Liberation of Numinal - Repercussions: The counter-invasion of Numinal would only be the start of a new phase in the ongoing war for the Coronid Deeps during the Horus Heresy. First and foremost, it was the first real victory the Loyalist camp could secure and build upon, which provided a welcome boost to morale. The Taghmata of Cyclothrathe had been quite spectacularly vanquished, which meant that victory was still possible and that although Horus' forces remained undefeated, they were by no means invincible.Even when Loyalist follow-up actions such as the Raid on Cerada Secundus performed by the remaining Agathean warships proved unsuccessful, the Liberation of Numinal had dramatically changed the situation within the Coronid Deep, Ireton MaSade's victory having shown that the Loyalists were not eradicated and were growing bold enough to strike back.Having tasted defeat for the first time since the beginning of the galactic civil war, Cyclothrathe's Taghmata would have to temporarily withdraw to reinforce and consolidate its captured domains. The losses suffered on Numinal would also ensure that military actions conducted by the Taghmata would have to be postponed or scheduled down, leaving the free planets time to prepare themselves for the next offensive.Archmagos Yelav Draykavac was, however, still at large and would continue to plague the Imperium in the years to come. Perhaps humbled by this defeat as well as the Gethsamaine Raid, the Sons of Horus-led battlegroups and squadrons would no longer be able to stay put but would need to venture forth in an attempt to hunt down the highly mobile Loyalist survivors that would continue to undermine the Traitors' influence in this region of space. Throughout the Grail Abyss, the Cyclops Cluster and even deep into the subjugated worlds of what was once the Manachean Commonwealth, the Loyalists struck: outposts were raided, planets laid to waste, convoys ambushed and murderous reprisals taken.Lastly, the Liberation of Numinal also depicts the confused situation reigning within the Traitor Legions after the Drop Site Massacre of Isstvan V or perhaps even the Isstvan III Atrocity, as it would see both splinter-elements of known Traitor Legions fighting on the Loyalists' side and the first confirmed sighting of the mysterious Legionaries known as Blackshields.On Numinal, the Legionary later identified as "Redemption" would wage a solitary war against the Cyclothrathine Mechanicum, mounting an assault on one of the Cyclothrathine flesh-processing crawlers all by himself, during which he personally killed at least fifty Tech-adepts, Thallaxi and other lesser combat-automata.So it was within the Coronid Deeps; so it was to be all across what was once the unified Imperium of Man. A grim age of war had been born at Isstvan III that would never end in the lifetimes of those who were caught in its bloody embrace, an age of war that would outlast the Horus Heresy, outlast the Great Scouring and beyond, an Age of Darkness.Battles of the Horus Heresy004-006.M31First Battle of Prospero • Istvaan III Atrocity • War Within the Webway • Battle of the Somnus Citadel • Unrest on Caliban • Schism of Mars • Battle of Diamat • Drop Site Massacre • Battle of the Rangda System • First Battle of Paramar • Battle of the Coronid Deeps • Signus Campaign • Treachery at Advex-Mors • Siege of Cthonia007-008.M31Battle of Phall • Battle of Ravendelve • Battle of the Alaxxes Nebula • Siege of the Perfect Fortress • Chondax Campaign • Second Battle of Prospero • First Siege of Hydra Cordatus • Battle of the Furious Abyss • Battle of Calth • Battle of Armatura • Shadow Crusade • Percepton Campaign • Battle of Iydris • Thramas Crusade • Fall of Baztel III • Battle of Vannaheim • Second Battle of Paramar • Battle of Constanix II • Siege of Epsilon-Stranivar IX • Treachery at Port Maw • Manachean War • Mezoan Campaign • Battle of Bodt • Battle of Dwell • Battle of Molech009-010.M31Xana Incursion • Carnage of Morox • Sangraal Campaign • Liberation of Numinal • Battle of Arissak • Battle of Perditus • Battle of Sotha • Scouring of Gilden's Star • Battle of Nyrcon • Battle of Tallarn • Battle of Nocturne • Battle of Pluto011-014.M31Lorin Alpha Campaign • Subjugation of Tyrinth • Malagant Conflict • Battle of the Kalium Gate  • Battle of Catallus • Battle of Tralsak • Tarren Suppression • Balthor Sigma Intervention • Scouring of the Ollanz Cluster • Battle of Zepath • Battle of Anuari • Battle of Pyrrhan • Second Battle of Davin • Battle of Trisolian • Battle of Yarant • Battle of Krade • Battle of Deluge • Battle of Heta-Gladius • Battle of the Aragna Chain  • Battle of Kalleth • Battle of the Diavanos System • Battle of Desperation • Battle of Beta-Garmon • Defence of Ryza • Battle of Thagria • Passage of Angels • Thassos Incident • Battle of Zhao-Arkhad • Serpent's Coil •  Siege of Barbarus • Battle of Vezdell • Burning of Vrexor • Dawn of Desolation •  Death of Chemos • Battle of Luth Tyre • Ydursk Incident • Solar War • Raid on Luna • Siege of Terra • Great Scouring