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The Lucifer Blacks became Regiments of the newly formed [[Imperial Guard]] after the Heresy. Acting as an elite praetorian guard on [[Terra]], the Lucifer Blacks provided security for the [[Imperial Palace]] and were frequently employed as bodyguards for the Terran nobility and [[High Lords]]. By mid-[[M32]], during the [[War of the Beast]], the Lucifer Black's overseer [[Segmentum Solar|Solar]]-[[General]] [[Sayitora]] had become a crony of [[Lord High Admiral]] [[Lansung]], which turned the Regiments into the ambitious Admiral's personal fighting force. They were treated like mercenaries, being distributed to Lansung's followers as a reward for favors.{{Fn|3}}
After [[The Beast]] was killed by the [[Imperium]]'s forces, the [[Lord Commander]] [[Maximus Thane]] left the [[Grand Master of Assassins]] [[Drakan Vangorich]] to oversee the ineffectual [[High Lords of Terra]] as his '''Lord Protector'''. This proved to be a mistake however, as Vangorich began [[The Beheading]], which resulted in most of the High Lords of Terra being killed and being replaced by puppets of the Grand Master. Afterwards, Vangorich enacted a series of changes on [[Terra]], the first among them being the disbandment of the Lucifer Blacks. Vangorich claimed that the Lucifer Blacks inability to stop a group of [[Eldar]] [[Harlequin]]s that had invaded the [[Imperial Palace]] during the [[War of the Beast]], proved the group's usefulness was at an end. He then proclaimed that security for the Imperial Palace would now be provided by agents of the [[Officio Assassinorum]].{{Fn|4}}
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