Sons of the Comet

The Sons of the Comet are a loyalist warband of the Sky Reavers legion during the Five Ruins.

History
Though Aato Vayrynen knew that his separation from the Imperium would cause friction, he was confident that his sons would understand. As such, he called all the Wings of the Sky Reavers to Marapaatiisi one by one, to put forward his reasoning for separation. In meetings far away from the agents of the Imperium, Aato came forward and made speeches to his sons. Most were convinced by his clear laying out of the facts and the potential futures to come, but some disagreed, and aired their grievances openly. The first to speak against Aato was a mere lieutenant called Eeli Raita, but his bold speech criticising his father’s proposed solutions allowed others to come forward. Whilst some of Aato’s inner circle advised him to not allow such open dissent, Aato refused, and calmly talked with all who disagreed.

Those who had voiced their disagreement openly soon found themselves shunned by their brothers, treated as outcasts and in some extreme cases were sent to the Destroyer Companies. These disaffected Reavers began to coalesce into groups that either through necessity or choice began operating by themselves more and more. These were not meant as groups opposed to the legion or Aato, but members of the Reavers high command received reports of these groups and viewed them as threats to the legion. It is unknown whether it was Aato himself who ordered it, whether it was one of his advisors and whether Aato even knew of the orders. They could not risk any one group reporting to Terra Aato’s plans, and so they arranged for friendly members of the Rautasiipi to sabotage flyers or even whole ships to eliminate these “threats”.

Whilst many potential loyalists were killed this way, one notable group on the Cruiser the Astral Hunter managed to escape, due to luck as an Astartes noticed something amiss with the ship’s generators before the ship made a warp jump. Fixing the problem before the jump, the Reavers knew this was not an accident, and headed to Marapaatiisi to inform Aato of the treachery. When they arrived on the edge of the Aato System, the local defence forces fired upon them, inflicting damage on the Astral Hunter before it managed to escape into the Warp. The Astartes, realising that they had very little choice now, decided to flee the Sky Reavers’ realm and to repair their ship. They made a hazardous journey through the Gothic Sector, dodging Reaver patrols and taking supplies where they could. They eventually made it to Bray, where they were finally free from the threat of the Sky Reavers. Once they have landed and begun repairing the latest damage to the Astral Hunter, they were surprised by Agents of the Sigillite, led by a Knight Errant.

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