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Taking a tongue-in-cheek approach to the normally absurdly Ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download And Dark 40K universe, the series follows the exploits of a cowardly, self-hating Commissar, in charge of morale and discipline in the Imperium's armywho has managed to not only survive the front lines of the ultimate Crapsack Worldbut prosper.
Over the course of the series, Cain becomes a massively acclaimed Hero of the Imperium, partly through opportunism, skill and minor heroism, but mostly through sheer blind luck. Sent to progressively more insanely dangerous warzones as his reputation grows, Cain actually wants nothing more than to find a quiet place to hide from the fighting.
That is, if you believe him. The author himself has stated that even he doesn't know whether Cain is actually the Dirty Coward he presents himself as, or just doesn't give himself enough credit. If you're curious as to which is which, the best option is probably just to read the books yourself and draw your own conclusions.
Ten novels and nine short stories have so far been published. Many of the stories have been recompiled in omnibus editions, ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download.
Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. Covers Always Lie. But this time, they're doing it deliberately. The novels, ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download. For The Emperor details Cain's adventures in creating a functional regiment, the th Valhallan, out of the remains of two former regiments that were savaged by Tyranids; his first deployment with that regiment, to the world of Gravalax which the Tau are attempting to steal; and his first association with Inquisitor Vail, who has discovered something very useful in Cain's aide, Jurgen, and wants to use the both of them against someone Tyranid genestealers who is ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download the humans and the Tau against each other Caves of Ice concerns the th's deployment to an iceworld under siege by Orks Cain has to lead a small squad into the planet's tunnels, finding something Necrons he is not exactly prepared for The Traitor's Hand takes place some years later, with the th deployed against a series of Chaos cults.
With rebels and insurgents on every hand, Cain must figure out what the Ruinous Powers are planning, as well as deal with an Obstructive Bureaucrat who happens to be the one sort of person he can't simply pull rank on: a fellow commissar Death Or Glory is essentially a prequel, detailing Cain's first rise to prominence during the Ork invasion of Perlia.
Shot down behind enemy lines, he ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download gathering up survivors into a makeshift convoy and traveling towards safety. Though he stumbles upon a number of fortuitous circumstances such as what looks like a clandestine research lab under a damhe really has only one goal in mind: saving his own skin Duty Calls picks up with Cain still in the th, but carries on from where Death or Glory left off; it forms the middle book of a trilogy.
Called to handle a genestealer infestation and associated Tyranid hive fleet, Cain finds himself press-ganged by Amberley into helping her search for the people who ran that clandestine research lab. They have taken from it an artifact which could alter the very fate of the galaxy Cain's Last Stand takes place in the at the time "present day" of Warhammer 40K meaning the closing of the 41st Millenium, as this was written before the Dark Millenium story event moved events forward into the 42nd Milleniumafter Cain has already retired to Perlia and is teaching at a military academy.
Of course, ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download, one ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download the events of WH40K 's present day was the 13th Black Crusade, which catches the tiny planet up in its grasp.
Abaddon knows about that universe-altering artifact, which has been returned to Perlia, and if Cain can't stop them from getting it, Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies. It picks up immediately following the events of "Echoes of the Tomb", below. The Last Ditch once again sees Cain fighting alongside the Valhallan th to defeat an Orkish uprising on Nusquam Fundamentibus, during the course of which he uncovers something a long-buried Tyranid bioship that casts new light on an old foe.
But when the Tau call for a cease-fire, Cain gets nervous because he knows that means they need his help against something worse Choose Your Enemies : Cain and the th are defending a mining world from Eldar raiders when they learn of a greater threat to the nearby hive world Ironfound.
The short stories. In it, Cain first joins the Valhallan 12th Field Artillery, a nice, safe assignment where he can hide away from anything more offensive than Jurgen's psoriasis.
They successfully defeat an Ork infestation, but things go ploin-shaped when there turns out to be a Tyranid splinter fleet right behind them He's a field adjutant helping agents of the Mechanicus investigate ancient ruins. Guess how it turns out, ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download. This priestess, Emeli, almost succeeds in seducing him, but Jurgen is able to intercede, and the story ends with the two of them fleeing and calling an artillery strike on their location.
What he discovers is that it's actually the center of a genestealer infestation. Nyuck nyuck. He and Jurgen must find a way to stop the enemy from using it as a Suicide Attacker on the Imperial fleet — while somehow avoiding death themselves.
But the heretics aren't quite finished just yet Commissar Cain and the Valhallan th deploy to the planet Letonia to help quash a civil insurrection, and quickly find themselves in much more dire straits. What's meant to be a quiet, private meeting between Cain ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download Vail is interrupted by kidnappers. Ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download hidden among the Tau artifacts that they seized, she finds a priceless artifact of a different Xeno race, and must discover how it ended up on Ironbound.
The omnibuses. Abhorrent Admirer : In a non-romantic example, Cain considers Sulla as this. She, of course, remains completely unaware of what he thinks, and sees him as a mentor.
Mira is a downplayed example. Cain is happy to sleep with her, but begins aggressively finding excuses to avoid her company when he realizes that she is hoping to make him her husband. It's ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download that he'd mind that either, the problem is that she thinks he's given his implicit consent already in no uncertain terms, and thus he'd have a very awkward time explaining to her the fact that it would be plain impossible for him to leave his position to marry.
According to Cain, other items of her wardrobe tend toward being low-cutso this is something of a stylistic theme with her. Rakel tends toward this as well, though with her it's probably accidental, the result of her clothing being a couple sizes too small. Varan's main superpower is psionic brainwashingand the investigators surmise that he ordered the pilot to wait for further orders and thanks to Cain, could never give him different ones.
We finally get to see it in The Emperor's Finest. Absurdly Spacious Sewer : Since most cities in 40K are so old the undercities have undercities and many of those have undercities of their ownthis trope is somewhat justified. Both Lampshaded and played straight in Death or Glory. When Cain is trapped in a building surrounded by Orks, he remarks that having sewers and storm drains as a convenient escape route whenever he's trapped is not nearly as common as he would have liked.
Played with in The Emperor's Finestwhen Cain points out to the Astartes Commander that the tunnels running below an enemy artillery unit aren't spacious enough to fit Space Marines, ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download, but PDF troopers can move there just fine. However, after saving Cain and Mira from the Genestealer ambush, Space Marines proceed to hunt down the survivors in those very tunnels. In Terminator suits, no less.
Admiring the Abomination : This is a common failing of Techpriests when it comes to Necrons and their tombs, and the Cain novels are no exception: While searching the mines below a processing plant his unit's guarding, Cain discovers a Necron tomb.
The Techpriest who accompanies Cain can't understand why he wants to blow up the tomb's entrance and call in the navy to bomb the place into oblivion. He changes his mind after he's the only survivor of a group of "Cogboys" who entered the tomb; he eventually gleefully helps drown the tomb in promethium.
The short story Echoes of the Tomb chronicles Cain's first encounter with the Necrons after a group of Techpriests attempt to salvage what they believe is an inactive tombworld. Advertised Extra : Apart from the conflict at the beginning before they can contact Cain, a few early scenes where they agree to work together with the Imperium to fight the Tyranids, the bit where El'Hassai accompanies Cain to a Mechanicus facility and an appearance in the epilogue, the Tau don't really contribute anything to the plot of The Greater Good, despite the book being named after their central philosophy.
The scene on the front cover of Cain and a Tau Fire Warrior fighting back-to-back against a Tyranid horde never happens. Air-Vent Passageway : Both used and subverted in Cain's Last Standwhere the air vents are exactly the place genestealers like to hide, but Cain takes the fact it works as a sign that the Tyranids aren't the only threat.
He also readily uses maintenance hatches after learning of them in Death or Glory he notes in the short story Traitor's Gambit that he tries to acquire their access codes in advance when possible. Fight or Flight The very first Cain story starts with the mopping-up of a fairly minor Ork incursion, with Tyranids showing up just as they're about to wrap things up and call it a day.
For The Emperor starts out with tensions between humans and the Tau, with the real threat being Genestealers. Caves of Ice has the Orks at the start, with the Necrons ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download the real threat. That is before an Ork Gargant smashes through Necron Monoliths and threatens evacuation zone. Duty Calls originally has the th sent to deal with a routine civil insurrection, which turns out to have been started by genestealers, followed closely behind by Tyranids, but a much greater threat from renegade elements of the Inquisition and the Adeptus Mechanicus presents itself.
The Emperor's Finest starts with Genestealers and Tyranids, but Orks also become a very prominent threat. Interestingly, the Tau and the Orks are frequently on the lower end of the threats that Cain faces, and are often used as the "Set-up" villains. The Last Ditch starts with Orks, but shifts to Tyranids.
The Greater Good has Tau forces at first before shifting to Tyranids again. Choose Your Enemies spends most of the book with the Eldar as the main threat, with the real threat of the Chaos Cult only becoming apparent at the climax.
Anachronic Order : The first three books are in chronological order, the fourth is a prequel, the fifth takes place between books two and three, the sixth takes place in the WH40K universe's "present day" long after the events of the rest although the last three all focus on his part in a single larger storythe seventh takes place between book four and book one, and the eighth which notably involves his second campaign on a specific world when the story of his first trip there has yet to be published takes place after the third, but still half a century before the sixth, the ninth taking place less than a decade before the sixth and the tenth taking place several years after the eighth.
The short stories are in equally random order, with two taking place before book four Including Cain's first act of alleged heroismone taking place somewhere between books four and seven, one taking place immediately before book seven, and one taking place roughly a decade before book six, and several that have so few reference points that one cannot reliably tell what decade they took place in.
In-story, the Cain Archive Amberley is editing the stories from is described by her as "consisting merely of a single dataslate, stuffed full of files arranged with a cavalier disregard for chronology, and to no scheme of indexing that I've been able to determine despite prolonged examination of the contents.
If the novels are divided into groups ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download three which the Omnibus editions do each trilogy is in chronological order, with each of the latter two following Cain's often peripheral involvement in a single larger plot. An Arm and a Leg : Cain does this to the pro-Tau terrorist leader in Traitor's Gambit : when the woman orders him out of the last escape pod at gunpoint, Cain orders Jurgen to shoot her. While she's distracted, Cain shoots her from the hip with a Tau-manufactured plasma pistol he acquired earlier, the force of the blast ripping her gun arm off and more importantly, blasting her back far enough to get the pod shut.
Averted in the other novels, where the governors are competent but hopelessly outmatched or a George W. Bush expynone of them are actually ill-intentioned towards Cain except for one after he ended up brainwashed by the villain. In one case, one even saves Cain from being married to a particularly pushy Girl of the Week. Apocalypse Wow : Cain's Necron tomb-killing promethium bomb in Caves of Ice is powerful enough to launch debris into orbit, where it buffets his fleeing troop ship, ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download.
That would probably manage to squeak onto the Class 0 minimum requirements were the planet reasonably civilized beyond the sole refinery which was consumed in the blast entirely.
Armour Is Useless : Averted. Cain takes to wearing carapace armor under his coat from For The Emperor onwards, which helps on several occasions. Armor has also saved some others' lives; Jurgen in particular has had his helmet save him at least twice. Played straight with the Reclaimers and genestealers in The Emperor's Finest. It's a longstanding truth in the 40K universe that genestealer claws can punch through just about anything.
Armor-Piercing Question : "When did you last have an augmetic upgrade? It makes her realize that she's been the Manchurian Agent all along. This could be for a number of reasons Armageddons are typically converted Lunar-class cruisers, or Cain's professed lack of interest in the navy.
Ciaphas cain choose your enemies pdf download
The seventh, eighth, and ninth novels, were collected into a third omnibus entitled Ciaphas Cain: Saviour of the Imperium in The tenth novel, Choose Your Enemies, was released in The original audio dramas, Dead in the Water and The Devil You Know were released in . Sandy Mitchell «For the Emperor none other than the celebrated Commissar Ciaphas Cain, and that the archive was written by him during his retirement while serving as a tutor at the Schola Proge‐nium. Imperial history, aruf his eyewitness accounts of our enemies contain many valuable, if idiosyncratic, insights into understanding and. Ciaphas-cain-choose-your-enemies PDF EPUB Download. Ciaphas-cain-choose-your-enemies also available in docx and mobi. Read Ciaphas-cain-choose-your-enemies .
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