Cain
Cain noun - (Old Testament) Cain and Abel were the first children of Adam and Eve born after the Fall of Man; Cain killed Abel out of jealousy and was exiled by God.
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Traitor
Traitor noun - One who betrays a trust or an allegiance.
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Cain and traitor are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Cain" with "Traitor", this nouns are similar.
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An Arm and a Leg: Cain does this to the pro-Tau terrorist leader in Traitor's Gambit: when the woman orders him out of the last escape pod at gunpoint, Cain orders Jurgen to shoot her.
Source: Literature / Ciaphas Cain -
As you might expect, then, the fact that she turned traitor made her one of the worst examples of this trope, becoming the Cain to Numbuh Five's Abel in the process.
Source: Broken Pedestal - Brought up in The Traitor's Hand, when Cain claims that the Imperium needs its generals but can always get another commissar.
Source: Literature / Ciaphas Cain
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