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'''{{PAGENAME}}''' was a [[Company Master]] in the [[Dark Angels]] [[Chapter]]{{Fn|2}}. Before he attained his current rank, Galadin was a [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] who was part of the strike force his Chapter sent to take part in the conflict that engulfed the [[Pyrus Reach Sector]]. As the Dark Angels joined the battle, {{PAGENAME}} was dispatched to the [[Imperium]] Colony World [[Vilhan III]], with a detachment of the [[Cadian]] [[Imperial Guard]] led by [[Imperial Guard Captain|Captain]] [[Lucien]], to determine the to measure the extent of the [[Chaos ]] incursion into the region{{Fn|1}}. That and to secretly search for the [[Fallen]] [[Cypher]], whose sighting in the beleaguered [[Sector]] led to the Dark Angels' involvement in the first place{{Fn|3}}. When {{PAGENAME}} finally reached Vilhan III however, he received an unwanted surprise, as the world was being raided by Orks.{{Fn|1}}
{{PAGENAME}} knew well of the savagery the Orks were capable of, having fought them before on [[Haladrom Prime]], a battle that left him the only survivor of his squad, and did not hesitate to deploy his heavily outnumbered forces; in order to save Vilhan III's remaining colonists. {{PAGENAME}} and the Dark Angels quickly set up a defensive perimeter, near Vilhan III's remaining colony and had Captain Lucien and his Cadian troops hide nearby. As the Orks attacked the Dark Angels drew them in close to them, before {{PAGENAME}} gave the order for Lucien and his troops to emerge from hiding and attack the Orks from behind. Suddenly finding themselves caught between the Dark Angels and Cadians, the Orks were caught off guard and were completely destroyed; leaving Vilhan III safe for the time being{{Fn|1}}. After the successful defense of Vilhan III, {{PAGENAME}} continued fighting in the Pyrus Reach Sector and later attained the rank of Company Master. He was then charged with killing the [[Dark Apostle]] [[Valerius (Dark Apostle)|Valerius]], who was leading an overwhelming attack on the Imperium World [[Hyrus Prime]]. Though {{PAGENAME}} successfully led a Dark Angels' strike force in boarding Valerius' vessel, the [[Eternal Pain]], as it was in Hyrus Prime's orbit{{Fn|2}}; he failed in his attack and the world fell to the Dark Apostle's forces. Whether {{PAGENAME}} died aboard the Eternal Pain, or somehow managed was able to escape, is not known.{{Fn|3}}
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