Khagus Giyugen

Veteran Techmarine Khagus Giyugen standing at attention.

## History

### Early Life and training

Khagus was born near the mountains of the Chogorian steppes, where he would often roam to hunt for food for his family. He displayed an innate sense of technological skill, fashioning quite complex mechanical lures for hunting. Once he made a mechanical rabbit with a very simple jump, that lured in a fox for him to kill. Soon, he was handed off to the Chogorian Brotherhood, for the White Scars to begin their testing of him. Sensing his affinity for technology, he was taken in by the Techmarines and sent to Mars to train for such a role. By then, he had completed his surgeries and so can properly receive his technological augmentations to aid in his training.

### Service for the Khan

Returning to Chogoris, Khagus took to the armory and began his work on the land speeders of the chapter. While the bikes spoke to his blood, the land speeders were different. They could fly, above the grounded bikes of his kin. This is what as always interested him as a child of the mountains, the flight and intensity of flight. How one could be airborne and crusade for the Khan from the skies.

Khagus later had served in the Lycanthros Drift Campaign, serving as a pilot in a Thunderhawk. He proved to be invaluable as he had maintained the machine spirit in the engine to push beyond its limits, and to better destroy assets of the rebellion that finally led to the collapse of the rebellion, along with the masterful planning of Lufgt Huron. It was during this campaign that cemented Khagus' obsession with the speed of flight and the savageness of aerial combat. Seeing jet fighters torn apart in dogfights and the hecticness of pilot communication appealed deeply to Khagus and he wished to continue this line of duty.

He would indeed continue to observe this as he later participated in the Diata Purge, being granted the chance to continue his now chosen practice of piloting. Of course, this doesn't mean he cannot perform his other armory duties as he does maintain war machines efficiently. But piloting was embedded in Khagus' mind. So he took to the purge with a Chogorian savagery that no Mechanicus indoctrination can truly lock away. His descent onto the renegades was like a warhawk descending on prey, unleashing the troops that were in his bay and then sending the thunderhawk screaming towards the enemy. Eventually, his Thunderhawk was shot down, and climbing from the wreckage, he found himself beset by Renegade marines. With a cry of Chogorian wrath, he charged into them, his Omnissian axe bisecting heretical astartes as his servo-arms began to pry open the armors of the enemy, as well as discharging the torch and plasma cutter. He only linked with his brothers after half an hour of fighting, his blood racing as fast as the Warhawk himself. He would later be rewarded for his defense of the blessed Thunderhawk with granting of a new Omnissian axe and two new servo-arms. Accepting the rewards, he felt slightly cheated from his heroic duty and therefore decided to second to the Deathwatch, to be slightly more independent.

### Deathwatch Service

Joining the Deathwatch in 860.M41, Khagus soon became enamored with the Corvus Blackstar attack aircraft. A fast and elegant ship with devastating capacities. He first took to repairs and maintenance of them as well as any weapons and armor that were presented to him. He additionally had served in many missions, although he had favored those against the Aeldari. He found them an exciting challenge to run down and hunt due to their high speeds. He took extra care to study their technology after killing them, learning their secrets and how it works. After a century, he was granted the status of veteran and was allowed to begin piloting Astartes aircraft. He immediately took to the Corvus Blackstar, and began the arduous and extensive training to learn the gunship's capabilities. During this time, he would additionally match his will against the Machine spirit, searching to interlink with it.

No sooner had Khagus finished this training, was he deployed to assist Kill Teams out on missions. He had been used for transport as well as air to ground and air to air engagements, making himself known as the Chogorian Thunderbolt due to his fast reflexes and proficiency with high speed engagements. He is even able to go toe to toe with Aeldari air craft, due to his interlinking with the Machine Spirit of the Corvus that he has since piloted. Now that Necrons have been threatening the Black Bastion in Segmentum Ultima, he has been reposted to that Bastion to fulfill his role as both veteran techmarine, and pilot.

## Appearance

Khagus has the appearance of a true son of Jaghatai, with jet black hair swept back in a long ponytail and a long goatee beard. His face is well built and structured, giving him the face of a stone statue. Standing at 7 feet and 10 inches as a firstborn Astartes, Khagus' body is a small patchwork of bionics and flesh. Despite his elevation to techmarine, Khagus has minor amounts of bionics on his body. Portions of his back are bionic to allow for better interfacing with his servo-arms. Past that, he has no more bionics, making him one of the more rare and unique Techmarines. What he has done with this large amount of flesh is cover it in Chogorian tattoos of storms and hawks.

His armor is clad in the black of the watch, with his right pauldron bearing the bright white of the White Scars and his pride in them. His left pauldron has of course been converted to that of Deathwatch. His helmet, belt buckle, and knee pads are the red of the Mars Mechanicus, with their emblem on the belt and knee pads. His Omnissian Axe has been given slight appearance modifiers, that being hawk feathers attached to the head. His bolt pistol has a lightning bolt on the receiver, seemingly welded onto it. His servo arms, torch, and plasma cutter are all given hawk feathers, and have retained the steel red coloration.

The Corvus Blackstar that Khagus flies is called "Dainy Shuurga" which translates from Chogorian to War Storm or The Storm of War. The Blackstar has been outfitted with a twin linked assault cannon, the Blackstar cluster launcher, 2 Blackstar Rocket Launchers, a hurricane bolter, and extra armor plating on the craft. In addition, it bears the Infernum Halo Launcher and the high powered Auspex Array to better engage enemy assets. Searchlights and smoke launchers make it far more effective with both finding enemy combatants and providing cover for the Kill Teams that the Blackstar deploys. Finally, within the hold of the transport bay are a pair of locator beacons for squads to take if they are striking deep behind enemy lines. These beacons are to mark reinforcement positions as well as focusing teleport homers. As for the outside of the craft, there is very little modifications to the appearance besides the name being printed on the side in Chogorian.

## Personality

Khagus is a well tempered and wise man, at least for most of the time. He always seeks to embody the Khan, and so he did this in emulation of his nature. To be wise and perceptive in down time, and to then be a Chogorian warhawk in combat. Although he is quite vicious and savage in combat, he is still able to be a level headed pilot who can make good calls in tense situations. He has never found that the Mechanicus indoctrinations has truly impacted his Chogorian nature, although it has certainly made his calmer moments even more calm and perceptive. Now he can analyze one's words with a machine like clarity and determine his next words and actions.

## Abilities and Traits

As a techmarine, Khagus is well versed in the armory of the Adeptus Astartes and can repair and maintain them efficiently. In addition, he can speak with the machine spirits of the items of the Astartes armory and can goad them into performing better with a clever tongue. Khagus is also quite adept at hand to hand combat, using his Omnissian axe to cleave apart his foes with a savage strength as his servo-arms tear apart enemies. In addition, his harness bears a Fyceline Torch and Plasma cutter to both maintain machines and to slay enemies with the flamer like properties of the torch and the plasma bolts from the plasma cutter.

Aside from his own combat prowess, he is also a very adept pilot of the Deathwatch. Fast as a lightning bolt and far more devastating, the Blackstar that he pilots is a living nightmare for any xenos resistance as they watch death's angel descend as an invulnerable icon of death. Some of his more unique feats is using the hover function to juke out enemy aircraft to be behind them to unleash hell upon them. Additionally, he has learned a maneuvered that utilized the smoke launchers, deploying it in the sight line of enemy aircraft to force them to veer off, allowing him to tilt and shoot them down.

## Equipment

### Used Weapons

* **Omnissian Axe**
* **Bolt Pistol**
* **Plasma Cutter**
* **Grenades**
* **Fyceline Torch**

## Relations

### Friends/Allies

* White Scars
* Imperium of Man
* Deathwatch
* Adeptus Mechanicus

## Quotes

### By:

"*Understood Kill Team Carius, strafe incoming danger close. Keep your heads down for your sakes.*"
—Khagus on a mission with his assigned Kill Team, confirming an air attack call.
### About:

"*Sometimes, I see him hunting down xenos aircraft like a predatory bird... and then the next moment he answers an air support call in a second like a bolt of lightning. All Father, is he confusing.*"
—A Space Wolf Veteran commenting on Khagus' pilot service.