Kulok
Kulok was a solider of the Imperial Army during the Great Crusade, who took part in the Compliance of Desh and later retired on the world Tallarn, before the Horus Heresy began.[1]
When the traitorous Warmaster Horus led his forces against the Emperor, Tallarn's distant location from the main conflict made it seem like a safe haven - until the Iron Warriors Legion suddenly appeared and attacked the world. When the Iron Warriors' virus bombs hit Tallarn, Kulok was in Crescent City dealing with a summons for unpaid taxes, and was lucky enough to be near a small underground shelter, when the city's sirens began to go off. As the deadly virus began to eat away at Tallarn, Kulok was the last person to reach his shelter before it automatically sealed itself and he found himself with a small group of other survivors. However, their shelter had not been designed to be lived in, for any long term capacity and Kulok spent the next few weeks using a transmitter to try and contact anyone to save them, before their air supply ran out. Their transmitter was a short range model though and it was only when Kulok and another survivor Gatt, journeyed to the surface in an armoured vehicle, that they were able to contact anyone. Unknown to Kulok and Gatt though, it was only due to the shelter having the Astropath Halakime among their number, that the armed forces of Tallarn's Governor-Militant Dellasarius bothered to respond to them.[1]
It was believed that Halakime, was the only living Astropath still on Tallarn and Kulok was told that the Governor was immediately dispatching a strike force to his underground shelter to evacuate the survivors. Kulok and Gatt then returned to their shelter, to wait for the strike force, but the sound of battle soon reached them, as the Iron Warriors had also heard their message. Eager to kill the Astropath, to prevent the Imperium from learning of Tallarn's invasion, the Iron Warriors sent a large force to destroy the shelter, which clashed with the Governor's strike force. The strike force was vastly outnumbered however, and though it reached Kulok's shelter, only its commander, the Imperial Fists Marshal Lycus, survived to enter it. With the strike force now destroyed and the Iron Warriors bearing down on the shelter, Lycus asked Kulok to quickly take him to see Halakime and then ordered the Astropath to warn the Imperium of Tallarn's invasion and to ask for aid in fighting the Iron Warriors. As the Astropath began sending the message, Kulok suddenly realized that the Governor had never planned to evacuate the shelter's survivors and had only been interested in reaching the Astropath, in order to send for aid. In spite of now knowing there would be no escaping from the shelter, Kulok gathered his will and told Lycus he would join the Marshal in defending the shelter long enough for Halakime's message to be sent. He soon armed himself and put on an environmental suit, before joining Lycus at the shelter's entrance, just as the Iron Warriors tore open the its entrance. In the ensuing battle, Kulok only managed to get off five shots before the toxins in Tallarn's atmosphere killed him; but before the shelter fell to the Iron Warriors, Halakime was able to successfully send out his message to the Imperium.[1]
