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Yura Vardrian was the name most commonly used by a Chaos cultist and anarchist who lived during the late 41st Millennium. A psyker who was born as a result of a eugenics experiment, he was subsequently placed into an Imperial orphanage, from which he escaped after orchestrating a massacre there. Yura went on to establish a cult of his own and help several other organizations of that nature to spread Chaos as much as possible.

Origin
The boy that would eventually take on the name of Yura Vardrian was conceived as the result of a eugenics experiment. From what the Ordo Hereticus has been able to discover, the whole affair was the result of a pet project of an Inquisitor named Valek Ionescu. The man's specialty was in the field of psychology and genetics, and he was most interested in creating a new breed of psykers who could control their powers effectively; a new species of superhumans to serve as the Imperium's future elite class. Ionescu based his operations from an estate he purchased on a minor Hive World known as Haakon VI, believing that his work was necessary for the Imperium's survival but knowing that what he was doing could be potentially viewed as heretical. As a result the Inquisitor only let a small number of his agents know of what he was doing. Eventually, he felt he had enough research to try an experiment. Ionescu used one of his old contacts, a General in the Imperial Guard, to supply him with suitable male candidates for the project — a group of Guard officers who were known psykers. His agents helped him locate female candidates of suitable caliber.

All of the candidates were not merely selected for psychic ability, but were also chosen from some of the most intelligent and best looking. He told the Guard officers of his project, making it sound as if it was being done on the authority of higher-ups in order to get them to go along with it. Ionescu matched them up with the female candidates and arranged them to meet. After a while they began giving birth, and some of them were born as psykers. The ones that weren't were confined to his estate for the time being. The Inquisitor began carrying out testing on the psyker children that were born, Yura among them. However, just as the project was nearly complete, he got word that one of the Guard officers was becoming suspicious and planning to escape. Ionescu invited all of the chosen candidates to a special "celebration", where he gave them all poisoned beverages to kill them. Paranoid about the possibility of this getting out, he murdered the rest of the small staff he kept with him at the estate and began erasing evidence of the project's existence.

As part of this, Ionescu took the psyker children — whom he deemed to be a success as they were capable of controlling their powers, which he deemed to be eta-level — and placed them into a special Schola Pregnium orphanage. This orphanage, known as Brephotrophium 511, was run by acquaintances of Ionescu, who agreed to raise the children for him. After that the Inquisitor left to continue his standard work of hunting down enemies of the Imperium, as he did not want anyone else in the Ordo Hereticus to become suspicious of what he was doing. Unbeknownst to him, the presence of so many psykers caused the minds of those who ran the orphanage to become corrupted, so as Yura and the others grew up the situation deteriorated.

Into darkness
The orphanage instructors assigned the boy a name shortly after his arrival, since none of them were given any names while at the Inquisitor's estate on Haakon VI. Thus he was given the identity of Yura Vardrian. As he grew older, it wasn't long before the instructors noted that he was exceptionally intelligent. All of them were to some extent, but Yura seemed to be more clever and cunning than the rest of his peers. He, along with the rest of them, was able to master the subjects they were taught without too much difficulty. Yura learned to speak fluent High as well as Low Gothic, became knowledgeable in the history and laws of the Imperium, and was a capable marksman. and the instructors were initially impressed by the results of Ionescu's project. However, over the years their personalities began to change, and as the children reached a more mature age this reached its climax.

By the time Yura was around fourteen years old, the orphanage had degraded into a living hell. It began slowly at first, with the instructors becoming more picky and strict, and the punishments they meted out to those that did something wrong became more severe. Eventually it reached a point where beatings and psychological torture became a common occurrence, and this inhumane treatment was part of their daily existence. In response most of the children changed too, although Yura largely remained the way he was. It was also at this time that his malevolent nature first became apparent. He manipulated the others, causing them to fight and bicker, as well as encouraged their darker tendencies. Ionescu would later speculate that something about his genetic mutation made Yura more of a psychopath, and the actions of the instructors at 511 Brephotrophium only brought out these aspects of him. By the time Yura reached the age of sixteen, these events had reached a climax.

Yura was able to sneak into the office of the orphanage director and kill him, leaving before anyone could tell that it happened. The instructors naturally suspected each other and argued over who would replace him. Meanwhile, Yura convinced the other children that the time had come to rise up against those that oppressed them for so long. They then began fighting it out in the hallways and classrooms of 511 Berphotrophium, turning it into a warzone. The instructors and the orphans ended up massacring each other to the last, while Yura sat there and watched. After everyone was killed, the young man made his way out of the orphanage and bought himself passage off-world. By the time the Ordo Hereticus and Ionescu found out about what happened, he was already light years away. A short investigation was conducted and made little progress due to the nature of the children there being unknown to most of the Ordo Hereticus, which then placed a gag order on the events at 511 Brephotrophium.

Appearance
With blond hair and blue eyes, Yura is often described as having a beautiful face. He is not particularly muscular and has more of a slender build. Yura typically wears nondescript and simple clothing to not stand out so much in a crowd.

Abilities and Traits
Renzo Sabattani is an officer of the Imperial Navy who is currently serving as the Lord Admiral of the Demeter Sector in the Ultima Segmentum.

Early life
Born on the Industrial World of Bologna in Segmentum Obscurus, Sabattani hailed from a family of lesser nobility that held the lowest aristocratic title, Imperial Knight, and had fallen out of favor after his father lost a political struggle. His mother had been murdered by their political opponents and since then his father had turned into a broken shell of a man, spending most of his time drinking away the money they had left. The young Renzo was forced to go to work in the factories so they could get by. However, he despised his father and spent as little time with him as possible, instead spending time with a good friend of his from the factory, Augusto Casoria, a commoner. The two of them worked in the same factory and met each other there. Sabattani frequently spoke of leaving the industrial hellhole they toiled away in and achieving power, secretly disgusted with what he perceived was the Emperor's oppression of people, forcing them to labor in slave-like conditions. Casoria did not care too much about such things but was impressed with Sabattani's work at the factory, as he managed to reach a managerial position before long and kept things running fairly efficiently.

The moment for Sabattani to act out on his beliefs came in 716.M41, in an unexpected manner. Their planet was visited by a group of Imperial Navy crewmen from the Lunar-class cruiser Rage of the Emperor, which was passing through the system after surviving an engagement. They were looking for people in the industrial areas to press-gang into joining the crew of the ship as replacements for the recent casualties. Sabattani and Casoria both happened to be found by them, who were leaving the factory at the time and passing through some alleys. Five Navy men found and confronted them, and after a short verbal argument the two Bolognans agreed to go. His friend was initially reluctant, but Sabattani convinced him by saying this was their chance to leave this hellhole of a world. At least, that was part of the reason, what he said in front of the Navy crewmen. Later in private he told Casoria that joining the Imperial military was their best chance to rise to power.