Casey Tartus

This article, or a section of this article, has been identified as plagiarism. Please rewrite this article to conform to original ideas and content. Remove this message when finished.

While this information may have been more accurate in 2016, please rewrite this article to conform to current ideas of canon. Remove this message when finished.

## Chronological and political information

### Affiliation(s)

* Police Grand Arny
* U.S. Government

"*Casey Tartus is far more powerful than you. I do not expect you to survive. But if you destroy him, you’ll be one step closer to your destiny.*"
―Mae to Usher[src]
**Casey Tartus** was a male Narcus police officer who served the police and the government as a General of the Police Grand Army during the First NoHead War. When the NoHead Empire came to power and the government and police were dissolved, Tartus abandoned his colleagues and fled to the country of Colombia in South America. Living in isolation in the polluted country, Tartus slowly descended into madness, attempting to reconstruct the Order from the junk that surrounded him. He was killed by Mae’s follower ten years after the First NoHead War ended.

## Biography

### First NoHead War

During his time at the sanctum’s academy, Casey Tartus lacked the martial skills of his peers, and instead focused on building machines and tinkering with robots; the mutant Narcus' lack of social skills troubled his instructors and peers. Following an apprenticeship with a Master, Tartus surprised his mentors when he successfully passed his trials through unusual means. Constructing robot soldiers to assist in the trials, Tartus passed and became a member of the Grand Army.

Preferring to remain at the sanctum during his tenure as an officer, Tartus did take the occasional mission, using his war robots to assist him when conflict arose. Tartus was stationed at the sanctum as an instructor at the academy and worked as a member of the Technology Division, crafting Trenists for the sanctum. During this time, Tartus constructed a Storm pike with a yellow blade.

When the First NoHead War erupted between the police and the Order of the NoHeads, Tartus could not refuse the opportunity to study the robots of the NoHeads. Tartus served as a General in the Police Grand Army, positioning himself on the front lines, building medibots and powerbots as well as other machines designed to support the Grand Army. To increase his size and mobility, he designed four mechanical arms to wear on his back. Eventually, he took command of a group of police cadets that were mostly killed off in a disastrous campaign. Due to these circumstances, he was forced to create his own troops that consisted of combat robots that he assembled using makeshift parts. After a great battle, Master Tartus returned to the sanctum and continued teaching at the academy.

### Life in Colombia

#### On the run

Stationed at the Blackwing Sanctum in the final days of the war, Tartus was present following Operation: Blitz. When Mr. Stupid NoHead began committing mass genocide in the Blackwing Sanctum, Tartus suffered a breakdown and fled in terror from the sanctum, leaving his peers and his students to die. He escaped New York in a nondescript freighter with several robot prototypes in tow.

Wracked with guilt over his abandonment of the police, Tartus descended into insanity. Going into hiding in the polluted country of Colombia, he became a reclusive robot maker. Tartus built an army of personally customized combat robots to protect himself from intruders, creating massive robots and sentries held together by the Light. In his attempt to rebuild the police, Tartus built a replica of the New York Blackwing Sanctum out of refuse and made puppets of all the Administrative Officeors for the Meeting Chamber, arming them with various melee weapons. In his delusional state, Tartus would hold mock Office meetings, vowing to protect them from harm.

#### Dueling the Knight

"*You are not welcome here!*"
―Casey Tartus to Usher[src]
Approximately a decade after the collapse of the police, the insane officer was discovered by Mae who sent his secret assassin, Usher, on a mission to eliminate the Narcus officer. Tartus noticed his ship landing and consulted a metallic effigy of Sheriff Bladepoint as to this matter and grew nervous after his silent “answer,” moving his sword from hand to hand.

After navigating the junky country, the assassin arrived in Tartus’s facsimile sanctum and was confronted by a Titan armed with two large axes and a variety of weapons tipping its other arms. The knight dodged blows from the junk warrior, and as the floor buckled under the Titan’s weight, knocked off one of its weapons with a telekinetic punch. Dodging another attack by the golem, slicing as he went, Usher removed more of its weapons. He rolled through the machine’s legs and cut up its spine, scoring a deep blow.

The crippled machine attempted to turn at the man, but he used his sword to cut at both its axe arms, forcing it to drop one axe. He sent a barrage of lightning at the machine, sending all the strength he could muster at it. Its photoreceptors became nonfunctional, though it still charged at Usher with its other axe. The apprentice used the Dark side to push the creature, knocking it off one of its legs through the walls of the sanctum, following it and finally bringing it down in a junk version of the Meeting Chamber of the Blackwing Sanctum with junk effigies of the late or missing Office members.

From a hatch in the machine’s front emerged the police officer that Usher had been searching for. Tartus swore he would protect the “Masters” and the mannequins began to stir, distracting the apprentice. Tartus lunged at the invader, slightly scoring a cut down Usher’s left arm before it was parried. Though the assassin fought back, every move he made was either blocked almost instantly by the Narcus’ Storm pike or missed because of the police’s constant hopping from place to place. During the battle, Usher was suddenly struck from behind and his sword fell from his hand.

Confronted by a replica of officer Emmett standing behind him in a Stil IV stance, an exoblade in place of his sword. After a moment of surprise, Usher used the Dark side to blow apart the patchwork tribute and regained his sword, deflecting a blow from the recovered Tartus. More “Masters”, including Jean Richardson, Sheriff Bladepoint, and Joseph Abernathy attempted to face the apprentice, but all were destroyed. With each “death,” Tartus clasped his chest deeper in pain and despair at their loss, crying out when the last one, Master Jason Williams, fell.

### Death

The old police then attempted a telekinetic assault, but the knight fought back, catching the massive chunk of machinery Tartus used and throwing it back. Tartus dodged, leaping onto the narrow window struts above the chamber floor, with Usher in pursuit. Usher, worried that he might experience another vision as he had while dueling Ronald Koda, intensified his attack, battering Tartus with debris and detritus. The two exchanged blows on the ledge, until Tartus suddenly retreated and fired a blast of energy at the Dark mutant. Usher blocked and rebounded it, slamming Tartus into one of the support struts. The Narcus retreated to the chamber floor and again attempted a telekinetic assault, casting another massive chunk of machinery at the assassin. However, Usher again caught it and threw it back, sending it towards the police officer, who dodged. Enraged, Usher unleashed lightning against Tartus to torture and eventually kill the officer.

As he lay dying, Tartus uttered his last words, apologizing to the ‘Masters’ for failing them again. After Casey Tartus succumbed to death, Usher took Tartus’ sword and left the ruined sanctum.

### Legacy

"*I’m sorry, masters. I’ve failed you… again.*"
―Casey Tartus’ last words[src]
After Tartus’ death, Usher claimed Tartus’ storm pike as a gift for his master, as other than being snapped in half, it had survived the ordeal it had gone through when Tartus was crushed. Although he took the damaged weapon to his quarters and attempted for an hour to repair it, he was unsuccessful in restoring the weapon as he could not realign the sword energizers to the lens and failed to connect the emitter matrix to the power conduit.

## Personality and traits

"*Our home… Stop ruining our home!*"
―Casey Tartus’ insane ranting as he duels Usher[src]
As a young police, Casey Tartus was more anti-social than some apprentices, preferring to hole himself up in his personal quarters to work upon his robots than to socialize. Not possessing the detachment of most officers, Tartus created the robots originally to aid with training apprentices in the sanctum, and managed to pass his trials not through physical prowess with a sword, but with intelligence. However, when the First Police Purge occurred, Tartus fled the Blackwing Sanctum in an act of his own perception of cowardice, leaving his comrades to their fate at the hands of Mr. Stupid NoHead.

After abandoning the police at their sanctum in New York City, Tartus was consumed by guilt, which would eventually lead to madness. The initial stages of his insanity caused Tartus to form an inferiority complex regarding his small size, prompting him to construct the four mechanical limbs he kept strapped to his back to provide him with the desired height and mobility. The next stage of his madness caused him to fall into a delusion of being a member of the Administrative Office, which in turn motivated him to construct the replica of the Blackwing Sanctum out of the abundant debris in Colombia. By the time Tartus faced Usher in combat, the Narcus police was past the brink of schizophrenia, as shown by how he reconstructed all the Administrative Office members out of junk and believing them to be the actual individuals.

## Powers and abilities

"*I realized power, I realized fate, I realized the Darkness.*"
―Tartus to Usher[src]
* **Mutantry**: In combat, Tartus had the ability to suspend himself in midair and to hurl objects at an opponent using the Light, as he demonstrated against Usher.
* **Cybernetic Enhancements**: Due to a special robotic rig on his back which served as additional limbs for him, Tartus was able to walk on walls and vertical surfaces.
* **Master combatant**: A Kchendo practitioner, Tartus handled his Storm pike with two of his mechanical limbs, allowing him to wield his chosen weapon with great dexterity, as shown by the way he mounted almost continuous attacks upon Usher during their duel. He was also able to use his sword staff to block the various counter-attacks utilized by Usher.
* **Expert mechanic**: Adept with the Light, Tartus had a great level of control over his robot creations, and was capable of giving life to robotic creations that were subject to his will. He was capable of making such creations like the Junk Titan in a short span of time and with ease. With his death, all of the junk creatures he created collapsed.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 *Before The SMSB: Where is the Darkness?*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `BTS4`