Trane
Trane was a Cadian Sergeant in the 7th Company of the 473rd Cadian Rifles Imperial Guard Regiment. He was veteran of the uprisings on the Imperium worlds Bairsten Prime and Agripinaa and later joined his Regiment in defending Kast Thravius on Cadia, after it was invaded by the forces of Nurgle. Prior to Kast Thravius' invasion, the Plague of Unbelief had spread like wildfire throughout Cadia's Sector and had turned the critical stronghold into a necropolis, when the forces of Nurgle attacked. The Cadian Guard sent its forces to reinforce, Kast Thravius and they fought for weeks to prevent it from falling into the invaders' hands, but they soon only held its center; as the Death Guard and the Traitor Guard and Plague Zombies they commanded, attacked them relentlessly.[1a]
As the battle dragged on, Trane's 7th Company defended the lynchpin section of Kast Thravius still held by Cadia, under the command of Colonel Emil Krassus, when it came under attack by the forces of the Herald of Nurgle Typhus; who sought to weaken the Cadian Guard's hold on Kast Thravius and finally allow the forces of Nurgle to claim it. In brutal fighting that followed between the two sides[1a], Trane led his squadron in doggedly holding Typhus's forces back, until they became an annoyance to the Herald of Nurgle, who soon called down swarms of plague flies to attack them. As the swarms descended upon them, Trane and his squadron became terrified as the noxious flies began entering their rebreathers and fled the building they had been firing from. Unfortunately, their panicked run took them into the path of a Chaos Champion and Possessed Chaos Marines, who easily killed Trane and his squadron.[1b]
Source
- 1: White Dwarf 282 (UK) — Battle Report: Dawn of the Dead
