At the Angel Fleet's position within the Golden Crusade's branch fleet.
Ordered reality and Psychic Power divided the entire barren planet in two.
Blood Angels Chapter Master Dante led the Sons of Angels in a bloody tug-of-war against the Slaves to Darkness on the planet's surface.
Beyond the planet, the Angel Fleet faced off against another massive fleet.
In the battle on the surface, the Sons of Angels fought a combined force of Thousand Sons and Word Bearers.
In the Void War beyond the planet, the Sons of Angels needed only face the Word Bearers' warships, but that was still far from easy.
As one of the three Legions that had not fractured after their fall, the Word Bearers possessed formidable resources. The fleet they had deployed vastly outnumbered the Blood Angels fleet. They had even directly intercepted the Angel Fleet's support for the surface battle, leaving Dante to lead the Chapter and its successor Chapters in a head-on clash against the Thousand Sons and Word Bearers on the ground.
Just like the Battle of Baal all those years ago.
Faced with the current situation, Dante could no longer hold on alone. He had long since awakened his Primarch.
Sanguinius personally commanded from the flagship.
Yet even Dante's Primarch found the current battle situation exceptionally thorny.
"Father, every warship of the Lamenters has moved in."
Hearing his son's report, Sanguinius's worries deepened.
The Lamenters possessed a powerful fleet, and that fleet was Sanguinius's final trump card. If the enemy had any more surprises in store for him, the only thing he could think of doing was personally leading a boarding party against the enemy warship with the strongest firepower, opening up the situation that way.
With the war having reached this point, Sanguinius, awakened by Dante to aid his sons,