Arlon Buke
Arlon Buke (a.k.a. King Buke the Third) was a human pirate, and leader of a gang of pirates that were based on an asteroid in the Teramus System[1]
The asteroid was originally worked by Imperial miners, who unearthed a Webway Portal beneath a large chamber within the rock. When they disturbed the portal, they were visited by Dark Eldar of the Kabal of the Crimson Blossom, who struck a deal with the miners. In exchange for slaves, the Kabal would provide the humans with drugs (in particular a drug distilled from human blood called the Red Sacrament) and weapons.[1]
Using these weapons, the miners became pirates, plaguing shipping passing through the system. Many vessels stopped in the Teramus System, translating back into Realspace in order to allow their Navigators to check their bearings (as this system was on a narrow, relatively stable current through the Warp). Buke became the leader of the pirates after strangling his father, Buke the Second and the asteroid came to be known to the pirates as Buketown.[1]
Over the years, the pirates captured or destroyed over a hundred ships, despite at least three attempts by the Imperial Navy to put an end to them, and captured tens of thousands of slaves. However, after Watch Station Elkin detected the use of Eldar lances in the system, a Deathwatch Kill-Team led by Sergeant Courlanth was dispatched from Watch Fortress Zarabek to track down and eliminate the source of the weapons. Infiltrating the pirates' asteroid, the Space Marines observed a meeting between Buke and Gharax, the Kabal's Archon.[1]
Courlanth led the charge on the pirates and eldar, and Buke was killed in the fight, suffering a heart attack after overdosing on the red sacra.[1]
