Seporai

The Seporai are a small group of The Riven who remained loyal to the Imperium throughout the Five Ruins. They began as the 546th Battle-Company (the 6th company of the 54th battle-chapter), known for their skill at infiltrating an enemy's defences and using targeted attacks, assassinations, and sabotage to disrupt the enemy and pave the way for the rest of the Riven to assault. The Seporai, under Lieutenant Revoc Ardains, was sent to Terra in 005.M30 as the Riven's part of the homeworld's ceremonial guard. It is impossible to speculate if Morrigar wished for the combat-hardened, veteran unit near the centre of power to pose as a knife in the back once the Riven began their treacherous assault, but if so he did not get as he wished. Upon the first Ruin as communications tangled and Imperial forces began to look at each other as possible enemies, the Seporai followed the Regent's request and attempted to contact Skiirad to determine the Riven's intentions. They received nothing but silence for over a year and Lieutenant Ardains personally contacted the Regent to warn him of his gene-sire's possible ill will.

The Seporai were sent to Malcador by Alexandros and psychically scourged for months to prove their loyalty. When the half-company of survivors emerged from their ordeal, their loyalty was unquestioned and their desire to serve the Regent undiminished. They renounced their oaths of fealty to Morrigar and scrubbed their armour of the green-and-bronze of the Riven, taking oaths to the Regent and Malcador and the slate-grey colours of unpainted ceramite. The Seporai rose as an order of infiltrators, assassins, and saboteurs working with Malcador to rid the Imperium of traitors and abominations, a dark counterpoint to the noble Halcyon Wardens of the Regent himself.

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