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| - It would be no exaggeration to say that Jurgen was with Cain almost from the very start of his long career. After Cain graduated from the Schola Progenium and received his first assignment to the Valhallan 12th Field Artillery, Jurgen was the soldier assigned by the battery's commander, Colonel Mostrue, to greet Cain as he stepped off the transport on the world of Desolatia IV. Given Jurgen's disheveled appearance, vague manner, and a body odour "which preceded him like a personal force bubble", Cain understood well that Mostrue was expressing his low opinion of the Commissariat in general, and Cain in particular.
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| - It would be no exaggeration to say that Jurgen was with Cain almost from the very start of his long career. After Cain graduated from the Schola Progenium and received his first assignment to the Valhallan 12th Field Artillery, Jurgen was the soldier assigned by the battery's commander, Colonel Mostrue, to greet Cain as he stepped off the transport on the world of Desolatia IV. Given Jurgen's disheveled appearance, vague manner, and a body odour "which preceded him like a personal force bubble", Cain understood well that Mostrue was expressing his low opinion of the Commissariat in general, and Cain in particular. The two men saw little of each other in the following weeks, until Desolatia IV was attacked by a splinter of Hive Fleet Behemoth. Cain, attempting to flee the main battle, commandeered a Salamander Scout under which Jurgen happened to be taking cover. Cain ordered Jurgen to drive, and was pleased to note that the Valhallan's natural and unquestioning deference to authority led him to obey without question rather than asking Cain why he was obviously trying to flee the scene of a battle. But the Scout blundered into the onrushing mass of Tyranid bioforms, and was disabled. When Jurgen was tackled by a Hormagaunt, he screamed for help. At first, Cain had no intention of responding, but then saw a Hive Tyrant blocking his own path to safety, and ran back towards Jurgen, killing the Hormagaunt engaged with the Valhallan with his Chainsword, shortly before reinforcements from the rest of the battery arrived. Cain managed to portray his attempted flight as a reconnaissance of the battery's rear, which fortunately discovered the Tyranid forces that were about to flank the Valhallan battery. He was hailed as a hero by the regiment, and Colonel Mostrue -- who kept quiet his own doubts about the veracity of Cain's motivations -- took great satisfaction in assigning him an adjutant to help his intergation with the regiment: Ferik Jurgen.
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