By birth, Ireton MaSade was a Terran, having been born to the scavenger tribes of the Talacra Silt Wastes to the west of Old Albia in the late eighth century of the 30th Millennium. As a young man, he, like millions of others, joined the muster of what would soon become the Exercitus Imperialis or Imperial Army. Ireton MaSade enlisted as a common soldier, but his aptitudes would see him assigned to the Solar Auxilia, the highly-equipped elite Cohorts of the Emperor of Mankind's human troops. Over decades of front line service, the former void-soldier would ascend swiftly through the ranks by dint of great intelligence, cold-blooded bravery and a phenomenal natural talent for warfare. Throughout his career as a common infantry man as well as a commanding officer, Ireton MaSade fought agains