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After the commander of the [[Vervun Primary]], Marshal [[Gnide]], was killed by the city's paranoid High Master, [[Salvador Sondar]], the city's ruling [[Noble House|noble houses ]] nominated various candidates to replace him. The head of [[House Anko]] nominated his cousin, Heskith, for the post, but he was outvoted (7-1) in favor favour of Marshal [[Edric Croe]]. As a compromise, Heskith was appointed his second in command, but the two men did not get on well; where Croe was tall, courageous, and austere, Anko was short, stout, and easily unnerved. The arguments between the two men quickly became notorious around the VP's headquarters.{{Fn|1a}}

During the Third Storm of the hive by the [[Zoican]] forces, Anko lost his composure and demanded that Croe come up with a plan of action. Croe, his patience gone, struck Anko to the floor, before leaving the command center centre to take personal command of a reinforcement unit.{{Fn|1b}}

Hours into the Third Storm, Anko had shouted himself hoarse in the command centercentre, trying to make himself heard over the chaos, and finally broke down completely after seeing the mass of activity reflected on the command centercentre's plotting table. With apparent calm, he drew his sidearm and shot the table for insubordination, then the [[servitor]]s at their sensor stations, and then any member of the command staff that tried to flee or subdue him. He only stopped shooting when he caught sight through the window of the [[Zoica]]n missile that zeroed in on the command center centre and destroyed it, killing Anko and everyone inside.{{Fn|1c}}

*1: [[Necropolis (Novel)]] — [[The Founding (Omnibus)]]: