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The '''Hidden Ones''' were the [[Scouts]] of the [[Thousand Sons]] [[Space Marine Legion]], active for much of the [[Great Crusade]] and the [[Horus Heresy]]. Their status after the legion's transformation into the [[Chaos]] cult legion of [[Tzeentch]] is unknown.
Little else is known of the Hidden Ones and the method in which they were deployed. Their commander was [[Amon]], 9th [[Chapter|Fellowship]] [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the legion and [[Equerry]] to [[Magnus the Red]]. Amon was noted to have trained the Hidden Ones personally.{{Fn|1a1}}
It is possible that the Hidden Ones were not [[Astartes]] Scouts in the traditional sense; that is, not new recruits employed as reconnaissance troops, but a type of infiltrator far more insidious. Evidence for comes not only from the Hidden Ones being referred to as the Scout ''Auxilia'', but also from the revelation that [[Kasper Ansbach Hawser]] was a Hidden One of the Thousand Sons despite being completely unaware of this possibility for most of his known life. Hawser operated as a deep-cover spy planted inside the [[Space Wolves]] legion apparently by the Thousand Sons, who had psychically (and perhaps sorcerously) reprogrammed his mind so that he would go to [[Fenris]] and become attached to the Space Wolves. From this position his handlers in the Thousand Sons - believed to be Amon and even Magnus himself - could percieve his experiences and glean secret intelligence on the inner operations of the [[Space Wolves|Wolves of Fenris]].{{Fn|2a2}}
As it was stated that Hidden Ones were more useful to the Thousand Sons when they were unaware of their status as spies{{Fn|2a}}, it is implied that unconscious Hidden Ones similar to Kasper Hawser existed in other institutions the Thousand Sons wanted to establish intelligence on.
== Sources ==
*{{Endn|1}}: [[A Thousand Sons (Novel)]] by [[Graham McNeill]]**{{Endn|1a}}: , {{Cite This}}, pg. 55*{{Endn|2}}: [[Prospero Burns (Novel)]] by [[Dan Abnett]]**{{Endn|2a}}: , {{Cite This}}, pgs. 334, 339-44
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[[Category:The Horus Heresy]]
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