Nicanor Tullus
Nicanor Tullus was a Sergeant in the Imperial Fists Legion and had served for over thirty years in the Great Crusade, with First Captain Sigismund's Company, when the Horus Heresy began.[1]
History
When Mars erupted into Civil War, Tullus was among the forces sent from Terra, to evacuate as many resources as they could from the Forgeworld, for the coming battle with Warmaster Horus. However, he would not join Sigismund and his Company in defending the loyalist Magos Zagreus Kane's Mondus Occulum Forge; instead he was charged with insuring the safe evacuation of Technoarchaeologist Arkhan Land. Land's discoveries during the Great Crusade had greatly benefited the Imperium and First Captain Sigismund personally charged Tullus with his safety, as it would be disastrous for the Imperium if Land, and the secrets he knew, fell into the Dark Mechanicum's hands.[1]
As the civil war began to near its end, Tullus went to Land's personal workshop and convinced the stubborn Technoarchaeologist to leave with him, to an orbital lander that would take Land to safety. When they left Land's workshop though, they were attacked by a Dark Mechanicum Vorax Class Robot, which had been sent to kill Land. Despite not having any weaponry capable of destroying it, Tullus attacked the machine and repeatedly shielded Land with his body, as the Vorax fired relentlessly upon the Technoarchaeologist. When the Dark Mechanicum machine finally stopped firing to reload its weaponry, Tullus and Land crossed a bridge before the Sergeant destroyed it, in order to prevent the Vorax from following them. Though they were able to escape, Tullus was left mortally wounded by the Vorax's attack and by the time they neared the orbital lander, the Sergeant was dying from his wounds. However, the pursuing Vorax found them once again and Tullus gave his life to prevent the machine from reaching Land; who managed to escape, aboard the lander with other surviving Mechanicum loyalists.[1]
