Soul Drinkers - Trial of the Soul Drinkers: The captured Soul Drinkers were brought aboard the ancient and massive starship Phalanx, the mobile fortress-monastery of the Imperial Fists Chapter. The Imperial Fists intended to prosecute their brother Chapter for their apostasy.Though most Heretics would never have been granted such an honour, as former scions of Rogal Dorn, the Soul Drinkers would have their day in court, for the Imperial Fists were a Chapter of honour.To the Imperial Fists, a trial was more than a mere formality. It was their intention to see every correct procedure and tradition adhered to, so that no one could dare say that they did not give the Soul Drinkers every chance to redeem themselves.The Fists had collected evidence of the Soul Drinkers' deeds, including many that had pitted them against the forces of the Imperium from which the Soul Drinkers had rebelled.When the Soul Drinkers were first brought on board the Imperial Fists recovered a copy of the Soul Drinkers' so-called Catechism Martial. They acquired this tome from one of the members of Chaplain Iktinos' flock upon the confiscation of his Power Armour, forcing him to give up the book along with the secrets it contained.These members of Iktinos' flock were the Soul Drinkers whose officers had died in the gradual erosion of the Chapter's strength, and who had turned to Chaplain Iktinos for leadership. The treacheries and revelations revealed within the pages of the Catechism Martial made the Imperial Fists take an interest in interrogating Iktinos' Astartes themselves.During the interrogation of Brother Kaiyon by the Imperial Fists' Lord Castellan Leucrontas, the Soul Drinkers revealed the Chapter's secrets to him. It was discovered that Daenyathos, the legendary Philosopher-Soldier and author of the Catechism Martial, still lived, despite evidence that he had died over six Terran millennia before.Daenyathos had been interred within the adamantium sarcophagus of a mighty Dreadnought and hidden within a secret tomb on the world of Selaaca. This tomb was built with a series of ingenious traps put into place, ensuring that none save an Astartes would have the skill to discover the secrets contained within.When Daenyathos' crypt was discovered by a lone Imperial Fists Scout Marine, the resurrected Soul Drinker came willingly and let himself be brought aboard the Phalanx to face his fate alongside his fellow Battle-Brothers.A conclave of Space Marines was formed to listen to the presented evidence and to pass judgement on the Renegade Chapter. This conclave was composed of various Imperial Fists Successor Chapters, including representatives from the Crimson Fists, Howling Griffons and the Iron Knights, as well as other Chapters with no connection to the Imperial Fists such as the Doom Eagles, Silver Skulls and the Angels Sanguine.There was also a representative from the Inquisition as well as a small contingent of Battle-Sisters of the Adepta Sororitas and Tech-priests of the Adeptus Mechanicus.Brother Reinez, the former Captain of the Crimson Fists' 2nd Company, who had been dishonoured by the Soul Drinkers on Entymion IV after he lost his Company Standard to them in combat on that world, was appointed as the Soul Drinkers' prosecutor. Reinez had given up his rank and petitioned his Chapter Master to walk the path of the Warrior's Pilgrimage, one who wandered the galaxy seeking redemption outside his Chapter by looking for an enemy worthy of killing him, so that he could seek redemption in death for his failings.When Reinez heard that the Soul Drinkers had been captured and were to be tried on the Phalanx, he made haste for the Imperial Fists' vessel and presented himself before their Chapter Master Vladimir Pugh, and petitioned for the right to prosecute the Soul Drinkers so as to regain his honour.