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*[[Wocolos|Wocolos the Integerarian]] — [[Tech-Priest]]{{Fn|2a}} | *[[Wocolos|Wocolos the Integerarian]] — [[Tech-Priest]]{{Fn|2a}} | ||
*[[Qvo]] — Cawl's cloned [[Tech-Adept]] assistant.{{Fn|3}} | *[[Qvo]] — Cawl's cloned [[Tech-Adept]] assistant.{{Fn|3}} | ||
| − | *[[Datasmith]] [[X99 Bolus]] | + | *[[Datasmith]] [[X99 Bolus]] — a robotics obsessive that is followed everywhere by a [[Kastelan]]-class battle automaton named [[Sigma Fidelis]].{{Fn|2c}} |
*Scion Magnus [[Baron]] [[Roosev Maven Taranis]] of [[House Taranis]]{{Fn|2c}} | *Scion Magnus [[Baron]] [[Roosev Maven Taranis]] of [[House Taranis]]{{Fn|2c}} | ||
| + | * Marshal [[Melissima Artos-Septus Iota]] — de facto commander of all the Mechanicus forces aboard the Zar Quaesitor.{{Fn|2c}} | ||
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"It was a vessel like no other, one of the rare Ark Mechanicus explorator vessels, and even among those behemoths it was reckoned large for its kind, a vast city in space, bristling with weapons, and containing manufacturing and research laboratoria beneath its adamantium skin to rival a forge world."
The Zar-Quaesitor is a massive freighter-hulk and Ark Mechanicus of the Adeptus Mechanicus. It serves as the flagship and mobile laboratory for Magos Dominus Belisarius Cawl.[1] It is both Cawl's home and research facility.[3a]
Contents
Overview
For the better part of ten millennia, Cawl crafted legions of Primaris Space Marines inside its hull.[3a]
The vessel is capable of holding great armies within itself, providing several Skitarii and Cybernetica armies alongside three lances of House Taranis Knights during the Indomitus Crusade. The entirety of the Zar-Quaesitor's crew has been mind-swept multiple times to maintain Cawl's desired level of secrecy.[2a]
There is no actual shipmaster aboard the Zar-Quaesitor. Instead of this it has the solid system created by Cawl, where the impressive "personality" of the ship interacts with the network consciousness of the ship's tech-priests. Although Archmagos Cawl does occupy the captain's post himself at times.[2a] The ship is able to make Warp Jumps with remarkable precision, exiting the warp within a system's Zonality Gul Du Lac of the star and dangerously close to a planets and its satellites.[3a][3b] The Archmagos had a habit of dramatic warp egresses.[2c]
Landing Bow
The blunt, aggressive bow of the ship can detach itself from the rest of the ark, acting as a self-contained subsidiary vessel. Cawl sometimes uses it as a landing craft. It slides along and then off a connecting arm with many pipes and cable popping free and reeling themselves into the larger part of the ark. Although the bow is but a part of the ark, its large in its own right, big enough to land several lances of knights.[3b]
History
In the many millennia between M42 and M31, Cawl created thousands of Primaris Space Marines, filling massive holds aboard the ark with marines slumbering in methalon caskets.[2c]
In M42 the ark is now largely deserted. After taking part in the main crusade of the Indomitus Crusade Cawl had given the majority of his military assets to Fleet Primus, most of Cawl's many magi clades had been despatched across the galaxy to sped his next great plan to fruition. The many great holds once bustling with magi and slumbering Space Marines were now empty.[2c]
During the Indomitus Crusade, the Zar-Quaesitor was invaded and boarded by the forces of Fabius Bile, who Cawl suspected was after the Sangprimus Portum. In truth however Bile sought Alpha Primus, the original Primaris Space Marine, and was able to escape with the Marines Progenoid Glands. During Bile's attack the Zar-Quaesitor was invaded by large numbers of Beastmen, Terata, Mutants, and other abominations and was subjected to a massive hacking attack that disabled most of its key systems.[2b]
Crew
- Wocolos the Integerarian — Tech-Priest[2a]
- Qvo — Cawl's cloned Tech-Adept assistant.[3]
- Datasmith X99 Bolus — a robotics obsessive that is followed everywhere by a Kastelan-class battle automaton named Sigma Fidelis.[2c]
- Scion Magnus Baron Roosev Maven Taranis of House Taranis[2c]
- Marshal Melissima Artos-Septus Iota — de facto commander of all the Mechanicus forces aboard the Zar Quaesitor.[2c]
