Liberation of Numinal

The Liberation of Numinal, at times also referred to as the Reconquest of Numinal, is a major battle that took place in the distant border region between the Segmentum Obscurus and the Ultima Segmentum in the first years of the Horus Heresy. Known as the Coronid Deeps this region almost entirely fell in the hands of the Traitors during the first year of the epic civil war that is the Horus Heresy. Following the defeats of local Imperial Commanders during the dire events of the Scouring of the Cyclops Cluster, the Manachean War or the Treachery at Port Maw, the Liberation of Numinal is the first strategic victory of the loyalist camp since the infamous Gethsamaine Raid which constituted at best a pyrrhic victory for the loyalists.

The Warmaster's Talon
Numinal had been conquered early on in Horus’ campaign to establish his own empire, however with his ultimate goal in sight, no Sons of Horus or Traitor Astartes would be squandered in the conquest of a mere Agri-World. In 008.M31 Numinal would nevertheless be invaded by Traitor forces, namely Mechanicum Taghmata forces bearing the arachnid-glyph of Forge World Cyclothrathe. Resistance was quickly overcome but never truly eradicated as survivors of the 1023rdand 2774th Obed Cohorts had successfully taken to the wild and were conducting a highly coordinated guerilla war. This resistance had ultimately led Archmagos Draykavac, Cyclothrathe's foremost warlord to address the matter. His plan was immensely simple. As he could not draw out the Obed Cohorts, he would annihilate the civilian population and through forced servitor conversion or Adsecularis lobotomisation add its numbers to his own ranks. The Cyclothrathine Mechanicum had commissioned several amphibious macro-crawlers equipped with servitor-controlled charnel-surgery chambers, corpse-sluice and protein recovery vats so that every human body could be fully exploited - nothing would be wasted. These nightmarish machines went out with escort maniples drawn from Draykavak’s own personal force of covenant-bound Imperial Knights from the thrall-House Atrax. Against the power of these Knights and their hulking war machines of the Mechanicum, nothing left on Numinal could stand. Dividing the entire planetary surface into sectors to be processed in turn, Draykavac started his slow, merciless and methodical pogrom.

But unknown to the inhuman Magos, their action were being observed and other hands were laying plans against them. [[Category:L]]