Scarab Occult Terminators - Post-Heresy: Following the Thousand Sons Legion's transformation into a Chaos Traitor Legion devoted to Tzeentch and the enactment of the Rubric of Ahriman, the physical bodies of the Sekhmet, like many of their non-psychic Battle-Brothers, were reduced to mere dust -- the animating spirit that remained possessing only an echo of their once-vaunted intellect. They go into battle at the behest of their Sorcerer Lords, advancing with eerie and unhurried calm.Some of these masters were part of the Scarab Occult at the time of Ahriman's mighty spell, and were robust enough of spirit and mind to resist its obliterative effects. Others are powerful mystics who have ascended the ranks of the Thousand Sons over many centuries and through twisted ingenuity earned a place amongst the vaunted Sekhmet. In either case, a Scarab Occult Sorcerer controls a nigh-unstoppable force of warrior-automata, capable of wading unharmed through masses of lesser enemy infantry.The Scarab Occult's ornate armour -- derived from a variant of ancient Tartaros Pattern war-plate -- ripples with arcane force, sending solid shot ricocheting away and even turning aside the beams of high-technology weaponry. Each suit was a relic of the Legion, but even before their fall to Tzeentch was complete the Thousand Sons had begun engraving their Terminator Armour with profane inscriptions.This desecration continued after the proscriptions against sorcery laid down by the Council of Nikaea, for the Scarab Occult saw it as their duty to guard the forbidden knowledge their Primarch had collected. The Rubric of Ahriman sealed each warrior inside his defiled armour permanently, locking the remnants of their souls for eternity with the idolatrous spell-words they had etched. Over millennia of exposure to the Warp, the true power of these etchings has blended with the essence of each warrior, creating in the Scarab Occult a hellishly twisted warrior cabal.The Scarab Occult's armour has retained much of its potency over the long centuries since their creation. Refractor Field generators have become saturated with empyric energy, causing the air around them to writhe as incoming fire is deflected harmlessly. Each suit is also capable of withstanding the pressures of teleportation, allowing the warriors of the Scarab Occult to emerge suddenly onto the battlefield through holes torn in reality.The ubiquitous weapon of the Scarab Occult Terminators is a cruelly curved blade based on the khopesh of ancient Prospero. The earliest khopeshes were forged from what scant pieces of precious metals could be found on the barren world, and were symbols of authority used to mete out punishment to those who disobeyed Prosperine laws.When the Thousand Sons Legion came to Prospero, the khopesh was adopted by the Scarab Occult as the mark of their rank, and they were fitted with power-field generators to allow them to cleave matter at a molecular level. Though the warriors of the Scarab Occult are but ghosts of their former glory, the deadly speed and skill with which they wield their blades in close quarters has remained ever potent.The Scarab Occult Terminators bat away their assailants' blows with contemptuous sweeps of their Power Khopesh blades, before delivering devastating ripostes against those who insult the warriors of Prospero with their resistance.In battle, these elite warriors are often gathered into a battle formation known as a Sekhmet Conclave, a concentration of magical force like no other. The air around these timeless warriors shimmers with energy as the sigil-wards of the Scarab Occult magnify their protective powers to new heights. Gathered around their psyker masters, these massively armoured warriors walk in thudding lockstep, the beat of their heavy tread a deathly drum that speaks of impending doom.Inferno Combi-bolters are raised at a silent command, a blistering salvo of bolts hammering out to send transmorphic flame billowing in all directions.The arcane syllables uttered by their lords echo across the battlefield -- though the Scarab Occult were once counted amongst the most powerful mortals in existence, their independence is long gone, and now they serve only the sorcerous fiends in their midst.