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Currently the majority of extracts available from the [[Cain Archive]] tell of his time serving with the [[Valhallan 597th Ice Warriors|597th Valhallan Regiment]]. While serving with them Cain appears to have been very close to the troopers, particularly with the senior officers with which he had a personal friendship.
Cain was present with the 597th Valhallan Regiment for their first action during the [[Gravalax Incident]] of 931.M41, where he was awarded the Order of Merit of Gravalax, Second class, for his part in preventing the [[Tau]] annexation of the planet. (Cain was to joke in later years that if he had allowed the Tau to kill Governor Grice, the grateful populace would have given him the first class decoration.) In truth, the planet had been infested by a [[Genestealer Cult]] who had been trying to spark off a meaningless war over a backwater planet between the Tau and the Imperium in order to distract them from the approach of the [[Tyranids]]. It was during this affair that Cain first encountered Inquisitor Amberley Vail, and also discovered that his aide Jurgen was in fact a [[Null]]: a trait which saved Cain's life as he duelled the [[Genestealer Patriarch]].
The next year, he served on Simia Oricalcae, defending a refinery against ork predations and an awakening Necron threat beneath the ice. Shortly after this, he was sent to Periremunda after a civil uprising occurred. It was discovered that Genestealers were behind it, and the infection was cleansed.
