Small in size due to High-Archon Aurora Doomfall's hatred of half-borns, the Kabal of the Twisted Thorn runs an antidote smuggling ring on the edge of Core Spur. Being completely removed from the social elite of Commorragh, the Twisted Thorn are far behind the times when it comes to fashion and so mainly use old, out dated equipment and vehicles, some of which date as far back as the rise of Vect. The Twisted Thorns hierarch Travanic, known as 'The Ripper' for his tendency to rip his victims limb from limb, once successfully penetrated the hull of a Grophonicus class destroyer by ramming the High-Archons beloved flagship 'Twisted Vision' into the void shield generator and causing the imperial ship to explode in spectacular fashion, a story which he never gets tired of retelling. With their numbers barely reaching one hundred, the Twisted Thorn tend to keep their raids exclusive to far-flung, low-populated frontier worlds, though this gives them fewer chances for a large bounty it has lead to many Imperial and Tau commanders to blame each other for the destruction and in Travanic's opinion has been the cause of many exiting and ever so bloody 'shows' between the two lesser kine.