Hashin Yonnad
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Hashin Yonnad[3] was a Captain in the Imperial Fists Legion, who held the title of Fleet Master during the closing years of the Great Crusade.[1b]
Biography
Before he became an Imperial Fist, Yonnad was amongst the hundreds of aspirants that trained under the watchful eye of the Primarch Rogal Dorn after he was reunited with his Legion in 835.M30. During his training, Yonnad formed a friendship with fellow Aspirants Kye and Archamus, but their friendship would soon be severed by the actions of Kye. During a combat exercise with Combat Servitors, Archamus was killed after he followed a strategy created by Kye that went against what their superiors overseeing the exercise had told them to follow. Yonnad held Kye responsible for Archamus' death and their friendship ended, though they remained cordial with each other as they continued their training. Eventually, both were part of the first group of twenty Aspirants that successfully completed their training under Dorn's guidance, and Yonnad was there to witness Kye change his name to Archamus, to honour their fallen friend, during the ceremony welcoming them into the Imperial Fists Legion.[1a]
Yonnad would go on to have an distinguished career during the Great Crusade and took many Captains under his wing in order to teach them the art of space combat.[1b] During the Crusade's War of the Consus Drift, his Primarch gave Yonnad command of the Imperial Fists' forces as they invaded the Driftborn's asteroid cities. Even as he did so, Yonnad regretted that the Driftborn's foolish refusal to accept the Imperium's Compliance led so many of them to needlessly die. He was relieved when the Driftborn later surrendered, after Dorn had threatened them with extinction if they continued to resist. Though it saddened him to admit it, Yonnad knew he would have destroyed the Driftborn without hesitation, if his Primarch had willed it.[3]
When the Heresy began, Yonnad was given command of his Legion's Retribution Fleet, which was sent by Rogal Dorn to confront Horus in the Isstvan System. However, after the Retribution Fleet entered the Warp, it was hit by severe storms that wreaked havoc upon it, causing numerous casualties and destroying many of the Imperial Fists' ships. When the Retribution Fleet finally exited the Warp in the Phall System, it was discovered that Yonnad was among the many Imperial Fists that were killed by the storms. After the remnants of the Retribution Fleet were reformed, command of the remaining ships fell to Captain Alexis Polux, who was Yonnad's current protégé and amongst the greatest of his pupils.[2]
Sources
- 1: Praetorian of Dorn (Novel)
- 2: The Crimson Fist (Novella), One hundred and forty-one days before the Battle of Phall
- 3: The Will of the Legion (Short Story)
