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Before the heresy they were sent back to Terra to construct/fortify the Emperors palace I believe, because they were so good as siege specialists. So it says in the HH books (Horus Rising I think). No idea what part of the galaxy they were responsible for though.
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If I remember right, (and that's a big if), Sigismund and a large part of the Imperial Fists Fleet was sent to the Istvaan system to find out if the story of Horus' betrayal was true or not. Rogal Dorn never told him to engage if he found out it was true. We don't know what happened to that fleet (yet). Rogal Dorn and the Fists' mighty fortress-warship Phalanx returned to Earth to bolster the Imperial Palace's defences after setting them on their way.

 

As far as where they went in the Great Crusade remains a mystery.

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If I remember right, (and that's a big if), Sigismund and a large part of the Imperial Fists Fleet was sent to the Istvaan system to find out if the story of Horus' betrayal was true or not. Rogal Dorn never told him to engage if he found out it was true.

 

They were ambushed by the Iron Warriors in the Calth system if I remember correctly though what exactly happened here is murky at best and I don't think there has been much canon other than it being the first real clash between these future sworn enemies. I would guess that they broke out of the ambush and made way for Terra as Sigismund was at the siege.

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If I remember right, (and that's a big if), Sigismund and a large part of the Imperial Fists Fleet was sent to the Istvaan system to find out if the story of Horus' betrayal was true or not. Rogal Dorn never told him to engage if he found out it was true.

 

They were ambushed by the Iron Warriors in the Calth system if I remember correctly though what exactly happened here is murky at best and I don't think there has been much canon other than it being the first real clash between these future sworn enemies. I would guess that they broke out of the ambush and made way for Terra as Sigismund was at the siege.

 

Calth ? isn't that the place were the Word bearers attacked the Ultramarines ?

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When reading the IA: Imperial Fists article you find that Rogal Dorn was in charge of the Imperial Defence of the Emperors Palace during the Seige of Terra and that he was the one to find the Wounded Emperor after his smack down with horus

 

After this he went into a fit of rage and despair and took what was left of the Legion on a killing spree taking out any and all who opposed the Imperial Rule until the Iron Cage where they went in an depending on who's point of view you believe Won (The Imperial Fists version and therefore what really happened) or the Iron Warriors version in which the only reason that the Fists weren't destroyed was the intervention of the Ultramarines (This of course being a load of rubish and not to be trusted as it is the word of proven heretics)

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If I remember right, (and that's a big if), Sigismund and a large part of the Imperial Fists Fleet was sent to the Istvaan system to find out if the story of Horus' betrayal was true or not. Rogal Dorn never told him to engage if he found out it was true.

 

They were ambushed by the Iron Warriors in the Calth system if I remember correctly though what exactly happened here is murky at best and I don't think there has been much canon other than it being the first real clash between these future sworn enemies. I would guess that they broke out of the ambush and made way for Terra as Sigismund was at the siege.

 

Calth ? isn't that the place were the Word bearers attacked the Ultramarines ?

 

I quite possibly have the name confused, but I definitely remember reading something about IW ambushing the IF fleet that was sent to Istvaan. Then again this was from the beginning to 3rd edition so it might have been retconned, forgotten, or just a piece of ranting by one of the IW fanboy former game designers like Andy Chambers or Pete Haines.

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If I remember right, (and that's a big if), Sigismund and a large part of the Imperial Fists Fleet was sent to the Istvaan system to find out if the story of Horus' betrayal was true or not. Rogal Dorn never told him to engage if he found out it was true.

 

They were ambushed by the Iron Warriors in the Calth system if I remember correctly though what exactly happened here is murky at best and I don't think there has been much canon other than it being the first real clash between these future sworn enemies. I would guess that they broke out of the ambush and made way for Terra as Sigismund was at the siege.

 

Calth ? isn't that the place were the Word bearers attacked the Ultramarines ?

 

I quite possibly have the name confused, but I definitely remember reading something about IW ambushing the IF fleet that was sent to Istvaan. Then again this was from the beginning to 3rd edition so it might have been retconned, forgotten, or just a piece of ranting by one of the IW fanboy former game designers like Andy Chambers or Pete Haines.

 

calth isn't on route to istvaan..

and if you have read battle for the abyss.. (so not read it ;) ) it wil discride as big U getting ambushed..

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Art books? Now I'm really confused, I must have read something that I later got confused with something else I read, eh forget it, point is the Iron Warriors fight the Imperial Fists a lot. There, there's what I was getting at.
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Collected Visions page 342-343, Dorn dispatched a force of 30,000 Imperial Fists to reinforce the loyalists on Istvan III, the fleet was unable to proceed and lost contact with Terra due to intense warp storms and was forced to seek solace in the Phall system (my bad, it was home to two agri-worlds, so evidently not the same as Triplex Phall) where they were later attacked by a slightly larger Iron Warrior fleet under the command of Perturabo.
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