Genesis Project

The **Genesis Project**, known also as **Project Genesis** was the scientific research that formed the basis for the creation of the Genesis Legion performed by the Warbringers, in particular Cezary Vizenko and Dagomir Mihailovic under the orders of the Primarch Kozja Darzalas.

## History

Dagomir Mihailovic was recruited from Oxytan during the Culling of Valerian Hive. It is believed Mihailovic was an apprentice of the Neanthropes, the ruling class of flesh-shapers. Made an Apothecary of the Warbringers Legion soon after his ascension, Mihailovic was present at the reunification of the Legion with the Primarch. Having witnessed the abominations crafted by the Valerian Neanthropes, Mihailovic was mistrusting of the experimentations performed by the Fellowship of Asklepians. When their master, Cezary Vizenko, was taken to Baal in chains to be judged by the Emperor of Mankind, Mihailovic believed he must testify, telling all present of his experiences as an apprentice of the abominable flesh-shapers of Oxytan, and how he believed that specific limits should be placed upon the legions to avoid similar bio-heresies to take place.

He had not expected however the judgement of the Emperor to be so harsh, with the memories of members of the Asklepian being scoured and all their research ordered to be destroyed. As he himself had never been part of the Fellowship, the Legio Custodes charged him to take them throughout all parts of the Apothecarion and the Ziggurat of Asklep, where they burned all documents they could find.

Though he had denounced his brothers and though he still believed that some of their curiosity should be curbed, Mihailovic could not bear to see all their findings destroyed in such a fashion - as such, he left out strategic elements of the library of the Asklepians, whose elements could be used to find once more the conclusions of the Asklepians.

Mihailovic kept his secret for two years after the Prosecution of Baal, waiting for his Primarch to be returned to the Legion after his mind wipe being performed on Terra. During that time, he read the manuscripts and pages of calculations left behind in the purge of the Ziggurat, and deduced what Vizenko's final goal had been: far from the potential horrific creations he had envisioned them making, he found that they had in fact been operating under strict limitations set by the Primarch.

After a while, he began finding errors in the calculations and corrected them without thinking, as absorbed as he was in the texts he read. By the time he had finished reading his predecessors' work, he had already started adding his own thoughts to the manuscripts, and he only found it natural then to go in search for genetic material within the Apothecarion's vaults, to analyse and experiment with new methods.

By the time the Alabaster Prince was returned to Strela, Mihailovic had secretly founded a new incarnation of the Asklepian - this new version of the Fellowship included not only Apothecaries but also Techmarines, Chaplains and Librarians, any who could provide new ideas to the Great Work. When the Primarch was able to finally receive the Apothecary in private, Mihailovic presented to him a bound document, with Jagellonic runes inscribed on its cover: *"Project Genesis - Reflections on Creating the One True Legiones Astartes."*