Sekhetar Robot

Chaos Portal
Thousand Sons

Sekhetar Robots are towering, psychically controlled battle automata that serve the Thousand Sons Traitor Legion.^[1]

Description

Sekhetar^[3]

Sekhetar are a development of the Castellax-Achea Battle Automata the Thousand Sons used during the Great Crusade. After the Horus Heresy, a group of Sorcerers came up with the design for the Sekhetar – crafting them in the image of ancient Prosperine spirits.^[3] Sekhetar bear features of ancient thousand sons Tutelaries and are saturated in sorcerous power with runes of misdirection and illusion. Critically, they are threaded with spells of prophecy, allowing them to foresee attacks and better protect their masters as bodyguards.^[1] Despite their impressive size, Sekhetar are made for stealth and complex magical shrouds are woven into their bodies to hide their true nature from all but the most advanced of augurs.^[3] So heavily corrupted by the Warp are these robots after millennia of service that there is a great risk that they may have become possessed by Daemons. Few Thousand Sons would willingly rely on such creatures to act as their personal guardians, so they are often interwoven with additional wards and their masters regularly conduct purges of their mnemo-wafers and obedience protocols to prevent such a possession from taking place.^[4]

Representing an attempt by the Thousand Sons to produce new warriors in a Legion chronically low on organic troops, Sekhetar Robots are amongst the most widespread result of such experiments. While many are forged by Sorcerers themselves, many others are forged by the Hereteks of the Dark Mechanicum, utilizing arcane schematics developed by magi who fled with the Thousand Sons into the Eye of Terror millennia ago. Other rumours suggest that the original design for the Sekhetar may have been stolen by the Thousand Sons from Medrengard long ago.^[4]

Sekhetar are unshackled from dark vaults of ancient technology by secret hexagrammic commands and now accompany the Thousand Sons during raids on sites of immense sorcerous power. Alongside this role, they are typically left behind to guard over sites for millennia.^[3] As the Traitor Legion plunders the sites, the Sekhetar Robots stand guard against anyone who would try to stop their masters. With their bodies inscribed with illusory spells and runes of obfuscation, the constructs can remain hidden in advantageous positions before opening fire with Heavy Warpflamers, a Pyreflux Meltagun, and Hellfyre Missiles.^[2] Some also wield Power Claws.^[3]

Images

Sekhetar Robots miniatures^[2]

Sources

• 1: Warhammer Preview Show: AdeptiCon 2025 (published 26.03.2025) (last accessed 4 April 2025):00h:56m:58s
• 2: Warhammer Community: Chaos ascends with new units and Codexes for Khorne, Tzeentch and Nurgle (Saved archive page, dated 26 March 2025, last accessed 26 March 2025, original link: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/gsdzv0gh/chaos-ascends-with-new-units-and-codexes-for-khorne-tzeentch-and-nurgle/)
• 3: Warhammer Community: Sekhetar Robots are the stealthiest killer automata you’ve never seen (posted 14/5/2025) saved page, original link: https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/v9jvkrt4/sekhetar-robots-are-the-stealthiest-killer-automata-youve-never-seen/ (last accessed 14/5/2025)
• 4: Codex: Thousand Sons (10th Edition), pg. 33