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Captain Brunt is the commander of the Retribution Class Battleship the Purgatus and is part of Battlefleet Ultima Primus, which served in the Ultima Segmentum.[1c] Brunt's legs have atrophied away to nothingness by years of seated command, so he has been modified to mentally swivel his command chair when need be.[1e]

Biography

When Battlefleet Ultima Primus' flagship, the Enduring Blade, received a request for aid from the planet Dolumar IV, which was under attack by the T'au[1a], the fleet responded and engaged the T'au warship Or'es Tash'var. The fleet fired upon the T'au ship to disable it and reclaim the Ethereal Ko'vash, who had just been freed from Dolumar IV's prison complex, by boarding it.[1b] To Brunt's and the Battlefleet's surprise, their boarding attack was beaten back by the T'au and a large flotilla of T'au warships arrived in the system to save the Or'es Tash'var and Ko'vash. The Tau ships greatly outnumbered the Battlefleet and in the ensuing battle the Reverus, one of the battlefleet's ships, was destroyed[1c] and the Enduring Blade was successfully boarded. Lord Admiral Benedil Constantine, commander of the Enduring Blade, was pressured to open diplomatic talks with the T'au on his battleship, but they didn't get far before the Planetary Governor of Dolumar IV, Meyloch Severus, barged into the room and declared there would be no peace talks between the T'au and Imperium.[1d]

As the Admiral tried to get him to be quiet Severus, secretly a heretic, killed a nearby Stormtrooper and used his blood to complete a Chaos ritual. A Warp portal appeared and a Chaos warhost materialized and began wreaking havoc aboard the Enduring Blade. The Admiral and the Ethereal were captured during the attack[1d] and as the Chaos Space Marines and Daemons of the warhost overran the battleship, Captain Jehnnus Ardias of the Ultramarines, stationed aboard the Enduring Blade, declared that the battleship was lost and ordered its evacuation of all surviving T'au and Imperium forces.[1d] When the last of the escape pods launched from the doomed battleship, Captain Brunt, saddened but resolved, ordered the Purgatus to open fire upon the Enduring Blade, destroying it and bringing an ignoble end to its illustrious career.[1f]

Captain Brunt took charge of the Battlefleet after Lord Admiral Constantine's capture and deployed what troops he had onto Dolumar IV, along with the other ships of the Battlefeet and the T'au, to reinforce Captain Ardias' Company after the Chaos warhost invaded Dolumar IV.[1e] When the Chaos threat had been dealt with, the Battlefleet and the T'au would part ways peacefully and Captain Ardias would order Brunt to launch an Exterminatus onto the planet, which had been too corrupted to save.[1f]

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