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Next Forrix is busying himself looking at the layout of the forces and where each ship is ensuring that each loyalist ship has an executioner alongside it or an AL team aboard ready to sabotage it. Perturabo informs him that he has been called to the surface and he leaves Forrix in control of the void element. Forrix sends the ready signal to Horus.

Mal informs Horus everything is ready. Horus tells him to pull everyone back except Fulgrim and to begin the massacre.
We see Appius wandering among the battlefield alongside Fabius.

Again we return to Orth who has wired himself into the Sicaran tank in order to control it as his body is failing him. He comes upon the retreating WE tank column and starts blasting them, he manages to destroy five in five seconds. He recalls his primarchs orders and plunges into the tanks again.

Back to Maun who has nothing left to fire in his ship and the same for all the ships flying alongside him. They see that the reinforcements are deploying and he orders to standby to evacuate whoever needs it.
Orasus continues his fight against the DG in the gas but before long they vanish back into the gas and Cassian orders all Salamanders to hold and pull back to the landing zones.

Astraea sees the landers and gunships of their 'reinforcements' coming.
Next Maun is told to take all RG ships back into orbit and clear the area to which he refuses.
He sees the legions pulling back from the sky, riding on tanks, on knights and thousands more just loping back on foot.

Despite their being almost no space the IW drop anyway and begin setting up emplacements and fortifications which sends a shiver down Astraea's spine.

Next we see Kor Phareon scoop dust from the ground to mark his forehead as he prays to chaos. Along with his sub commanders he gives the go ahead to encircle the incoming RG and gun them down when they try to get aboard their gunships.