Hol Beloth was one of the most prominent and certainly the most ambitious of the field commanders of the Word Bearers Legion, Hol Beloth was a seasoned warrior and decorated veteran of his Legion's lightning-swift Compliance camapign in the years after their censure on the world of Khur by the Emperor Himself. This was a period which saw the XVIIth Legion conquer more worlds in a confined period of time than any other, and Captain Hol Beloth, then a rising star within the ranks, was personally responsible for a score of broken and subjugated worlds. Of these Compliance actions perhaps the most infamous was that of the self-entitled Serenity Alpha, a human world of billions whose near-complete isolation had spared it the ravages of the Age of Strife. Its indigenous people had turned their t