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The outrage from such a monsterous action had not fallen upon deaf ears.
The news was that Perterabo, Primarch of the 4th, stood upon the Astartes Tower and looked upon his Legion; he made the customary speech. He had declared upon that moment that he had gone through all records of what the 4th Legion did and saw that the 4th were fools.
Discipline needed to be made as a demonstration of the egregious amount of errors the 4th committed. To teach them that there was new leadership in charge and that they could not fight the way they did so before.
Thus he declared that his sons would commit decimation. The Sargents of his Legion each opened a box that was handed to them earlier to show a series of sticks. They each drew the stick, with the largest stick signifying that they were to be killed by their brothers.
Upon the Parade Grounds before the Astartes Tower, blood was drawn for the first time.
Word came from Guilliman first, who decried it an act of dishonor as well as a waste of human life. Rogal Dorn did so as well, citing that a Father should not slaughter his own sons for such mediocre reasons. Sanguinius made his voice known for even as someone as relatively new to the Crusade told his brother that he would never fight alongside Perterabo.
Even Fulgrim, for how much TalOS was annoyed by the Primarch, admired his brother’s snipe at the useless slaughter of those who would have been better off alive.
The only ones not to make their words known were Magnus, Mortarion, and Horus. TalOS could guess Magnus was too busy at the moment to make any kind of statement while Mortarion seemed to care the least about anything other than war.
Unlike these two Horus did not have an excuse. It was a moment where TalOS’s opinion of his brother became worse by such silence. There might be a reason Horus did not commit himself like everyone else, some forlorn goal, but something like the adornment of his brothers should not be above such a vile act.
TalOS did not make a public declaration, instead directly to his brother. It was not hard to track his brother for he left Terra within a week of the Decimation, with TalOS going on an intercept course for his brother’s fleet.
For whatever sick mind Perterabo, when TalOS sent him a message of his coming, a time and place were both set for them to meet. To the Fabricator General’s surprise it was a realistic estimate for when they would meet, according to the Magi who were feeding TalOS every piece of information they could.
On the mining world of Kelker the two of them met.
