Flamini looked up at the towering figure seated high upon The Throne. "My lord, I have tallied the Chapter's casualties. In total, the Chapter lost two thousand nine hundred and fifty dead."
"Most fell on the battlefields of Mill World, fighting the Titan Legions and the Estaban III Skitarii air-defense forces. Seven hundred and forty died there."
Nimrod nodded. In the war for Colonid, the ones who had held the line head-on—and suffered the heaviest casualties—had been the Avenging Hounds, with fourteen thousand eight hundred killed.
In the original course of events, Khorag, who would have charged the Primarch Angron on Isstvan III and branded scars onto the Primarch's body, had instead died at Casolon's hands.
He had already received the detailed brief on the battle of Gatherman, including the death of the "Priest of Light" company captain, and how the extraordinary characteristics of the crystallized power he had bestowed had not been recovered in time, turning into a mystical item that fell into Mago's hands.
The Space Sharks had also lost three thousand and eighty men while raiding the Sons of Horus boarding troops and conquering Pandex.
Mm. Although the three worlds of the Rock of Ghana, Mill World, and Gatherman were all reduced to ruins and would need decades of reconstruction, I seized Pandex in the process.
Now, all of Colonid is mine.
Horus gained nothing.
In Nimrod's memory, the Warmaster had swiftly conquered the Cyclops Cluster, only meeting resistance from the Skitarii and the Shattered Legions on the forge world of Mezaan.
Even so, he had successfully occupied Manache, the former capital of the Mitu, and had nearly taken control of all Colonid.
*The Warmaster, who should have occupied almost all of Colonid, left with his tail between his legs, while I took the chance to snatch