OOC: DH The Purity of Sacrifice

[Morovir]

Spoiler: Character Sheet:

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Name: Xerros-926
Career: Tech Priest
Home World: Forge World (Lathe-Het)
Divination: "Sins hidden in the heart lead all to decay."
Forge World Cants: Never to Dust: No machine should go still; always seek to utilise all moving parts on a device and activate its motive means, lest its spirit grow quiet and fade.
Home World Memento: Boot Lace
Background Memento: Phial of Iron Filings

Spoiler: Appearance:

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Build: 1.90m/65kg
Age: 67
Colouration: Pale skin, no hair, green lenses
Physical Quirks: Metallic smell

Spoiler: Characteristics:

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WS: 24
BS: 35
S: 31
T: 38
Ag: 29
Int: 49
Per: 34
WP: 31
Fel: 29

Wounds: 8
Fate: 3

Movement: 2/4/6/12

Insanity: 0
Corruption: 3

Spoiler: Skills:

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Common Lore (Machine Cult, Tech) (Int) (treated as Untrained Basic skills)
Logic (Int) (Basic - Trained)
Secret Tongue (Tech) (Int) (Advanced)
Speak Language (Low Gothic) (Int) (Advanced)
Tech-Use (Int) (Advanced)
Trade (Copyist) (Int) (Advanced)

Spoiler: Talents and Traits:

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Basic Weapon Training (Las)
Binary Chatter
Electro Graft Use
Feedback Screech
Luminen Shock
Mechanicus Implants
Melee Weapon Training (Primitive)
Pistol Weapon Training (Las)
Security
Stranger to the Aquila
Technical Knock

Spoiler: Gear:

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Auspex
Flak vest
Glow lamp
Knife
Las carbine and 1 charge pack
Las pistol and 1 charge pack
Mechanicus robes and vestments (Good Quality Clothing)
Metal staff
Mind Impulse Unit (Common Craftsmanship)
1 vial of Sacred Machine Oil
7 spare parts
9 Throne Gelt

Spoiler: Advancements:

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XP Total: 800
XP Spent: 800

Binary Chatter (100)
Feedback Screech (100)
Intelligence Advancement - Simple (100)
Logic (100)
Technical Knock (100)
Luminen Shock (200)
Security (100)

Spoiler: Background:

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Vat-born in the data-foundries of Lathe-Het, the individual who would become known as Xerros-926 started out as an unremarkable drudge-worker, flash-trained and set to work in the data-vaults like so many other thousands of his kind. However, after 27 years, a marginally superior success rate led to his assignment to a delving team into the deeper data-crypts of Lathe-Het. Serving under Magos Helesthrax for the best part of the next 4 decades, Xerros-926 aided in the discovery of 172 data-fragments, 39 of which were deemed viable for production. At the rate he was going, it was said that he would have made Magos by the end of the century had his final expedition not put to that. On Expedition_352.4, Xerros-926 inadvertently plugged into a corrupted cogitator. The resulting feedback killed two of his acolytes and left him in a catatonic state for the brief remainder of the expedition, an embarrassing blight on his career that would never be expunged. Although diagnostics would indicate that no corruption had remained in his system, the lords of Lathe-Het were unwilling to take the risk, and would palm him off to the first Inquisitor to request Mechanicus support from the Lathe Worlds.

Spoiler: Lathe-Het:

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The primer inter pares of the Lathe Worlds, Lathe-Het is the seat of power for the High Fabricator of the Lathes. Having moved beyond its past as a simple manufacturing complex, the Lathe-Het of the present is a vast complex of data-repositories, with this possession of knowledge making it one of the most powerful worlds in the Calixis as a whole.

Others among the Lathes see this as weakness, viewing Lathe-Het's preoccupation for data over manufacture as both dangerous and a sign of its decline, and accusations of heretek and worse fly through the noosphere.

However, beneath the ideal hides a darker truth. Factionalism runs rife on such an important world, with magi warring for data and loftier positions within the Grand Atrium. Many of the repositories have been destroyed and much of the data that Lathe-Het prizes itself on possessing is now lost. Each cycle, hundreds of expeditionary teams are sent into the deepest of the ruined data-crypts and beyond in the hope of salvaging anything still of value, in order to shore up the Fabricator's position, whilst also ensuring that any corrupt data is swiftly purged before it has a chance to spread throughout the disaffected populace of the forge world.

Spoiler: Omnicron-5038, Forge-Enclave of the Machine-Cult:

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Owing to its exports, the Cult Mechanicus maintains a strong presence on Helios. One way in which this presence is felt is through the forge-enclaves. Part church, part workshop, Omnicron-5038 is one of thousands of forge-enclaves scattered throughout Hive Hapheastein. Located within the mid-hive, the towering edifice serves as a reminder of the influence of the Adeptus Mechanicus, as well as a place of worship for those hive-dwellers who believe foremost in the incarnation of the Emperor-As-Omnissiah. Although this occasionally leads to clashes with those who see the servants of the Machine as borderline-heretics and believe in the sanctity of the flesh, the demi-maniple of combat servitors that serve as the guards of the enclave prevent this from escalating too far.

Spoiler: Magos Petrovskii:

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The leader of the congregation of Omnicron-5038, Magos Petrovskii is a bulky figure, in contrast to many of the spindly tech-priests that would be in most Imperial citizen's first thoughts. More of a priest than an engineer, Petrovskii has endeavoured to spread the word of the Omnissiah throughout the surrounding area of the hive, being willing to engage Imperial citizens in debates of doctrine and theology on his sojourns, as well as offering blessings on any technologies brought to him. Some discerning citizens have noticed a correlation between the reduction in vagrancy in the area and increasing numbers of servitors tending the enclave, but few have thought to make a point of it, seeing it as a benefit rather than anything more sinister.