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'''For the Emperor''' is Commissar Ciaphas Cain’s debut into novels, having only appeared in the short story '''Fight or Flight''' before this point. The commissar, after being plucked from his somewhat cushy attachment to the 12th [[ValhallaValhallan Ice Warriors|Valhallan]] field artillery, is attached directly to [[Departmento Munitorum|Brigade Headquarters]] for what he thinks will be an easy job of data file shuffling and organizing the occasional firing squad. This seems not to be the case as he is constantly being attached to outfits that are placed upon missions that could be lightly referred to as suicidal. Wishing to save himself from the people who think him a hero, Cain places a transfer request. He then finds himself, along with his faithful aide [[Jurgen]], to be attached to the Valhallan 296th/301st, actually two under strength [[Imperial Guard|regiments]] with radically different backgrounds, not including the fact that the 296th is an all-women regiment. Cain has to survive the growing pains of this newly reconsolidated and violate fighting force and their christening by fire on [[Gravalax]], a backwater planet that has come under the sway of the radical [[Tau]] race. After the mysterious assassination of a Tau leader in the middle of a party being hosted by the [[planetary governor]], Cain is embroiled into a conspiracy that brings him face to face with a beautiful [[Inquisitor]] name [[Amberley Vail]] of the [[Ordo Xenos]].