to repeatedly prove his worth to the Emperor, and the thought of being the Primarch of the only Space Marine Legion unable to hold its own homeworld deeply shamed him. Perturabo’s anger was finally unleashed, and upon his return to his homeworld, the Primarch enacted such fearsome vengeance that countless innocents were slaughtered and entire cities burned. Perturabo and the Iron Warriors brutally suppressed the rebellion on the streets of the city-states of Olympia. No one was spared. It was the principle of surrender or no quarter, and the Iron Warriors had grown accustomed to granting no quarter. Perturabo watched as the Olympian fortifications in which he had once taken such pride were overcome. By the time the massacre was over, Olympia had been culled into slavery. Five million innocent civilians had been killed in the process. As the pyres burned through the long Olympian night, the Iron Warriors slowly realised the extent of what they had done. One moment they had been humanity's heroes assaulting the hideous alien Hrud, and the next they were committing genocide against their own people. In the aftermath of his vengeance, Perturabo knew utter despair, barely able to comprehend the crimes he had committed in his rage. He knew that the Emperor could never forgive him for his crimes. Guilt also touched Forrix in his more private moments as he remembered the assault up the Kephalan Hill towards the last refuge of the self-appointed Tyrant of Olympia, fighting through fortifications incorporated into the palace by a youthful Perturabo. Defences that would have been virtually impregnable with Iron Warriors defending them were overcome in days, but the cost of that victory had ripped a terrible wound in the IVth Legion's soul. Before his Primarch could set about righting his terrible deed, word came of Horus' virus-bombing of the Traitor Legions' Loyalists remnants at Istvaan III, and the Iron Warriors were ordered by the Emperor to confront the Traitors and bring them to justice. The Iron Warriors also received news of the most inconceivable kind: Astartes had slain Astartes. That news would have been shattering under normal circumstances, but when heard amidst the ruins of a world that were thick with the stench and corpses of the dead, it was apocalyptic. Not long after, news arrived that Leman Russ had led his Space Wolves in an attack upon Magnus the Red and his Thousand Sons upon their homeworld of Prospero. The assault had been ordered as a result of Magnus' continued violation of the Imperial Edicts of Nikaea forbidding the use of psykers by the Legiones Astartes.
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