![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike most commissars who rule with an iron fist and don’t hesitate to execute any of their charges who show signs of cowardice, Cain prefers to maintain more cordial relationships with the soldiers he watches over, in order to keep his skin in one piece and avoid any ‘accidental’ friendly fire incidents. Caught in the middle of this, Cain’s reputation as a Hero of the Imperium sees him called to act as intermediary between the Imperium, the Adeptus Mechanicus and the tau.įor anyone unfamiliar with the series, Cain himself is a commissar, a political officer charged with maintaining the motivation and discipline of the Imperial Guard regiment to which he is attached. The situation soon changes however, as the threat of a new tyranid hive fleet forces the Imperium and the tau into an uneasy alliance. In the latest novel, The Greater Good, we see him facing an old foe in the shape of the tau, as he bravely (sort of) defends the world of Quadravidia from the upstart aliens. Since the publication in 2003 of his first adventure, Cain’s memoirs have seen him fighting all sorts of menaces across the galaxy, from orks to tyranids, necrons and the forces of Chaos. ![]() ![]() Now onto its ninth novel, Sandy Mitchell’s Ciaphas Cain series is one of Black Library’s longest running and most well loved ranges. ![]()
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