Event · M31
Mustering on Bodt
The Mustering on Bodt was an assembly of World Eaters forces at the world of Bodt during the Horus Heresy, in the thirty-first millennium. A mustering of this kind brought Legion companies and their supporting formations together under a single command before a wider campaign, and Bodt is recorded as the point of assembly for the World Eaters in this instance. The Legion, led by its Primarch Angron, had by this period aligned itself with the Warmaster Horus, and the gathering belongs to the wider process by which the rebel Legions concentrated their strength for the civil war. The causes are best understood from the strategic position of the traitor Legions in the early Heresy. Dispersed fleets and expeditionary hosts had to be recalled, reorganised and resupplied before they could be committed to the advance on the Sol System, and staging worlds such as Bodt served that purpose. Accounts differ on the precise scale of the gathering, the order of arrival and the identity of the officers who directed it, and this entry does not supply particulars that are not firmly attested. What is recorded is the association of the World Eaters with the world and the event, which is the reason the mustering is treated as a large-scale assembly rather than a pitched battle. Its significance lies in what followed from it rather than in any engagement fought at Bodt itself. The forces gathered there passed into the Legion’s subsequent operations in the Heresy, in which the World Eaters were committed to the wider traitor war effort. On the Orrery map the event is anchored to Bodt, and on the timeline it sits within the thirty-first millennium alongside the other Heresy-era movements of the rebel Legions, so it is best read together with the entries for the World Eaters and for the neighbouring campaigns of the same period.
See where Mustering on Bodt occurred on the galactic map during the Horus Heresy.