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'''Shaidan''' is a [[Librarian]] of the [[Mantis Warriors]] [[Chapter|Chapter's]]'s Second [[2nd Company (Mantis Warriors)|Second Company]] and member of [[Brother Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Aupin|Aupin's]]'s [[Space Marine Command Squad|Command Squad]]. He carried an unusual double-bladed [[Force Staff]] which had a bayonet style blade, called a [[Mantis Staff]]. This Force Staff was said to have been forged in the long-forgotten fires of [[Badab Prime]].{{Fn|2}}

During the [[Badab War]], the Mantis Warriors sided with the renegade [[Astral Claws]]. It was during the final stage of the [[Fall of Badab]] that Shaidan, assigned to liase with a detachment of Astral Claws on one of [[Badab|Badab's]]'s moons, saw that they had removed the [[Aquila]]e from their [[power armour]], signalling that they were no longer fighting for the greater good of the [[Imperium]], as [[Lufgt Huron]] had claimed to the Mantis Warriors' [[Chapter Master]].{{Fn|1}}

Shaidan communicated this heresy to [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] [[Maetrus]], who ordered his ship's guns turned onto the Astral Claws' fleet, signalling his change of loyalties to Chapter Master [[Khoisan Neotera]].{{Fn|1}}

On [[Herodian IV]] , Shaidan saved a [[Deathwatch]] [[Kill -Team]] from a [[Tyranid]] ambush, by jumping out of a Mantis Warrior [[Thunderhawk]] during their retreat and assisting in the Deathwatch's extraction. His Chapter had been dismissed from battle as not being required, but he could not stand by and watch his fellow marines die.{{Fn|2}}

Later he commented that, in the last one hundred years, not one member of the Mantis Warriors had joined the Deathwatch. He suspects suspected that this is due to his chapter's [[heretic]]al history and that the [[Inquisition]] doesn't trust them enough.{{Fn|2}}

After [[Quirion Octavius]] of the [[Imperial Fists]] saw Shaidan in action, he requested that he and two other [[Mantis Warriors]] ([[Assault Squad|Assault Marine]] [[Space Marine Sergeant|Sergeant]] [[Soron]] and [[Devastator Squad|Devastator Marine]] [[Ruinus]]) replace the lost members of his Kill -Team. However , they would only be seconded to his Kill -Team and we're were not full fully inducted into the Deathwatch. Keeping ; they retained their original Chapter colours and wearing wore no iconography of the Inquisition or the Deathwatch{{Fn|2}}

*{{Endn|1}}: ''[[The Trial of the Mantis Warriors (Short Story)]]'' by [[C.S. Goto]]*{{Endn|2}}: [[Warrior Brood (Novel)]] by '''C.S. Goto''', {{Cite This}}