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===Recent History===
In late [[M41]], the Dreadnought holding Malcharion's remains was awoken by [[Talos]] during his power struggle with [[The Exalted]], who attempted to prevent the ancient Captain and hated rival from threatening his power over [[First Claw]], the first time he had ever been awakened since being placed within the Dreadnought chassis.{{Fn|1b}} Malcharion went on to lead the assault on [[Crythe]] with the [[Black Legion]] against the forces of the [[Imperium]], including the [[Blood Angels]]. Just as First Claw were to be deployed to the surface [[Talos]] had another vision showing that the Blood Angels were not several weeks as had been predicted and were going to arrive imminently, the Exalted refused to take action over this information but when Malcharion was informed he immediately started withdrawing the Night Lords{{Fn|1e}}. As Talos predicted the Blood Angels emerged from the warp and deployed boarding pods into the 'Echo of Damnation', Malcharion responded to Talos' request for reinforcements and once again faced [[Raguel|Raguel the Sufferer]] now also interred within a Dreadnought chassis. Both Dreadnoughts were mortally wounded leaving [[Raquel]] dead at the hands of the Nightlords once more, Talos chose not to let [[Dark Mechanicum]] [[Techpriest]] [[Deltrian]] attempt to recover Malcharion so that he could finally have the eternal sleep he desired. However Talos was countermanded by [[Malek]] who ordered Deltrian to repair and sustain the life of Malcharion, the sarcophagus was returned to the Hall of Remembrance but hidden from view to prevent Talos from discovering that Malcharion had survived. Talos would eventually find that Malcharion had survived when Deltrian transferred the sarcophagus onto the 'Echo of Damnation' at which point he ordered Malcharion to be awakened.{{Fn|2}}
Initially it appeared that the damage Malcharion had suffered at Crythe was too severe leaving his mind shattered as attempts to awaken him only resulted in a constant screaming across the vox. [[Deltrian]] and [[Variel]] both believed Malcharion was ruined beyond recovery and suggested that he could be controlled through pain injectors and focused excruciators making him still a formidable foe on the battlefield.{{Fn|3a}} Talos would not allow this for a Hero of the Eighth Legion and instead intended to end the perceived torture by killing Malcharion instead however he chose to destroy the consoles connected to Malcharion to abort the awakening sequence. Although it appeared Talos had succeeded in killing Malcharion instead the Dreadnought finally awakened correctly and fully functional.{{Fn|3b}}
