Ozmerhadus Phal
Ozmerhadus Phal is a Tech-Priest Dominus from the Forge World Metalica.[1]
Metalica has been scoured clean of its native fauna and flora and allowed its Tech-priests to conduct their holy work in peace. It is a paradise to Dominus Phal and he has become convinced that it is the Omnissiah's will, that the worlds of Metalica's surrounding systems should become a mirror image of the paragon Forge World. His ideas however, were met with resistance by his peers, who feared he strayed too close to heresy — as the Age of Strife and the Occlusiad War both held ancient warnings against such beliefs. However, Phal's chance to act on his idea, came when expansionist elements on the Forge World were called to reawaken long abandoned Metalica Adeptus Mechanicus facilities on nearby worlds. The Dominus seized the opportunity and led a vast army into the void, where he began the systematic restoration of the listed world's Adeptus Mechanicus' facilities and then immediately made them unfit for life. These first worlds were easily subdued, as Dominus Phal deployed bombs that saturated the worlds in radiation or ordered the building of towering neutron furnaces that fed upon biological atmospheres until only cold toxic winds remained. As he moved further on, and began targeting worlds that were not once held by Metalica however, his forces soon encountered more serious resistance.[1]
Vortrex XII, was a world that the Imperium had once used as a Stasis field testing site, which had left its gaseous continents floating above a broken core of rock, that slowly slipped in and out of time. Due to its constant time flux, Dominus Phal was unable to completely destroy life on the world, and the Dominus decided instead to destroy it with a cyclonic torpedo. On the Imperium world Nightlock Prime, the Dominus destroyed the world's life-giving solar arrays, which plunged it into eternal night and killed ninety-seven percent of the population. He also allowed the Imperium world Saintwall, to fall to a Chaos invasion, after withdrawing his troops to orbit, when he learned the world's soil contained microscopic lifeforms that would be impossible for him to destroy. The Dominus crusade to create worlds in Metalica's image has also caused a strain to the Forge World's alliance to the Knights of House Raven, whose assistance Dominus Phal has used three times to secure victory on wild Frontier Worlds along the edges of the Ork Empire of Charadon. Each time however, the Knights were appalled to see Dominus Phal begin poisoning the worlds after they had helped secure the worlds for him. On Tylos Deep and the Lastholm Worlds individual Knights almost came to blows with Phal's forces, but only held off in doing so because of their oaths of loyalty to Metalica. One Knight even became the Freeblade known as the Strident Ghost, as a result of unknowingly aiding in one such world's destruction and has vowed to halt Dominus Phal's mission of extinction. Currently though, Phal and his forces have now begun to strike deep into the Ork worlds of the Charadon Empire. Should he return his attention once more to the Imperium's worlds however, the Fabricator General of Mars and Lord Grevan of House Raven, have both pledged to bring the renegade Dominus to heel. For now though, they are content to watch him bring his mission of biological cleansing to the worlds of Chardon, where at the hands of the Orks their problem might take care of itself.[1]
