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Thorcyra was the first Chapter Master of the Scythes of the Emperor when they were created in the middle of M41.

Biography

In 992.M41, the Eastern Fringe was overwhelmed by the locust-tide of Tyranid Hive Fleet Kraken including the chapter's homeworld of Sotha. Led by Chapter Master Thorcyra, the remaining Scythes prepared to make their stand at their fortress-monastery in order to give as much time as possible for the population of Sotha to evacuate. Before the planet and Fortress Monastery was completely over-run, the Scythes managed a breakout from the doomed planet, falling back to regroup in the nearby Miral system. Sotha, along with so many other planets in the inexorable advance of Hive Fleet Kraken, was reduced to the state of an asteroid by the Tyranid swarms. Two hundred Marines broke through the Tyranid assault and escaped their pursuers to the Miral system.

The last of the Scythes eventually landed on the Miral jungle death world. Somewhere on the surface of this planet, a huge rocky outcrop called the Giant's Coffin rose from the jungle. The pursuing Tyranids' fleet caught up and encircled them, leaving the Scythes trapped and surrounded on the jungle death world. The surviving forces of the Scythes prepared to make this their final stronghold. The Giant's Coffin was a tremendous natural citadel whose steep cliffs would slow the invaders and the rocky promontories would provide excellent firing positions for heavy weapons.

  • Passing the torch

As the Tyranids mounted their forces for a final push to wipe out the remaining Sycthes, Chapter Master Thorcyra ordered all of the remaining Battle-Brothers to withdraw from the world so as to avoid the complete extinction of their Chapter. In his last official act, Master Thorcyra passed the artefact known as the Emperor's Scythe (the Scythes Chapter Master's symbol of office) to Captain Thrasius of the Third Company, the only Captain of the Chapter still alive. As the rest of the surviving Scythes escaped the doomed planet in Thunderhawk gunships, Thorcyra and the remains of the Veteran First Company took up their positions as the last line of defense, to sell their lives dearly. Only a company-sized element managed to escape Miral before the defenders were wiped out to a man.1

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