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[[Image:Yarrick Old.jpg|thumb|right|Old Commissar Yarrick model]]
===The Second War for Armageddon===
In his youth, Yarrick had learned the Ork language from a captured raider, and became an expert in the way the Ork mind worked. Before the [[Second War for Armageddon]] began, in 941[[M41]], he had already served in a dozen campaigns as a [[commissar]] with [[Armageddon]]'s [[Planetary Defence Forces]] and gained a reputation for unswerving loyalty to the [[Emperor of Mankind|Emperor]]. In fact, he was already of advanced age at the time of the War and was scheduled to retire on the day the Orks landed.{{Cite This}}
When the first warnings of the Ork landing came, Yarrick was on Armageddon to assist in the founding of the [[Armageddon Steel Legion|4th Armageddon Regiment]]{{Fn|1b}}. Yarrick swiftly observed that Ghazghkull was a more cunning and tenacious warlord than previously encountered among Orks, and Yarrick ordered the planet's [[astropath]]s to send a call for help. [[Herman von Strab]], the inept Overlord of Armageddon, insisted that Armageddon could deal with the Ork threat on its own, and banished Yarrick to [[Hades Hive]] as punishment for circumventing von Strab's authority.{{Cite This}}
