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'''Ulrach Branthan''' was the [[Space Marine Captain|Captain]] of the 65th [[Clan-Company]] of the [[Iron Hands]] [[Legion]], who escaped from [[Istvaan V]] with a contingent of Iron Hands aboard the ''[[Sisypheum]]''. Branthan was seriously injured during the [[Drop Site Massacre]]. Both his legs had been mutilated, one severed above the knee and one little more than stringy sinews of ruptured meat and heat-fused bone. One arm was held to the body by a splintered nub of bone and tattered scraps of skin. His arm was missing much of its mechanical structure and all but one of the fingers had been broken off in the flight from Isstvan. His chest was a ruin of four bolter impact craters that ran in a ragged line from hip to sternum. His body was recovered and brought aboard the [[Sisypheum]]. The [[Apothecary]] realised his ravaged body was beyond repair. With no [[Dreadnoughts]] available the [[Apothecary]] turned to the next option and used the [[The Heart of Iron]], a relic from the [[Dark Age of Technology]]. The device Clamped across the captain’s torso like a mechanised arachnid parasite, a glittering device of coiled silver and bronze. Its central mass squatted on his chest, while its segmented appendages encircled his body. Monofilament wires extruded from its multiple limbs wormed their way into the captain’s flesh all across his torso. The device though slowly regrowing his damaged organs, was also feeding off his vitality. The device would most likely kill him before healing all his damaged organs. The stasis field generator of his medical casket also helped keep him alive though.{{Fn|1}} In the months and years following the disaster on Istvaan V when the need arose the crew of the [[Sisypheum]] placed his ravaged body, still attached to [[The Heart of Iron]] He was later revived in the Former [[Dreadnought]] body that once belonged to Brother of [[Bombastus]]in a fusion of technology and biology and mechanical necromancy. Finally revived The towering construct he would take full command became had no sarcophagus, merely a cable-wound cocoon of raw sutures and bare flesh.At its heart, bound into its workings by crude biomechanical interfaces, were the [[Sisypheum]]ruined scraps of meat and bone left of Branthan.{{Fn|2}}