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{{Character
|Portal              ={{DarkMechanicumPortal}}
|Name                =Kelbor-Hal
|Image               =KelHal.jpg
|Caption             =Kelbor-Hal after his fall to [[Chaos]]
|Title               =
|Homeworld           =[[Mars]]
|Birth               =c. [[M29]]/[[M30]]
|Active Period       =c. [[M29]]/[[M30]] - ???
|Death               =
|Cause of Death      =
|Species             =[[Human]]
|Type                =[[Cyborg]]
|Gender              =Male
|Relatives           =
|Occupation          ='' ''
*[[Fabricator-General]] of [[Mars]] & the [[Mechanicum]]<br><small>(Formerly)</small>
*Founder of the [[Dark Mechanicum]]
|Preceded by         =
|Succeeded by        =[[Zagreus Kane]]<br>(As the Fabricator-General of Mars)
|Faction             =''
*[[Martian Mechanicum]] <small>(Formerly)</small>
*[[Imperium of Man]] <small>(Formerly)</small>
*[[Chaos]]
**[[Dark Mechanicum]]
|Notes               =
}}
'''Kelbor-Hal''' was the [[Fabricator-General]] of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus|Mechanicum]] during the [[Great Crusade]] and [[Horus Heresy]].{{Fn|2}} He joined forces with [[Horus]] and assisted the renegades with all of the technology available to mankind, forming the [[Dark Mechanicum]].

==History==
Kelbor-Hal was present when the [[Emperor]] first arrived on [[Mars]], and, while the Master of Mankind was widely celebrated by most of his colleagues, he was deeply distrustful of the [[Terra]]n warlord.{{Fn|2}}

Hal and his followers were among those who refused to see the Emperor as the avatar of the [[Omnissiah]], instead only seeing a False prophet who had subordinated the Mechanicum under the [[Imperium]]'s heel with lies and falsehoods. Kelbor-Hal feared that the Emperor and His forces were going to strip away the autonomy Mars had enjoyed dating back all the way to the [[Dark Age of Technology]]. Despite this disdain, eventually Kelbor-Hal was able to rise through the Tech-Priest hierarchy to become [[Fabricator-General]] by the late [[Great Crusade]]. He gathered around him a circle of like-minded [[Magos|Magi]] including [[Urtzi Malevolus]], [[Lukas Chrom]], and [[Melgator]].{{Fn|2}}

At the outbreak of the [[Horus Heresy]], there were high tensions between the various [[Magos|Magi]] governing Mars. Seeing an opportunity for a powerful new ally, [[Horus]] sent [[Regulus (Dark Mechanicum)|Regulus]] into this powder keg and he was able to convince Kelbor-Hal to join forces with the Traitors on the condition that the autonomy of the Mechanicum be ensured, that the [[STC]]s the [[Sons of Horus]] had captured from the recently subjugated but technologically advanced [[Auretian Technocracy]] be handed over to him, and that the [[Vaults of Moravec|Martian Vaults of forbidden technology]] be opened for Mechanicum use. In the ensuing [[Schism of Mars]] between rebel and loyalist Mechanicus forces, Kelbor-Hal's new [[Dark Mechanicum]] emerged victorious.{{Fn|2}} However after the Schism Mars was blockaded by the [[Imperial Fists]] and Kelbor-Hal was contained on the Red Planet for the next several years, forcing to rely on his [[Nine Disciples]] to act as his emissaries in Horus' fleets.{{Fn|3}} Also during the Heresy, he oversaw the construction of the ''[[Furious Abyss]]'' in the shipyards around [[Jupiter]] for the [[Word Bearers]], after which it was used to attempt to destroy the [[Ultramarines]] [[Legion]] and their [[Adeptus Astartes Homeworld|homeworld]], [[Macragge]].{{Fn|1}}

Following the [[Solar War]], the loyalist blockade of Mars was lifted and Kelbor-Hal was able to take direct command of the Dark Mechanicus war effort again. Arrogant and gaudy, he attempted to take credit for many of the achievements of [[Perturabo]] and [[Sota-Nul]] during the [[Siege of Terra]].{{Fn|4}} During the Siege of the [[Imperial Palace]], Kelbor-Hal remained behind on Mars to oversee its reconstruction and muster fleets against the anticipated arrival of [[Roboute Guilliman]]. However, upon examining chronological distortions emanating from Terra due to the [[Warp]] presence on the world, Kelbor-Hal was assailed by an immense input of data which told him the true name of the [[Dark King (Entity)|Dark King]], a figure whom he had regarded as the true [[Omnissiah]]. He then began to scream,{{Fn|5a}} as the Dark King was revealed to be the Emperor.{{Fn|5b}}

==Images==
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Kelborhal.jpg|Kelbor-Hal, [[Fabricator-General]] of [[Mars]]
File:Heretek Savant.jpg|Kelbor-Hal during the Horus Heresy
</gallery>
==See also==
*[[Nine Disciples]] 

==Sources==
{{Citation issues}}
*{{Endn|1}}: [[Battle for the Abyss (Novel)]], {{Cite Marker End}}
*{{Endn|2}}: [[Mechanicum (Novel)]], {{Cite Marker End}}
*{{Endn|3}}: [[The Solar War (Novel)]] - Chapter 22
*{{Endn|4}}: [[The Lost and the Damned (Novel)]] - Chapter 17
*5: [[The End and the Death: Volume II (Novel)]] -
**{{Endn|5a}}: ii
**{{Endn|5b}}: 6:xlix

===Uncited===
*[[Horus Heresy - Leave No Survivors]] — card pack
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