Editing Severina Raine (section)

==History==
Severina is the focus character of the short story '''Execution''', as well as the novel '''Honorbound''', both written by Rachel Harrison.

She was deployed with the 11th Antari Rifles to the Bale stars system to aid the Imperium's war effort in the system. When the regiment was ordered to attack an enemy fortress, the captain of the regiment refused saying it was a suicide mission. He apparently forgot that saying this out loud next to a Commissar is another way of suicide.<br>

Raine {{BLAM|'''*BLAMMED*'''}} the captain and then had to calm down the regiment as she had just shot their commanding officer, who was apparently quite popular with the men. She stopped the regimental uprising by stating that the captain had refused the will of the Emperor and that she was a Commissar and shooting people who refused the Emperor's will was her job. She then took command of the regiment and charged them into the fortress, where many of them died but they overcame the defenses and destroyed the fortress.<br>
She believes members of the Regiment still hold a grudge, which considering she shot a beloved commanding officer in front of his troops and then forced them into a bayonet charge that only a [[Death Korps of Krieg|Krieger]] would willingly commit to, this is probably an accurate assumption.

Things got weird after that. The short version is, the Antari Rifles started finding their sanctioned psykers getting confiscated, and when they asked ''why'' they were put on more suicide charges than usual. Then Raine discovered that her sister, originally executed for heresy after a VERY public dishonorable discharge, was hit with trumped-up charges all along, and the Lord-General Militant of the Bale Stars was to blame. Turns out he was ''helping'' the Sighted. Uh oh.

Although she's not the only [[Commissar Raege|female Commissar]] portrayed in [[Black Library]] fiction, she ''is'' the only one with a (<S>limited-run, admittedly</S> Nevermind, as of January 10th 2023 [[GW]] announced they were turning her into a made-to-order) tabletop figure to her name.