Race: Human Archetype: Heretek
Background
Born to the Forge World Het, Quintus was groomed to the wants and needs of the Adeptus Mechanicus from birth. Trained and educated in the arts of war, the use and service of technology both new and old, and to serve the Machine God with his entire being, Quintus quickly reached the rank of Enginseer and sent out to the front lines of the Imperium in service to the Machine God. Serving throughout the Imperium, Quintus displayed great skills, and a rather unhealthy appetite for knowledge, banned or otherwise, amongst the other Enginseers and eventually was given the sub-rank of Reclaimator after being ordered many times into hostile situations to reclaim tech or materials and taking to the orders with relish, forever excited by the idea of new technology or the uncovering of ancient relics.
Over time Quintus was paired with a group of 5 other Reclaimators and formed into a specialised group that was to focus on the recovery of found ancient technology around the Eye of Terror and in the case of corruption from the warp being present, to destroy all traces of the object once all pertinent information was safely gleaned from the item in question. Technology unlike any found throughout the Empire became a common sight for Quintus as the group worked across the many systems around the Eye of Terror, but Quintus was growing discontent with their orders. Countless times they had to destroy a piece of tech that had traces of corruption without being able fully analyze the object, all due to the fear of the corruption spreading to those who were in proximity with the source. Countless times he tried to convince the others that there was more to be gleaned and that it was safe to continue to study the tech, but countless times he failed to convince them.
Finally the mission to inspect newly unearthed technology on the mining planet of Chinchare in the Chinchare system, though corruption was highly suspected due to the close proximity to the Eye of Terror, was handed down to the group. Included was brief description of the technology in question and it was believed to be a part of a large ship of unknown xenos origin, the largest tech the group would have the chance of investigating. They hurried off to Chinchare with excitement over this find, arriving quickly after receiving their orders, and without even a moments rest they set to work.
Their largest find yet, it took them months to fully excavate and explore the piece of ship for it was indeed a piece of a much larger ship which they believe had been torn off with great force, by what they didn't know though they suspected the storms that were common to the sector possibly had a hand in it. Once fully excavated the only place left to explore was what appeared to be the bridge of the ship and it was sealed behind an extremely durable blast door, none of their equipment on hand could get it to budge even an inch. Their only recourse left was to provide power to the ships remaining systems and try to interface with to open the door, which appeared safe enough as by this time they had successfully reversed engineered most of the ships basic systems and hadn't come across any signs of corruption, Quintus volunteered to attempt an interface.
They had only a moment, the briefest of moments to realize what was occurring before it was upon their minds. The system had shown no sources of physical corruption, but they were wrong. The entire ship had been infected by a virus with ties to Nurgle. Beset by ailments of the mind then the body, Quintus and the rest of his group were ravaged by the powers of the warp and twisted by the corruption of Nurgle until only Quintus remained alive, though barely as his body was withering away. In an emergency attempt to preserve his life, he performed Mechanicus Assimilation upon himself with the use of the servo skulls on hand. Miraculously he survived, but was now completely corrupted by the powers of the warp, and he found it was rather enjoyable.
No more restricting policies on the study of technology, no more limits to experimentation, he was free to explore and study what he wished if he turned on the Empire. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge and all he had to do was turn traitor, but he couldn't just leave and try to do so on his own. He was but one and the Empire was billions, he needed allies, he needed to join the traitor legions. Quintus disposed of the bodies of his former allies and quickly set to work, luckily most of the systems on the ships bridge were still functional including a long range communicator. Working with fervorous speed, he quickly reworked the communicator to send out a long range burst directly into the Eye of Terror with a basic message calling a traitor legion to his location.
The response from his comm burst was a return message requesting a sabotage of as many systems as possible on the planet before their arrival. Quintus sent a burst signal of the own infection that had now buried itself into his being and it had a devastating effect on the systems within range. Within moments of his spread of infection the invasion began. Quick and brutal, multiple dreadnoughts appear from the warp above the planet surface and hundred of drop pods came crashing down to the surface. Hundreds of traitor marines came pouring out and began laying waste to everything in sight, the explosions highlighting the symbols on their armor. Iron Warriors, the most brutal, well disciplined, and tenacious legion amongst the traitors had come to Chinchare and they were there for one thing and one thing only. Destruction.
A troop of Iron Warriors arrived at the ancient ship, led by one (insert Alex's char). Quintus' new Commander amongst the Iron Warriors.
AppearanceQuintus is as much machine as man. His skin is extremely pale, and on the back of his skull he has a tattoo of the symbol of the Adeptus Mechanicus, distorted and obscured with the legion symbol of the Iron Warriors. He wears robes of blood red, with patches of his cybernetics painted black. He has several cybernetic implants, including a servo arm on his right side, and optical and utility mechadendrites on his left. In his left hand he carries his power axe, a relic from his time in the mechanicum, and he also carries a lascarbine, for fighting at a distance.
Personality
Quintus is a dedicated and zealous worker, who especially loves to uncover ancient and forbidden technologies, and devising ingenious devices for visiting destruction upon his enemies from afar. Though these are his preferred fields, Quintus will gladly fulfill the will of his masters to the best of his ability, regardless of what the orders may be, perhaps a remnant of the conditioning received as part of his training in the Adeptus Mechanicus. Due to his single-minded, and some might say, obsessive nature, he often is at odds with others who may have goals aside from their most immediate or direct orders. He also tends to take more pride in a well constructed engine of destruction than he ever could from any over display of martial prowess.
Tactics
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