Brother Pheistio was a Techmarine and served the Blood Angels chapter well. He was especially good at repairing Vehicles or larger Weapons even during the hardest Battle. But he never showed any talent for the artisanry of his brothers. Then he fell to the Black Rage and was given to the Death Company. In between Battles he still kept working on Weapons and Armour and almost immediately showed not only a breathtaking artisanry but he also improved and invented new Weapons. At first, he alone was allowed to use his creations. Although they didn’t always worked and even failed spectaculary, he somehow managed not to kill himself with his creations. And so he lived on, worked on, created and killed in his rage and in the name of the Emperor and Sanguinius.
During an Attack on a Traitor Stronghold he was on Board of a Land Raider, when the Blood Angels Advance was halted by a mighty Demon Engine that obliterate all attacks of the Assault Marines and Death Company. Pheistios Land Raider was hit and could move on. He started repairing the mighty Tank and overcharged its engine, racing toward the Demon Engine in order to ram it and fix it in place. During the collision and the following explosions Pheistio and everyone in the Tank died, but the Demon Engine was stopped and was brought down soon after. When the Land Raider was recovered after the Battle Pheistios Armour, which was still connected with the Land Raider, was empty except for a thin layer of Ash and Blood. The Techpriests and Techmarines that have maintained and used the Tank eversince report of a raging Machine Spirit, and not few of them fell to the Black Rage themselves after working with Pheistios Land Raider. But as is seems to repair itself on numours Occaisions the Chapter Command has decided to keep it in Service.
Sorry for the uninspired choice of names, as I more or less hasten through the Ideas, I currently don’t spend too much time on finding more creative Names …
This Story has been previously published as Part of the Liberalia Martiale 2017 – A mirror, darkly … on Bolter and Chainsword.
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