Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-112.207.224.117-20160114023716/@comment-143.81.103.35-20160412042028

112.207.250.249 wrote: her read this   Ten standard millennia later, a captured Fallen Angel named Merir Astelan  would tell a different version of these events. According to Astelan, Lion El'Jonson was late in arriving to the defence of Terra not due to being too far away, but because he was waiting to see whether it was Horus or the Emperor who won the great conflict between them. Astelan, believing that those who were with Jonson would not forgive them for turning on their brothers, ordered the defensive batteries of Caliban to fire upon the returning Dark Angels' fleet. The difference between the Dark Angels' view of the fall of Caliban and that of the Fallen Angel Astelan is considered to be due to Astelan's literally warped perception of these events, but some aspects of this story may ring with truth after all, and Lion El'Jonson might have betrayed the Emperor in his heart, if not in his mind, when he was most needed. that's the true story

"According to Astelan" <--- Here's the first flaw in your argument.

"...MAY ring with truth..." [my emphasis added] <--- next flaw

"...Lion El'Jonson MIGHT have betrayed the Emperor in his heart..." [my emphasis added] <---Third flaw

"that's the true story" <--- or, just maybe, it's the fabricated tale from a known warp-affected TRAITOR.

Also, Astelan's account of the events does not explain the warp storms and how only SOME of the Dark Angels (those that fought AGAINST The Lion) were scattered across the galaxy while those that fought WITH The Lion were unaffected. Nor does any of that story explain why El'Jonson's present location is only known to the Watchers in the Dark and The Emperor himself.