Zhyte
Zhyte was a Colonel of the Seventh Urdeshi Storm-troop regiment, active during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade.[1a]
Biography
In the Crusade's Phantine theatre, Zhyte and the Seventh Urdeshi were among the forces committed to the retaking of Cirenholm. He had overall command of the push targeted at Cirenholm's primary dome. However, Colonel-Commissar Gaunt of the Tanith First and Only noted that the Seventh Urdeshi were leading the assault primarily due to their numerical superiority compared to the other Militarum regiments present and that Zhyte would have rather been with the Urdeshi Regiments fighting to retake their homeworld, from the forces of Chaos elsewhere in the Sabbat Worlds.[1a]
Despite taking hundreds of casualties in the landing phase, the Seventh Urdeshi managed to pierce the primary dome. However, the Blood Pact cultists defending Cirenholm then seemingly vanished, abandoning good defensive positions that they had previously been holding well against the Imperials. Zhyte and his men advanced and still found no further resistance.[1b]
At this point, Gaunt, whose men were in the process of assaulting Cirenholm's secondary dome, voxed the other Guard commanders; his Tanith Guardsmen had found that the Blood Pact were planning to activate a series of void shield projectors across the city for some, unknown, purpose. Gaunt advised caution in the face of this discovery but Zhyte angrily rebuffed him, accusing Gaunt of cowardice and insisting that the Urdeshi were leading the operation before cutting off comms.[1b]
Almost immediately afterwards, the Blood Pact's soldiers sprang an ambush, reemerging from hidden fallback points behind and within the Imperial lines. The cultists killed a massive number of the Urdeshi within minutes, spreading confusion in the ranks. Zhyte himself was stabbed in the leg by a cultist with a bayonet and had to be dragged to a defensible position by his subaltern, Singis. The Blood Pact then activated the shield, pinning the Imperials against it. As the shield was raised, it severed Zhyte's legs, crippling him.[1b]
In the aftermath of the battle for Cirenholm, Zhyte was relieved of duty and shipped to a veterans' hospice on Fortis Binary. His second in command, Shenko, became acting commander of the Seventh Urdeshi in his absence.[1c]
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