Lost in the Warp
At the start of the
Indomitus Crusade, Guilliman feared for the safety of Ultramar due to the formation of the
Great Rift and dispatched Sicarius from
Terra to safeguard his realm. Cato's small fleet consisted of the first
Primaris Space Marines of the Ultramarines and was dubbed the
Fleet Avenger. However while en-route to Ultramar, the fleet encountered severe
Warp Storms on a scale not seen since the
Age of Strife. During the chaos, Sicarius ordered each ship to make its own way to Macragge. Sicarius was aboard his own
Strike Cruiser,
Emperor's Will, when the
Astronomican malfunctioned. The last known message from the vessel before it was lost in the Warp was "They have breached the hull, they are here". Sicarius was declared missing by the Ultramarines, and Captain
Acheran has assumed leadership of the 2nd Company.
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Stranded in the Warp, Cato and the crew of the
Emperor's Will endured waves of
Daemonic incursions and raids of
Chaos Space Marines. They had to endure this nightmarish situation for nearly five years, with most of the moral crew dying or going insane and the warriors abroad the
Emperor's Will losing nearly all of their ammunition.
[14a] Desperate, Sicarius ordered the
Emperor's Will translate back to the
Materium, at which point they find themselves over a
Feudal World with a
Human population unaware of the greater
Imperium. Looking for supplies and support, Cato leads an expedition down to the planet. Wishing not to create a panic, they identify themselves to the confused locals as Knights from the lands of
Macragge and find that the humans of this medieval world have been fighting
Feral Orks for centuries.
[14b] Cato discovers that the city ruler to be a
Necron slave controlled by
Mindshackle Scarabs but the locals are oblivious to the threat of the
Xenos. Cato and his small band of Ultramarines nonetheless aid them in their fight against the Orks.
[14c] After defeating the Orks, they slay those within the city enslaved to the Necrons before assaulting their
Tomb complex and destroying it along with the
C'tan Shard that dwelt within. Before leaving the world, Cato allowed his
Remembrancer friend
Vedaeh and several other mortals who wished to stay behind to do so.
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Return
Sicarius eventually returned to Imperial space and subsequently joined
Lord Commander Guilliman's
Indomitus Crusade. As the Crusade fought to save the worlds within the
Dark Imperium, Guilliman took Sicarius under his guidance, as the stubborn Captain reminded the Lord Commander of
Aeonid Thiel, and he spent a considerable amount of time trying to form Sicarius into something other than merely an exemplary warrior
[11a]. When the Indomitus Crusade was finally ended by Guilliman, Sicarius was among the forces the Lord Commander took with him to aid the
Realm of Ultramar, during the
Plague Wars[11b].Suffering from survivor's guilt and a degree of mental trauma from his experiences in the Warp, Sicarius was nonetheless placed in command of Guilliman's
Victrix Guard.
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