Valesnus
Valesnus was the Deathwatch Watch Commander of the Fort Starshield Starfort in the aftermath of the Great Rift's creation. When several Xenos warships surged into Fort Starshield's location within the Kadus Sector, Valesnus led his Watch Companies to battle and destroyed the Xenos. Afterwards, the Watch Companies noted that their battles against the Xenos were relatively easy, due to the fact that the warships were heavily damaged and their crews seemed panicked. This led Valesnus to conclude the Xenos were fleeing a greater peril and the Watch Master quickly sent out calls for reinforcements to face this threat. This greater threat soon revealed itself, when an Ork Waaagh! advanced upon the Starfort and Valesnus came to the realization that his forces could not stand against the Orks.[1]
Knowing that their end was near, the Watch Master girded his Watch Companies for a selfless strike against whatever mighty Warlord ruled the Waaagh!. This proved to be for not however, as the Waaagh! was led by Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka and though several Ork warships were destroyed in the battle that followed, Fort Starshield and its Watch Companies were wiped out. Months later the reinforcements Valesnus requested finally arrived and find nothing but wreckage and corpses, where once a mighty Starfort once stood. They soon find the bodies of Valesnus and his closest Battle Brothers pinned to Fort Starshield's wreckage, with huge scrap-metal spikes. Each Deathwatch member's chestplate had been torn away, and their flesh was branded with Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka's personal glyph.[1]
Sources
- 1: Codex: Deathwatch (8th Edition), pg. 27 — The Vigil of Aeons: The Doom of Starshield
