Nykona Sharrowkyn - Allies Unlooked For: With the losses suffered on Iydris, the Sisypheum's offensive capabilities had been severely reduced. The voidship itself had not escaped unscathed, but as before, the dedication of its crew had allowed the Sisypheum to endure.The Strike Cruiser could still prove a deadly opponent, as isolated enemy ships would soon find out. The Zeta Morgeld, a Strike Cruiser belonging to the XXth Legion, was only the latest vessel to be cornered and boarded by the Sisypheum. While the Iron Hands conducted a more conventional boarding action, Sharrowkyn and his partner, Wayland, chose an alternate route -- running along the Morgeld's exterior hull to reach the bridge.To gain access to the ship's interior, Wayland carried a Lascutter, a high-powered cutting tool, which would allowed the pair to breach the Morgeld's bridge and circumvent its extensive defensive measures. However, as the main attack was bogged down by a pair of Alpha Legion Terminators, Sharrowkyn and Wayland stepped in to save Captain Tyro's life.The first Terminator was sucked into the void and the second was no match for Sharrowkyn's deadly blade work. The Zeta Morgeld’s navigational logs held highly classified information -- the future location of the Alpha Legion's elusive Primarch, Alpharius. Though encrypted, Wayland and Frater Thamatica were able to crack the enemy codes thanks to the captured Kryptos.Having been stripped of anything useful, the Iron Hands were about to dispose of the Zeta Morgeld when the Sisypheum unexpectedly came under attack by the Theta Malquiant, another Alpha Legion Strike Cruiser that had just appeared in-system. The Theta Malquiant did not come alone, however, for it had been followed by a Loyalist vessel, the Iron Heart, flagship of the famed Iron Hands Captain Shadrak Meduson.While the Iron Hands rejoiced at the Iron Heart's timely arrival and the prospect of joining forces with one of their Legion's greatest heroes, Sharrowkyn was more reserved. Ever suspicious, the Iron Heart's miraculous arrival and timely rescue of the Sisypheum sat ill at ease with the Raven Guard.The XIXth Legion had always been cautious, and disliked sacrificing its warriors in often costly direct assaults when the same goal could be attained through other means. This same sense of caution lead Sharrowkyn to speak out against Tyro, urging the assembled command council of the Sisypheum to cut all Vox-links to the Iron Heart and rapidly vacate the system.But the Sisypheum was still an Iron Hands' vessel and Sharrowkyn's warnings were easily dismissed by the eager Iron Hands. On a purely rational level, Sharrowkyn could understand the Iron Hands' psychological need to fight together: the Iron Tenth was not used to guerrilla warfare and while they would never openly admit to it, covert operations gnawed at their resolve.Knowing full well that he was still perceived as an outsider, Sharrowkyn departed the bridge. Leaving the Iron Hands to their reunion, the Raven Guard isolated himself on the Sisypheum's forging decks. He was, however, not entirely alone, for on those decks was another outsider to the Xth Legion: Atesh Tarsa of the Salamanders Legion.Though their mutual appearance could not have been more different, an honest friendship had developed between the stealth expert and the Apothecary. To Tarsa, Sharrowkyn confessed his doubts on the course of action Cadmus Tyro had set them on: to join their meagre forces with those of Meduson and hunt down Alpharius.Sharrowkyn relayed his distrust of Meduson and decided to covertly infiltrate the Iron Heart on his own to ascertain that Meduson was truly who he appeared to be.While the Sisypheum's Kryptos was decrypting the data retrieved from the Zeta Morgeld, Sharrowkyn covertly attached himself to a lone shuttle and made his way over to the Iron Heart. Gaining access to the inside of the voidship was simplicity itself, as the Iron Heart was woefully undermanned.Prowling the Strike Cruiser's corridors, Sharrowkyn remarked that the ship had almost been entirely rebuilt from within, a testimony to the Iron Heart's recent encounters with the enemy. Yet the lay-out of the new cursives and corridors was a far cry from the more common and ordered structures of the STC-template for voidships used in the Imperium's orbital shipyards.Contacting Wayland over a secure vox-channel, Sharrowkyn gained access to the Sisypheum's extensive data-logs which contained the initial construction plans of the Iron Heart. What he had seen onboard was a far cry from what the blueprints for the design called for.But before he could investigate the matter any further, Sharrowkyn was discovered by Shadrak Meduson. Having acted without permission or even knowledge from Tyro, Sharrowkyn's presence on the Iron Heart might well have caused further tensions if Meduson had not conceded in revealing the presence of his own infiltrator aboard the Sisypheum.Scolding Tyro for his lack of precautions and inquisitive nature, Meduson let the case rest, but this entire incident only served to strengthen Sharrowkyn's misgivings toward the Iron Hands captain.No warrior of the Xth Legion, however cautious and well-versed in the art of stealth, would have been able to fool the Raven Guard's senses, and yet Sharrowkyn had not perceived the presence of this infiltrator in their midst.