Genetor - Notable Genetors: Magos Biologis Xebal Astolax - Prior to the Gothic War, patrol vessels found Imperial voidships drifting uncontrolled through Wilderness Space in the Athena Sector of the Segmentum Obscurus (ca. 140.M41), and boarding parties found the crews had been killed by disease. Magos Biologis Xebal Astolax examined corpses from the merchant vessel Shanxi. He listed symptoms of the disease that had killed the crew, which included fungal growths within the brain cavity, which would have caused extreme pain and delirium before the crew died. Inquisitor Horst attempted to link an attack on the Arx monitoring station to this assault. He learned of rumours of assaults on Imperial shipping by the Murder-class Cruiser Plagueclaw, crewed by followers of Nurgle, that were spreading among Imperial Navy commanders.Magos Genetor Nexin Orlandriaz - Nexin Orlandriaz was a notable Magos Biologis during the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy. After the disaster of the Drop Site Massacre at Isstvan V, he became instrumental in assisting the Raven Guard Legion with rebuilding their sorely depleted numbers. Consumed by the loss of over 75,000 of the XIX Legion's Astartes, and obsessed with thoughts of revenge against Horus, the Primarch Corvus Corax ordered his survivors to return to Terra, where he intended to ask the Emperor Himself for help in rebuilding the Legion. Following a number of delays and setbacks, and despite the disagreement and displeasure of Rogal Dorn and Malcador the Sigillite, Corax psychically communed with the Emperor, who revealed to him that the original Primarch Project's genetic assets had not been destroyed, but still existed and were dormant -- and these assets included living samples of the original gene-stock the Emperor had later used to create and differentiate the 20 primarchs. The Emperor, who offered no explanation as to why such facilities and the primarch gene-stock still existed, demanded only one thing: this genetic material could never be allowed to fall into the wrong hands. Accompanied by several Raven Guard squads, a contingent of Mechanicum specialists, including Magos Genetor Orlandriaz, and a number of Custodians to serve as the Emperor's "overseers," Corax managed to locate and enter the Emperor's well-protected gene-laboratories deep beneath the Imperial Palace in the Himalazian (Himalayan) Mountains, after his strike force suffered a number of casualties. The original, undifferentiated primarch gene-stock and related technical information was secured, and Corax and his Raven Guard warriors returned to their homeworld of Deliverance to begin remaking the Legion. After several solar weeks of effort by Corax, Chief Apothecary Vincente Sixx, and Magos Genetor Orlandriaz, a breakthrough was achieved, and a new reservoir of stable Astartes gene-seed was extracted from the primarch DNA. The gene-seed was more pure than "normal" Raven Guard gene stock as it came from undiluted primarch DNA before it was broken down into the 20 different recombinant strands that gave birth to the individual primarchs. It was implanted using an extremely accelerated development schedule within 500 aspirants, with excellent results. The resulting Astartes, though lacking combat experience, were even more capable than typical Raven Guard Space Marines. However, the traitorous Alpha Legion had other plans for the shattered Raven Guard. Patiently waiting until the Raven Guard had achieved the genetic breakthrough, they were fomenting rebellion among the old tech-guilds of Kiavahr, the Forge World that the moon of Deliverance circled, while assembling an Alpha Legion force nearby, and simultaneously misleading both their nominal allies amongst the other Traitor Legions and their supposed allies in the alien Cabal about their true purpose. With the help of adepts from the Dark Mechanicum, the Alpha Legion operatives within the Raven Guard contaminated the pure primarch gene-stock held by the Raven Guard with a virus that was tainted with Daemonic essence. The nature of the virus was unknown to the Alpha Legionaries until after the gene-stock had been contaminated, as their Dark Mechanicum allies had insisted the virus could be easily extracted once the primarch gene-stock came into their possession. The next cadre of 2,000 accelerated Raven Guard Astartes was predictably a disaster. All manifested hideous Warp-related mutations after they were implanted with their gene-seed organs, and many had to be kept imprisoned. The primarch DNA and all information about it was secured by Omegon, who had been secretly on Kiavahr the entire time, manipulating events as needed. Yet the outright destruction of the Raven Guard's remaining gene-seed stock was prevented by the Raven Guard mutants, who were tasked by the dying Chief Apothecary Sixx to save the future of the XIX Legion.Magos Xenologist Erlan Klute - Erlan Klute is a senior Magos Biologis who has devoted his service to the destruction of the Tyranid threat ever since it was first encountered. Erlan devoted a large amount of his life to studying the works of the well respected Magos Varnak, the first Tech-priest to have identified and observed the creatures of Hive Fleet Behemoth on the world of Tyran. Klute and his peers seem motivated by a xenocidal hatred, their mechanically-augmented hearts burning with the heat of the forge. The so-called "Circle Varnak" has pursued the destruction of the Tyranids ever since the fall of Tyran. Widely spread across the Eastern Fringe, these few individuals work tirelessly against the Tyranid threat. Klute has been active in the Jericho Reach region for just over four standard years, having arrived just before Hive Fleet Dagon first appeared in the Reach.