Andres Khabrias

Armorial of the Minotaurs Chapter

**Andres Khabrias** is a warrior of the Adeptus Astartes, hailing from the Minotaurs Chapter and currently serving in the Deathwatch at Watch Fortress Black Bastion.

## History

In 805.M41 at the age of nine, Andres Khabrias was taken as a boy from a world that he no longer remembers. He underwent the grueling tests and training of the Minotaurs and managed to pass every trial, ultimately becoming one of the Adeptus Astartes. His mental conditioning left him with only scant memories of his previous life as a slave on a massive construction site, and cemented in him the zeal, belligerence, and unbending loyalty of the Minotaurs chapter.

Khabrias showed an aptitude for building and especially for destroying things early in his service. As a scout, he quickly became his squad's go-to demolitions man, blending a studious knowledge of explosive dynamics and chemistry with the touch and eagerness of a young artisan. As Khabrias progressed through his Devastator and Assault assignments, his fascination with structures continued through wars with the Orks of the Octarian Empire and the beginning of the Badab War.

On Kyro, Khabrias was one of the many Assault Marines who charged into the Tyrant's Legion force and annihilated them. He, along with practically the entire Minotaurs chapter, fought alongside Red Scorpions on Vyaniah, and crossed blades with the Lamenters in their final battle aboard *Mater Lacrimarum*. In 910.M41 Khabrias graduated to Tactical Marine status, and during the brief lull in fighting he turned to the libraries and the training grounds in equal measure, studying the art and science of military engineering that had long held his curiosity. He first put this new knowledge to use in the raid on Lamptan, where he assisted in opening landing zones for the combined Salamanders and Minotaurs strike force. But the Badab War ended with few further battles for the Minotaurs.

Khabrias spent the following decades honing his craft in further wars against the Emperor's enemies as part of the Minotaurs 2nd Company. Any time that they needed a building forcibly entered, a piece of infrastructure demolished, or a trap laid, he volunteered and would often be picked to make it happen. Beyond just explosive demolitions, he participated in building fortifications, improving roadways, clearing landing strips, and bridging gaps to enable the Minotaurs operations. Come 989.M41, Khabrias was an established expert in 2nd Company and earned praise for his work in the liberation of Rynn's World, where he handled frontline engineering to enable armored thrusts against the deadliest Ork formations.

Almost immediately afterwards, the Minotaurs moved to exterminate the newly excommunicated Night Reapers chapter. As always, Khabrias showed no hesitation slaying other Astartes in the name of the Imperium. While the 2nd Company was not involved in the Perun Cross Incident, it took the lives of many Minotaurs including one of the few brothers whom Khabrias had trained alongside from his induction.

The Orphean War would be Khabrias' last campaign with the Minotaurs chapter. In the devastating battle of Amarah, Khabrias fought in the Minotaurs' ground contingent. When the initial Necron assault overwhelmed Imperial defenders and disrupted communications, Khabrias went along with the Astra Militarum officers in his area and assisted their retreat, opening safe paths by which they withdrew to more defensible positions. His captain in the 2nd Company looked poorly upon him for aiding a group that fled battle. With his arguments falling on deaf ears, Khabrias continued to fight in the Orphean War until the news came that he had been recommended for service in the Deathwatch.

During his Deathwatch training, the emergence of the Great Rift and the subsequent Indomitus Crusade allowed him a chance to undergo the Rubicon Primaris, which he barely survived.

## Appearance

Andres Khabrias is an Astartes of average height and broad body. His hands are rough from decades of work, often barehanded when not in combat, and a variety of small burn marks and fragmentation scars are visible on his face and much of his body. Further scars mar his chest from the surgery that saved him from a certain death via the Rubicon Primaris. He cuts his hair short, and has alternated between growing a mustache and going cleanshaven.

## Personality

Khabrias is an assertive and confident personality. He takes a moderately friendly approach towards new comrades, but can easily hold a grudge towards those who disappoint or disrespect him. Despite his tactical skill, he can fall prey to tunnel vision and undue haste in engaging the enemy, for he is always eager to confront the foe and win, regardless of personal risk.

Like many of his chapter, Khabrias never forgets the harm that disobedient Astartes can do to mankind. His loyalty belongs not just to the Emperor Himself, but to the government that He put in place and the domain He rules over. As far as he believes, Astartes hold no particular pride of place among the Emperor's creations, and to think themselves above mortal institutions is a path towards heresy.

## Abilities and Traits

While schooled in all arts of warfare to some extent, Khabrias has a passion for military engineering. He has thoroughly studied the principals of structural and civil engineering, construction techniques, and demolitions, and relishes their application. All manner of explosive compounds, their effects, and their best uses are known to him, as are the practically endless variety of trigger mechanisms with which to detonate them. While he enjoys demolishing structures and breaching obstacles, he finds similar stimulation in efforts to create those same obstacles for an enemy force, and appreciates the less violent but vitally important tasks of ensuring suitable roads, bridges, and landing pads are available to friendly forces.

Khabrias has a penchant for combat at close quarters, but he is often more comfortable using guns at short range than resorting to a melee weapon.

## Equipment

### Armour

Since his journey through the Rubicon Primaris, Khabrias has relied primarily on Mark X Gravis armour fitted with a Lucius-Io pattern structural scanning auspex, which allows him to plainly see metallic objects inside a structure and discern some of its composition.

### Used Weapons

Khabrias relies on a Deathwatch Shotgun as his primary weapon, supplemented by a simple bolt pistol with an extended magazine, an unusual pattern of power maul that takes the form of an axe/hammer hybrid, a utility chainblade too small to be considered a sword, and a standard knife.

### Munitions

Depending on the situation, Khabrias can and will use almost any conceivable explosive device. He regularly carries plastic explosives, detcord, and phosphor jelly, often supplemented with plasma or melta charges, shredder mines, leaper mines, cluster mines, haywire mines, pole charges, line charges, and improvised explosives.