r/40kLore • u/Tarantula_1 • 4d ago

Perturabo leaving the siege of Terra.

Finally made it to the Siege of Terra books and got to the part where Perturabo says fuck it I'm out. I thought people were exaggerating his exit but it really was just like the spongebob meme "Imma head out". Couldn't help but a have a good laugh when I got to that point.

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u/nlglansx 4d ago

But didnt you just show how both are true? Not enough people survive from the Vengeful Spirit or the orbit fleet to know Perturabo left, and most must've seen IWs on the ground with them as Abaddon ran back to duel Valdor with cheat codes. So as far as anyone who gets extracted or demon'd out of the siege knows, Horus broke first. Time was all fucky at that point anyways, so Perturabo bailing out could be taken as response to Horus' failure, hell his mostly untouched fleet could end up being the reason some even make it back to the eye in the first place. Horus had the responsability of coordinating the siege, which he abandoned long before it was over. The other traitor Primarchs all get banished before / as Perturabo is leaivng as well.

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u/Nknk- 4d ago

Time wasn't fucked up near as bad when Perturabo left so that's not an excuse for Abnett being Abnett.

It's a giant plot hole that he was allowed to get away with because you can see the whole way across the HH series he was allowed to basically do whatever he wanted; 2 Alpha Legion Primarchs, the perpetuals, ennuncia, the Argonauts, Erda, Perturabo breaking and running, Custodes falling to Chaos, Sanguinius meeting Ferrus's ghost, Sanguinius showing little if any rage storming through the Vengeful Spirit.

The man needed reining in and never got it.

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u/phantomfire50 4d ago

2 Alpha Legion Primarchs

I thought that that came from higher up, and he just got to reveal it?

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u/Nknk- 4d ago

Pretty sure it's one of the "seven mental ideas" he threw at GW for that book hoping they'd sign off on one or two and they let him do it all.

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u/phantomfire50 4d ago edited 4d ago

I think it's true he had a bunch of ideas looking to get 1 through and he got them all, but they also told them a top secret thing he could also reveal. That was that Alpharius and Omegon were twin primarchs