Designation: Xhârbydyss (pronouciation: Shar – Baa – Diss) Selenaar
Slenaar Primary clone serial number; I Xvi S (batch// legion///S)
Primogenitor geneseed: UNKNOWN
Warlord of the Sons of Selenaar. Lord of the Black Legion.
Known Armament:
MISERY. Cthonian pattern power fist.
NON SEVARIUM: Daemon imbued axe.
Roll of Conquest;
Breaking of Agripinna
Extirpation of the Chalice Bearers
Annihilation of Ultramines 6th Company
INQUISITORIAL RECORD — ORDO MALLEUS
Clearance: Vermillion
Author: Interrogator-Savant Praxis Helenne, attached to the office of Inquisitor Lord Caevan Mourne
Subject: Designation SELENAAR-PRIMARY. Warband Chieftain, Black Legion.
Record Status: Ongoing. Cross-reference: OPERATION SUNDERED GATE; AGRIPINNA ATROCITY FILES; CHALICE BEARERS INCIDENT
This record consolidates field intelligence, survivor testimony, and recovered Mechanicus data pertaining to the individual designated SELENAAR-PRIMARY, operating under the self-styled title of Chieftain Xhârbydyss Selenaar, commander of the Black Legion-affiliated warband known as the Scions of Selenaar. The subject has been an active threat to Imperial interests across three subsectors (first verified incident occurring M.34.103). This office recommends immediate elevation to Priority Vermillion interdiction status.
ORIGIN AND NATURE
Constructing a formal threat profile for the subject is perpetually hindered by the ambiguity surrounding his creation. Investigation of a fallen Scion following the Agripinna conflict yielded serial data for batch I·XVI·S, suggesting the subject was produced in the Selenar cloning facilities on Luna during the Siege of Terra’s concluding stages. However, the destruction of those archives during the insurrection prevents any definitive verification of his gene-seed ancestry. Consequently, the subject operates as an Astartes of unknown lineage, effectively evading the standard identification protocols utilized by both Imperial and renegade factions.
Fragmentary archives regarding the final, desperate cycles of accelerated cloning indicate that the Selenar produced an idealized template—a refined archetype of the Astartes aspirant—which was subsequently mass-produced to mitigate the catastrophic attrition rate of the Siege of Terra. It remains a matter of active investigation whether these subjects consisted entirely of synthetic cloned material or if existing human stock was radically adapted to conform to this specific genetic blueprint. Any attempt to establish a definitive lineage for SELENAAR-PRIMARY is frustrated by a total absence of gene-seed degradation or the specific phenotypic markers associated with the eighteen original bloodlines. While his service within the XVIth Legion is documented, his precise genetic provenance remains unverified; operational necessity dictates that this office assume a Sons of Horus ancestry, though the subject himself remains a void of archival certainty.
OPERATIONAL HISTORY — SUMMARY
The subject’s earliest documented activities place him within a Sons of Horus Warband operating from the Forge World Galgotha in the decades immediately following the Heresy. Internal conflict on Galgotha resulted in Merisi’s death and the warband’s subsequent flight into the Eye of Terror in a considerably degraded condition. The precise mechanics of the subject’s transition from the defunct Sons of Horus to the Black Legion remain obscured by archival fragmentation. However, field intelligence consistently records a marked and particular disdain for elements aligned with the Emperor’s Children, manifesting in tactical aggression that deviates from his otherwise methodical economy of action.
SELENAAR-PRIMARY entered Black Legion service as a trained void assault specialist of demonstrable capability at a period when such expertise was actively sought.
The following actions are directly attributed to the subject and confirmed by surviving witness testimony or recovered physical evidence:
The Breaking of Agripinna. Civilian and military casualties confirmed in excess of four hundred thousand. The subject’s warband executed a precision void assault on the system’s principal orbital station, eliminating the command staff of the system defence forces before ground-based resistance could be coordinated. The interval between initial assault contact and the effective collapse of organised Imperial resistance is recorded at eleven standard hours.
The Annihilation of the Chalice Bearers. Recovered records and survivor debriefings confirm the effective destruction of the Chalice Bearers, a Chapter of the Cursed Twenty-First Founding, within the Vethis Corridor. Of the Chapter’s total strength, only four Astartes are verified to have survived the initial contact. Witness testimony describes a decapitation strike that eliminated the Chapter’s command cadre within the opening minutes of the engagement, occurring before a coherent defensive posture could be established. Field intelligence indicates that SELENAAR-PRIMARY personally directed and executed the terminal assault spearheaded by Khornate Daemons.
The Annihilation of the Ultramarines Sixth Company. Confirmed by Ultramarines Chapter records, provided to this office following formal Inquisitorial requisition. The Chapter’s own after-action assessment of the engagement has been appended to this record in full and is recommended reading for any field agent assigned to SELENAAR-PRIMARY interdiction operations.
Subject appears to display a Badabian shoulder guard and a desecrated Iron Halo, the providence of which is unverified.
THREAT ASSESSMENT — SUBJECT PROFILE
Intelligence from field assets and survivor debriefings yields a profile that remains remarkably stable, deviating significantly from the typical behavioral markers of Black Legion seniority. The subject displays a total absence of theatricality; there are no recorded instances of the performative excess or daemonic indulgence usually observed in commanders of his standing. Witnesses uniformly characterize SELENAAR-PRIMARY as methodical and purposeful, exhibiting a clinical economy of both speech and kinetic action. One survivor—a veteran with four decades of Astra Militarum service—described in formal testimony a quality of total concentration that made the killing seem incidental to some larger calculation he was performing. This office has subjected that assessment to rigorous review and considers it an accurate, if layman’s, articulation of the subject’s operational mindset.
The subject wields two armaments of significant operational and intelligence value. The primary weapon, designated MISERY in intercepted vox-traffic, is an ancient Cthonian-pattern power fist identified as the former personal property of Gedephron Merisi, salvaged by SELENAAR-PRIMARY from the ruins of Galgotha. Its continuous possession throughout his recorded career—spanning enslavement, liberation, and his ascension within the Legion—is a data point this office notes as having clear symbolic weight beyond mere utility.
The secondary armament, a daemon axe designated Non Sevarium, marks his verified entry into Black Legion service and his initial documented compact with the warp. The specific entity involved in this compact remains unverified, constituting a priority intelligence gap for all field assets.
WARBAND CAPABILITIES
Field intelligence indicates that the Scions of Selenaar maintain a functional complement of Dreadclaw assault craft and at least one Kharybdis-pattern assault claw. The maintenance of such assets implies a level of resource access and organizational discipline that this office considers atypical for a warband of this scale operating within the Eye of Terror or its immediate approaches. Tactical doctrine is centered upon Terminator-led assault elements, reinforced by Dreadnought support and a high concentration of close-range penetration weaponry—specifically melta, lascannon, and Cthonian-pattern power and chain fists. The operational pattern remains remarkably stable across all confirmed records: the deployment of a high-yield spearhead formation, executed with clinical precision against enemy command nodes at the moment of maximum vulnerability. The engagements at Agripinna, the Vethis Corridor, and the interdiction of the Ultramarines Sixth Company each confirm this methodical economy of force without material variation.
SELENAAR-PRIMARY does not, in the assessment of this office, conform to the behavioural profile of appetite or excess that characterises the majority of Black Legion. The record does not support a portrait of a warrior who raids for plunder, slaughters for devotional purpose, or pursues the accumulation of daemonic favour as a primary operational motivation. What the record does support, consistently and across one hundred and forty documented activities, is a portrait of a commander who identifies command structures, destroys them with the minimum expenditure of time and resources the situation permits, and withdraws.
He was manufactured without lineage, without the identity conferred by gene-seed provenance, without the cultural inheritance that shapes every other Astartes who has ever walked the galaxy in either the Emperor’s service or against it. What he is, he has constructed from the materials available to him — which is to say, from Merisi’s methods, Merisi’s weapon, the doctrines of a Legion whose Warmaster is a century dead, and a compact with powers whose full terms this office has not yet established.
Interdiction is recommended at the earliest available opportunity, with all assets authorised.
— Interrogator-Savant Praxis Helenne
