Editing Vish (section)

=Background=
As a strapping young lad, there was no doubt what Vish's future would be - pressed into the Imperial Guard to die for the Emperor. He was posted to the Dusk 404th Regiment, and immediately thrown onto the troop transport ''Vervilix'' for passage to the nearest war zone. During the course of his journey, he ended up becoming close to the regiment's sanctioned psyker, a young hiver girl named Dira. Maybe it was because she looked so lonely, maybe it was because she was cute, or maybe it was because everyone else instinctively shunned the "witch", but either way, he found himself talking more and more with her. Their conversations helped pass the long terror-laced tedium of warp travel, and Vish looked forward to getting dirtside so the two of them could finally have some privacy.

And then, the Vervilix landed on Mara.

Of the five thousand men who were disgorged onto the frozen hell of Mara, barely ten percent survived the five days of nightmares that scourged the unit. Of those few hundred men, fully nine in ten were executed for warp taint or subjected to "exhaustive study" that pretty much amounted to the same thing. Vish was one of the few hollow-eyed individuals who survived to be recirculated back into active duty, but he does not  - will not - speak of his experiences on that world. He reflexively denies any accusation that he was there, stringently evades any queries about the place, and even acts like he doesn't know what the place is.

That said, among his personal equipment, one can find a small knife with the sigil of the Scholastica Psykana and the name "Dira" carved on it...