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===Career as a Full Battle-Brother===
As a full battle-brother, D'Arquebus served in a squad under Sgt Huron alongside Valence and Tundrish. After at least a decade's active service the squad were involved in assualt assault on a [[Tyranid]] vessel of [[Hive Fleet Kraken]]. D'Arquebus survived this engagement but his "brothers" Tundrish and Valence were killed during the assault.<sup>1p202</sup> In order to overcome the grief of their death, he removed the flesh from his hand and [[Imperial_Fists#Scrimshaw|scrimshawed]] the names [[Biff Valence Tundrish]] and [[Yeremi Valence ]] on his bare bones along with the words "Necromunda" and "Trazior Hive." The flesh on the hand was later replaced.<sup>1chXX</sup>
===Involvement in the "Inquisition Wars" events===
His first appearance was in [[Ian Watson]]'s [[Space Marine (Novel)|Space Marine]] and [[Inquisition War Trilogy (Novel Series)|Harlequin]] (published in the early 1990's). While certain elements of these novels are no longer considered to be part of the current 40k cannon (such as [[Zoats]] and [[Squats]])<sup>4</sup>, other elements (Imperial Fists' tradition of [[Imperial_Fists#Honour_Duels|Honour Duels]], [[Imperial_Fists#Pain_and_Punishment|self punishment]], the [[Phalanx]] and characters such as [[Vladimir Pugh]]) were first established here and continue as part of the "current" 40K universe.<sup>5</sup>
To complicate matters further, '''Harlequin''' was later republished as part of the [[Inquisition War Trilogy (Novel Series)|Inquisition War Trilogy]] which was rewritten to expunge non-canon material (Grim the Squat engineer becomes Grill the [[Tech Priest]], for exambleexample). Confusingly however, when the '''Space Marine''' novel was republished the decision was made not to "ret-con" the material. On this issue, the the publisher stated:''"Although the temptation was great to rewrite significant portions of this book to make it conform to current background, as a curiosity piece, an historical snapshot of the Warhammer 40,000 universe circa the early 1990s, this book is invaluable."'' <sup>4</sup>
However, Forge World has included an emblem with the name "Lexandro" as part of its Imperial Fists brass etch, a nod towards including the character in contemporary canon.<sup>6</sup>
