Faustus Factitio

4th Cohort Machinator Factitio

**Faustus Factitio** is the primary *Machinator* (Techmarine) of the 4th Cohort of the Ordinators chapter of the Adeptus Astartes. He is famous for being equally pugnacious, dogmatic, and tenderly loving to his armour and aircraft pools. He has been known for exploits with his axe as much as repairing fleets of tanks or aircraft non-stop during the heat of battle with his servo-harness.

## History

Identified as having a penchant for soothing angry machine spirits and repairing weaponry and vehicle systems even as an Initiate-Neophyte Scout, it took less than a decade of service as a Devastator for him to be apprenticed as a Techmarine and eventually sent to the Forge Worlds of Mars and then Ferunus for training. Already famous for his aggressive inclinations towards Hereteks and enemy armor - especially daemon engines - his time serving the Cult Mechanicus fused his contempt for corruptions of the purity of the machine with his Ordinator's training for utter contempt of the daemon and its own forms of corruption. The result is - as his *Armorius* - the Chief Techmarine of the chapter describes, a man who blends the needs and demands of both the Cults Mechanicus and Ordinatorum perfectly.

In his first battle as a full Techmarine, he helped Cohorts III and IV snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in battle against the Black Legion shortly after crossing the Rubicon Primaris by developing an on-the-spot rotation of armored vehicles to be repaired quickly by himself and his assisting acolytes to repair vehicles as quickly as they were damaged in order to creating two flanking and rotating circles of armored vehicles to funnel in the enemy infantry and destroy their armor without losing more than one Repulsor of the 17 vehicles that took part in his sector of the battle. It is said that during the final charge, he hewed the top half of the enemy's Warsmith from his legs before turning his head and chest into a gory mess following a speech about the inferiority of the daemon.

He has shown tremendous aptitude in detecting the taint of Chaos in any form of machinery, and often instructs other Techmarines in how to appease the machine spirits of the weapons and armor of the chapter. In his more recent battles against the awakening Necrons and relatively newly-arrived Iron Warriors near the battle sights of the Great Siege and the Pariah Nexus, he has helped deconstruct dangerous Necron technology and helped lead the fight against both as one of the chief Advisors on the Northern Front of the Thalamarian War to the front commander - Centurio Marcus, Master of Oaths. Legatus Decimus Aurelian manages the war from his flagship, *Fire of Sol*. currently. The war is pitched three ways with no clear victory, and the vehicles and aircraft of the Ordinators may just be the deciding factor in an Imperial victory - and they shall be, if Factitio has his way.

## Wargear & Equipment

*Machinator* Factitio carries a heavy Omnissiahn Axe with a history of slaughtering Hereteks, a backpack servo-mounted heavy bolter, several highly adaptable servo arms, and a graviton pistol. His armor is highly engineered and uses some of the same deflective/force distributive principles as the armoured vehicles he so loves, such as sloped plates mounted in succession to act as miniature glacis plates. He goes nowhere without a melta bomb and krak grenades, and his servo-harness is as capable of crushing skulls as fixing vehicle damage. He carries a small plasma torch for additional sealant abilities when restoring armour plating integrity.