It was decreed by the most senior members of the Legion that no outsider must learn the dreadful truth -- none must know that members of the Dark Angels had proven as corruptible as any mortals and turned to the Ruinous Powers. Some few have even suggested that Cypher will kneel before the Emperor, offering him the blessed blade and by this deed seeking final redemption for the Unforgiven. The title of Lord Cypher is mentioned, but who took the post, or when it might have changed are not documented.

For the rest of their lives, each was closely monitored by Company Chaplains to ensure the prolonged Warp exposure had not contaminated them in any way. Although ultimately taken into custody by the Dark Angels, the robed captive mysteriously escapes and the Ophidium Gulf is lost. This is the side where it can become dumb, because if everything is a mystery and nothing might be true then what is the point in the book? The Dark Angels staged a false plasma explosion aboard the Rock to explain their loss of records, for it was decided by the Inner Circle to destroy all records relating to the event. Cypher is one of the Fallen Angels of the Dark Angels Space Marine Chapter, and one of the members of that Loyalist Chapter believed to have turned to Chaos during the Horus Heresy in the early 31 st Millennium.

Less than a hundred Space Marines from an original contingent of a thousand managed to escape, and they did so only because they pursued Cypher, who, in his attempt to flee, also led them to a secret teleportation device. The obsession to the point of crippling an important part of the Throne World and not caring because it's all about the obsession was a great way to show on a smaller scale than just a campaign in a timeline in a codex how far the Chapter really has fallen.

Whether Cypher actually ever assumes these aliases, or if his presence has merely begun another series of rumours is another mystery. Across the galaxy, the legend of Cypher –- the mysterious loner who fights for freedom –- has been known by many names. For their part in the campaign, the Dark Angels are awarded many honour badges and campaign ribbons for their actions by the High Lords of Terra. On the planet's surface, the Unforgiven found the world's vast cathedrals in ruins and its populace slaughtered.Although some of the Fallen had been mere novices-in-training at the destruction of Caliban, most were seasoned Space Marines. When Belial is subsequently tied up by the massed wave attack of suicidal Cultists, Cypher makes good his escape. They have gone to great lengths to ensure all references to that campaign or to the Lions Sable have been stricken from the records available to the Adeptus Terra. When the trail of clues Daryth was following led across the barrier of the Great Rift to the Imperium Nihilus, Daryth took command of the frigate Sol's Arrow and gathered his Shield Company and a cadre of Sisters of Silence to help him track Cypher down.