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{{AdeptusMechanicusPortal}}{{cite}}[[Magos]] '''Magos Antigonus''' is a metallurgist of the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]]. He was murdered by the Dark Mechanicus of [[Chaeroneia]], whom he was sent to investigate, but managed to survive in information form and subsequently assisted the [[Inquisition]] force that later came to investigate the planet.
==History==
Antigonus was sent by the [[Fabricator General]] of [[Mars]] to investigate and debunk the rumours of a heretical [[Dark Mechanicus]] cell on the [[Forge World]] [[Chaeroneia]]. Antigonus discovered the cell, but was forced to flee by the heretics, with his [[servitor]] Epsilon three-twelve in tow. On his third day, Antigonus came to the datacore valley, and while dictating his report to Epsilon three-twelve, was contacted by the heretics through the projections in Chaeroneia's sky. They entreatied him to join them, telling him that the Avatar of the Omnissiah was amongst them and that he could be their prophet; but Antigonus refused. Declaring that Antigonus was obsolete and a disappointment, the heretics ordered Epsilon three-twelve to kill him. Antigonus bested his hijacked servitor, but was severely wounded, and fled beneath a nearby industrial complex. He discovered that the voice earlier came from the [[daemon]] [[Azaulathis]], which had been hiding in the servos that powered his leg bracings, and blew them out with his [[autogun]]. Limping on, Antigonus found a stratum full of huge, ancient, and obsolete data-engines, and was cornered there by the heretics after the daemon immobilised his leg. The heretics' leader revealed himself as Archmagos Veneratus [[Scaeros]], and ordered Azaulathis to kill Antigonus. The daemon began infecting all of his bionics and causing them to short-circuit. Antigonus maintained enough control to jab one of his mechadrendrites into the closest data-engine, forcing the daemon to flow through the point of least resistance and enter the machine, and withdrew before it could turn back. Scaeros' [[servitor]] then killed Antigonus with its breacher drill. However, Antigonus was able to shift his consciousness into one of the data-engines before he died, due to it being very old technology that was so advanced as to be able to contain all the data required to reconstruct a human mind.
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