>However resistance was stubborn, and true conquests was not achieved until defeat for the traitors at the Siege of Terra. All of these acts brought an end to the Cataclysm of Iron, though pockets of traitor resistance remained. However the Belt of Iron was not free of war due to Graia's conflict with Valia-Maximal, which still laid siege to the former. It was only with the death of Hieroneyum and his Ordinatus Valia by sacrifice of the Warhound Titans Forge Beast, Faithful Sire, and Venator Ultima upon the world of Nalindeer that the tide of the campaign turned.

>Following the traitor fracturing at the Siege of Graia, the loyalist attempted to move onto the 'Blood Iron Worlds', heavily fortified traitor bastions around Valia-Maximal. 16 attempts were made to capture these worlds with only one success at Eristara that saw 11 Morning Stars engines and 250,000 Taghmata dead. For nearly a year, Graia assailed Valia-Maximal and threw millions into a meat grinder until the Forge World was bled dry and the Traitor flees withdrew back to their home. The loyalists advanced, finding 10 empty worlds. Even stranger was the fate of Valia-Maximal itself, which was found stripped of industry and abandoned. encountered only the hollowed-out shells of Legio Astraman Titans that had fallen in the preceding years of war, each one posed as if in great pain and kept standing by intricate scaffolding constructed in patterns that drove many who viewed them to the edge of madness. The reason for the traitor evacuation was never discovered.