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* While trying to get the Tau diplomats out of the city in order to avert a war, Cain's group runs into a group of loyalist PDF. The troops, for entirely understandable reasons, mistake them for traitors and try to arrest them. Cain has them killed. He spends a long moment ruminating on the fact that he spent a great deal more effort trying to spare the lives of the criminals in the company who probably deserved execution than these poor bastards who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-->"Very good, Lustig. Tell the men..." For once, I was at a loss for words. "Tell the men... I appreciate what they did."\\
There was a pause. "Yes, sir."
-->"Very good, Lustig. Tell the men..." For once, I was at a loss for words. "Tell the men... I appreciate what they did."\\
There was a pause. "Yes, sir."
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* While trying to get the Tau diplomats out of the city in order to avert a war, Cain's group runs into a group of loyalist PDF. The troops, for entirely understandable reasons, mistake them for traitors and try to arrest them. Cain has them killed. He spends a long moment ruminating on the fact that he spent a great deal more effort trying to spare the lives of the criminals in the company who probably deserved execution than these poor bastards who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
time. He's also painfully aware that after spending so much effort to rebuild the 597th's cameraderie and fighting spirit, shooting down a group of well-meaning allies was not the first taste of combat any of them was hoping for.
-->"Very good, Lustig. Tell the men..."For ''For once, I was at a loss for words. words.'' "Tell the men... I appreciate what they did."\\
There ''There was a pause. pause.'' "Yes, sir."
-->"Very good, Lustig. Tell the men..."
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* A peek BeneathTheMask of Inquisitor Amberley Vail, who for all her competence allows herself to sound very, very tired in the tunnels beneath Gravalax, reminding us that she's just one woman, trying to prevent the entire solar system from sliding into damnation. Cain, and the reader, get the sense that the flighty, carefree attitude she affects is a necessary refuge to keep her from going insane.
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* Later, Cain and company free one hundred human captives from ork captivity, and find they've been living pretty badly. And that one is their ally Tayber's sister. Cain had planned to ''not'' rescue any captives, and Tayber went against him and did it anyway. [[AdultFear If he hadn't, Tayber would have abandoned his sister to die in ork captivity.]]
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* Later, Cain and company free one hundred human captives from ork captivity, and find they've been living pretty badly. And that one is their ally Tayber's sister. Cain had planned to ''not'' rescue any captives, and Tayber went against him and did it anyway. [[AdultFear If he hadn't, Tayber would have abandoned his sister to die in ork captivity.]]
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* At the start of the book, Cain meets Kolfax, the man guiding their march through the desert. They have a little friction but end up respecting and trusting each other. After the battle at the dam, the biggest setpiece of the entire book, where you would expect any important characters who are going to die to do it there, it seems they've miraculously made it through with ''no'' significant deaths. But then Cain reviews casualties and discovers Kolfax - who wasn't even a soldier - bought it, taken by a random shot to the chest while hunkering down by the line. He still recalls him in several other books.
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*Cain and Jurgen come across a town devastated by the Orks. They find countless bodies rotting in the sun, and the town center in particular is covered in the corpses of the town's officials, who were all tortured to death. A sobering start to the most upbeat novel.
*Later, Cain and company free one hundred human captives from ork captivity, and find they've been living pretty badly. And that one is their ally Tayber's sister. Cain had planned to ''not'' rescue any captives, and Tayber went against him and did it anyway. [[AdultFear If he hadn't, Tayber would have abandoned his sister to die in ork captivity.]]
*Some spoilery ones from the climax. When Cain first arrived on the planet, he met an unassuming vox operator named Grenbow. Over the course of the march, Grenbow turned into a bona fide badass and hero. But when Cain's element attack the fortress in the climax and get ambushed by larger forces, Grenbow dies fighting in front of them in a hail of fire.
*Similarly, early in the march Cain has to separate two arguing people. One is a street ganger named Demara. The other, a law enforcement officer named Tamworth. In order to force them to work together, he assigns them to man their vehicle's autocannon together. The two become fast friends over the course of the march, and a great team. And then both are killed fighting in the climactic battle, their differences forgotten:
--->Demara pitched backwards, a bloody crater where the tattoo on her cheek had been, most of her brain following the projectile out through the back of her skull. Tamworth seized the trigger even as she fell, attempting to keep up the rate of fire, only to be cut down in turn, what looked like a bolter shell ripping his ribcage apart.
*Later that day, some other irregulars are killed as the ork forces retreat past Cain's force's location. Cain notes multiple times how much it would suck for them to die now after getting so close to safety. For all of the aforementioned, [[AllForNothing that DID happen.]]
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*Cain and Jurgen come across a town devastated by the Orks. They find countless bodies rotting in the sun, and the town center in particular is covered in the corpses of the town's officials, who were all tortured to death. A sobering start to the most upbeat novel.
*Later, Cain and company free one hundred human captives from ork captivity, and find they've been living pretty badly. And that one is their ally Tayber's sister. Cain had planned to ''not'' rescue any captives, and Tayber went against him and did it anyway. [[AdultFear If he hadn't, Tayber would have abandoned his sister to die in ork captivity.]]
*Some spoilery ones from the climax. When Cain first arrived on the planet, he met an unassuming vox operator named Grenbow. Over the course of the march, Grenbow turned into a bona fide badass and hero. But when Cain's element attack the fortress in the climax and get ambushed by larger forces, Grenbow dies fighting in front of them in a hail of fire.
*Similarly, early in the march Cain has to separate two arguing people. One is a street ganger named Demara. The other, a law enforcement officer named Tamworth. In order to force them to work together, he assigns them to man their vehicle's autocannon together. The two become fast friends over the course of the march, and a great team. And then both are killed fighting in the climactic battle, their differences forgotten:
--->Demara pitched backwards, a bloody crater where the tattoo on her cheek had been, most of her brain following the projectile out through the back of her skull. Tamworth seized the trigger even as she fell, attempting to keep up the rate of fire, only to be cut down in turn, what looked like a bolter shell ripping his ribcage apart.
*Later that day, some other irregulars are killed as the ork forces retreat past Cain's force's location. Cain notes multiple times how much it would suck for them to die now after getting so close to safety. For all of the aforementioned, [[AllForNothing that DID happen.]]
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* A quick one: Cain notes that Jurgen is literally the only person he trusts. Amberley says she ''wants'' to be insulted... but she's also very happy she never had to choose between Cain and her duty.
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* A quick one: Cain notes that Jurgen is literally the only person he trusts. Amberley says she ''wants'' to be insulted... but she's also very happy she never had to choose between Cain and her duty.
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**His initial thought was even more depressing, if you can believe it. After putting up pretenses for pretty much his entire life, he wasn't even sure there was ANYTHING beneath the mask except for "a quivering little bundle of self-interest".
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* The deaths of [[spoiler:Holenbi and Velade]] in the first book right after a HopeSpot they were ok.
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* The deaths of [[spoiler:Holenbi and Velade]] in the first book right after a HopeSpot they were ok.
HopeSpot. They thought they'd escaped the genestealers, but instead they'd been infected to allow the brood to spread.
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* Cain giving his sash to [[spoiler:the mortally wounded Donal in ''Cain's Last Stand'']]. Especially because [[spoiler:he wasn't actually mortally wounded and he survived to be mind-controlled by Varan. Later, he comes in contact with [[AntiMagic Jurgen]] which gives him enough clarity to apologize to Cain and [[DrivenToSuicide shoot himself]] when he can't break the spell.]]
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* Cain giving his sash to [[spoiler:the mortally wounded Donal in ''Cain's Last Stand'']]. Especially because [[spoiler:he wasn't actually mortally wounded wounded, and he survived to be mind-controlled by Varan. Later, he comes in contact with [[AntiMagic Jurgen]] which gives him enough clarity to apologize to Cain and [[DrivenToSuicide shoot himself]] when he can't break the spell.]]
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* When visiting the dam at night in ''Cain's Last Stand'', Cain is attacked by a combat servitor and has to take cover behind a [[BenevolentArchitecture convenient pillar]]. Upon returning to the site the next morning, he sees the names inscribed in the pillar, and realizes it's not just any statue: it's a monument to everyone who died on the March of the Liberator. Once again, he's saved by the people who gave their lives for him. He also has a flash of guilt when he realizes that it's been so long he can't remember the faces of some of them, even people he knew relatively well.
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* When visiting the dam at night in ''Cain's Last Stand'', Cain is attacked by a combat servitor and has to take cover behind a [[BenevolentArchitecture convenient pillar]]. Upon returning to the site the next morning, he sees the names inscribed in the pillar, and realizes it's not just any statue: it's a monument to everyone who died on the March of the Liberator. Once again, he's saved by the people who gave their lives for him. He also has a flash of guilt when he realizes that it's been so long long, he can't remember the faces of some of them, even people he knew relatively well.
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* Because of the premise of the books, Cain is canonically long dead. This means any unresolved issues he still had while writing his memoirs likely never got resolved, almost all of the other characters we've come to know will have also died either before that or shortly after, and Amberly will definitely outlive the closest person she had to a lover.
** It is possible that Jurgen is still alive as the rarity of his status means he gets even better juvenat treatment than Cain himself did. But that just means that Jurgen outlived Cain.
** It is possible that Jurgen is still alive as the rarity of his status means he gets even better juvenat treatment than Cain himself did. But that just means that Jurgen outlived Cain.
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* Because of the premise of the books, Cain is canonically long dead. This means any unresolved issues he still had while writing his memoirs likely never got resolved, almost all of the other characters we've come to know will have also died either before that or shortly after, and after. Amberly will definitely outlive outlived Cain, and since she's the closest person one presenting his secret memoirs to the rest of the Inquisition, it should be obvious that she had to a lover.clearly misses him.
** It is possible that Jurgen is still alive as the rarity of his status means he gets even better juvenat treatment than Cain himself did. But that just means that Jurgen outlivedCain.
Cain. The old gunner will never find a better Commissar than Cain nor one just as good as Cain. Most newer members of the Commissariat will attempt to emulate Cain's popular image, but they'll always fall short of the man himself.
** It is possible that Jurgen is still alive as the rarity of his status means he gets even better juvenat treatment than Cain himself did. But that just means that Jurgen outlived
