The Cain Archive is a series of files and documents written by Commissar Ciaphas Cain during his retirement. The Cain Archive is not to be confused with Cain's official memoirs, "To Serve the Emperor: A Commissar's Life". The archive was compiled while he was a tutor at the Schola Progenium around the year 993.M41. As stated by Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Amberley Vail, who spent some years editing and annotating the archive, there seems to be no order or chronology to the written accounts that were stuffed onto a single data slate.1
Sadly, due to the sensitive nature of many of the accounts within, Amberly was forced to place the archive under Inquisitional when it came to her attention sometime during 005.M42. The primary reason for sequestering the archive was to hide the fact that Cain himself admits to be self serving and quite the scoundrel, contrary his image as a hero of the Imperium. The other reason is due to various interactions with xenos creatures and agents of Chaos.1
Through the dissemination, Amberley hoped to give her fellow Inquisitors insight into the minds of the alien races Cain interacted with, further understanding of the dark designs of Chaos beings, and the inner workings of Cain's own mind.1
Sources
- 1: For The Emperor: page or chapter number missing