Nassir Amit - Great Crusade: Nassir Amit was the ferocious captain of the Blood Angels Legion's 5th Company during the Great Crusade. Of all the IXth Legion's captains, Amit's reputation -- and that of his company -- was the most bloodthirsty. Their zealotry in battle had earned them a dubious reputation amongst their battle-brothers, for they had been censured more than once for their pursuit of enemy forces.The bloodthirsty Astartes officer had a predatory way about him, a sense of aggression barely held in check that many of his fellow captains had seen unleashed in full many times on the field of battle. Like their commander, the battle-brothers of the 5th Company were known to bear bolters and flaying knives in battle. Despite his often unsavoury reputation, Amit was a formidable warrior and commander, and he and his company had taken part in many notable campaigns throughout the Great Crusade.Amit was noted for leading his company in the Imperial Compliance of Melchior, a joint campaign that was carried out by both the vaunted Luna Wolves of Primarch Horus, and the Blood Angels Legion. The world was the last bastion of the xenos known as the Nephilim.He was also present during the Council of Nikaea in 001.M31, a great Imperial conclave called by the Emperor of Mankind on the world of Nikaea, that was intended to determine whether or not the use of psychic abilities represented a boon or a grave danger to Mankind and the newborn Imperium of Man. Though he was present throughout most of the proceedings, Sanguinius had ordered Amit to stand sentinel in the Great Angel's personal quarters when the Emperor finally pronounced His Decree Absolute banning the use of psychic powers in the Space Marine Legions.Amit, like his primarch, was staunchly pro-Librarian, and he suspected that his primarch had relegated such a mundane duty to him so that he would not try to argue with the Emperor's decision. When the Blood Angels' First Captain Raldoron returned to the primarch's quarters, Amit argued with him instead, and proceeded to go on a tirade about why the Emperor's decision was wrong and that forbidding the Space Marine Legions' Librarians from using their innate abilities was a mistake. He also expressed his concern as to how they were to integrate their psychic brethren back into the rank-and-file.When Sanguinius entered the chamber, he assured Captain Amit that the Librarians would be welcomed within the ranks of the IXth Legion, but warned him that his father's words were law, and by that authority alone, the Edicts of Nikaea were beyond contestation.Later, Amit and his 5th Company took part in a joint campaign between the Blood Angels Legion and the Alpha Legion in the Kayvas Belt fighting against the Greenskins. Many tribes of Orks, scattered and leaderless after the hammerblow they had suffered at Ullanor during the Ullanor Crusade, had fled to the points of the etheric compass -- and many had come to rest in the Kayvas Belt, where they carved new outposts out of the drifting, mineral-rich rocks, and licked their wounds while they re-armed.The Alpha Legion had tracked the Orks to their lair and petitioned the Warmaster Horus for the reinforcements required to prosecute their plan of annihilation. The Blood Angels agreed to assist their cousins in the XXth Legion, with Sanguinius himself marshalling a sizable intervention to support the efforts of the 88th Expeditionary Fleet.The mission, Alpharius said, would be five standard years in execution. The Angel rejected that premise and promised it would be over in one, and he committed vessels from every active Blood Angels expeditionary fleet to the cause. Sanguinius was proved right -- more or less. Just over thirteen solar months after the commencement of the Kayvas initiative, the Orks were almost totally annihilated.