To Serve the Emperor: A Commissar's Life
To Serve the Emperor: A Commissar's Life, sometimes simply referred to as To Serve the Emperor,[2] is the official autobiographical memoir of the celebrated Commissar Ciaphas Cain, a well-renowned Hero of the Imperium. Cain began to pen the text after retiring from active service and becoming a faculty member at a Schola Progenium facility. They were first published in 005.M42.[1]
In truth, To Serve the Emperor was in fact the second, expurgated version of Cain's autobiography; the first (although more a collection of accounts stuffed onto a single dataslate and not edited into a cohesive narrative) was supressed from the wider Imperial public by Inquisitor Amberley Vail of the Ordo Xenos due to it containing classified information. However, Vail would later compile and annotate this version for dissemination to her fellow Inquisitors as the Cain Archive.[1]
See also
Sources
- 1: For the Emperor (Novel) — Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium (Omnibus), Editorial Note before Chapter One
- 2: The Colonel's Monograph (Novella)