Xana Incident

[rendingon1+]

I still haven't found any answear to a question: what were the suprise zombie astartes/cybernetica Endryd brought to Xana? Or rather who (what and how) made them into zombie automata?

I know they were the loyalist slain of Istvaan V and other engagements. After capturing the shipment and taking identity of Koraddon and his ret, at some point Haar and his blackshields made a deal with someone who did...what he did to the "cargo".

 

That's all I know, there's no additional info in the Retribution or Blackshields audio. So? Any ideas? Was it that crazy IH with a Keys of Hel thing?

[Laughingman]

Probably the Keys of Hel or analogous equivalent technology, specifically a Sarcosan Wave Generator (Originally from the dark heresy RPGs). I assume Endryd Haar stole it, or acquired it out in the halo stars... 

[rendingon1+]

In Blackshields audio one of his men mentiones "a terrible pact" or something like this. I doubt Haar did it himself then.

[Laughingman]

He may have cut a deal with a wayward  mechanicus adepts or Techno-arcanist cult  that survived old night with the technology intact. He spent significant time outside known space (either the veiled region or the halo stars if I recall), who knows what he found out in the dark.... 

 

In the Dark Heresy RPG fluff the Sarcosan Wave Generator required a Sarcosan Wave Enhancer implanted in the corpse to give  former some semblance of control and likeness to their former selfs, that may be the terrible acts the refer to in the audio drama. 

[bluntblade]

The Keys of Hel seem to be different, conferring a greater degree of awareness. Haar, it seems to me, used something that zombified the dead rather than the means of "true mechanical resurrection".

 

Entirely my speculation, I should add.

Edited March 4, 2018 by bluntblade

[Charlo]

Theo point is that it is a mystery. A dark and powerful force enacted it and that's it.

 

Sometimes it's better not knowing

[Jamafore]

The impression I got from one of the stories in "Shattered Legion" is that the Keys of Hel isn't just one or 2 things that are really bad. They are anything Manus considered dangerous enough not to use. So if he considered the Holy Coffeemaker to be really dangerous, it went under the Keys of Hel catagory.

 

I will admit the image that popped up in my head from reading that bit in the FW Black Book was Legion of the Damned....though I really doubt that was what they were.

[bluntblade]

I'm gonna go dig up the bit in Massacre, but I think you're right there.

[bluntblade]

You're correct. The "true rites of cybernetic resurrection" are "among" the things Ferrus said no to.

[Withershadow]

The impression I got from one of the stories in "Shattered Legion" is that the Keys of Hel isn't just one or 2 things that are really bad. They are anything Manus considered dangerous enough not to use. So if he considered the Holy Coffeemaker to be really dangerous, it went under the Keys of Hel catagory

He got tired of paying settlements to all the puny humans being scalded by Astartes coffee.  Adeptus Keurig was also eliminated.

[depthcharge12]

 

 

The impression I got from one of the stories in "Shattered Legion" is that the Keys of Hel isn't just one or 2 things that are really bad. They are anything Manus considered dangerous enough not to use. So if he considered the Holy Coffeemaker to be really dangerous, it went under the Keys of Hel catagory

He got tired of paying settlements to all the puny humans being scalded by Astartes coffee. Adeptus Keurig was also eliminated.

^^you want to really know how the Iron Hands got their metal arm(s)...?