| rdfs:comment | - Born and raised in the gutters of Nostramo, the homeworld of the Night Lords, Kheron Ophion was a Line-Captain of the 39th Company who faithfully served in the Great Crusade for at least seven Terran decades before the Horus Heresy engulfed the galaxy in chaos. During this time, Ophion forged a reputation of solid service, but such stubborn bravery was mostly considered an aberration within a Legion dedicated to practicality and the subtle, if gruesome, prosecution of war. Many of his peers saw him as a flawed being and mocked him deliberately by naming him "the Coward".
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| abstract | - Born and raised in the gutters of Nostramo, the homeworld of the Night Lords, Kheron Ophion was a Line-Captain of the 39th Company who faithfully served in the Great Crusade for at least seven Terran decades before the Horus Heresy engulfed the galaxy in chaos. During this time, Ophion forged a reputation of solid service, but such stubborn bravery was mostly considered an aberration within a Legion dedicated to practicality and the subtle, if gruesome, prosecution of war. Many of his peers saw him as a flawed being and mocked him deliberately by naming him "the Coward". Ophion's time of glory would come at the end of the Thramas Crusade, as the Dark Angels vented their rage against the unprepared fleet of the Night Lords, catching them in a devastating ambush. Two warships bravely held off the enemy fleet in order to allow many of their brothers to escape the slaughter. The first of them was the Nightfall, the Legion's mighty Gloriana-class Battleship, the flagship of the entire VIII Legion, and the second was the Shroud of Eventide, a simple Cruiser under command of Kheron Ophion. Together, these two vessels turned certain annihilation into mere decimation. This act of bravery saw Ophion promoted to the ranks of the restored Kryoptera, the shadowy council that now ruled the Night Lords in their Primarch's absence. At the head of 9,000 warriors, Ophion headed for the Nostramo Sector, where he intended to rally what scattered formations of the VIII Legion remained after their defeat with the ultimate goal of rejoining the greater war and Horus' final push on Terra. Yet these plans were upset by the arrival of an unexpected foe in the form of the Ashen Claws. Although his current fate is unknown, it is generally presumed that Kheron Ophion was either lost or slain in the fierce battles for the Nostramo Sector, which quickly fell back into chaos and strife.
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