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* [[Shattered World]]: The VIII legion homeworld of Nostramo following the [[Earthshattering Kaboom]] at the end of ''[[Horus Heresy|The Dark King]]''. The Talos saga opens with Eurydice being found on one of the remaining shards.
* [[Shattered World]]: The VIII legion homeworld of Nostramo following the [[Earthshattering Kaboom]] at the end of ''[[Horus Heresy|The Dark King]]''. The Talos saga opens with Eurydice being found on one of the remaining shards.
** A moon around Tsagualsa, which {{spoiler|Talos shoots with [[No Kill Like Overkill|planet-busting torpedoes]], allowing them to blow up a nearby retreating Genesis Marine battle barge that hid behind it.}}
** A moon around Tsagualsa, which {{spoiler|Talos shoots with [[No Kill Like Overkill|planet-busting torpedoes]], allowing them to blow up a nearby retreating Genesis Marine battle barge that hid behind it.}}
* [[Shout Out Theme Naming]]: Most things related to the VIII legion are named for something related to [[Joseph Conrad (Creator)|Joseph Conrad]] or his works, when they don't relate to fear in some way.
* [[Shout-Out Theme Naming]]: Most things related to the VIII legion are named for something related to [[Joseph Conrad (Creator)|Joseph Conrad]] or his works, when they don't relate to fear in some way.
* [[Soiled City On a Hill]]: Nostramo as a whole upon Curze's return.
* [[Soiled City On a Hill]]: Nostramo as a whole upon Curze's return.
* [[Space Pirates]]: The Red Corsairs, who appear in ''Blood Reaver''. The 10th company has to resort to this occasionally, [[Impoverished Patrician|much to Talos' disgust]].
* [[Space Pirates]]: The Red Corsairs, who appear in ''Blood Reaver''. The 10th company has to resort to this occasionally, [[Impoverished Patrician|much to Talos' disgust]].
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* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: After Uzas kills fourteen serfs/slaves, some servitors, and {{spoiler|the sergeant of Third Claw}}, just mere days after getting his slaughter on at Ganges station, the members of First Claw debate what to do. The consensus is kill Uzas, and Talos tells them that the Exalted has ordered Uzas's death, so if they spare him, they better have a damn good reason. {{spoiler|They get one when the more numerous Third Claw comes looking for payback.}}
* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: After Uzas kills fourteen serfs/slaves, some servitors, and {{spoiler|the sergeant of Third Claw}}, just mere days after getting his slaughter on at Ganges station, the members of First Claw debate what to do. The consensus is kill Uzas, and Talos tells them that the Exalted has ordered Uzas's death, so if they spare him, they better have a damn good reason. {{spoiler|They get one when the more numerous Third Claw comes looking for payback.}}
** Once Talos finds out that {{spoiler|Septimus got Octavia knocked up.}}
** Once Talos finds out that {{spoiler|Septimus got Octavia knocked up.}}
* [[Three Point Landing]]: Talos on the cover of ''Void Stalker''.
* [[Three-Point Landing]]: Talos on the cover of ''Void Stalker''.
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: Talos' visions, and Uzas' Khornate fugues when he's given some perspective in Blood Reaver.
* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: Talos' visions, and Uzas' Khornate fugues when he's given some perspective in Blood Reaver.
** A less insane variant for Deltrian in ''Void Stalker''.
** A less insane variant for Deltrian in ''Void Stalker''.
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* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: {{spoiler|Vandred holding off the Red Corsair armada so the ''Echo of Damnation'' and the surviving portions of Tenth Company can escape.}}
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: {{spoiler|Vandred holding off the Red Corsair armada so the ''Echo of Damnation'' and the surviving portions of Tenth Company can escape.}}
* [[You Should Have Died Instead]]: Cyrion says this to Uzas in a half-joking manner before a boarding action, wishing Uzas had died in a previous raid instead of the apparently uncorrupted Sar Zell.
* [[You Should Have Died Instead]]: Cyrion says this to Uzas in a half-joking manner before a boarding action, wishing Uzas had died in a previous raid instead of the apparently uncorrupted Sar Zell.
** We later see exactly how this went down in a [[Whole Episode Flashback|two-chapter-long flashback]] in ''Void Stalker''. Sar Zell was {{spoiler|gunned down by Ultramarines as First Claw tried to board their Thunderhawk}}, after which then-tagalong-sergeant Uzas added insult to injury by {{spoiler|unceremoniously claiming Sar Zell's chainaxe}}. No one was thrilled.
** We later see exactly how this went down in a [[Whole-Episode Flashback|two-chapter-long flashback]] in ''Void Stalker''. Sar Zell was {{spoiler|gunned down by Ultramarines as First Claw tried to board their Thunderhawk}}, after which then-tagalong-sergeant Uzas added insult to injury by {{spoiler|unceremoniously claiming Sar Zell's chainaxe}}. No one was thrilled.


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