Zardos Vyakai
Magos Zardos Vyakai was a member of a small Adeptus Mechanicus Magos Biologis contingent, studying the local wildlife on the industrial moon of Tantalus. When Hive Fleet Dagon invaded the moon, the Biologis took the opportunity to study the Tyranid lifeforms as they attacked. The data they collected was on the bio-forms and the attack-patterns the Tyranids used, often at the cost of their own lives. Eventually only Vyakai was left alive and being unable to get off world, he tried to flee in a shuttle to the southern hemisphere, not yet overrun by Tyranids. Unfortunately, his shuttle was attacked and as it crashed, he sent out a distress call before being knocked unconscious.[1a]
Hearing his distress call, the Deathwatch Frigate Thunder’s Word sent a Kill-Team to extract the datacore that contained the information gathered by the Biologis and save the Magos if possible. Landing on the doomed moon, the Kill Team made their way through the Tyranids, picking up haggard survivors along the way, before finally locating the Magos. Signally an extraction beacon the Kill Team and the survivors boarded a Thunderhawk, just as a Tyranid horde converged on their location.[1b]
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