Heart Wyrm
The Heart_Wyrm is a Scrapcode meme-virus, that was created by the Heretek Makov Quavarian and corrupts a Human with a machine-augmented mind, into a purple-eyed golem of flesh and metal.[1]
Description
Those infected, become servants of the Chaos Gods, as the Heart Wyrm wipes away their former selves while whispering heresies to them. However the Scrapcode has limited utility, as it was not infectious. Instead, an infected Data-spike was needed to directly upload the Heart_Wyrm into an augmented brain, via a skull implanted Data-jack.[1]
Conqueror_Wyrm
In order to get past this flaw, the Heretek Quavarian created a variant of the Heart_Wyrm named the Conqueror_Wyrm. It is a broadcasted Scrapcode, of mass thought-repetition chanting, which is transmitted via astropathic links, beam-transmissions or airwaves. Because of this, the Conqueror_Wyrm is extremely communicable to the members of the Adeptus Mechanicus and Astropathic Choirs, as their minds are trained to hear and repeat litany by rote.[1]
History
After creating the Heart_Wyrm, Quavarian targeted members of the Adeptus Mechanicus to both infect and help him refine the Scrapcode. He called his victims the Transmuted, as he had freed their minds from the Omnissiah and enhanced them through the power of the Chaos Gods. The Heart_Wyrm placed them under Quavarian's sway and while most were mindless and simply followed his orders, a few were allowed to have a semblance of free will. These high ranking Transmuted, were used to aid Quavarian in infecting captured members of the Mechanicus and also ensured the safety of his base, with the aid of corrupted Skitarii. Whether infected by the Heart-Wyrm or Conqueror-Wyrm, the Transmuted were Quavarian's puppets. He could read their minds, speak through them, sense where they were and even take direct control of them, if he needed to. However the Heretek's rampage was eventually ended in M42, by the Callidus Sycorax. After infiltrating his base on Sanga Kappa, the shape-shifting Assassin killed Quavarian with a Wrecker-code virus, which also destroyed the equipment he used to make the Scrapcodes. As they were linked to him, the Transmuted were also killed by Wrecker-Code as well. However, unbeknownst to Sycorax, Quavarian had hidden a Data-sarcophagus outside of his base, which contained backup data for the Heart_Wyrm and the Conqueror_Wyrm. It was later discovered by a Heretic who had aided Quavarian and his Scrapcodes soon began to threaten the Imperium once again.[1]
