Reports have identified the deceased aboard MT Jalveer as deck cadet Aditya Sharma, engine fitter Shivanand Chaurasiya and chief engineer Patnala Suresh.

IOS Marine called on US authorities to publicly release any evidence showing that communication had been established with the vessel before the strike.

The company also rejected suggestions that the tanker had any connection to Iran.

"The vessel is a civilian merchant vessel engaged in legitimate commercial operations. It has no affiliation whatsoever with Iran or Iranian oil," it said.

We have learnt that they were flown from Delhi to an island in the Bay of Bengal, put on a naval vessel and eventually forced into the Andaman Sea with life jackets. They then made their way to shore and are now facing an uncertain future in Myanmar, which the mostly-Muslim Rohingya community had fled in huge numbers in recent years to escape persecution.

"They bound our hands, covered our faces and brought us like captives [on to the boat]. Then they threw us in the sea," John, one of the men in the group, told his brother by phone soon after reaching land.

I think there’s a reason space marines tend to be protagonists of 40k video games; as much as I’ll talk about the virtues of some video game storytelling, most of these aren’t exactly pushing the envelope, and the space marines are primarily there to be badass RTS/FPS units.

But okay, so, my 'Chaos won the Horus Heresy' theory, in brief.

1-I have no idea how canon it is now, but at one point, there was this prevailing idea that Chaos Gods were basically egregores, snarls in the warp formed by chance among all the ripples created by the emotions and thoughts of some organic species, that became complex enough to be intelligent and self-perpetuating and seek to influence the material world to make more delicious food for themselves.

2-Because 40k, all the really big gods happened to be hilariously toxic amalgamations of different emotions and ideals, with their worst aspects primary. (Your god of hope is the raven who loves conspiracies and tragic hubris and magic. Sorry.)

3-Eldar souls were the best, but they're thin on the ground and hard to get at these days. Humans, meanwhile, are like half as tasty but several orders of magnitude more common, and much less picky about where they live or how much multiplying to do.

4-The sort of people who actually pledge their souls to capital-c Chaos are,well, not really who you want managing your bureaucracy. Demon princes and fallen primarchs and whatever are, like,super fun toys and pets, but can't really be trusted to maintain a stable mortal population. Chaos is, well, chaotic, and self-contradictory, and the gods both love seeing what their champions can achieve while also not really wanting them to win (they are vast, and contain multitudes, and are 100% capable of getting distracted and fucking themselves over in the long-term)

5-The Emperor was, on some level, a threat or irritant to the gods, so needed to be dealt with, but they really didn't care for Horus's whole messiah complex either.

6-The Imperium as it is now achieves two things with acceptable degrees of competence 1) maximize the currently existing population of humans, defending against non-god-feeding aliens like orks and tyranids and necrons and Enslavers and etc with adequate competence 2) elicit as much of the different gods favorite passions (blood lust and hatred, self-mortifying death-loving fatalism and despair, conspiratorial ambition and betrayal, repressed/decadent/taboo lust/excess and obsession) as possible in as much of the population as possible at all times.