Commissar - Notable Commissars: Lady Commissar-General Viktoria Balshin - Commissar-General Viktoria Balshin was the senior-ranking commissar assigned to the Fifth Army Command Staff and thus its senior representative of Lord-General Barthol Van Voytz, the commander-in-chief of Warmaster Macaroth's Fifth Army forces, and supreme commander of the second front during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade.Lord Commissar Vance Theren - The most senior commissar in the Orpheus Salient of the Achilus Crusade, Theren has presided over matters of military discipline since the first day of the salient's foundation. A veteran of many conflicts, Theren has served both on the ground alongside the Imperial Guard, and as a fleet commissar with the Imperial Navy, giving him valuable experience in a variety of theatres of war, and making him an ideal choice for such high authority. His oversight into all Imperial Guard and Imperial Navy activities within the salient is carried out through the means of thousands of lesser commissars stationed aboard starships and deployed within Imperial Guard regiments.Lord Commissar Dominic Seroff - Once close friend and brother-in-arms to the famed Commissar Sebastian Yarrick, Seroff became one of Yarrick's most bitter adversaries after the execution of their shared mentor, Simeon Rasp. Ultimately, Seroff's association with the planetary governor of Armageddon, Herman Von Strab, would damn a once promising career. While Yarrick was feted for his heroics in the siege of Hades Hive, Seroff was banished by the Officio Prefectus to the backwater planet of Eremus. Soon after, Eremus succumbed to a Warp-plague of horrific potency that left no survivors. The only clue to Seroff's ultimate fate can be found in the scattered rumours that the dreaded Death Guard warship Terminus Est was sighted above Eremus, the flagship of the Chaos Lord Typhus himself.Commissar-General Delane Oktar - A senior-ranking commissar that with the Hyrkan 8th, from the regiment's foundation to their victory on Balhaut, a world reclaimed by the Imperium during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. He is also notable for having mentored the young Junior-Commissar Ibram Gaunt, who gained full rank status of Commissar at Oktar's death-bed. He learned many important lessons from Oktar that taught him the resolve of serving as an effective commissar tempered with humility and concern for the troops under his charge. These key lessons would later play in Commissar Gaunt's development of the Tanith First and Only into a very successful and notable fighting regiment of the Imperial Guard.Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt - Commander of the Tanith 1st and Only regiment, and one of the few commissars known to have commanded a full Imperial Guard regiment in his own right. He is the main character in the Gaunt's Ghosts series of novels by Dan Abnett.Commissar Tomas Beije - Tomas Beije was an Imperial commissar who served with the Tallarn 229th Regiment during its deployment to Adumbria to defend it against the forces of Chaos in 937.M41. Beije was in the same Schola Progenium class as the famous Ciaphas Cain, and carried an intense hatred for the other commissar throughout their careers, though Cain did not return such feelings and never saw Beije as more than an annoying buffoon. Beije was filled with an assortment of emotions; moral outrage, bafflement and seething envy for his rival. Beije could not fathom how Cain managed to rise to become a celebrated Hero of the Imperium despite his irreverence and lack of proper respect for the Emperor, while he, always so determined to do exactly what he believed was expected of a commissar, had not.Commissar Ciaphas Cain - Ciaphas Cain was an Imperial commissar who was attached to the 597th Valhallan Regiment in the late 41st Millennium and who became lauded as one of the greatest heroes the Imperium had ever seen, a man held up as the pinnacle of achievement among the servants of the Emperor despite his own private memoirs which revealed that he thought of himself as a coward and a fraud. Cain was the main protagonist of the novels of Sandy Mitchell.Commissar Doran Farrier - Doran Farrier was the regimental commissar and second-in-command of the 252nd Kauravan Conservator Regiment, serving under the command of Lord General Vance Stubbs during the Kaurava Campaign. Unlike many commissars and their commanding officers, he proved to enjoy an amiable relationship with Stubbs, and Farrier served as a part of the lord general's honour guard for nearly the entirety of the campaign.Commissar Anton Gebbett - Regimental commissar of the 1st Kronus Liberators, and second-in-command of the Imperial Guard forces on the world of Kronus during the Dark Crusade of the 41st Millennium in the PC game Dawn of War - Dark Crusade. The commissar's role of maintaining morale is underlined in that if the Imperial Guard headquarters at Victory Bay is attacked, and Commissar Gebbet, placed in command of the regiment's 5th Company (whose loyalty and steadfastness is questionable), is killed, the morale and order of 5th Company deteriorates and they ally themselves with the enemy troops against the rest of the regiment. In game, he is rarely seen without his entourage of Ogryn Bone'eads, who act as his bodyguards during any assault on Victory Bay.Commissar Viktor Hark - Commissar assigned to the Tanith 1st and Only regiment by Lord General Lugo during the campaign on Hagia. Now promoted to regimental commissar by Ibram Gaunt.Commissar Holt - The player's advisor and second-in-command in the turn-based strategy computer game Final Liberation: Warhammer Epic 40,000. The only commissar to be portrayed in live-action full motion video by Larry Rew.Commissar Pius Kowle - Pius Kowle was an effective and ruthless commissar beyond reproach, but his actions were not tempered with humility or concern for the troops under his charge. After having a Guardsman flogged to death for wearing the wrong badge on his cap, Commissar Gaunt reported Kowle's heinous actions to Warmaster Slaydo, shortly before the climactic battle on Balhaut during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. Kowle felt cheated and robbed of glory and never forgave Gaunt for this personal slight to his honour. Commissar Kowle was reassigned to the world of Verghast to the Vervun Primary Imperial Guard regiments, and took charge as the senior commander of the Vervun Primary Commissariat. This local Commissariat was theoretically subordinate to their parent organisation, the Imperial Commissariat, and possessed fewer powers over regular Imperial Guardsmen, but jurisdiction concerns arose during the Defence of Vervunhive during the Sabbat Worlds Crusade. Gaunt later placed Kowle under arrest, relieving the commissar of his weapon and his rank pins for various actions he had committed. Kowle then accompanied the small party that Gaunt led to confront Salvador Sondar and reactivate Vervunhive's defence shield. In a fight with a Chaos-corrupted servitor-beast in Sondar's chambers, Kowle killed it by thrusting a cluster of grenades down its jaws, losing both his arms. As he bled to death, he sneered that he had proven his point: that Gaunt was a weakling who didn't have the resolve needed to win. He cursed Gaunt for ruining his career and "robbing" the Crusade of a great leader. As a valediction, Gaunt returned Kowle's rank pins to him in the final moments of his life, and saluted him for "giving his best."Lord Commissar Auys Salieri - The son of senior Departmento Munitorum adepts lost to the Warp, Ayus Salieri was raised from infancy by the tutors and Drill Abbots of the Schola Progenium. After a brief period serving in the Storm Trooper companies, during which time he displayed a natural aptitude for leadership and a steely resolve, Salieri was inducted into the Commissariat. Salieri's career as an Imperial commissar is long and distinguished, and it has been said that he can turn the tide of battle with a single shot. Of course, the shot in question is typically directed at a cowardly or incompetent Imperial officer. Salieri's uncompromising skill, courage, and prowess have gained him the recognition and respect of his peers and superiors, and the fear of those under his command. As zealous and by the book as he is, however, Salieri is no fool, and realises that, occasionally, circumstances warrant subtler methods. In his heavy, black flak coat and peaked cap, emblazoned with a death's head, and the gleaming gas mask he has taken to wearing in Hervara's harsh environs, Salieri perfectly embodies the dread aspect of an Imperial commissar. Icons of his faith and devotion to the Imperium adorn Salieri's armour and uniform as fury and fanaticism are engraved indelibly in his iron mind.Commissar Sebastian Yarrick - Hailed as the greatest commissar in Imperial history, Yarrick was key to the defeat of the Ork invasions in both the Second and Third Wars for Armageddon.Junior Commissar Nahum Ludd - Nahum Ludd is a junior commissar assigned to the Tanith First and Only Imperial Guard regiment, assisting fellow Commissar Viktor Hark with disciplinary duties. Despite his combat experience, the young Ludd was still naive, which prompted the senior Commissar Hark to take the junior commissar under his wing, to teach him the finer points of performing his commissarial duties.Terrax Guard - The world of Terrax is the location of one of the Imperium's largest Schola Progenium facilities, and all the Terrax Guard Astra Militarum regiments raised there are sent through the facility, and trained using the commissarial training program. As such, a Terrax Guard regiment is essentially equivalent to a full regiment of Imperial commissars.