”I teach you much, my child, yet sometimes fate makes survivors of us, whether we will it or not. Whether we ever live it, though, is another thing. We must always be prepared for any eventuality... all that is unforeseen.”

-- Kaethyr

During Myar’s travels among the stars, she was able to win the confidence of a wizened scholar within the Imperium of Man, who gave her the whereabouts of ancient ruins that boasted Eldar familiarity. It was in the scholar’s interests that Myar would assist him in his studies of the ruins, so he arranged secret transport for her with a rogue trader by the name of Rufus Merius. Still, the last time any effort was made to do so was over a thousand years ago, as the initial discovery was made by long dead men and women callously forgotten, after their initial attempt to colonize the planet of Loreinos V ended with failure.

Alas, no other attempt was made to follow up on the findings, and there was one other reason the planet’s colonization failed. Aside from the futility of colonizing a planet outside the reach of the Imperium’s immediate interests, there were rumours that pirates went about unmolested in using Loreinos V’s position as a safe haven to launch raids against neighbouring sectors. However, what the scholar failed to divulge to either Myar or Rufus, then captain of the Illiza’s Courage, was that the pirates were not all human. For as the Courage began its slow descent through Loreinos’ stormy atmosphere, they came face to face with an Imperium Lunar-class cruiser that had certainly seen better days, now that it was a profane vessel for piratical orks.

The resulting conflict was deadly. While the Courage put up a brave fight, it found its last resting place within the dense jungles of the planet it was sent to. Yet the ork vessel it faced off against hardly escaped destruction itself, breaking in half in the battle. (Which technically was a good day for ork engineering...) As for the Courage, only its captain and Myar managed to escape the fate of its crew after they made for Loreinos’ hostile surface in a miscalculated attempt to guide her through blinding weather. Why the captain personally volunteered for the endeavour is a story for another day yet their presence in the battle was cut short when debris struck their Valkyrie transport and sent it into a downward spiral. 

It mattered not. With or without its captain, the Courage could not starve off its destruction when a final broadside from the doomed ork ship's main batteries ripped apart the rogue trader's engines with surprising accuracy. As for Myar and Rufus, there was no amount of skill between them that could save their aircraft as it hurtled toward its fate at the bottom of a lake. One might even argue it was a miracle anyone emerged from its crash yet both Rufus and Myar’s will to survive was great.

In the end, it was this will that saved them both for many years to come.

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Going to make an effort here to revisit the original lore I have for Myar and upload whatever works are related to it. Granted, the most recent one is celebrating this story arc's 10 year anniversary! Enjoy. =)

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