

They were sequestered by order of the Inquisition, and were kept and organised as the "Cain Archive" by Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Amberley Vail with whom Cain had many encounters over his career, and shared a close working and personal relationship. In the early 42nd Millennium Cain's Memoirs were published amongst the ranks of the Inquisition. He was responsible for many successful campaigns throughout his career and retired to become an instructor for new Imperial commissars at a Schola Progenium.Ĭommissar Ciaphas Cain of the Officio Prefectus However, Cain differed from many other Imperial commissars in that he would not readily sacrifice his soldiers unless it ensured his own survival and he had no interest in carrying out the savage discipline for which so many commissars were known.Ĭain tried his utmost to avoid engaging in actual combat, but usually was required to do so to maintain his status as a "Hero of the Imperium," which ironically would involve him in more dangerous situations than any he would usually have seen as a simple commissar. Imperial propaganda made him out to be a great hero of the Imperium in the late 41st Millennium, although in truth by his own admission he was primarily focused on his own survival during his long career. It is certain that he survived more than a quarter of a standard century into the 42nd Millennium. He was in active service during the last century of the 41st Millennium, and was over 200 Terran years old when he was recalled into service during the 13th Black Crusade of Abaddon the Despoiler. Commissar Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the ImperiumĬiaphas Cain was a commissar of the Officio Prefectus who was assigned to service with the Astra Militarum and who was eventually hailed as one of the greatest heroes of the Imperium of Man.
