Editing Soul Drinkers (section)

===Endgame===
Fleeing to the Veiled Regions at the suggestion of Chaplain Iktinos, the Soul Drinkers ran into an AdMech Explorator fleet probing the region. Managing to escape the AdMech, the Soul Drinkers began finding evidence of human life in the region, but had been mysteriously wiped out. The answer soon presented itself: [[Necron]]s. What's worse, these Necrons hadn't suffered [[fail|Villain Decay]] like the Tabletop Necrons at the time and were a legitimately frightening threat. Learning of human holdouts at Ravenia, the Soul Drinkers learned that the Ravenians were part of the Selaccan Empire, a human empire who had been cut off from the Imperium for a long, long time.

With the ''Brokenback'' running out of fuel, the Soul Drinkers made a deal with the AdMech to take to Selacca, where the Necrons were based, and work together to destroy the Necron Overlord leading them. After a bitter struggle, the Soul Drinkers managed to destroy the Necron Overlord, but at the price of Techmarine Lygris, who sacrificed himself to destroy its consciousness. Things soon turned for the worse when the AdMech double-crossed the Soul Drinkers and revealed that they had called in the Imperial Fists to take care of them. First Captain [[Darnath Lysander]] challenged Sarpedon to single combat, and Sarpedon accepted, ordering Luko to carry out his orders to stand down if he fell. For all of Sarpedon's speed, it was Lysander he was facing, and was quickly overpowered.

Instead of immediately executing the Soul Drinkers, Chapter Master [[Vladimir Pugh]] decided to put them on trial for treason, with himself serving as Lord Justice and Lysander as Chief Bailiff. Representatives from all over the Imperium arrived at the Phalanax for the trial, including familiar faces such as Captain Borganor of the Howling Griffons (who lost a leg to Sarpedon) Reinez, who was now an exile and appointed Prosecutor, Lord Inquisitor Kolgo (Thaddeus' former superior), and Bernice Aescarion of the [[Sisters of Battle]] (Thaddeus' former bodyguard). New faces included Librarian Varnica from the [[Silver Skulls]], Captain N'Kalo from the [[Iron Knights]] (another Imperial Fists successor, and the only person to defend the Soul Drinkers) and Commander Gethsemar of the [[Angels Sanguine]]. The trial was anything but dignified, with Reinez and Borganor constantly crying for the Soul Drinkers' immediate execution, but Lysander was able to keep them in line.

During the course of the trial, startling information came to light: not only did Imperial Fists Scouts discover Daenyathos in a Dreadnought buried beneath Selacca, but Commander Gethsemar revealed that the Sanguinary Priests had conducted tests on one of the young Soul Drinkers who was presumed dead during the First Chapter War, and revealed that Rogal Dorn was not the Soul Drinkers Primarch. After Varnica revealed the role of Abraxes, Pugh concluded that the Soul Drinkers were to be sentenced to death. However, the Blind Eye, a cult Daenyathos had seeded millennia earlier, freed the Soul Drinkers and kidnapped N'Kalo, where part of Daenyathos' plan was revealed: use Dorn's blood to open a Warp portal he had sealed during the [[Great Scouring]], bringing forth none other than Abraxes. The prospect of taking the Phalanx was too appealing, and pretty soon the four [[Chaos Gods]] had worked out a miniature cease-fire among themselves to allow some of their own Greater Daemons into the vessel. Daenyathos intended Abraxes to take the Phalanx on a Daemonic rampage through the galaxy, causing suffering and bloodshed unseen since the [[Horus Heresy]], from which a new, stronger Imperium would emerge (with himself as its ruler, of course).

While Iktinos and his flock joined Abraxes, the rest of the Soul Drinkers refused to be anyone's pawn and joined the assembled Imperial forces in repelling Abraxes' Daemon army. During the course of the battle, Sarpedon managed to mindrape Iktinos and throw the Chaplain out of an airlock, before cutting Daenyathos out of his Dreadnought with the Soulspear, while Varnica was able to close the Warp portal using the blood of Reinez (who had already gone over the deep end and allied with Iktinos's flock in his desire for vengeance) and with the help of Luko, who managed to keep Abraxes pinned long enough for the Warp portal to cut the Daemon in half. However, only Sarpedon, Luko, Sergeant Graevus, and Daenyathos survived the battle among the Soul Drinkers.

Knowing that there was no other place for them in this galaxy, the three loyalist Soul Drinkers instead chose to walk into the Warp, urging the Imperial Fists to stop being the agent of humanity's repression and start being the agent of its salvation. With that, the three loyalists walked into the Warp gate, with Sarpedon dragging Daenyathos in as well, who began screaming hysterically like a little bitch at the prospect (though given that he was going to be at the tender lack of mercies of the Chaos Gods, he had pretty good reason to be scared). Now convinced that the Soul Drinkers were indeed loyal, if unorthodox, servants of the Emperor of Mankind, the Imperial Fists inscribed a column in their Apothecarion as a memorial to the fallen Chapter, ensuring that the galaxy would not forget the tale --or the idea-- of the Soul Drinkers.