Malachi Ypres
Malachi Ypres is a Scout in the Blood Ravens Chapter. He led a team sent by Librarian Isador Akios to the planet Kronus some five years before the Dark Crusade (and three years before Akios would fall under the sway of Chaos) after the Librarian found records indicating a missing squad of Blood Ravens had fought Chaos Space Marines there sometime in the past. Ypres and his team were transported to the planet by the Rogue Trader Simon Varnius and began their search in the Rhean Jungle, after their scanners picked up a signal beacon using the sacred codes of the Chapter. There in the Ork infested jungle they found a battered narthecium, bearing the sigil of their Chapter and a recording that had been discarded by the Xenos. The recording was of Apothecary Francis of the 4th Company, who named the gene-seed as belonging to Brother Terrias Null and Initiate Ezekiel Remus, members of the missing Blood Ravens squad who died fighting the Chaos Space Marines they were pursuing.[1]
The Apothecary did not think the rest of his squad would survive their coming battle with the servants of Chaos and asked that whoever found the gene-seed return it to the Blood Ravens. Ypres judged the recovery of this lost gene-seed to take priority over any further search for the squad and ordered his team to return to Rogue Trader Varnius’s vessel, Estrella’s Light. As he made his transmission to Isador he noted that the name on the records the Librarian found was penned by Brother Remus, the same name as the dead Initiate Remus. He wondered if this was mere coincidence or something more?[1]
Sources
- 1: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade: Campaign — The Rhean Jungle, archive screen
